In order to understand traffic telematics, one not only need to study the methodologies and protocols managing the transmission, reception and handling of information among vehicles and with transportation infrastructures, but also the wireless communication conditions between them. It may therefore be seen as an extension of mobile communication to the challenging mobile wireless vehicular environment, yet by also considering transportation-specific constraints such as a specific vehicular mobility. Traffic telematics solutions therefore lie at the junction between Computer Science, Telecommunication, and Transportation Science.
In detail, the following topics will be treated:
- Introduction to Traffic Telematics
- Fundamentals on Networked Vehicles
- Middleware Architecture and Standards
- Simulation Methodology
- Fundamentals on Radio Communication in Vehicular Environments
- Positioning Systems
- Vehicular Mobility Modeling
- Vehicular Mobility Management
- Location Management
- Graph Theory applied to Traffic Telematics
- Congestion Control
- Forwarding and Routing in Vehicular Environments
- Information Dissemination in Vehicular Environments
- Security in Vehicular Environments
- Internet Integration
- Most recent trends and research results
