Improved planning, design, management, and control of future transportation systems requires conducting both basic and applied research to expand the knowledge base on transportation. The new IEEE Transactions on ITS will focus on the design, analysis, and control of information technology as it is applied to transportation systems. Transportation systems are usually large-scale in nature and are invariably geographically distributed. The complexity of transportation systems arises from many sources. Many aspects of transportation systems are uncertain, dynamic and nonlinear, and such systems may be highly sensitive to perturbations.
Controls can involve multiple agents that are distributed and hierarchical.
Personnel who invariably play critical roles in a transportation system have a diversity of objectives and a wide range of skills and education. With the use of these technologies, new and faster measurements are possible and more data can be managed and processed. Additionally, new strategies for management and control will be developed to deal with both the static and the dynamic nature of transportation systems. So, while most of the classical transportation problems raised in the past continue to exist, there now are new approaches to deal with many of them. The intent of the IEEE Transactions on ITS will be to serve as a forum for the technological aspects of applications of information technology to transportation, thus providing researchers with an outlet for publication for these new approaches.