Intelligent transport systems: emerging technologies and methods in transportation and traffic

摘要

The links between new transport technologies and transport theories grow more strongly all the time. The possibilities opened up by the development and implementation of new technologies open the door to new developments in theory—sometimes by facilitating the development of the theory, e.g. through new possibilities to measure and model transport phenomena, sometimes by requiring the development of theory to explain the uptake of the technology or to better understand transport systems operations. In conjunction with the 15th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT15)—see Taylor (2002), held at the University of South Australia in July 2002, an international workshop was held to explore these linkages between new theory and new technology, and to consider certain emerging technologies that will have considerable impacts on transport planning theory and practice in the near future. The seven papers presented in this special issue of Transportation Research C are the outputs of that international workshop on 'Intelligent Transport Systems: emerging technologies and methods in transportation and traffic'.