ITS Solutions Research Articles

Smart tachographs application in monitoring and controlling the Operation of Vehicles and Drivers in „ITS“ Environment

ITS systems enable information transparency, manageability and improved response of the traffic system, so they have the epithet of intelligent. The application of ITS solutions on tachographs, as devices that record all the activities of truck and bus drivers, is defined in the ISO 14813-1:2015 Standard in the context of remote data transmission from tachographs. In view of the growing problems regarding violations of regulations on working hours and mandatory vacations for mobile workers, frequent manipulations and misuse of tachographs, as well as regarding the state of traffic safety and increasing environmental pollution, the EU has set stricter conditions in the field of driving these commercial vehicles in its regulations, in the manner of implementing the ITS system of smart tachographs, which brings significant benefits, especially in terms of the work of control authorities as entities that influence better compliance with regulations and the enforcement of legal regulations.

Enhancing airport apron safety through intelligent transportation systems: Proposed FEDA model

The safe operation of an airport apron is a vital part of aviation safety. The fact that accidents and incidents are still experienced in aviation indicates that safety is still an essential agenda. Therefore, airport apron safety has continued attracting researchers' attention for years. Although some comprehensive studies on aviation safety are in the literature, studies that directly discuss ITS solutions for apron safety problems are extremely limited. This study aims to explore apron safety problems and develop a procedure for detecting problems. This study also presents the possible ITS countermeasures that can be used in apron operations and their practical and theoretical implementations. The study adopts a qualitative research approach and employs a semi-structured interview technique for data collection. The snowball sampling approach, one of the purposive sampling methods was employed for the selection of the participants. This study’s sample size consists of 10 participants, including the pilot interviews. The study proposes a model called FEDA which is a managerial support model that can support managers in making decisions. The emerging safety issues such as technology acceptance, user adoption, and techno-stress are among the significant findings of this study. This study also highlights the importance of human and cultural factors in improving apron safety. Considering that ITS technology will soon be utilized in the entire airport airside, focusing on these apron safety issues, and ITS countermeasures is a timely topic. The study is expected to guide decision-makers in the aviation industry by aiding them understand problems affecting safety.

The application of sustainable mobility and multimodality opportunities based on the example of Vilnius city

The article discusses the concept of sustainable mobility and multimodality and the infrastructure that creates these opportunities, measures to increase efficiency, future-oriented transport policy and future ITS and other innovative solutions. The problem is formed on the basis of theoretical material, the research based on the collected statistical data of the Vilnius city transport system, a correlation analysis is performed and causal relationships are sought. Based on them, a quantitative study is carried out by means of a questionnaire, as well as an analysis of good practice in foreign cities. The results of the performed calculations and research will allow to determine the factors reducing the efficiency of the urban transport system and their impact and will show the ways in which they could be eliminated by proposed model.

DISTANCE LEARNING PROBLEMS AND ITS SOLUTIONS

The purpoise of this article is to provide a general guidance on designing and developing management of dietance learnin . It also deals with the different discloesed problems, solutions and methadological approaches for distance learning in high schools management study courses

АСПЕКТИ СТВОРЕННЯ БЕЗПЕЧНИХ І НАДІЙНИХ ЗОН ПАРКУВАННЯ ВАНТАЖНИХ ТРАНСПОРТНИХ ЗАСОБІВ У ЄВРОПІ, ЇХ ВПЛИВ НА БЕЗПЕКУ ДОРОЖНЬОГО РУХУ ТА ДОТРИМАННЯ СОЦІАЛЬНИХ УМОВ

The current situation is considered on the development of safe and secure parking areas for trucks in Europe. The reports of the International Road Transport Union were analyzed on the European Union-funded project on Safe and secure truck parking areas for trucks in Europe and a final report on the study of safe and secure places for truck parking in the EU. The analysis of European regulations is carried out on road infrastructure safety management, specification of truck parking zones, rules of working time and rest of the driver, as well as Ukrainian legislation on these issues. With a view to provide a consistent definition of secure truck parking areas and a quality framework, an EU-wide rating system and security and service at SSTPAs has been defined during the study that included participation by all key stakeholders within the road transport and logistics sector. This rating system should now be implemented as a standard by a newly created EU expert group. The quality of the entire system and of the individual secure truck parking areas shall be guaranteed by ensuring that independent third party audits will occur for all secure truck parking areas within the system. In the future this quality system could also link to ITS solutions for the road transport sector. The implementing the study results in both existing truck parking areas and in new truck parking areas and thereby increasing the number of available secure parking areas throughout Europe, there is a strong probability that cargo crime and incident rates will be reduced significantly and that the security and well-being of truck drivers will be improved, thereby benefitting road safety as well. Recommendations for possible measures to improve the legislation of Ukraine are provided in terms of establishing the SSTPA in view of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement provisions. Keywords: road safety, freight road transport, Safe and secure truck parking areas (SSTPA), EU Mobility package, driving and rest time rules of driver, Ukraine – EU Association Agreement.

BIG MOBILITY DATA ANALYTICS FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING AND CONTROL

With the overpopulation of large cities, the problems with citizens’ mobility, transport inefficiency, traffic congestions and environmental pollution caused by the heavy traffic require advanced ITS solutions to be overcome. Recent advances and wide proliferation of mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, carried by people, built in vehicles and integrated in a road infrastructure, enable collection of large scale data related to mobility and traffic in smart cities, still with a limited use in real world applications. In this paper, we propose the traffic monitoring, control and adaptation platform, named TrafficSense, based on Big Mobility Data processing and analytics. It provides a continuous monitoring of a traffic situation and detection of important traffic parameters, conditions and events, such as travel times along the street segments and traffic congestions in real time. Upon detecting a traffic congestion on an intersection, the TrafficSense application leverages the feedback control loop mechanism to provide a traffic adaptation based on the dynamic configuration of traffic lights duration in order to increase the traffic flows in critical directions at the intersections. We tested and evaluated the developed application on the distributed cloud computing infrastructure. By varying the streaming workload and the cluster parameters we show the feasibility and applicability of our approach and the platform.

PROBLEMS IN DATA ANALYTICS AND ITS SOLUTIONS

In the information era, a huge amount of terabytes is generated from our day to day lives. This mainly comes from our modern information system and advanced digital technologies such as internet of this and cloud computing. Since the datas are huge the analysis of these datas require a large amount of efforts at multiple levels and for multiple purposes. Therefore to cope up with this big data analysis is a current area of research. Due to rapid growth of such data solutions need to be studied and found. The ones taking the decisions also called as decision makers need to have a detailed insights about the data they are handling otherwise how can they come up with correct and best decions,which can only be provided using data analytics. As a result this article provides a platform or rather a solution or we can also call it a brief analysation of big data challenges open research issues and also some of the different methods and tools which can be used for data analytics. It also opens a new horizon for the researchers to come up with the solution.

Strategic Planning for System and Information Technology Using Anita Cassidy in PT. XYZ

The management system has been one of the essential components of information technology that uses technology to support operations and management. PT XYZ has 11 departments namely Marketing, Purchasing, Human Resource, Finance, General Affair, Engineering, Warehouse, Meat Processing, Bakery, R & D, Quality Control, and Cafe divisions. The number of employees of the entire divisions is approximately ±800 people. Applications has been used in operating the main business activity at PT XYZ on daily basis. However, the applications are still based on each division which will cause the business process to be out of control and the data disintegration in each division. It can be seen as a disadvantage to the product processing as the operation takes longer; hence, it consequently requires higher production costs. Moreover, PT XYZ still uses 3 of the 7 applications that have been developed, while it's also contributed by having limited number of staff who are able to operate desktop or web-based applications. In view of the above, this study aims to develop a suitable information system strategic plan for PT XYZ. The analysis was conducted by using Anita Cassidy's Strategic Planning, wherein the planning starts from upstream to downstream of the company's business process. Anita Casidy's method consist of 4 (four) stages including visioning, analysis, direction, recommendation. The results obtained were IS strategy, IT strategy and IT management. Based on the results, it revealed that, at the visioning stage, PT. XYZ is located in quadrant I, in which quadrant 1 supports aggressive strategies. The strategy that must be determined in this condition is supporting aggressive growth policy. In the analysis, the IS trends used were device mesh, information of everything, advanced machine learning, adaptive security architecture, advanced system architecture, mesh app and service architecture. It was found 25 ITS solutions in the direction stage. For the recommendation stage, there were 4 classifications of costs: resource costs of Rp. 685,286,896, hardware costs projected at Rp. 18,400,000, license fees of Rp. 304,737,080, and miscellaneous fees to be Rp. 192,240,897

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT), SECURITY ISSUES AND ITS SOLUTIONS

Internet of things (IoT) plays a great role in the 21st century than a couple of years ago. Internet of things (IoT) provides us a technologically and optimistic image of the future where several computing objects are linked to the internet and they can recognize themselves with additional computing strategies. In this paper detail review of security issues over different layers of IoT has been covered. This paper also discusses the solutions possible to overcome those security issues. In this paper the brief discussion on security threats and how to measure it respectively to protect information or confidential information of the users IoT accentuations on controlling different assignments and attempt to approve the physical things to act denied of any obstruction of the human. The up and coming and existing IoT introductions are much guaranteed to expand the solace level, effectiveness, and robotization of the clients. The objects can represent digitally because IoT is very significant.

A Novel Model Representation Framework for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems

Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems is C-ITS a set of ITS technologies that can provide services supported by the permanent, real time, information circulation among the components of the system. The paper aims to give an overview related to the modelling and evaluation possibilities of cooperative intelligent transportation system and to clarify the definition of the C-ITS and its differences from the regular ITS solutions. The paper introduce a proposed architecture of C-ITS modelling framework by describing C-ITS components, transferred data and its applications.

THE PROBLEM OF DISPOSAL AND DESTRUCTION OF SEWAGE SLUDGE AND ITS SOLUTIONS (REVIEW)

Sewage sludge of cities usually are formed of municipal and industrial wastewater. They contain many harmful substances such as heavy metals, mineral substances, harmful substances of organic origin wastes (solid domestic wastes, feces, etc.), bacterial pollutants. The problem of utilizing and secure disposal of precipitation of urban wastewater (WWS) is a global. It is not solved fully by this time. European trends of sewage sludge disposal are the reduction or total ban on their agricultural use and disinfecting organic pollutants by thermal methods. Acquires distribution WWS combustion in a fluidized bed. Low-temperature technology of sewage sludge disposal in which the heavy metals remain in the solid residue of the process are interesting. This are pyrolysis, oxidative pyrolysis and gasification. The Gas Institute of NAS of Ukraine conducted preliminary tests of utilizing of dry granular WWS in the reversed process of gasification. Producer gas and pellets with high hardness were obtained; pellets can be used as fillers in construction. Technological scheme of the industrial process is proposed. Bibl. 24, Fig. 7, Tab. 1.

Potential for ITS/ICT Solutions in Urban Freight Management

The article presents a study on applying ITS solutions in planning and management of urban freight transport in Gdynia. The traffic management system Tristar which is under implementation and its related systems show a potential to assist in development of freight transport measures. Recommendations for urban freight policy development supplementing Gdynia's Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan were used as a basis for identification where ITS/ITC could be implemented. The first stage may involve modelling and analysis of freight vehicle traffic with new multilevel transport model for Gdynia. Other possible measures include, among others provision of dynamic information for vehicle routing and priorities for trucks on selected sections of road network. However, problems with access to reliable data describing delivery vehicle traffic were identified in this early stage as no practical rules for their collection had been developed. Additional problems appear in acquiring urban supply chain characteristics that require collaboration with the private sector. Such studies have not as yet been conducted in Poland. The identified factors indicate the need to precisely specify expected results and the areas of ITS application in Gdynia to prepare for their. Dynamic routing and scheduling with real time information appeared to be the most promising solution applying ITS, with temporary priorities for HGV providing services to the sea port in Gdynia in peak traffic and directing lorries implementation to free parking slots. Experience gained in these applications will be useful in developing other, complex solutions, e.g. in organising distribution in the city centre.

Study on the separated bus lanes effectiveness in city centres

Purpose – Under deteriorating conditions of travelling in urban areas, especially city centers, prioritization of public transport is one of the main ways of its enhancing. In developed countries sophisticated control traffic systems are being implemented while in developing countries such solutions due to implementation cost are very rare. The purpose of this paper is to assess public transport operational effectiveness under diverse operational schemes present in two similar in size and traffic characteristics cities. The assessment is based on average journey times and speeds during peak and off peak hours. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology includes measurements and estimates of bus rides through in-field measurements in Edinburgh, UK and in Bialystok, Poland. In-field evaluations have been conducted using average speed and travel times. The data were collected by utilizing a portable GPS data logger that allowed monitoring and recording bus position along tested streets in one second intervals. Traffic optimization in Edinburgh is provided by separated bus lanes and control urban traffic system while in Bialystok the only prioritization is supported by bus lanes. The research areas in Edinburgh and in Bialystok covered streets in city centers and adjacent districts. Findings – The findings show large operational potential in developing separated bus lanes in city centers of developing countries when due to cost they cannot afford implementing advanced ITS solutions. The introduction of bus lanes should be proceeded even at the expense of individual users. It has been found that well developed road network in city center with separated bus lanes can provide operating speed at comparable levels to speed of buses operating along lower volume corridors. Originality/value – The comparison of bus lanes working under different traffic management conditions was carried out. Conducted analyses showed great potential of proper planning strategy of road network development toward the improvement of public transport performance.

Impact of ITS on CO 2 emissions – the contribution of a standardised assessment framework

Intelligent transport systems are accepted as an integral part of the transport system. They have high potential in reducing the carbon footprint of traffic while improving efficient and safe transport. The calculation of CO 2 emissions arising from the transport sector incorporating the impact of ITS is a challenging task. A systematic assessment methodology will support developers, public authorities and investors in ITS solutions to make sound decisions based on comparable and transparent impact estimates. As the basis for such an assessment, the fragmentation of traffic in underlying processes is suggested. These processes can be divided into transport demand related processes and driver behaviour and vehicle related processes. Together these processes lead to traffic flow. Transport processes are influenced by various factors. Both the processes itself and the factors influencing them can be affected by ITS. A systematic analysis of the potential effects of ITS on all these levels is the prerequisite for choosing a suitable modelling approach to quantify the effects. It also ensures the transparency of the modelling process by elucidating the required model sensitivities. The details of such an approach and its context from user need to a standardised assessment methodology for ITS is described. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2015.

Standardization of cooperation of intelligent transport systems in vehicles

Communications between road vehicles and with their environment (V2X) is important for cooperative ITS (C-ITS) application implementations including those which enhancing road traffic safety. Formal and de facto V2X communications standards are key to application development requiring cooperation of distributed components with maintenance of all interoperability conditions. Experiences proof that ITS solutions support road traffic safety enhancement and this is reasoning of European Union priorities of this subjects and thus many research, innovation and deployment actions.

Socio-economic benefits from roads in Europe

In this report are deliberated Socio-economic benefits and how citizens, companies, regions and states all benefit from the continuous growth in road transport demand and how investing in road infrastructure benefits the economy as a whole. Displayed are some of the reports on the socio-economic benefits of highway in the EU-25. This study provides a short review of the EU White Paper and which are the first challenges in creating a successful enlargement of EU. The aim is get to know the expert public of some ITS solutions, systems such as Galileo and the potential it offers to the road sector.

ITS and Electronic Toll Systems

In the paper the Czech toll system and its future are presented. The paper describes also the ITS solutions for use of the possibilities of electronic toll system for reducing congestion on the highway network of the Czech Republic, as well as solutions of differentiated toll tariffs and their impact on changes of fleet towards ecological vehicles with EURO V and higher engines. In conclusion, it is presented a new certified methodology used to determine the toll tariffs in terms of EU directives.

Modelling of Transportation Systems in Agglomerations for ITS Solutions

The traffic analysis and traffic forecasting is a fundamental stage of a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for planned transport investment projects including ITS systems. The paper presents an analytical complexity of a 4-step travel demand/land use model. A model for 13 cities of the Upper-Silesian Agglomeration (Poland), which has a road network and a public transportation network (tram, bus and railway) of a great density, is presented as an example. It is worth emphasising that this is one of the biggest models of transport networks in Poland – regarding the size of modelled area and the number of cities, which transport systems were represented. According to the new mobility culture (Green Paper (2007) five challenges have been identified and presented in this paper. Also user services of ITS architecture and a micro-simulation model for evaluation of ITS solutions have been presented.

Coordination of Traffic in Two-Way Street Networks

Abstract The coordination problem of traffic in two-way street networks is formulated and solved by segment decomposition in the paper. The relationships between new general characteristics of traffic coordination, such as lack of synchronism in segments and reserve time on intersections of linear and nonlinear open and closed street networks are derived and studied. The theoretical considerations are illustrated by real application, by means of so called time windows, in area traffic control and management system in Poznan. The results of sociological research on perception of ITS solutions in Poznan system and its influence on driver behavior are also presented.

Strategy of Implementing Automated Identification System -ITS in Port Systems

Careful consideration of the intelligent transport systems -ITS, shows that the efficiency of ITS solutions is reflected in thetechnologies introduced in the recent information age. Today,it i.s possible to collect, analyse and undertake various activitiesbased on the data and infOimation, that had not been possiblebefore. The technological development in sensor technologyand devices for data collection allow almost immediate,real-time analysis of information and simultaneous performanceof feedback activities that are so fast that they can contributeto the functioning and operation of the transportationsystems.