ITS

  • What can traffic lights learn from us?
    Could traffic light controlled junctions ever think for themselves? The Transportation Research Group (TRG) at the University of Southampton has been investigating the use of Artificial Intelligence in traffic control. While the analogy with [...]
  • UTMC integration of SCOOT and MOVA takes shape in Southampton
    The following paper discusses the early trials undertaken by Southampton ROMANSE in the UK to understand the potential for deploying SCOOT and MOVA control strategies alongside one another in actively managing the Southampton road network [...]
  • A GIS-based approach to automating the collection of geospatial road network data
    Air pollution dispersion models require the geospatial data of modelled road network centrelines, in order to model the spatial dispersion of traffic air pollution emissions. This data represents the geographical coordinates of the centreline [...]
  • Creating the MESSAGE infrastructure.
    MESSAGE set out to make use of the everincreasing power of computer infrastructure in order to support the capture, processing, archiving, analysis and visualisation of pollution data. This paper describes how the MESSAGE e-Science architecture [...]
  • A new approach to appraisal for ITS.
    Today, most urban traffic management schemes do not include an assessment of the impact of ITS. Dynamic network management systems are commonplace in the UK, but their operational assessment is not frequent. In many cases, the benefits of such [...]
  • SMARTEST - New Tools for evaluating ITS
    Evaluating new systems to quantify their benefits can be difficult given that the expected benefits of implementation are often quite modest. A promising approach is to use a traffic model to assess the system. Then the traffic engineer has complete [...]
  • Renault a proving ground for telematics - how ITS contribute to Formula One victory
    How traffic and transport industry can learn from Formula One cars.
  • A turning point for ITS evaluation as IBEC goes it alone
    David Crawford records a turning point in the history of ITS evaluation as IBEC, with a membership of 300 experts in 40 countries, measures up to a new structure [...]
  • SIMBA to promote ITS deployment in key emerging markets
    After years of working with the Chinese to promote ITS cooperation, Jacob Bangsgaard of ERTICO believes that SIMBA can build on this success in the key emerging markets of India, South Africa and Brazil [...]