Urban mobility is not only one of the pillars of modern economic
systems, but also a key issue in the quest for equality of
opportunity, once it can improve access to other services.
Currently, however, there are a number of negative issues related
to traffic, especially in mega-cities, such as economical issues
(cost of opportunity caused by delays), environmental
(externalities related to emissions of pollutants), and social
(traffic accidents). Solutions to these issues are more and more
closely tied to information and communication technology. Indeed, a
search in the technical literature (using the keyword ``urban
traffic" to filter out articles on data network traffic) retrieved
the following number of articles (as of December 3, 2013): 9,443
(ACM Digital Library), 26,054 (Scopus), and 1,730,000 (Google
Scholar). Moreover, articles listed in the ACM query relate to
conferences as diverse as MobiCom, CHI, PADS, and AAMAS. This means
that there is a big and diverse community of computer scientists
and computer engineers who tackle research that is connected to the
development of intelligent traffic and transportation systems. It
is also possible to see that this community is growing, and that
research projects are getting more and more interdisciplinary. To
foster the cooperation among the involved communities, this book
aims at giving a broad introduction into the basic but relevant
concepts related to transportation systems, targeting researchers
and practitioners from computer science and information technology.
In addition, the second part of the book gives a panorama of some
of the most exciting and newest technologies, originating in
computer science and computer engineering, that are now being
employed in projects related to car-to-car communication,
interconnected vehicles, car navigation, platooning, crowd sensing
and sensor networks, among others. This material will also be of
interest to engineers and researchers from the traffic and
transportation community.
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