Deception in Autonomous Transport Systems

This book provides a comprehensive overview of deception in autonomous transport systems. This authors investigate the threats facing autonomous transport systems, and how they can contribute towards a deceptive attack, followed by their potential impact if successful. Also, how they can be mitigated. This book is grouped into three parts. The first part focuses on the area of smart cities, policies and ethics. This includes critically appraising the trade-off between functionality and security with connected and autonomous vehicles. The second part discusses a range of AI applications in the wider field of smart transport and mobility, such as detecting anomalies in vehicle behavior to investigating detecting disobedient vehicles. Finally, the third part presents and discusses cybersecurity-related aspects to consider when dealing with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and smart urban infrastructure. This includes analyzing different attacks to investigating secure communication technologies.CAVs are a game-changing technology with the potential to transform the way transport is perceived. Mobility is serviced, travel ecosystems 'behave' and cities and societies as a whole function. There are many foreseen safety, accessibility and sustainability benefits resulting from the adoption of CAVs. This is due to their ability in theory to operate error-free and collaboratively. It ranges from accident prevention, congestion reduction and decreased carbon emissions to time savings, increased social inclusion, optimized routing and better traffic control. However, no matter what the expected benefits are, CAVs are at the same time susceptible to an unprecedented number of new digital and physical threats. The severity of these threats resulted in an increased effort to deepen our understanding of CAVs, when it comes to their safety and resilience. With this complex and multi-faceted scenario, this book provides an extensive overview of the risks related to the malicious exploitation of CAVs and beyond. Also, the potential methods in which vulnerabilities can be exploited, prevention and mitigation policies and techniques as well as the impact that the non-acceptance of CAVs can result from on the Smart City agenda.This book targets researchers working in transport engineering as well as advanced-level students studying computer science and electrical engineering.  Professionals working within this related field will also find this book useful as a reference.