Title: Improving Safety of Transportation by Using Intelligent Transport Systems
Abstract: As the intelligent railway is the trend of current development, the paper aims to show an overview of some examples of intelligent systems and their functions that could help to protect transportation infrastructure. The paper deals with importance of critical transportation infrastructure and ways to protect it. Intelligent transportation systems are advanced tools to improve and support protection of critical infrastructure elements. The main purpose is to define intelligent transportation systems which could be used to protect elements of critical road and rail transportation infrastructure. Protection of critical transportation infrastructure is very complex issue. It is not difficult to identify a large number of critical infrastructure elements. The question is: "How to protect/ensure them?" A compromise between funding of protection and finding really critical elements is to be found. There are many systems that could be used to make infrastructure and whole transportation safer. A lot of projects are dealing with building new systems, architecture of management system that could help users to manage traffic.