CSC642 Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation Systems

[3–0, 3 cr.]

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of smart cities and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The elements, operations, and applications of smart cities are briefly introduced. In addition, the most important modern technologies that are used to design and implement smart cities are discussed. Students discover how smart cities are sustainable in terms of environmental impact, technological innovation, and social life. The second part of the course introduces the fundamental concepts of ITS, focusing on topics such as the backbone of ITS communication, network topologies and configurations, ITS models, advanced transportation management systems, driver assistant systems, autonomous vehicles, intelligent traffic control, incident detection and collision avoidance, smart mobility, and localization systems.