The ITS Test Beds Project
E Vermassen, Dirk Beckman, Frank Köster · 17th ITS World CongressITS JapanITS AmericaERTICO · 2010
Current field operational tests are typically individually constructed to evaluate a restricted class of use cases and associated applications. The heterogeneity in this field makes it difficult to seamlessly integrate proprietary tools and infrastructure to support the process of testing. The most important aim of the ITS Test Beds project is therefore to enable the re-use and consolidation of resources made available by test sites for test procedures developed and executed by other test sites and institutions. These resources can be software assets such as validation and reference implementations of standards and specifications or tools such as modelling and simulation software. Resources can also refer to infrastructure assets and expertise. The ITS Test Beds architecture has identified the different entities necessary to establish an integrated ITS test site and the relation between these entities. The resulting framework and operational environment must be suitable for conducting laboratory, small and large scale field operational tests on a pan- European and global scale, in a cost effective and objective manner. A prototype implementation provides a procedure and Service Oriented Software approach to integrate different distributed services into a new consolidated test facility. The data of all trial runs is stored in a central data repository and again made available to the test bed community for further processing and analysis. ITS Test Beds is a FP7 project funded by the European Commission. The project started in February 2009 and ends in April 2011. At this time a first limited version of the ITS Test Beds toolset is available for evaluation by ITS stakeholders.