Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Author: Mashrur Chowdhury
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0128098511

Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems provides in-depth coverage of data-enabled methods for analyzing intelligent transportation systems that includes detailed coverage of the tools needed to implement these methods using big data analytics and other computing techniques. The book examines the major characteristics of connected transportation systems, along with the fundamental concepts of how to analyze the data they produce. It explores collecting, archiving, processing, and distributing the data, designing data infrastructures, data management and delivery systems, and the required hardware and software technologies. Users will learn how to design effective data visualizations, tactics on the planning process, and how to evaluate alternative data analytics for different connected transportation applications, along with key safety and environmental applications for both commercial and passenger vehicles, data privacy and security issues, and the role of social media data in traffic planning. - Includes case studies in each chapter that illustrate the application of concepts covered - Presents extensive coverage of existing and forthcoming intelligent transportation systems and data analytics technologies - Contains contributors from both leading academic and commercial researchers - Explains how to design effective data visualizations, tactics on the planning process, and how to evaluate alternative data analytics for different connected transportation applications

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Transportation and Urban Planning

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Transportation and Urban Planning
Author: Gülhan, Görkem
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2024-10-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Interdisciplinary approaches to transportation and urban planning are vital when addressing the challenges of modern cities. As urban populations increase and environmental concerns rise, traditional methods of planning often fall short. By integrating insights from diverse fields like sociology, environmental science, engineering, and economics, planners can develop better solutions for increased sustainability, equity, and efficiency. This collaboration may enhance transportation system designs while fostering vibrant urban environments. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to allow innovative strategies responding to emerging social, economic, and environmental factors. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Transportation and Urban Planning explores the relationship between transportation systems and urban planning strategies, emphasizing the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to address challenges of contemporary urban environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research, innovative approaches, and practical solutions in the field of urban planning and transportation. This book covers topics such as cloud computing, smart cities, and urban mobility, and is a useful resource for architects, government officials, computer engineers, policymakers, economists, environmental scientists, academicians, and researchers.

Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking

Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking
Author: Sergey Balandin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2010-08-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642148913

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2010, held in conjunction with the Third Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2009 in St. Petersburg, Russia, in August 2010. The 27 revised NEW2AN full papers are organized in topical sections on performance evaluation; performance modeling; delay-/disruption-tolerant networking and overlay systems; integrated wireless networks; resource management; and multimedia communications. The 14 revised ruSMART full papers are about smart spaces use cases; smart-M3 platform; and smart spaces solutions.

Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing

Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing
Author: Pei Zheng
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2010-07-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080458343

This in-depth technical guide is an essential resource for anyone involved in the development of "smart mobile wireless technology, including devices, infrastructure, and applications. Written by researchers active in both academic and industry settings, it offers both a big-picture introduction to the topic and detailed insights into the technical details underlying all of the key trends. Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing shows you how the field has evolved, its real and potential current capabilities, and the issues affecting its future direction. It lays a solid foundation for the decisions you face in your work, whether you're a manager, engineer, designer, or entrepreneur. - Covers the convergence of phone and PDA functionality on the terminal side, and the integration of different network types on the infrastructure side - Compares existing and anticipated wireless technologies, focusing on 3G cellular networks and wireless LANs - Evaluates terminal-side operating systems/programming environments, including Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian, J2ME, and Linux - Considers the limitations of existing terminal designs and several pressing application design issues - Explores challenges and possible solutions relating to the next phase of smart phone development, as it relates to services, devices, and networks - Surveys a collection of promising applications, in areas ranging from gaming to law enforcement to financial processing

Advanced Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Advanced Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Author: Marco Picone
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-08-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319106686

This book focuses on emerging technologies in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) namely efficient information dissemination between vehicles, infrastructures, pedestrians and public transportation systems. It covers the state-of-the-art of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), with centralized and decentralized (Peer-to-Peer) communication architectures, considering several application scenarios. With a detailed treatment of emerging communication paradigms, including cross networking and distributed algorithms. Unlike most of the existing books, this book presents a multi-layer overview of information dissemination systems, from lower layers (MAC) to high layers (applications). All those aspects are investigated considering the use of mobile devices, such as smartphones/tablets and embedded systems, i.e. technologies that during last years completely changed the current market, the user expectations, and communication networks. The presented networking paradigms are supported and validated by means of extensive simulative analysis and real field deployments in different application scenarios. This book represents a reference for professional technologist, postgraduates and researchers in the area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs), wireless communication and distributed systems.

IoT Fundamentals

IoT Fundamentals
Author: David Hanes
Publisher: Cisco Press
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0134307089

Today, billions of devices are Internet-connected, IoT standards and protocols are stabilizing, and technical professionals must increasingly solve real problems with IoT technologies. Now, five leading Cisco IoT experts present the first comprehensive, practical reference for making IoT work. IoT Fundamentals brings together knowledge previously available only in white papers, standards documents, and other hard-to-find sources—or nowhere at all. The authors begin with a high-level overview of IoT and introduce key concepts needed to successfully design IoT solutions. Next, they walk through each key technology, protocol, and technical building block that combine into complete IoT solutions. Building on these essentials, they present several detailed use cases, including manufacturing, energy, utilities, smart+connected cities, transportation, mining, and public safety. Whatever your role or existing infrastructure, you’ll gain deep insight what IoT applications can do, and what it takes to deliver them. Fully covers the principles and components of next-generation wireless networks built with Cisco IOT solutions such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.15.4-2015 (Mesh), and LoRaWAN Brings together real-world tips, insights, and best practices for designing and implementing next-generation wireless networks Presents start-to-finish configuration examples for common deployment scenarios Reflects the extensive first-hand experience of Cisco experts

Adaptive Mobile Computing

Adaptive Mobile Computing
Author: Mauro Migliardi
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-08-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0128046104

Adaptive Mobile Computing: Advances in Processing Mobile Data Sets explores the latest advancements in producing, processing and securing mobile data sets. The book provides the elements needed to deepen understanding of this trend which, over the last decade, has seen exponential growth in the number and capabilities of mobile devices. The pervasiveness, sensing capabilities and computational power of mobile devices have turned them into a fundamental instrument in everyday life for a large part of the human population. This fact makes mobile devices an incredibly rich source of data about the dynamics of human behavior, a pervasive wireless sensors network with substantial computational power and an extremely appealing target for a new generation of threats. - Offers a coherent and realistic image of today's architectures, techniques, protocols, components, orchestration, choreography and development related to mobile computing - Explains state-of-the-art technological solutions for the main issues hindering the development of next-generation pervasive systems including: supporting components for collecting data intelligently, handling resource and data management, accounting for fault tolerance, security, monitoring and control, addressing the relation with the Internet of Things and Big Data and depicting applications for pervasive context-aware processing - Presents the benefits of mobile computing and the development process of scientific and commercial applications and platforms to support them - Familiarizes readers with the concepts and technologies that are successfully used in the implementation of pervasive/ubiquitous systems

Intelligent Transport Systems

Intelligent Transport Systems
Author: Asier Perallos
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2015-12-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118894782

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS This book provides a systematic overview of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), offering an insight into the reference architectures developed within the main research projects. It delves into each of the layers of such architectures, from physical to application layer, describing the technological issues which are being currently faced by some of the most important ITS research groups. The book concludes with some end-user services and applications deployed by industrial partners. The book is a well-balanced combination of academic contributions and industrial applications in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems. It includes the most representative technologies and research results achieved by some of the most relevant research groups working on ITS, collated to show the chances of generating industrial solutions to be deployed in real transportation environments.

Leveraging Computer Vision to Biometric Applications

Leveraging Computer Vision to Biometric Applications
Author: Arvind Selwal
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2024-10-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1040120563

Computer vision is an effective solution in a diverse range of real-life applications. With the advent of the machine and deep learning paradigms, this book adopts machine and deep learning algorithms to leverage digital image processing for designing accurate biometrical applications. In this aspect, it presents the advancements made in computer vision to biometric applications design approach using emerging technologies. It discusses the challenges of designing efficient and accurate biometric-based systems, which is a key issue that can be tackled via computer vision-based techniques. Key Features • Discusses real-life applications of emerging techniques in computer vision systems • Offers solutions on real-time computer vision and biometrics applications to cater to the needs of current industry • Presents case studies to offer ideas for developing new biometrics-based products • Offers problem-based solutions in the field computer vision and real-time biometric applications for secured human authentication • Works as a ready resource for professionals and scholars working on emerging topics of computer vision for biometrics. The book is for academic researchers, scholars and students in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, management, academicians, researchers, scientists and industry people working on computer vision and biometrics applications.

Data-Driven Mining, Learning and Analytics for Secured Smart Cities

Data-Driven Mining, Learning and Analytics for Secured Smart Cities
Author: Chinmay Chakraborty
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2021-04-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030721396

This book provides information on data-driven infrastructure design, analytical approaches, and technological solutions with case studies for smart cities. This book aims to attract works on multidisciplinary research spanning across the computer science and engineering, environmental studies, services, urban planning and development, social sciences and industrial engineering on technologies, case studies, novel approaches, and visionary ideas related to data-driven innovative solutions and big data-powered applications to cope with the real world challenges for building smart cities.