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Problems of Quality of Public Transportation Systems in Smart Cities—Smoothness and Disruptions in Urban Traffic

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Analysis of the smoothness flows of public transport vehicles on selected tram and bus lines has been presented. The need of priority services for public transport systems in agglomeration ITS system has been justified. The concept of the logical architecture of ITS for urban agglomeration area has been presented too.

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Karoń, G., Żochowska, R. (2020). Problems of Quality of Public Transportation Systems in Smart Cities—Smoothness and Disruptions in Urban Traffic. In: Sładkowski, A. (eds) Modelling of the Interaction of the Different Vehicles and Various Transport Modes. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11512-8_9

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