Abstract
Modern society faces serious problems with transportation systems, including but not limited to traffic congestion, safety, and pollution. Information communication technologies have gained increasing attention and importance in modern transportation systems. Automotive manufacturers are developing in-vehicle sensors and their applications in different areas including safety, traffic management, and infotainment. Government institutions are implementing roadside infrastructures such as cameras and sensors to collect data about environmental and traffic conditions. By seamlessly integrating vehicles and sensing devices, their sensing and communication capabilities can be leveraged to achieve smart and intelligent transportation systems. We discuss how sensor technology can be integrated with the transportation infrastructure to achieve a sustainable Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and how safety, traffic control and infotainment applications can benefit from multiple sensors deployed in different elements of an ITS. Finally, we discuss some of the challenges that need to be addressed to enable a fully operational and cooperative ITS environment.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-16-2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3390/s18041212
Repository Citation
Guerrero-Ibáñez, Juan; Zeadally, Sherali; and Contreras-Castillo, Juan, "Sensor Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems" (2018). Information Science Faculty Publications. 43.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/slis_facpub/43
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons, Transportation Engineering Commons
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Sensors, v. 18, issue 4, 1212, p. 1-24.
© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).