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The World Road Association (PIARC) has prepared this new edition of the ITS Handbook with the benefit of recent experience of ITS in various countries around the world. The Handbook is an essential guide for transport professionals and others who are interested in exploiting the potential of these new technologies to improve the situation on our roads.
Intelligent Transport Systems, (ITS) have emerged over the past 15 years as an important means of managing road transport, offering new possibilities for solving what seem to be intractable problems of road congestion, traffic accidents, inefficient logistics, and the environmental impact of surface transportation.
Co-editors of the ITS Handbook are Dr. John C. Miles (UK), chair of the PIARC Technical Committee on Network Operations for the period 2004-2007, and Dr. Kan Chen (USA), Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where he founded the ITS research and education programme in 1998.
ITS Handbook 2nd Edition (Print Version) ISBN No: 2-84060-174-5
