Name of the Center: Center for Intelligent Transport Systems
The Centre for Intelligent Transport System (CITS) of the University of Moratuwa was established to cater to the academic and industry gaps in transportation due to the absence of a platform for individual sector experts to work together for the betterment of transportation, especially in the Sri Lankan context. In 2017, the University of Moratuwa decided to strengthen research in strategic areas by allocating/attracting funds, pooling expertise from all the faculties and external sources to carry out Research and development, and effectively disseminating/implementing findings in highly focused areas. Under the above program, the Centre for Intelligent Transport Systems (CITS) was established in late 2017. The Centre has been successful in collaborating with the major departments of the university in collaborative research and industrial projects both with national and international partners addressing different aspects of transportation engineering. CITS facilitates inter-disciplinary research in the focus area of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) that cuts across broad areas of research interests with a strong relation to transportation.
Vision: To be the leading research center for ITS studies in the South Asian Region
Mission: To facilitate and promote inter-disciplinary research in the focus area of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) that cut across broad knowledge domains
Scope and Objectives: The scope of CITS is to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary research in the focus area of Intelligent Transport Systems that cut across broad areas of research interests and become a leading research institute for CITS studies.
The main objectives are:
• Contribute towards improving transport services in the country and the region using new technologies to achieve comfortable, safer, timely, environment-friendly and fuel-efficient transport operation
• Increase inter-disciplinary research initiatives and dissemination of knowledge in the study area in terms of research publications, research degrees, training programs, conferences, and workshops
• Engage in state-of-the-art, inter-disciplinary collaborative research and development work in the area of ITS.