Computer Science

Towards a Sustainable Ecosystem of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Document Type

Conference Paper

Abstract

It is difficult to overstate how large a role Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology has played in advancing safety, mobility, and productivity in our daily lives. ITS encompasses a broad range of technologies, including information and communication technologies, transportation and communication infrastructures, connected vehicles, and emerging technologies such as Internet-of-Things (IoT). It has been studied extensively in many different disciplines, including transportation, communication, database and management communities. Unfortunately, there are still many unsolved challenges that hinder the large deployment of advanced ITS systems. Recent studies have proposed using Blockchain, an emerging technology that enables decentralized coordination, to address inherent challenges in ITS such as security and scalability. However, these studies did not address a key question: how can we achieve a sustainable ITS ecosystem? This paper presents our preliminary study where we first point out the limitations of prior Blockchain-based ITS systems and then outline an architecture to support a sustainable ITS ecosystem. Our main goal is to stimulate further effort and cross-disciplinary collaboration by providing guidance and reference for future studies.

Publication Title

2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2019

Publication Date

2019

First Page

403

Last Page

406

ISBN

9781538691519

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730669

Keywords

Architecture, Blockchain, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Scalability, Sustainability

APA Citation

Tseng, L., & Wong, L. (2019, March). Towards a sustainable ecosystem of intelligent transportation systems. In 2019 IEEE international conference on pervasive computing and communications workshops (PerCom Workshops) (pp. 403-406). IEEE.

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