ESG6 – ICT Infrastructure

Leader: Risto Kulmala

General Objectives

The Expert Study Group on ICT Infrastructure (ESG6-ICT) will deal with all aspects of ICT infrastructure related to current and future EasyWay core ITS services. The general objectives of this group are:

  • Identify areas and make recommendations for co-operation, cross border as well as wider European, in support of European policy goals for mobility, safety, security, while regarding environmental impact (EasyWay strategy and ITS Action Plan).
  • Contribute to the EasyWay workprogramme with regard to ICT infrastructure.
  • Provide a vision for 2020 and a road map for the deployment of ICT infrastructure in a Europe-wide context, based on user and stakeholder requirements and especially the needs of the EasyWay core ITS services.
  • Identify the need for regulations, directives and legislation that may be required.
  • Encouraging the communication, information and knowledge exchange between road authorities/operators and stakeholders in ICT infrastructure in the Euro-Regions.
  • Continue the development of ICT infrastructures and propose recommendations on their deployment and increased performance levels in relation to operating environments.
  • Verify needs and make recommendations for harmonisation of ICT infrastructures to the extent that is required by the European ITS services.
  • Initiate experiments and pilot projects and develop a format for their co-ordination at a European level.
  • Verify needs and improve means for cross-fertilisation of best practice with regard to ICT infrastructure deployment among road operators and other key stakeholders.

Specific Objectives for EasyWay Phase II

  • Compile and develop, if regarded as useful, ICT infrastructure guidelines in order to provide the ICT infrastructure for the EasyWay Core European ITS Services with sufficient quality in an optimal manner to avoid overlaps on one hand and gaps on the other hand.
  • Further develop the framework on quality management and assurance processes to be utilised in Easyway, especially with regard to the ICT infrastructure data and information value chain
  • Building on the results of QUANTIS, specify optimal data quality for selected services based on agreements between other EasyWay ESGs
  • Update the road network definition, i.e. the operating environments, based on the evaluation of the first version and provide hands-on guidance on how to utilise and apply the operating environments on the European, regional, and national scale
  • Review and discuss existing system architectures and their utilisation for the harmonised EasyWay system architecture in coordination by the EasyWay TCT
  • Monitor the need to act on speed limit data management based on service needs
  • Study and propose utilisation and European testing of new technologies for monitoring, when and where relevant, and collect related evaluation results
  • Identify road operator needs and potential for utilising eventual open in-vehicle platforms as a cost-efficient channel and platform for data collection
  • Support and provide guidance to EasyWay study on cooperative system deployment aiming at the large scale deployment of these systems in Europe, starting with the most mature and viable systems on the EasyWay network
  • Support the organisation of workshops related to ICT infrastructure EasyWay phase II. These involve various workshops in this time frame on continuity of services, recommending service levels for traffic centre operations, and deployment of cooperative systems, and a workshop on best practices in monitoring infrastructures.

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