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Towards Using Micro-services for Transportation Management Systems

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The growth of today’s cities and the increased population mobility are providing great challenge to manage vehicles on the roads. This challenge led to the need for new and innovative traffic management, including the mitigation of road congestion, accidents, and air pollution as well as many business oriented demands. Over the last decade, researchers have been focusing their efforts on leveraging the recent advances in Web Services and Multi-Agents to design new road traffic management systems (TMS) for resolving these important challenges in the future transportation. However, these new solutions are still be insufficient and complex to construct TMS systems that are capable of handling the anticipated influx of the population, vehicles and changing transportation scenarios. This paper is pointing to a new and emerging technology that can solve these challenges and develop more flexible TMS systems based on the notion of microservices offered by web frameworks like IFTTT, Zapier, Node-Red and WoTKit.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3905867/magic-quadrant-for-transportation-management-systems.

  2. 2.

    https://www.g2.com/categories/3pl.

  3. 3.

    https://www.gadjetgeek.com/zapier-alternatives-open-source/.

  4. 4.

    https://www.ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/all_service_alerts.jsp.

  5. 5.

    https://zapier.com/paths.

  6. 6.

    https://wotkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

  7. 7.

    https://nodered.org/.

  8. 8.

    https://owntracks.org/.

  9. 9.

    https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-web-worldmap.

  10. 10.

    https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-node-geofence.

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The authors would like to thank the IEEE LISS 2020 conference organizers (July 25–28, 2020 Budapest, Hungary) for the great work in making this event at this difficult COVID-19 outbreak.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

    Sabah Mohammed & Jinan Fiaidhi

  2. School of Economic and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Bejing, China

    Mincong Tang

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  1. Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Shifeng Liu

  2. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    Gábor Bohács

  3. Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Xianliang Shi

  4. International Center for Informatics Research, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Xiaopu Shang

  5. Beijing Logistics Informatics Research Base, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Anqiang Huang

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Mohammed, S., Fiaidhi, J., Tang, M. (2021). Towards Using Micro-services for Transportation Management Systems. In: Liu, S., Bohács, G., Shi, X., Shang, X., Huang, A. (eds) LISS 2020. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4359-7_8

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