Commercial Operations

CroBIT (Cross Border Information Technology) will deliver the IT-part to improve the
European rail freight traffic. CroBIT is a 5th Framework Programme research and
demonstration project under the supervision of the European Commission. CroBIT is able to
connect all freight railways along any transport corridor. Participants deliver their information
into the CroBIT-System. In return, the participants get added value information from others,
about their wagons and consignments. CroBIT combines information about consignments,
wagons and trains. Train movements are followed by each railways’ internal operational
systems. Each train consists of a locomotive and wagons. Wagons include consignments.
CroBIT has been demonstrated in two ways: demonstration with real-world transports in
Portugal and with virtual data and transports between Italy and Finland. Demonstration was
completed in Spring 2005. Rail cargo operators stand to gain the most by using CroBIT. Also
the policy and socio-economic impacts are positive. CroBIT will be a joint effort of
pioneering railway and IT service companies that will maintain and operate the system on the
basis of common agreement. The commercialisation of CroBIT, if successful, will eventually
lead to a market-oriented service company “RISE” (Rail Information Service Europe). The
earnings of RISE will be based on added value information services.

VTT Transport

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

Systems architectures have been used to model comprehensive intelligent transports systems
(ITS) and the services the systems are supposed to deliver. The aim of this paper is to
demonstrate a use case of generic architecture and how existing systems which contribute to
the architecture can be evaluated. The architecture can be used for “benchmarking” IT
systems. If the architecture is based on business process descriptions and/or value chain
descriptions, this mapping will position the system in the value chain.

VTT Building and Transport, Finland

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

It is a fact: systems that are implemented but not properly maintained have more
odds to fail. The same applies for deployments of Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS). ITS being such a “new" area within the transportation field requires a different
approach for maintenance. ITS involves technologies that are not only constantly
changing but also subject to extreme environmental conditions making maintenance
unique and challenging. ITS maintenance is consuming more time and resources than
originally expected and budgeted, by many transportation agencies; mainly due to little or
no previous experience to use as a baseline. Even through ITS started to be deployed
more than 20 years ago under various acronyms (i.e., IVHS), maintenance has generally
been kept “in-house” and few lessons learned experiences have been documented.
Maintenance is not glamorous! The purpose of this paper is to share with the ITS
community an experience obtained from over 3 years of maintenance of an ITS
deployment including both legacy systems and system expansions.

TransCore, USA

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

This paper discusses “Toll Collection Based on Networks (TCBN) in China”, and main
focuses on Central Data Processor System (CDPS) and Electrical Toll Collection (ETC). This
paper introduces Central Data Processor System (CDPS), system structure of software and
hardware, standards, Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI), Automatic Vehicle Classification
(AVC); and Video Enforcement Systems (VES). Toll collection based on networks will be main
direction of toll collection in china and ETC act as a very important role in TCBN.

School of Computer National University of Defense Technology

Changsha University of Science and Technology

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

The objectives of this paper are to present models of travelers’ mode choice, drivers’ diversion
from normal route, and drivers’ adherence to pre-trip advised route under different levels of
information using data from the same experiment. A travel simulator was used as a dynamic data
collection tool. The simulator uses realistic network, two modes of travel, real historical
volumes, and different weather conditions. In this study, sixty-five subjects have completed ten
trial days each. Generalized Estimating Equations (GEEs) with binomial probit link function
were used to account for correlation between choices made by the same subject in the three
models. The modeling results show that the travel time and familiarity with the device that
provides the information had significant effects in the three models. It is shown that developing
in-vehicle information devices may lead to less transit usage in some cases, this flags a drawback
of this technology. As the level of information increases (pre-trip to pre-trip and en-route;
advice-free information to information with advice), drivers become more likely to divert from
normal route. Number of traffic signals on the normal route and advised route affect diversion
from normal route and compliance with pre-trip advised route.

University of Central Florida

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California