An Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) apply information technology, communications, and sensors to make highways and public transit more effective and efficient. This MIT OpenCourseWare course, taught by Joseph Sussman, treats ITS as a lens for examining broader transportation and societal issues, positioning it as the major post-Interstate-era program for surface transportation, comparable in potential impact to the air traffic control system. Materials draw primarily from Sussman's own text, Perspectives on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and cover the institutional, technical, and policy dimensions of deploying advanced technology across highway and transit networks. The course includes readings and assignments from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Division, freely available through OpenCourseWare with no certificate offered. It suits students interested in systems-level thinking about transportation infrastructure and how new technology reshapes established public systems.