Last modified: 2009-08-05
Abstract
Intelligent Transportation System integrates Information technology, communications (wireless, etc) and location (GIS, satellite navigation) based technologies into roads, vehicles, traffic and transport management systems. ITS ensures more informed travelers, planners, managers, buses and commercial vehicle operators, emergency response services…thereby facilitating safety, equity, efficiency and environmental protection. The situation in major cities of Europe, particularly in new EU member-countries, in the sphere of intensity of urban traffic becomes heavier every year because of the increasing number of vehicles in city streets.
The city logistics can be defined as “the process of totally optimising urban logistics activities by private companies in urban areas while considering the traffic environment, the traffic congestion and energy consumption within the framework of a market economy”.
This research presents ITS not only as a set of technologies and services, it presents ITS for city logistics that ensure more benefit to people, it helps to plan and manage safer mobility for pedestrians, cyclists and vulnerable groups; as well as more reliable and dependable public transport services.