| State-of-the-art computer technology has undergone an incomprehensible transformation in the last few decades and has a great impact on all aspects of our lives with transportation being no exception. Although the rudimentary scope, goals, and value of the transportation to communities have not changed significantly, the advancement in information and communication technologies certainly has enhanced our capacity to tackle the mobility problem more comprehensively and ‘intelligently’. The coupling of information technology with communications infrastructure - generally know as telematics, when conjugated with the transportation system is termed Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) that was previously named by Prof. Kan Chen (Catling, 1994) as the Intelligent Vehicle - Highway System (IVHS).
ITS was evolved to meet the needs of affluent and technologically advance societies and its deployment in developing countries is as arguable as the technology itself. It is a general perception that these are too sophisticated and costly tools for the existing administrative, institutional, legal and socio-economic environment of developing countries. This impression along with the premise that practioners and policy makers in developing countries overlook the option against the more orthodox solutions will be tested in this study with the aim to investigate the question of compatibility of ITS for developing countries.
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