Book excerpt: Editor Biography:Gaetano Fusco is Associate Professor of Transport at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Roma "La Sapienza", where he teaches "Traffic Engineering and Intelligent Transportation Systems". From 1992 to 2005 he has been Assistant professor. On 2014 he has been qualified as Full Professor.He is a scientific expert of the Italian Ministry of University and Research and reviewer of several Research and Development projects funded by the Ministry of University and Research and by the Ministry o the Industry. He has been the Principal investigator of several research projects funded by the Faculty of Engineering and was participating in various national and international research projects. His research activity, reported in more than 80 papers published on the national and international scientific literature, has tackled numerous issues of the transport systems engineering, as demand and supply models, methods and regulation for public transit planning and design. Nevertheless, it has been addressed mainly to Intelligent Transportation Systems, in particular: models and methods for traffic signal coordination, traveler information systems design, modeling and detection of traffic incidents, traffic state forecasting.Book Description:Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS): Past, Present and Future Directions introduces the reader to the fundamentals of the ITS. It provides an overview of their evolution, starting from the earliest experiments on the route guidance systems in the 70s to their current deployment, and discusses the main challenges to face for their future development.Target Audience:The target audience for this book is represented by graduate students, practitioners, and researchers interested in having a general overview of the fundamentals of the Intelligent Transportation Systems and of their evolution, starting from the earliest experiments on route guidance systems up to the current deployment and the perspectives for their future development.