The Integration of CPS, CPSS, and ITS: A Focus on Data

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) and Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) computing are now challenging existing research in many realms, including Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In this survey, we highlight some advances in the coevolution of CPS, CPSS, and ITS, with an emphasis on traffic data. We first explain the hierarchical architecture of CPS-ITS in terms of five layers: perception, communication, computing, control, and application. Then, we analyze the characteristics of traffic data in CPS-ITS, and enumerate some new technologies for data operation and management. Two typical cases of CPS-ITS, vehicular-communication-based traffic control systems and smart parking systems, are illustrated to describe how CPS is changing our lives and influencing the development of future ITS.