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630 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, VOL. 11, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2010 Parallel Control and Management for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Concepts, Architectures, and Applications Fei-Yue Wang, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—Parallel control and management have been pro- However, we have experienced a few “road bumps” over the posed as a new mechanism for conducting operations of com- last few years in ITS research and applications, especially in plex systems, especially those that involved complexity issues of relation to system-level traffic control and management. This both engineering and social dimensions, such as transportation systems. This paper presents an overview of the background, can be verified from the distribution of papers which have concepts, basic methods, major issues, and current applications of appeared in the ITS flagship publication IEEE TRANSACTIONS Parallel transportation Management Systems (PtMS). In essence, ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (T-ITS). As parallel control and management is a data-driven approach for indicated by recent analysis [1]–[4], of the four most active modeling, analysis, and decision-making that considers both the research topics that has emerged in T-ITS over the last decade, engineering and social complexity in its processes. The develop- ments and applications described here clearly indicate that PtMS the two traffic-related topics (i.e., management and surveil- is effective for use in networked complex traffic systems and is lance) led the trend before 2005 and were subsequently taken closely rela