Intelligent Transportation

System
Oum Saokosal
Cambodian Graduate Student
April 2009
Intelligent Transportation
Systems
What is ITS
Why ITS
How to ITS
Where ITS
Conclusion
What is ITS (1)
The term intelligent transportation
system (ITS) refers to efforts to add
information and communications
technology to transport infrastructure and
vehicles to improve safety and reduce
vehicle wear, transportation times, and
fuel consumption.
What is ITS (2)
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
encompass a broad range of wireless and
wire line communications-based
information and electronics technologies.
ITS are comprised of existing and new
technologies, including information
processing, sensors, communications,
control, and electronics.
Why ITS? (1)
ITS answers to many of transportation
problems.
ITS is used to improve safety and reduce
vehicle wear, transportation times, and
fuel consumption through the use of
advanced information and communications
technologies.
Combining those technologies in
innovative ways and integrating them into
our multimodal transportation system will
save lives, time, and resources.
Why ITS? (2)
If using ITS, the early stages of a traffic
bottleneck situation can be detected, and
traffic can be directed to other routes and
to provide faster and more efficient routes
for travelers.
New technologies can response to
occurrences of traffic problems in real
time, and therefore, the problems can be
solved before they develop into serious
traffic jams.
How to ITS
ITS vary in technologies applied from a
such car navigation to parking guidance
and information systems.
Some of the constituent technologies for
ITS:
 Wireless Communication
 Computational technologies
 Floating car data/floating cellular data
 Sensing technologies
 Inductive loop detection
 Video vehicle detection
Briefly the use of the
Technologies (1)
Wireless Communication:
Short-range communications (less than 500
yards), it uses IEEE 802.11 protocols.
Longer range: WiMax (IEEE 802.16), GSM, or 3G.
Computational technologies:
Embed microprocessor to the vehicle, in order to
implement such artificial intelligence, and
ubiquitous computing.
Briefly the use of the
Technologies (2)
Floating car data/floating cellular
data:
 Using mobile phone network to track
vehicles move.
Sensing technologies:
Infrastructure sensors devices are
installed or embedded on the road, or
surrounding the road.
Briefly the use of the
Technologies (3)
Inductive loop detection:
The terms Inductive loop describe an
electromagnetic communication- and
detection system, relying on the fact that a
moving magnet will induce a electrical
current in a nearby conducting wire.
Loops can be placed in a single lane or
across multiple lanes to estimate the
speed, length, and weight of vehicles.
Briefly the use of the
Technologies (4)
Video vehicle detection
Uses video cameras in automatic number
plate recognition (ANPR: to read the
license plates on vehicles)
The typical output is lane-by-lane vehicle
speeds, counts, and lane occupancy
readings.
Some systems provide additional outputs
including gap, headway, stopped-vehicle
detection, and wrong-way vehicle alarms.