Dr Praveen Kumar
Assistant Professor, Transportation Engineering Section
Dhanunjaya Reddy, Varun Singh
Post Graduate Student, Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute, of Technology, Roorkee-247 667, Uttaranchal
1. Introduction
Mobility enables us to separate home from work and visit friends and family, as well as to allow us to do business across a wider region. Transportation has the ability to provide some powerful benefits to society. In addition to supporting specialization, transportation provides us with the sort of mobility and accessibility we need to live our lives in the way we want to live them. Generally, there is widely accepted link between economic well-being and good transportation. However, the picture is not all rosy. There is a price to pay for good transportation. This comes in the form of undesirable side effects such as environmental impacts, energy consumption, land take, congestion, casualties and money required to build infrastructure. Growing concern about the impact of these undesirable side effects has influenced most developed countries to move away from the 揵uild it and they will come,?infrastructure-intensive, capital-intensive transportation strategies, toward more balanced and sustainable transportation solutions. There Intelligent Transport System (ITS) comes into picture and it holds the promise of sustainability. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is the name given to the application of computer and communications technologies to transport problems. In a rapidly changing society the emphasis on road technology improvements to assist in road management has been identified. The rapid advances in ITS technologies have enabLED the collection of data or intelligence which provides relevant and timely information to road manager
