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Welcome to the ITVS
Lab
@ The National University
of Singapore
Introduction to
ITVS Laboratory
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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is the integrated
applications of advanced technologies to improve safety,
enhance mobility, minimize environmental impact, save
energy & promote productivity of transportation systems.
A collective term used by transportation professionals and
researchers, ITS embraces information technology, wireless |
communication, artificial-intelligence techniques, spatial
and temporal data-analysis methods, and other emerging
technologies that increasingly work to improve the
functionality and performance of air, sea, and land
transportation modes. The underlying requirements for all
these advances — safer, more efficient and more
environmentally friendly.
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Singapore is a good example of
a city with good ITS infrastructure. Among the ITS systems
are the famous Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) System,
Expressway Monitoring and Advisory System (EMAS), Green Link
Determining (GLIDE) system, Junction-Eye (J-Eye) system,
GPS-based taxi dispatching system, and etc. The latest is the |
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i_Transport that integrates some of the abovementioned systems
for large-scale expressway and arterial traffic control and
management.
The Intelligent Transportation & Vehicle Systems (ITVS)
Lab was established by the Department of Civil Engineering
in April 2000 in recognition of the importance of ITS in
traffic
management. The mission of the laboratory is to support
faculty and research staff in NUS to conduct
multi-disciplinary ITS research and offering of ITS education
program so as to put NUS in the world map of ITS R&D. The ITVS
Lab is the focal point of ITS R&D in NUS.
Since its establishment in
2000, the laboratory has grown in terms of its size and
activities. Faculty staff from various schools and
departments, including
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical & Computer
Engineering
- Industrial & Systems
Engineering
- Geography
- School of Computing
- The Logistics Institute-Asia
Pacific
have participated in joint
research activities. Through the Lab, they have collaborated
with government agencies such as
- Land Transportation
Authority (LTA) of Singapore
- Maritime & Port Authority (MPA)
of Singapore
- Civil Aviation Authority (CAAS)
of Singapore
- Ministry of Defense,
Singapore
and also industrial corporations
such as
- CET Technologies Pte. Ltd.
- Honda ICVS Singapore Pte.
Ltd.
Several research projects have
also been conducted in collaboration with the following
universities
- Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA
- Tsinghua University, China
- Technical University of
Munich, Germany
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Hong Kong University of Science
& Technology
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University of California, Davis,
USA
- University of Illinois at
Chicago, USA
- Utah State University, USA
The list of research projects
can be found under Projects. Over the years, the projects
undertaking by researchers in the Lab has expanded from
surface ITS to intermodal ITS, covering sea and air
transportation. The project scope has also included logistics
and terminal operations.
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In terms of ITS training, the laboratory has groomed more
than 18 graduate research students with masters or PhD
theses in ITS and 22 undergraduate students with final
year theses in ITS. Majority of the graduates are
practicing engineers in the local industry, while some of
them are pursuing PhD degree in U.S. universities. This
reflects the relevance of our ITS training program to
local needs, as well as the recognition by international
academic and research institutions. A list |
of our alumni and their
whereabouts can be found under People.
The Lab can be said to progress
into the second phase of its development. In the initial
phase, the main focuses of the Lab was to (1) train ITS
professionals to meet the local and regional ITS industry
needs and (2) to establish reputation among the leading
institutions in the U.S., Asia and Europe. The vision of the
Lab in its second phase is to groom more PhD graduates for ITS
R&D, in anticipation of the next waves of ITS development:
Global ITS, Intermodal ITS, Logistics ITS and ITSecurity.
Photo of
LTA's ITS Centre |
