This document is an update to the Advanced Transportation Systems (ATS) Program which was published in 1995. The update information is presented in six main sections. 1) "Background": a discussion of the history of ITS/ ATS and its evolution into a national program; 2) "Overview": focuses on the California Program; 3) "Vision": presents the Program vision, and how the ATS Program complements California's policies; 4) "Path to Deployment": presents program elements within the framework of the National Systems Architecture, highlights project work, and presents future scenarios; 5) "Benefits and Costs"; 6) "Conclusion": provides an overview of strategies, roles, and priorities in deployment, and deployment scenarios.

This book provides a systematic analysis, modeling and evaluation of the performance of advanced transport systems. It offers an innovative approach by presenting a multidimensional examination of the performance of advanced transport systems and transport modes, useful for both theoretical and practical purposes. Advanced transport systems for the twenty-first century are characterized by the superiority of one or several of their infrastructural, technical/technological, operational, economic, environmental, social and policy performances as compared to their conventional counterparts. The advanced transport systems considered include: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems in urban area(s), electric and fuel cell passenger cars, high speed tilting trains, High Speed Rail (HSR), Trans Rapid Maglev (TRM), Evacuated Tube Transport system (ETT), advanced commercial subsonic and Supersonic Transport Aircraft (STA), conventionally- and Liquid Hydrogen (LH2)-fuelled commercial air transportation, advanced Air Traffic Control (ATC) technologies and procedures for increasing the airport runway capacity, Underground Freight Transport (UFT) systems in urban area(s), Long Intermodal Freight Train(s) (LIFTs), road mega trucks, large advanced container ships and freight/cargo aircraft and advanced freight/goods collection distribution networks. This book is intended for postgraduates, researchers, professionals and policy makers working in the transport industry.

This document is an update to the Advanced Transportation Systems (ATS) Program which was published in 1995. The update information is presented in six main sections. 1) "Background": a discussion of the history of ITS/ ATS and its evolution into a national program; 2) "Overview": focuses on the California Program; 3) "Vision": presents the Program vision, and how the ATS Program complements California's policies; 4) "Path to Deployment": presents program elements within the framework of the National Systems Architecture, highlights project work, and presents future scenarios; 5) "Benefits and Costs"; 6) "Conclusion": provides an overview of strategies, roles, and priorities in deployment, and deployment scenarios.