This textbook is organized in four major parts as follows:

1. Introduction and Background is an introduction to the topic of automotive control systems and a review of background material on engine modeling, vehicle dynamics, and human factors.

2. Powertrain Control Systems includes topics such as air–fuel ratio control, idle-speed control, spark-timing control, control of transmissions, control of hybrid-electric vehicles, and fuel-cell vehicle control.

3. Vehicle Control Systems covers cruise control and headway-control systems, traction-control systems (including antilock brakes), active suspensions, vehicle-stability control, and four-wheel steering.

4. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) includes an overview of ITS technologies, collision detection and avoidance systems, automated highways, platooning, and automated steering.

With multiple chapters in each part, this textbook contains sufficient material for a one-semester course on automotive control systems. The coverage of the material is at the first-year graduate or advanced undergraduate level in engineering. It is assumed that students have a basic undergraduate-level background in dynamics, automatic control, and automotive engineering.