Adding ICT to Transportation Systems: Monitoring and Management System for the Electric Vehicle Fleet on the Island of Ventotene

Abstract

 Abstract—This paper describes an Automatic Vehicle Monitoring and Location System developed to be tested on the municipal fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles circulating on the small island of Ventotene in Italy. The system allows to determine the geographic position and to provide data about the vehicles, and sends the information to a remote server. Transportation systems in Europe are in the early stage of being radically transformed by Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Adding ICT to the transport infrastructure, vehicles and transport management is slowly leading to the development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), which include a wide and growing suite of technologies and applications (1). These systems deal with several combinations of communication, computer and control technologies developed and applied in the domain of transport to improve system performance, transport safety, efficiency, productivity, level of service, environmental impact, energy consumption and mobility. Other benefits come from expanding economic and employment growth. The potential of ITS has encouraged the EU to make them an integral part of the Common Transport Policy (2), with the aim of establishing a coordinated infrastructure for ITS in Europe and to contribute to the development, assessment and demonstration of ITS applications, laying the groundwork for a large deployment of ITS in the future. To classify ITS applications five primary categories can be