Commercial Operations

The historical approach to telematics has revolved around proprietary architectures and
technologies, limiting telematics service offerings and hampering the flexibility of the
telematics service provider supply chain.  This has in turn created significant barriers to
market entry and has limited competition in the industry.  Open platform approaches to
telematics can help alleviate many of these problems by providing more standard
architectures and interfaces to the telematics community for the provision of telematics
services.  This kind of approach can increase the flexibility of the telematics service provider
supply chain.  One example of this kind of open platform approach is the Next Generation
Telematics Protocol (NGTP) developed by BMW, Connexis, and WirelessCar.

Connexis LLC, U.S.A.

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Added Value Services (AVS) for road based freight transportation have gained the attention of public authorities, industry and the private sector.  It is accentuated by systems developed or being under development for road user charging, which have the potential to support additional services through sharing of functionalities (e.g. communication, positioning and payment). To design telematic systems with many services, the relationships underlying such services and necessary functionalities is challenging to analyze. The aim of this paper is to develop a map or guide between important AVS and their functionalities that can be used as a foundation for analyzing potential system architectures for achieving such services. The paper attempts to address differing interest between commercial stakeholders and public authorities in deploying telematic systems for AVS. An analytical method for studying synergy behaviour between road-based telematic services, and required functionalities is proposed. The method is based on a modified hierarchical cluster agglomeration and is inspired by multiuse component based software design. Results of applying the method on AVS in the Swedish Road User Charing system shows that the choice of functionalities play an important role in estimating the synergy for a group of AVS, and hence in the architecture. 

Blekinge Institute of Technology

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Electronic toll collection systems provide an ideal infrastructure for implementing a broad
spectrum of traffic telematics solutions starting from capturing traffic data to pay-as-you-drive
car insurance systems. 
The use of an electronic toll system beyond its primary purpose of automated toll collection
allows toll system operators to save costs, to increase road safety and public security, to improve service offering for the road user, and to generate additional revenues through value added services.
This paper provides an overview of value-adding telematics solutions which can be implemented on basis of ETC systems.  

Kapsch TrafficCom AG

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

A section of congested US Interstate was selected for conversion to support non-tolled lanes
and tolled lanes using plastic pylons for separation between the two.  The conversion was
accomplished by re-striping the road from 5 lanes to 6 lanes, making the two leftmost lanes
into tolled lanes.  The tolling strategy is designed to maintain a level of service experienced
by the user while maximizing the total funds  collected.  Simply stated, the toll rates will
increase before congestion occurs to discourage use of the lanes; likewise tolls will decrease
to encourage use of the lanes without creating congestion. 

Southwest Research Institute

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Stockholm  transport  system  suffers  from  capacity  problems.  New  infrastructure  (rail  and
road)  is  under  construction,  but  it  will  take  up  to  10-15  years  before  it  is  ready.  In  the
meantime, the traffic situation will continue to get worse. The challenge is to use existing
capacity  more  efficiently  at  the  same  time  as  the  region  is  growing  fast.  An  agreement
between the Swedish Road Administration (Stockholm Region), the City of Stockholm, the
Stockholm Public Transportation Authority and the Rail Administration has been reached in
order  to  increase  the  use  of  Intelligent  Transport  Systems  and  Services  (ITS)  –  the
Stockholm Initiative. This includes: exchange of information, co-modality, mobile traveller
information services, extended traffic management, congestion charging, smart park & ride
etc.

Swedish Road Administration, Stockholm Region

City of Stockholm, Traffic Administration

Stockholm Public Transportation Authority

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York