Aims and scope of the seriesThe series 'Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems' aims at covering state-of-theart research and development in all fields where computational intelligence is investigated and applied. The series seeks to publish monographs and edited volumes on foundations and new developments in the field of computational intelligence, including fundamental and applied research as well as work describing new, emerging technologies originating from computational intelligence research. Applied CI research may range from CI applications in the industry to research projects in the life sciences, including research in biology, physics, chemistry and the neurosciences.All books in this series are co-published with Springer.For more information on this series and our other book series, please visit our website at:www.atlantis-press.com
PrefaceAdvances in mobility are most clearly illustrated by the spread of motorized traffic and transport, the development of the transportation industry, including vehicle manufacturing and its associated infrastructure. These developments represent one of the main challenges for information science and intelligent technology. The discipline of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is widely applied to solve transportation problems including congestion, accidents and pollution emissions.Since our daily life and work are closely related to traffic and mobility, traffic demand has increased dramatically. Following this increase, we additionally have to balance the increasing desire for mobility and efficiency with the societal concerns about traffic problems. Today's traffic demand is predominantly served by individual motorized vehicles, which are the primary means of transportation. As the traffic demand has continuously grown faster than the construction of infrastructure over the last decades, traffic congestion has become a severe problem in many countries. Meanwhile, as vehicle speed is increasing, traffic safety has also become an important and socially relevant topic, which has impact on social and economic developments. Additionally, the environmental impact and energy consumption caused by traffic systems also arouse great public concern.The engineers and scientists in different areas are seeking solutions as to how the traffic system could be used more efficiently and how operations could be improved by using new technologies and new methodologies. Recently, computational intelligence methods have received considerable attention regarding their potential as a powerful technique for traffic and mobility problems. Computational Intelligence (CI) is the study of adaptive mechanisms enabling or facilitating intelligent behaviour in complex and changing environments. As such, CI combines artificial neural networks, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence and fuzzy systems. The characteristic of 'intelligence' is usually attributed to v vi Computational Intelligence for Traffic and Mobility humans. The concept of intelligence is directly linked to reasoning and...