As our cars become increasingly interconnected, mobility takes on a new meaning, offering new opportunities. The integration of new communications technologies in vehicles has generated an enormous variety of data from various communications sources. A combination of Big Data…
The worldwide health-, social- and economic-crisis sparked off by the COVID-19 pandemic impinges on all ambits where social-distancing and hygiene requirements are to the fore. A case in point is collective public transport. ITSs offer various systems and strategies…
Although EU roads are the world’s safest, there are still too many deaths and injuries. The EU has therefore adopted the Vision Zero and Safe System approach, to eliminate deaths and serious injuries from Europe’s roads. This goal is part and parcel of the EU’s…
The current pandemic has brought home to us even more firmly the crucial importance of freight transport in keeping our society running properly. Punctual deliveries needed to be made to supermarkets (suffering shortages for the first time due to…
Fleet-management systems, passenger-information systems and fare-collection (ticketing) systems are the three fundamental pillars of any public-transport ITS for both road and rail transport. These systems can be rolled out independently and are beneficial as such but they really come…