**1. Introduction**

As the transportation systems of the US grew and became more complicated to manage, intelligent management systems were used to more effectively and efficiently manage traffic. However, Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies and applications have brought enormous opportunities and challenges. ITS deployment appears to have the most broad-based benefit in the area of improved mobility (ITS-JPO 2015–2019) [1], and in terms of opportunities and a sub-function of Smart Cities, intelligent systems are already providing advantages related to:

• Efficient timing/coordination of lights based on sensors, remote traffic monitoring and control,


Still, even while making the most of the technologies that already exist and integrating those advancements into vehicles and infrastructure where possible, the challenges of ITS technologies and their security implications are also enormous. A failure to identify significant vulnerabilities, and properly address them can leave a municipality at the mercy of a state actor or a misguided teen alike.

This article will present the challenges introduced by cyberspace and ITS. It will review cybersecurity incidents that have impacted local governments in the remaining of Section 1. It will provide an overview of ITS management and critical issues in Section 2 and 3 respectively. Then in Section 4 and 5, the results of a small but multi-perspective study of local government experiences and perceptions about local government cybersecurity issues and ITS are reported. The article ends with practical and research recommendations in Section 6, and Section 7 concludes this paper.
