Springer Science+Business Media, 2005, 232 p. — ISBN: 0387232575.
"Perspectives on ITS" is a collection of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) writings of Professor Joseph M. Sussman from MIT. Professor Sussman is a long-time major participant in the ITS world, beginning with his work on the core writing team in the original "IVHS" Strategic Plan in 1991-92, and continuing on to the present day. He has worked in a number of ITS area and is a keen observer of the ITS scene in general.
Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)ITS: A Short History and a Perspective on the Future
ITS Organizational Issues, Regionalism and the Transportation/ Information InfrastructureTransportation Operations: An Organizational and Institutional Perspective
Deploying the Transportation/Information Infrastructure
ITS Deployment and the "Competitive Region"
ITS: Implications for the Transportation Profession and Transportation EducationEducating the "New Transportation Professional"
The New Transportation Faculty: The Evolution to Engineering Systems
"Thoughts on ITS", ITS Quarterly: Five Years of Columns on ITS IssuesBeyond Technology—Local Organizational Readiness for ITS Deployment
Co-Opetition: A Framework for Analyzing ITS Relationships
Teaching about ITS—A Moving Target
ITS and Safety: A Worst Case Scenario
AHS, ITS and Awareness
The ITS Role at the Millennium
ITS and the Federal Transportation Science and Technology Strategy
ITS and "Rescuing Prometheus"
ITS and Congestion
Regional ITS Architecture Consistency: What Should It Mean?
A Cautionary Note
It Happened in Boston
Considering ITS as a Complex Adaptive System
Mega-Cities in Developing Countries—a Major ITS Market for the Future
Where We Are Today in ITS and Issues for the FutureIntelligent Transportation Systems at the Turning Point: Preparing for Integrated, Regional and Market-Driven Deployment
Transitions in the World of Transportation: A Systems View
ITS: What We Know Now That We Wish We Knew Then: A Retrospective on the ITS 1992 Strategic Plan
Afterword