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This book presents cutting-edge work onthe most challenging research issues concerning intelligent transportationsystems (ITS), introducing selected, highly relevant advanced research onscheduling and real-time communication for vehicular networks, as well as faulttolerance, test beds and simulations for ITS. The authors define newarchitectures that support cooperative sensing in ITS and offer guidance forthe development of a reference end-to-end implementation. The presented resultsallow advanced traffic and travel management strategies to be formulated on thebasis of reliable and real-time input data. The effectiveness of these newstrategies, together with the proposed systems, is assessed in field trials andvia simulations.

The chapters in this book detail newresearch findings, algorithms, protocols, and the development of animplementation platform for ITS that merges and integrates heterogeneous datasources into a common system. In addition, they provide a set of advanced toolsfor the control, monitoring, simulation, and prediction of traffic that resultin safer, more sustainable, and less congested roads. 

Work undertaken within the framework of theFP7 project ICSI (Intelligent Cooperative Sensing for Improved trafficefficiency) is also included in the research activities addressed.

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Deterministic Real-Time Communication Protocols for ITS.- Vehicular Flexible Time-Triggered (V-FTT) Protocol.- Fault Tolerance in Vehicular Communication.- Fail Silent Road Side Unit architecture for Vehicular Communication.- Low Delay Recovery Mechanism for RSU backup.- Fault Tolerant Vehicular Flexible Time-Triggered protocol (V-FTT) protocol.- Security Challenges in Vehicular Communication Networks.- Security Considerations and Solutions for IEEE 802.11p.- Communication and Services Analysis of IEEE 1609.2.- Simulators and Testbed Development for ITS: Design and Requirements.- Traffic and Travel models for ITS.- Deterministic Real-Time Communication Simulator for ITS.- IEEE 802.11P Enhanced Transceiver for ITS.- Intelligent Cooperative Testbed Prototype for ITS.