Intelligent transportation systems are a popular topic among civil engineering subjects, and many countries are successfully implementing them. With the world’s population rapidly expanding, intelligent transport systems have even become a mandatory technique in all countries. Here, we’ll go over the essential components of intelligent transportation systems. In the middle, we’ll swim through the advantages of intelligent transportation systems, then move on to the uses and challenges of intelligent transport systems or ITS.
What are intelligent transportation systems?
The first step in diving into the subject is to define intelligent transportation systems. They are advanced applications that aim to provide innovative services relating to various modes of transportation and traffic management, as well as to enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and smarter use of transportation networks. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used in ITS to manage mobility, traffic, and other aspects of the road transportation system, as well as to interface with other modes of transportation.
Another definition of Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is the application of sensing, analysis, control, and communications technologies to ground transportation in order to improve safety, mobility, and efficiency. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) includes a wide range of applications that process and share data in order to reduce traffic congestion, improve traffic management, reduce environmental impact, and increase the benefits of transportation to commercial users and the general public.
Now, let me walk you through the main components of intelligent transportation systems.
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Components of intelligent transportation systems
The following are the primary components of intelligent transportation systems:
1) Reliable tracking system – intelligent transportation systems
Citizens will be able to track buses and other vehicles with the aid of smartphone apps and GPS-equipped vehicles.
2) Electronic schedules – Intelligent transportation systems
Bus schedules should be updated in a standard format that is easy to read and can be used by the software.
3) Intelligent model for predicting arrival time- Intelligent transportation systems
These types of transportation studies are carried out at IIT Madras with funding from the Ministry of Urban Development. Similarly, these systems should be encouraged to develop a robust algorithm to predict bus arrival times, which a citizen requires.
4) Standardisation by regulating authority
This is the most important component of intelligent transportation systems. However, the authority should be established to standardise various components of public transportation and to encourage the use of better and smarter IT services in the transportation sector.
5) Smart commuting
Generally, smart commuting means collecting the most recent information on traffic jams, accidents, and navigation methods.
6) Mobile technology
These are basically App-based technology, incentives for young technical entrepreneurs
7) Smart traffic control
Use of Dynamic controls of traffic signals instead of current static control, automated system.
8) Scalability
The Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) should be readily applicable to 2nd tier cities so that problem of congestion doesn’t arise in the first place
9. Improved and better BRT system enacted with public participation
10. Installing CCTVs on traffic routes and buses.
11. Creation of flyovers and overbridges to eliminate the need for traffic lights
12. Electronic payment of fare
13 Traveller’s advisory system like the use of advisory radio, SMS services, internet etc
14. Highway Management Systems: Use ramp metering techniques to measure and regulate by knowing the traffic entering or leaving the highway
15. Emergency Management Systems: To manage any unforeseen emergencies
16. Railroad Crossing: Gives signals about approaching rail junctions
17 Wireless Communication System
18. Safe Driving Support System
This includes,
- A Right-turn collision prevention system
- A vehicle detection system
- A Pedestrian detection system
- voice guidance
- A display warning
- Electronic toll payment System
- Computational technology
- Inductive loop detection and sensing technology
- Freeway management.
Cool! Now how are these components of the intelligent transportation systems benefiting transportation? Let’s see below.
Benefits of intelligent transportation systems
The main benefits of intelligent transportation are as follows.
- Develop (and subsequently renew), a secure and effective revenue collection system – this has formed the backbone of the ITS
- Develop enhanced operations management capabilities to provide reliable services and deal with disruptions
- Provide communications for staff security
- Provide improved passenger information
- Obtain data for planning, resource optimisation and performance monitoring
- To assist in the achievement of the quantity and quality of the service required in the service contract with the province of Florence
- Generating the trip logs, analysis and reporting required by the province of Florence under the service contract
- For managing the daily operations, in both normal and disrupted state
- To Manage the driver vehicle handovers and shift-changes
- Provide the platform for real-time and other information to passengers
- Provide the platform for e-ticketing
- To identify vehicle faults and assist in rapid response
- To support demand-responsive transport and other non-standard mobility services
- To generate and manage data for post-event analysis, including running time analysis, scheduling, resource optimization, and incident investigation
So, I walked you through the important benefits of intelligent transportation systems
It’s time to see the results now.
Uses and challenges of intelligent transportation systems
Use of cameras equipped with automatic number plate recognition(ANPR)
Equip the intersections with traffic light crossing violation recording systems and video surveillance cameras monitoring traffic flow
Advantages
Cameras are capable of finding any number of offending vehicles simultaneously
Challenges
- Drivers cover the number plate of their cars daily in order to not be fined
- Some drivers who repeatedly pass specific passages try to destroy or damage the cameras and their equipment.
2. Speed violation recording cameras
Fixed cameras equipped with radar technology are assembled to identify and record speed violations
Advantage
Assured of getting fined through being caught on camera, drivers rarely attempt to drive over the speed limit
Challenges
- After identifying the locations where the cameras are installed, drivers may attempt to increase their speed in the distances between cameras, and this may cause many disturbances in traffic flow.
- Due to the weakness of technology, identifying motorcycles is not possible in this system
3. Cameras for recording violations of passing through red lights at intersections
Cameras are assembled at intersections to record the red light running violations.
Advantages
A decrease in this kind of violation will have a direct effect on reducing car crashes and capital loss.
Challenges
- In many intersections, due to the low quality of crosswalks and zebra crossings, it is tough to determine a threshold running from which enables the driver to be known as an offender
- As in many intersections, turning left or right is not legally forbidden, it is really a hard job to distinguish the vehicles doing so from the violators.
4. Equipping the transportation system with GPS
The position of the buses and the approximate arrival time of buses to stations can be calculated those who are speeding or using unauthorized routes can be identified
Advantages
- Reduction of dangerous high-speed buses
- Decreasing the delay time of the journey
Challenges if
- Some drivers try to deactivate the GPS before attempting a violation. They cover the GPS with aluminium foil to make it disconnected from the centre.
- Due to the need for a GPRS platform for sending information to the centre, using this system in Tehran is very expensive.
- Due to the low average educational level of drivers and users of public transportation services, relevant systematic training for using this system will be needed.
5. Use of intelligent routing systems for public transportation passengers
Passengers can receive information about the journey duration and the best manner of navigation after determining the origin and destination and also specifying the desired transportation mode such as metro, taxi, bus or walking
Advantages
Decrease in the delay of journeys and an increase in productivity.
6. Modern informative systems for offenders
All fine notifications and notices for a technical test will be informed to the offenders via SMS
Advantages
- Deliver the fine notifications to the offenders, omitting the process of printing and stuffing envelopes with fine notification
- Informing all offenders of their violations online and creating a cohesive database of the offenders.
Challenges
- As the telecommunications system and necessary infrastructure have not been completely developed, some problems in sending SMS to offenders have been occasionally observed.
- Informative limitations such as length of words in SMS.
That’s it about ITS.
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