The deliverable “Needs for autonomic functions in road operators' ITS. Good and bad practices from increasing the automation of road operators' ITS – lessons learned – status update 2019” is now available. The document is the 2019 update of the “Needs for autonomic functions in road operators' ITS” and “Good and bad practices from increasing the automation of road operators' ITS - Lessons learned” reports first delivered in 2017. It is based on the most recent developments in the partners’ countries and the feedback received from the stakeholder engagement activities carried out after the first edition was presented. The main objective of the report was to describe what autonomic functions could benefit road operators, in improving their operations, maintenance and provision of ITS services. The work was carried out using input from the participating partners in Finland, Germany – Hessen, Romania, Spain, and UK – Scotland.
The document gives you an overview on how major needs of road operators can be supported with autonomic functions of ITS systems, including the functional architecture for an autonomic TMC. Another important outcome of this report is a set of KPIs that can be used to measure the effects of introducing automation and autonomic functions. Also, targets for those KPIs are introduced for two foreseen time horizons: 2021 and 2030. Both the KPIs and their targets are not meant to impose any mandatory requirements on the implementers of TMCs, but rather they provide an expert advice on assessing the benefits and return of investment from introducing automation into daily operations.
Download the report here.