This paper presents alternative technologies and business options for the collection of road user fees. Thus it considers the pros and cons of different road pricing systems, made available by different ITS technologies applications, and derives recommendations. To do so it bases its results on...

The interest in achieving more effective railway freight transports in Europe and increasing the railway's market share, has grown in the past few years. The use of railway is, however, often rather complex in many aspects and needs to become more flexible and reliable if it will be able to...

In this paper, the authors briefly introduce progresses in implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in Japan. ITS impact economy and society in many ways. Many researchers have tried to quantify the impact of ITS on the economy using econometric or operations research based...