Guest Editorial

This Special Issue of IET Intelligent Transport Systems focuses on a
selected set of papers presented at the 10th ITS European Congress in
Helsinki that took place in June 2014. The papers deal with a variety
of ITS topics, reflecting the orientation and many focus points of the
conference.
Some of the papers deal with familiar ITS themes such as
logistics, ramp metering, public transport management and
information, winter maintenance and short-term forecasting, where
technological advances and novel solutions have provided
enhancements and an improved level of service. Some papers also
reflect the growing interest in ITS for electric vehicles, vehicle
connectivity, including the automated emergency call system
eCall, and road vehicle automation. Furthermore, papers show and
discuss the need to study the fundamental elements in the
development and deployment of such new systems and services
including technologies, system architectures, human factors and
evaluation.
Also covered by the Special Issue papers is the development of
new tools and methods for ITS service development and
evaluation, with enhancements to cost benefit analysis and
multiple criteria analysis in order to evaluate multiple types of ITS
services, models and simulators - including multi-driver
simulators. Advances in big data mining are raised as well as
service ecosystem analysis.