SIB Council on Future Cities & Transport (SIB-FCT)
Keywords:
City Development, traffic management,
Scope:
The scope of this SIB is to bring together experts from computer science, geographic information science, intelligent transportation systems, computer graphics, and cognitive science..
Key-Challenges:
- Uncertain information distributed among moving travelers/vehicles and the infrastructure;
- Coordinated and collaborative transport across modes of traveling;
- Information regarding transfers to alternate modes of transportation;
- Data mining techniques for travel information, energy conservation and environmental impact and inference of behavior;
- Geosensor networks, local vs. global operations and analysis in the network;
- Urban Mobility;
- City Planning.
Mission:
Transport systems have to meet society's social and economic needs and satisfy the needs of its citizens in an efficient and safe manner. Due to increasing demand for services cities face more congestion, high consumption of energy, pollutant emissions, and - above all - accidents. This SIB will investigate ways in which information technology can be used to address the urban transportation problem.
Description:
In the near future transportation and cities will require billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. This situation will enable numerous novel applications and orders of magnitude improvement in the performance of existing traffic management and transportation applications.
This SIB will not only pose R&D problems, but provide crucial incentives and directions shaping this entire field. Also researchers from industry will be invited that help to give a more applied view on the field. In order to stimulate this, special sessions will be dedicated to open research questions and project ideas. In addition, there will be focus groups on selected topics. This will enable exploration of both the necessary depth of a special topic and at the same time allow for the presentation of an adequate breadth of topics. Researchers and practitioners from companies will also discuss and exchanges their ideas.
Some of these advanced strategies are investigated in the FCT SIB and realized in close cooperation with industry.