Review of Perspectives on Intelligent Transportation Systems by Joseph M. Sussman: Springer, New York, 2005. 232 pp.

摘要: Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have captured the imagination of the transportation community for nearly 20 years. The promise of applying cutting edge information technologies to address the significant surface transportation challenges of society has proven to be compelling to engineers, planners, and policy makers. Of course, with this promise has also come a large amount of hype. A key challenge to transportation professionals as they seek to advance ITS and, in doing so, improve surface transportation, is to go beyond the hype to understand the fundamentals associated with operating complex, large-scale transportation systems. Who better to guide one in this endeavor than Joseph Sussman, a distinguished transportation professional who has been heavily involved in ITS since its inception in the mid-1980s?