Intelligent transportation in cities with CTS

A consortium of 15 European research institutes and private industrial companies, have grouped together to form the CyberCars/CyberMove programs. The programs objective, sponsored by the EC, is to create a new option of intelligent transport systems based on road vehicles with fully automated capabilities, or CTS (cybernetic transportation system). This article describes the CTS background and the main objectives of the program these being the improvement of the technologies and their experimentation in several European cities.