The purpose of this paper is to attempt to provide an overview of the exceedingly differentiated, itemized and multi-disciplinary research in the field of Intelligent Transportations Systems and more specifically the «Advanced Public Transportation Systems APTS».

Towards this purpose, we present the progress and results of a systematic literature review on the topic of APTS. The review is positioned in, and utilizes the literature of, the field of Intelligent Transportations Systems. In the review, we study the following research question: What researches and solutions have been developed so far in the field of Advanced Public Transportation Systems?

      The main result of this study is that, we established history time sheet with a global perspective of APTS represented by five main phases, then classified the research and solutions by activity and usage type (Paratransit or Mass transit), followed by a review of current APTS characteristics based on the Right of Way (ROW) and by service type.