Future Networks 2030: Challenges in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Many cities around the world implement the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) concept to reduce road traffic congestion. This concept implies the usage of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to ensure a better traffic flow, especially in crowded urban areas. Sensors networks became part of road infrastructure and have as main responsibilities to collect real-time traffic data and to send them to Traffic Management Centres (TMCs) which control further the traffic lights timings. Today's technologies meet some limitations in terms of efficiency. This paper starts with an overview of these limitations to create a path for discussing the challenges that the development of ITS will meet in the context of Future Networks (FN) 2030 concept. Based on this development path, the identification of current limitations and possible future challenges consists of an important step of this research. Further, the main contribution in this research is to show how the ITS shall adapt to meet the requirements of FN 2030 by providing an architecture for Future ITS 2030 that meets the general ITS needs.