ITS Deployment in Northern Europe Summary Report on MIP 1 Results (2001-2007)
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ITS DEPLOYMENT IN NORTHERN EUROPE Summary Report on MIP 1 results (2001-2007) Project co-funded by the European Commission DG TREN INTRODUCTION - VIKING IN MIP 1 Besides giving support to investment in the Trans European Network for Transport, the European Union also supports projects that develop manage- ment of the networks concerned. For the road network, the TERN, these projects have formed the TEMPO ITS programme during the budget period 2001-2006. In all, seven Euro-regional ITS projects were included in TEMPO, and countries in Northern Europe (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Northern Germany and Norway) formed the VIKING project. The total budget of VIKING in TEMPO was approximately 200 M€, where of 30 M€ was granted as support from the European Union. With this support, the partners in VIKING have developed and implemented ITS – Intelligent Transport Systems and Services – for the travellers and road users in Northern Europe, aiming at a sustainable transport system. This booklet presents a summary of the results of VIKING in 2001-2007. It consists of three parts: First, an overview of results from each of the technical domains in VIKING, secondly a presentation of a set of success stories representing different aspects of benefits from international cooperation, and finally a look ahead – VIKING in EasyWay. We hope that the reader will find inspiration, and we welcome you to take part of the results from the cooperation in VIKING – past and future! June 2007 VIKING Project Management Board DOCUMENT INFORMATION TITLE: VIKING CONSOLIDATED MIP 1 REPORT, VERSION: 1.0 ISSUED BY: VIKING Project Management Board CONTACTPERSON: Christer Karlsson ([email protected]), ITS Sweden Copies of this report can be ordered from VIKING Project Office ([email protected]) This report can be downloaded from www.viking.ten-t.om TABLE OF CONTENTS ROAD AND TRAFFIC MONITORING (RMI) 4 EUROPEAN NETWORK OF TRAFFIC CENTERS (TIC) 6 TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL (TMC) 8 TRAVELLER INFORMATION SERVICES (TIS) 10 HORIZONTAL ISSUEs 12 VIKING - SUCCESS STORIES 15 VIKING MONITORING GUIDELINES 16 SALT SPREADER MONITORING AND CONTROL 18 HARD SHOULDER IN NORTHERN GERMANY 20 TRAVELLER INFORMATION SERVICES 22 NORits 24 TRANSPORTXXL 26 FUTURE DEVELOPMENT - VIKING IN EASYWAY 27 ROAD AND TRAFFIC MONITORING (RMI) Monitoring is a prerequisite for the provision large animal detection and warning of all ITS services using dynamic information as systems input. During the span of the VIKING action, air quality monitoring Domain 1 has systematically worked towards the goal of enabling harmonised traffic manage- weighing in motion (WIM) ment on the TERN on the basis of harmonised monitoring information of sufficient quality, VIKING has led the European cooperation and and working actively towards European cross-fertilisation within monitoring and chaired co-operation and harmonisation. the related expert group. VIKING has also arranged every two years a workshop on best A number of specific issues and technologies have practices in monitoring deployment. These been studied in consideration for implementation have been extremely successful and attracted an on the VIKING network. These studies dealt, increasing number of experts and practitioners. among others, with: The monitoring infrastructure deployments multipurpose monitoring stations in VIKING have been made on the basis of VIKING Monitoring Guidelines specifying the monitoring of winter maintenance actions recommended quality levels for monitoring by the travel time estimation via mobile phone various common traffic management and informa- network positioning tion services provided on the TERN. use of probe vehicles (FCD) for travel time The figures illustrate the percentage of the assessment and road surface friction estimation VIKING road network (ca 19 500 km) equipped automated salt spreader control with traffic status monitoring and road weather monitoring of appropriate level of quality. image processing applications for monitoring The level of traffic status monitoring deployment is quite low in the Nordic VIKING regions due to concentration of traffic flow related problems to Coverage (%) of VIKING network with traffic monitoring large urban areas and the network surrounding infrastructure appropriate for traffic information services these. Much more severe problems are caused by adverse weather and road surface conditions. The 40 monitoring deployments in the past have thus 35 concentrated heavily on road weather monitoring. 30 In all, road weather stations were updated and 25 installed in the MIP on ca 12 500 km. The 20 continuing need of road weather station related 15 deployments is due to outdated or insufficient 10 2000 5 software and hardware as well as increasing 2006 quality requirements from ITS services. 0 DE DK FI NO SE In incident detection, automatic incident detection systems have been installed primarily in tunnels. Coverage (%) of VIKING network with road weather Travel time monitoring has also advanced in monitoring infrastructure appropriate for traffic information VIKING MIP and new systems have been deployed services on more than 600 km. 100 90 Good results have been obtained on GSM 80 network based travel time monitoring, whereas 70 Floating Car Data based travel time monitoring 60 has advanced much slower than expected in the 50 40 beginning of the MIP. Advanced systems for 30 20 winter maintenance monitoring have been 2000 deployed and mobile monitoring of road 10 2006 0 surface condition has made valuable progress. DE DK FI NO SE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF TRAFFIC CENTRES (TIC) Introduction Germany Exchange of data and information between traffic The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen established management and information centres has been iden- a traffic management centre (TMC) for realising tified as a key issue at the European level through traffic management, traffic control and exchange the MoU on DATEX. It has been acknow- of traffic information. The most important systems ledged that cross-border services require an for traffic control and management were inte- efficient and harmonised method for grated in the TMC: Traffic computer, parking exchanging information. guidance system (PILS), road work co-ordination and traffic control facilities. Subsystems necessary Objectives for displaying traffic situation, congestions, Work in Domain 2 established a network for the parking space and car parks were integrated into exchange of traffic information relating to the the TMC. A characteristic of the TMC Bremen TERN roads in the VIKING area, including design is the fact that not only incoming data are being and implementation of the necessary informa- processed and implemented but that the sub- tion management tools. These activities ensured systems can be controlled from the TMC. that developments in the VIKING area have been harmonised with other pan European Denmark developments. The national Traffic Information Centre (T.I.C.) in Denmark is situated at the Danish Road Achievements Directorate in Copenhagen. In order to facilitate During MIP I the VIKING countries have mainly the collection of incident data, a system called been working in the area of TCC/TIC upgrading, RTS, Registration of Traffic Situations, for cross-border information exchange systems (e.g. remote entering of data has been devel- DATEX) and Interconnection with other centres oped. T.I.C. depend on information sent from (e.g. local, regional, public transport). various sources. One of these sources is the police. The police are often called to a site, where an accident for example has taken place. The police can forget to call T.I.C., and in order during 2003 with the aim to develop DATEX to assist the police, the RTS system was further to a next generation taking into developed and installed at one police station. account demands, needs and experiences from the The RTS system has been supplemented with current versions. The DATEX Technical additional systems/applications like events such Committee (TC) finalised the work and released as road works and planned events such as the first version of the DATEX II specifications demonstrations or sports events. The mes- (v1.0) in December 2006. SRA has during 2007 sages are sent to the central IT system in started implementation of DATEX II in the T.I.C. and thereby distributed through all DATEX node. This is planned to be SRA new the information channels in use for traffic standard from 2008. messages. Finland Sweden During the MIP period Finnish National Road Sweden has participated and accomplished work Administration (Finnra) has analyzed and in the area of Traffic Information Exchange based renewed some of its strategic policies also on DATEX on the European Union level during concerning traffic management. The major change the whole MIP period. The work has focused will be that Finnra is no longer mainly developing on development and standardisation efforts own data systems but buying the needed managed by the EC and CEN as well as work on functionalities as services from the service the national level. The aim was to implement providers. The results of this policy have been and make the DATEX standard an accepted further investigated and implemented at the standard for exchange of traffic- Finnra’s traffic management architecture work information cross-border and for Service and projects at the VIKING level. However Providers and other interested parties in the some of the core traffic management systems area of refinement and use of traffic