Implementing Biometric Security in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

Recently, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are getting popular in the developing world, as they include wide range of communication and information technologies such as traffic cameras, ramp meters, variable message signs (VMS), traffic control centers (TCC), accident avoidance technologies, incident management and more, that promises to improve the transportation system operations. Changes to such critical ITS subsystems by disgruntled workers and employees, without permission and training to manage functions, hackers, or aggressive terrorists could create dangerous roadway situations. For these reasons, the conventional password protection techniques must be converted into more promising and advanced biometric security systems, e.g. fingerprint recognition for personal access to the traffic control systems of ITS. In this paper, we propose a biometric security system for the ITS, which can be integrated in the subsystems of ITS, then we present a performance evaluation model to measure the efficiency of a robust biometric system for the ITS environment