INTRODUCTION TO INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS IN TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION

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 is a number of negative issues related to traffic, especially in megacities, 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 3rd, 2013)