This is my research blog for “Transportation Cloud”.
Cloud computing is an emerging computing area that addresses the provision of resources in the form of services in a dynamic and scalable fashion over the Internet. Users of the cloud are not required to have knowledge or control over the infrastructure or resources they use and act solely as service users according to a service level agreement. Cloud computing generally incorporates three distinct service models, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). This project will investigate the application of transportation infrastructure to the concepts of cloud computing. An existing framework for integrating transportation information from independent systems will serve as a case study. This framework serves as a platform for developing large-scale services using the integrated information and an extension to this framework is to be developed to support Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and especially, Platform as a Service (PaaS).
