Civil Engineering Simplified
What is intelligent transportation system? It is the application of sensing, analysis, control and communications technologies to ground transportation in order to improve safety, mobility and efficiency. Components of ITS are 1. Tracking system 2. Electronic timetable 3. Smart commuting… Benefits of ITS, uses and challenges of ITS are also thoroughly explained in the article
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In the past five years, autonomous driving has become a reality and is commercially available now. A car that would drive on its own was something beyond imagination a few decades back. Thanks to technological development, self driving cars are becoming a reality.
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Electronic toll collection is one of the best advancements in transportaion sector. We will see what is electronic toll collection in the next section. Later, I will walk you through four subsystems of ETC. They are automatic vehicle classification (AVC), violation enforcement system (VES), automatic vehicle identification (AVI) and transaction processing, which includes a back office and customer service center. The advantages, cost and disadvantages of ETC will also be discussed.
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Need for intelligent transportation system 1. The transportation system framework is highly complex 2. It is composed of a wide range of infrastructures, such as terminal facilities, travel ways, transportation fleets, and information systems 3. Transport should be open and accessible, extensive and ubiquitous, effective and adaptable Applications of ITS, disadvantages and examples of ITS is also discussed
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