MOHAMMED AQEEB

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSYTEMS

Contents

Introduction

Why ITS?

Intelligent Transport Technologies

Intelligent Transport Applications

IntroductionTraffic control has been an issue since humans

put the first wheels on the first cart. The modern world demands mobility.

Cars represent the main method of mobility, but today’s congested highways and city streets don’t move fast, and sometimes they don’t move at all.

ITS apply communications and information technology to provide solutions to this congestion as well as other traffic control issues.

WHAT IS ITS ? ITS is the integrated application of advanced Technologies using electronics, computers, communications, and advanced sensors. These applications provide travellers with important information while improving the safety and efficiency of the transportation system.

WHY ITS ?

ITS is the voice of vehicle and infrastructural innovation . It is the next generation of technology for safety designed to reduce the number of accidents.

It improves fuel efficiency. It enables real time traffic monitoring and

evaluation.

Real time communication and information dissemination can also be obtained through this system.

These are the systems that use communication technologies to link people, road and vehicle related traffic issues. It involves research and development on various safe driving support system.

Intelligent Transport Applications

Emergency Vehicle Notification Systems

Automatic Road Enforcement

Variable Speed Limits

Collision Avoidance Systems

Dynamic Traffic Light Sequence

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Automatic Road Enforcement Speed cameras that identify vehicles traveling

over the legal speed limit. Many such devices use radar to detect a vehicle's speed or electromagnetic loops buried in each lane of the road.

Red light cameras that detect vehicles that cross a stop line or designated stopping place while a red traffic light is showing.

Level crossing cameras that identify vehicles crossing railways at grade illegally.

Double white line cameras that identify vehicles crossing these lines.

Bus lane cameras that identify vehicles traveling in lanes reserved for buses. In some jurisdictions, bus lanes can also be used by taxis or vehicles engaged in car pooling.

Automatic speed enforcement gantry or "Lombada" with ground sensors at Brasilia, D.F.

Collision Avoidance Systems

Variable Speed Limits

CONCLUSION  The use of ITS in some developed countries like

America, Japan and England has given them high progress in the field of transportation. This helped them in their economic progress. Also the traffic congestions, rate of road accidents, wastage of fuels are decreased to a large extend.

This gives the people of this country a more economic mean of transportation with advance information of transits. Now transportation has become a safer and efficient mode for these countries.

Hence with much more interest and advanced research in the field of ITS, it can be implemented in our country and can prove to be the solution of the traffic problems including traffic congestion, air pollution and traffic accident.

References :

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