The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage
technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of
control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New
theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes,
computer methods, new applications, new philosophies, ...., new
challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports,
feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative
projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an
extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial
control for wider and rapid dissemination. Micro-technology and modern
communications technology are revolutionising many aspects of our daily
lives and so it is not surprising that it is impacting societal
transportation systems whether our highways, airways, seaways or
railways. The Advances in Industrial Control series reported on these
developments for long haul railway systems in a monograph by Howlett and
Pudney (ISBN 3-S40-19990-X, 1995). Now it is the turn of transportation
in a contribution from Pushkin Kachroo and Kaan Ozbay. The authors
viewpoint is that this new set of transportation problems are control
problems and that control engineers should be highly active in this
field. Their volume covers all the aspects of modelling, problem
formulation, and applies various control methodologies to solve the
control problems formulated.