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Autonomic Transport Management
Systems—Enabler for Smart Cities,
Personalized Medicine, Participation and
Industry Grid/Industry 4.0
Jörn Schlingensiepen, Florin Nemtanu, Rashid Mehmood
and Lee McCluskey
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
A. Sładkowski and W. Pamuła (eds.), Intelligent Transportation
Systems – Problems and Perspectives, Studies in Systems,
Decision and Control 32, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19150-8_1
Abstract Today’s societies are facing great challenges in transforming living
environments in a way better serving people’s demands of the future. A key point
in this transformation is reinventing cities as smart cities, where the core services
are integrated in a way that ensures a high quality of life while minimizing the
usage of resources [Smart cities in Europe. Serie Research Memoranda 0048,
VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and
Econometrics 1]. Setting up smart cities resp. transforming cities to smart cities
includes the development of smart transport systems as a main service all other
services rely on. Thinking about current mega trends like Individualization of
Products (Mass Customization) in so called Industry grid also known as Industry
4.0 [Umsetzungsempfehlungen für das Zukunftsprojekt Industrie 4.0 2] (Industrie
4.0 describes the industry in the 4th industrial revolution to customized mass
production after mechanization, mass production, digitalization [Map ‘n’ tag.
Thinking highways 3]), Personalized Medicine or the need of better support for
disabled and older people in an aging society, the interconnection of involved bod-
ies is a premise. In virtual world this means integration of data networks and ICTs
in the physical world this means establishing individual and personalized transport
J. Schlingensiepen (*)
TH Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany
e-mail:
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URL: http://www.thi.de
F. Nemtanu
“POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
e-mail:
[email protected]
R. Mehmood
King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
e-mail:
[email protected]
L. McCluskey
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
e-mail:
[email protected]