chapter 1 The State of the Art in ITS -- chapter 2 New Meta-Level Principles for an Untapped ITS Technological Mine -- chapter 3 Fundamental Issues in Transportation Systems -- chapter 4 DARYN: ADistributed Decision-Making Algorithm for Railway Networks -- chapter 5 RYNSORD: ANovel, Decentralized Algorithm for Railway Networks with Soft Reservation -- chapter 6 DICAF: ADistributed, Scalable Architecture for IVHS -- chapter 7 Stability of RYNSORD under Perturbations -- chapter 8 Modeling and Simulation Techniques for ITS Designs -- chapter 9 Future Issues in Intelligent Transportation Systems -- chapter 10 Description of the RYNSORD Simulator on CD-ROM and Scope of Experiments.