Computational transportation science
Encyclopedia
Computational Transportation Science (CTS) is an emerging discipline that combines computer science
and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline studies how to improve the safety, mobility, and sustainability of the transportation system by taking advantage of information technologies and ubiquitous computing
. A list of subjects encompassed by CTS can be found at include.
Computational Transportation Science is an emerging discipline going beyond vehicular technology, addressing pedestrian systems on hand-held devices but also issues such as transportation data mining
(or movement analysis), as well as data management aspects. CTS allows for an increasing flexibility of the system as local and autonomous negotiations between transportation peers, partners and supporting infrastructure are allowed. Thus, CTS provides means to study localized computing, self-organization, cooperation and simulation of transportation systems.
Several academic conferences on CTS have been held up to date:
There is also an IGERT PHD program on Computational Transportation Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline studies how to improve the safety, mobility, and sustainability of the transportation system by taking advantage of information technologies and ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous computing is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities, someone "using" ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems...
. A list of subjects encompassed by CTS can be found at include.
Computational Transportation Science is an emerging discipline going beyond vehicular technology, addressing pedestrian systems on hand-held devices but also issues such as transportation data mining
Data mining
Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...
(or movement analysis), as well as data management aspects. CTS allows for an increasing flexibility of the system as local and autonomous negotiations between transportation peers, partners and supporting infrastructure are allowed. Thus, CTS provides means to study localized computing, self-organization, cooperation and simulation of transportation systems.
Several academic conferences on CTS have been held up to date:
- The Fourth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science
- The Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science
- Dagstuhl Seminar 10121 on Computational Transportation Science
- The Second International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science
- The First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science
There is also an IGERT PHD program on Computational Transportation Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.