Ghosh S., Lee T.S. Intelligent transportation systems: new principles and architectures

CRC Press, 2000. — 183 p.
This book focuses on the fundamental principles in future transportation systems that, in turn, give rise to new system architectures. The book argues strongly the need to design innovative and creative approaches to transportation problems, utilizing the fundamental principles, followed by thorough scientific validation. It stresses both the need for computer modeling and simulation of a representative system to help design and validate such complex, large-scale systems and the design of new performance metrics to estimate the performance of these systems. Although the scope of transportation systems is very broad, this book focuses in detail on two ubiquitous transportation modes – highway and railway systems. It presents the basic principles pertaining to travel-related decision making that includes coordination, control, and routing. These principles constitute the core of and apply equally to all transportation systems including passenger air travel, air freight, personalized rapid transit, etc. While these principles constitute one of several key advances necessary to usher transportation systems into the next century, other relevant issues such as driver behavior analysis, human factors, congestion originating in human behavior, and other traffic factors are beyond the scope of this book.