IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Big Data Technology and Applications in Intelligent Transportation
Other text in scientific journal, 2020

During the last few years, information technology and transportation industries, along with automotive manufacturers and academia, are focusing on leveraging intelligent transportation systems (ITS) to improve services related to driver experience, connected cars, Internet data plans for vehicles, traffic infrastructure, urban transportation systems, traffic collaborative management, road traffic accidents analysis, road traffic flow prediction, public transportation service plan, personal travel route plans, and the development of an effective ecosystem for vehicles, drivers, traffic controllers, city planners, and transportation applications. Moreover, the emerging technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing have provided unprecedented opportunities for the development and realization of innovative intelligent transportation systems where sensors and mobile devices can gather information and cloud computing, allowing knowledge discovery, information sharing, and supported decision making. However, the development of such data-driven ITS requires the integration, processing, and analysis of plentiful information obtained from millions of vehicles, traffic infrastructures, smartphones, and other collaborative systems like weather stations and road safety and early warning systems. The huge amount of data generated by ITS devices is only of value if utilized in data analytics for decision-making such as accident prevention and detection, controlling road risks, reducing traffic carbon emissions, and other applications which bring big data analytics into the picture.

Author

Sabah Mohammed

Lakehead University

Hamid R. Arabnia

University of Georgia

Xiaobo Qu

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics

Dalin Zhang

Beijing Jiaotong University

Tai-Hoon Kim

University of Tasmania

Jiandong Zhao

Beijing Jiaotong University

IEEE Access

2169-3536 (ISSN) 21693536 (eISSN)

Vol. 8 201331-201344

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

Computer Systems

DOI

10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3035440

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12/4/2020