This paper describes a binocular vision-based pedestrian recognition System. The basic components of pedestrians are first located in the image and then combined with a SVM-based classifier. This poses the problem of pedestrian detection and recognition in real, cluttered road images. Candidate pedestrians are located using a subtractive clustering attention mechanism. A distributed learning ap...

This work builds upon established Sandia intelligent systems technology to develop a unique approach for the integration of intelligent system control into the U. S. Highway and urban transportation systems. The Sandia developed concept of the COPILOT controller integrates a human driver with computer control to increase human performance while reducing reliance on detailed driver attention. Th...

SHIVA (Simulated Highways for Intelligent Vehicle Algorithms) is a kinematic simulation of vehicles moving and interacting on a user-defined stretch of roadway. The vehicles can be equipped with simulated human drivers as well as sensors and algorithms for automated control. These algorithms influence the vehicles’ motion through simulated commands to the accelerator, brake and steering wheel. ...

The last few years have seen the emergence of many new technologies that can potentially have major impacts on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). One of these technologies is a micro-electromechanical device called smartdust. A smartdust device (or a mote) is typically composed of a processing unit, some memory, and a radio chip, which allows it to communicate wirelessly with other motes...

The concept of intelligent transportation has been devised about a couple of decades ago and still presents many challenging issues to be addressed so as it can be implemented to its full potential. In this paper we emphasise characteristics such as being user-centred and service oriented to support an important facet of future urban transportation: being ubiquitous. Instead of seeing ubiquitou...

Effective transportation systems lead to the efficient movement of goods and people, which significantly contribute to the quality of life in every society. In the heart of every economic and social development, there is always a transportation system. Meanwhile, traffic congestion has been increasing worldwide because of increased motorization, urbanization, population growth, and changes in p...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), or the advanced use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the transportation context, offers new tools in the continual effort to develop an accessible, safe, and sustainable transportation system. In this thesis, focus is placed on ITS targeting individual use or the end users’ transportation experiences, e.g. video surveillance, cashles...

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Intelligent transportation systems consisting of hundreds of individual vehicles which sense, decide, and act in the same-shared environment can be designed and controlled in two fundamentally different ways, using a centralized or distributed approach. The centralized approach implies an external system taking over the control of the vehicles and coordinating them, for instance by forming plat...