Title: COOPERS Project: Development of an ITS Architecture for Co-Operative Systems on Motorways
Abstract: This paper explains the development of a high-level architecture for cooperative systems using the FRAME method and the European Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Framework Architecture, as exemplified by the European Union project COOPERS (CO-OPerative SystEms for Intelligent Road Safety). The authors stress that cooperative systems based on infrastructure-to-vehicle communication have not only the potential to increase the mentioned criteria resulting in higher road safety, but also to enable new applications and services that bring traffic management to the next level. However, the progression of ITS integration leads to large, inhomogeneous environments. This raises the need for a robust system architecture that ensures sustainability of investment and compliance amongst the European countries. The authors conclude by emphasizing that user needs and the related functional viewpoint provide valuable input to enable objective discussions on functionality and requirements with stakeholders, user groups and related projects. The outcome of these discussions results in new user needs and functional elements which will be fed back to the FRAME forum. The resulting system will be specified, tested and demonstrated on 5 European motorways until the end of 2009.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Access and Citation
Cited By Count: 3
AI Researcher Chatbot
Get quick answers to your questions about the article from our AI researcher chatbot