Intelligent transportation system is a broad engineering category covering the electronic, wireless and automated technologies applied to roads and transit networks. ITS includes adaptive traffic lights, electronic toll collection, ramp meters and incident detection cameras. Municipalities rely on ITS to squeeze more efficiency and safety out of existing highway footprints.
Heard on the job
The ITS master plan calls for fiber optic lines to be run out to all the new suburban signal cabinets.
Also heard as
- intelligent transportation system