RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL ITS ARCHITECTURES
Philip Krüger, Manfred Boltze · 2013
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) play a major role in the safe and efficient use of transport infrastructure and contribute towards sustainable mobility. Numerous countries have created their national ITS architectures which function as valuable aids for the planning of integrated ITS while in other countries, e.g. Germany, such architecture is not yet available. This article provides an overview on current deployments of national ITS architectures. In analysing such ITS architectures, huge differences have been identified, e. g. regarding the included modes of transport or the related processes for the development, maintenance or updating of the ITS architectures. In addition, national ITS architectures are sometimes mandatory in character to some extent to ensure their application in practice. As a major result of the analysis, general recommendations for the development of national ITS architectures have been identified, and they are presented in this paper. The first part of recommendations is related to the process of developing, maintaining, and updating an ITS architecture, and the second part addresses the contents of a national ITS architecture. This paper refers to a research project which has been conducted at Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (Germany) on behalf of the German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) concerning international and national guidelines for telematics and ITS architectures in road traffic (Boltze, M., P. Kruger, A. Reusswig, 2011).