Smart services ecosystem concept for cooperative ITS

Abstract

Current intelligent transport systems (ITS) and trends in their development are weekly consider all involved elements and do not cover the topic of cooperative work of services. In this paper the concept of the cooperative ITS as a digital ecosystem (DE) of services, sensors, hardware devices and users is presented. This paper proposes a new approach based on the theory of complex adaptive systems and bio-inspired artificial intelligence (AI), which can show emergent intelligence behaviour. The proposed approach and software platform should not only integrate all smart transport services, but also provide control, self-organization and evolution of ITS. The software platform developed as DE enables physical or virtual organizations provide core services based on real time schedules and current state of their resources automatically, reactively or pro-actively, and only to the customers interested in these services. It will increase the service level for clients, reduce costs and delivery time, improve scalability, performance and reliability of ITS.