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Deliverable D4.3.5: Guidelines and proposals for the revision

of ITS architecture in Romania

Florin Nemtanu

December, 2013

Deliverable D4.3.5: Guidelines/proposals for the revision of ITS architecture in Romania 1

PROJECT INFORMATION

Title: Intelligent Transport Systems in South East Europe

Acronym: SEE-ITS

EoI Reference number: SEE/D/0099/3.2/X

Programme: South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme

Starting date: September 28th, 2012

Duration: 24 months

Web site: www.seeits.eu

PROJECT PARTNERS

No Name Short name Country

LP

Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

- Hellenic Institute of Transport CERTH-HIT Greece

ERDF PP1

Patras Municipal Enterprise for Planning and

Development S.A. ADEP S.A. Greece

ERDF PP2

AustriaTech - Federal Agency for

Technological Measures Ltd ATE Austria

ERDF PP3 Hungarian Transport Administration HTA Hungary

ERDF PP4

Bulgarian Association Intelligent Transport

Systems ITS Bulgaria Bulgaria

ERDF PP5 Intelligent Transport Systems Romania ITS Romania Romania

ERDF PP6 University of Ljubljana UL Slovenia

ERDF PP7 Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation

ITL Italy

EU ASP1 Hellenic Intelligent Transport Systems ITS HELLAS Greece

EU ASP2 ITS Hungary Association ITS Hungary Hungary

20% ASP1 Italian ITS Association TTS Italia Italy

10% PP1 Albanian Association of Urban Transport SHKTQ Albania

10% PP2 Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

FPZ Croatia

http://www.seeits.eu/


DOCUMENT PROFILE

Document status: Final version

Deliverable code: D4.3.5

Deliverable title: Guidelines and proposals for the revision of ITS architecture in

Romania

Work Package: 4

Preparation date: 20/12/2013

Submission date: 01/04/2014

Total pages: 13

Dissemination level: Public

Author: Florin Nemtanu

Contributors: Evangelos Mitsakis, Maria Chatziathanasiou, Panagiotis

Iordanopoulos

Abstract: The current document presents the status of Romanian National

ITS Architecture, giving an overview about the problems of the

maintenance and operation of this Architecture and providing

proposals for its revision


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The report presents the state of the art of ITS Architecture implementation in Romania on

the base of the European ITS Framework Architecture FRAME and two examples of using

ITS Architecture at deployment level. Romania has at this moment two main FRAME’s

implementations: NARITS (a research project which explained and adapted FRAME

Architecture at national level) and ITS Architecture’s chapter of a strategy of Romanian

National Road Administration CN ADNR.


CONTENTS

1. Introduction ___________________________________________________________ 6

1.1. Short outline of SEE-ITS project ________________________________________ 6

1.2. Aim of the report ___________________________________________________ 6

1.3. Contents and structure of the document _________________________________ 6

2. Overview of Romania’s ITS Architecture _____________________________________ 7

2.1. Background ________________________________________________________ 7

2.2. Components of Romania’s national ITS architecture ________________________ 7

2.2.1. User needs and services __________________________________________ 7

2.2.2. Context Diagram _______________________________________________ 9

2.2.3. Logical Architecture (or Functional Viewpoint) _______________________ 10

2.2.4. Communications Viewpoint ______________________________________ 10

3. Architecture implementation _____________________________________________ 12

3.1. Case 1: Monitoring and Traveller Information ITS system for A1 Motorway ____ 12

3.2. Case 2: Monitoring and traveller information system for A2 Motorway ________ 12

3.3. Problems encountered ______________________________________________ 12

4. Conclusions ___________________________________________________________ 13

4.1. Actions towards interoperability ______________________________________ 13

4.2. Final concluding remarks ____________________________________________ 13

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: User needs and associated functions (Romanian version) _____________________ 7

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Context diagram (Romanian) __________________________________________ 9

Figure 2: A1 motorway - VMS ________________________________________________ 10

Figure 3: General Communication architecture (strategic document) _________________ 11


ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMINOLOGY

NRA National Road Administration

CN ADNR National Company for Roads and Motorways in Romania

NARITS National Architecture for Road ITS


1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Short outline of SEE-ITS project

SEE-ITS is a transnational project aiming to stimulate cooperation, harmonization and

interoperability between isolated Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in South East Europe.

SEE-ITS focuses on setting the framework for ITS deployment in the field of road transport

and for interfaces with other modes of transport based on the guidelines of the European

Union’s Directive (2010/40/EU) dealing with ITS deployment.

The scope of the project is to enhance the interoperable use of ITS for traffic monitoring and

control along road transport networks at transnational, regional and local (urban/peri-urban)

levels. The project results will set a long-term sustainable strategic and operational

framework for institutional and operational integration of ITS in South East Europe countries.

1.2. Aim of the report

The purpose of this document is to present the status of the Romanian National ITS

Architecture, the existing ITS architecture in Romania. The report also gives an overview

about the problems of the maintenance and operation of the above mentioned Architecture.

This report describes the level that has been reached in the first version of the Romanian

National ITS Architecture with explanation why it is needed and for what propose to use it.

This document also gives picture about the history of its development, about the

methodology which was used during the preparation of the first version and which can be

used for the next steps e.g. the revision of it.

1.3. Contents and structure of the document

Contents and structure of this document was determined by the form sent by the

international partners of the project.


2. OVERVIEW OF ROMANIA’S ITS

ARCHITECTURE

2.1. Background

The first event related to the FRAME Architecture was a Workshop organised in 2004 by

Frame Project in Bucharest.

A national research project was started in 2005 to develop a national ITS Architecture, based

on FRAME, and a set of results were provided at the end of 2008 (NARITS project, National

Architecture for Road ITS www.narits.ro).

In 2012, National Road Administration contracted ITS Architecture for Road Network and

the result is a strategic document which is the baseline for development projects. This ITS

Architecture is part of the strategic document, named ”Strategia de dezvoltare pe

termen scurt şi mediu pentru monitorizarea traficului/infrastructurii rutiere şi

informarea asupra traficului/condiţiilor de circulaţie” (Short and medium terms

strategy for road traffic and infrastructure monitoring and traffic and traveller

information).

2.2. Components of Romania’s national ITS architecture

2.2.1. User needs and services

At this time only the ITS architecture contracted by National Road Administration is the single

ITS Architecture related initiative which is used in developing new ITS projects.

The NRA ITS Architecture describes all user needs of FRAME which are connected with ITS

systems for national road network but only the needs related to monitoring were detailed

and mentioned in the strategic document as an example of using FRAME in developing new

ITS systems (for other categories of needs, the main document presented the FRAME list and

methodology).

Table 1: User needs and associated functions (Romanian version)

User needs Associated Functions

The system shall be able to receive data about the

state of infrastructure equipment.

Evaluation of needs for equipment

maintenance.

Monitoring transport infrastructure.

http://www.narits.ro/


The system shall be able to monitor structure

integrity of roads, bridges and tunnels etc.

Evaluation of tunnel state and active

measures.

Evaluation of bridge state and active

measures.

Evaluation of needs for equipment

maintenance.

The system shall be able to monitor road sections to

provide traffic conditions data for real time

information.

Data collection for interurban traffic

The system shall be able to monitor traffic on road

network which has installed traffic management

system.

Data collection for interurban traffic

The system shall monitor all road networks. Data collection for interurban traffic

The system shall be able to monitor and record

weather conditions.

Monitoring of weather conditions

The system shall monitor and record the level of

pollution and generate warnings when the level is

critical.

Analyse of environmental data and

make actions.

Monitoring of noise pollution.

Data storage

The system shall measure the visibility on the road

and detect the main critical conditions.

Monitoring of pollution

The system shall be able to collect information

about vehicles and environment for external

systems usage.

Communications with on-board

systems

Preparation of vehicle data

The system shall be able to monitor the vehicle, the

freight and driver behaviour.

Evaluation and recording of safety

state

Monitoring vehicles

Monitoring freight

Monitoring ITS equipment

Monitorizarea încărcăturii

Monitorizarea echipamentului

The system shall be able to send a warning message

to the driver when an incident is detected related to

freight security and driver behaviour.

The system shall be able to locate a vehicle and to

send an emergency message to emergency services

(manual).

Identification and classification of

emergency

Panning of emergency solutions

Monitoring freight.

The system shall be able to locate a vehicle and to

send an emergency message to emergency services

(automatically)

Identification and classification of

emergency.

Panning of emergency solutions.

Monitoring freight.


2.2.2. Context Diagram

The context diagram is the same with the context diagram of FRAME (it is a generic one).

The ITS architecture of National Road Administration is only a strategic document which is

used as reference for technical specifications of new ITS systems.

Figure 1: Context diagram (Romanian)

A list of terminators was identified and mentioned in the strategic document, the main scope

was to link the ITS systems with all these terminators, to provide interoperability on road

network.

The system shall be able to send a message to a

centre when the driver behaviour is out of the rule.

Monitoring of drivers.


Figure 2: A1 motorway - VMS

2.2.3. Logical Architecture (or Functional Viewpoint)

The Functional Viewpoint of ITS Architecture was elaborated on the base of the Functional

Viewpoint of Frame and it is a particular application of this European tool. The main functions

identified and mentioned (as main functions for an ITS system which is able to collect data

and provide information to traveller and other TMCs) in the strategic documents are (the

following is a translation from Romanian document which was elaborated on the base of

FRAME tools but it was adapted for real implementation and the main needs of NRA):

Data acquisition functions

Communication functions

Data processing functions

Interfaces functions

Presentation and information functions

Making decisions and warning functions

2.2.4. Communications Viewpoint

Communications viewpoint is treated at high level, only few recommendations on this aspect

were included in ITS Architecture of National Road Administration.


Figure 3: General Communication architecture (strategic document)

The general communication architecture offers a general view on the components of the ITS

systems for traffic and road monitoring and provide two communication solutions between

Traffic Control Centre and Local RSU (optical fiber and radio link, to provide a redundant

solution). The figure presents also local communication solutions, between RSU and local

devices and equipment.


3. ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION

3.1. Case 1: Monitoring and Traveller Information ITS

system for A1 Motorway

This project was developed under the frame of EasyWay project and was designed as a pilot

project on A1 Motorway between Bucharest and Pitesti. National Road Administration (CN

ADNR) has used ITS architecture as well as Deployment Guidelines EasyWay to elaborate

technical specifications of the system. The system has 6 equipped nodes with different

monitoring technologies and a Traffic Management Centre which is located in Bucharest.

3.2. Case 2: Monitoring and traveller information

system for A2 Motorway

ITS system on A2 Motorway was developed direct linked with A1 system and an integration

of both systems has been done. The A2 motorway links Bucharest by Black Sea (Constanta)

and has a length approx. 250 km and it is the longest motorway in Romania in 2013. The

technical specifications of the ITS systems on this motorway were elaborated on the base of

the strategic documents (referred in this report) and the deployment guidelines of EasyWay

2.

3.3. Problems encountered

The main scope of the ITS Architecture is to provide a common framework for new ITS

projects. NRA in Romania has elaborated this ITS architecture for national road network only

as strategic document. The next step is to improve the architecture and to use this tool for

technical specifications of new ITS systems. The main problem identified is the application of

FRAME only at strategic level not at design level, that means an open but not a fully

integration of ITS systems.

Another problem is the lack of training in ITS Architecture and the application of FRAME at

national level and there is a difficulty to understand exactly what the architecture is and what

the results of the architecture are.

Several gaps were identified during this analysis of ITS Architecture: between interurban

roads and urban areas, between the administrator of national road network and other

stakeholders in the field of ITS, a huge gap between local and central administrations in terms

of strategies and tools for supporting these strategies.


4. CONCLUSIONS

4.1. Actions towards interoperability

The following actions are the most important identified:

Extension of the architecture up to design level of ITS systems, not only at the

strategic level;

Education and training activities on ITS Architecture

An integration of urban and interurban ITS Architecture

Common ITS Architecture for all European countries (ex. FRAME) could ensure the

interoperability between countries in terms of technical approach and could be an

instrument for political and economic understanding of the interconnection of ITS

systems between countries.

Deployment of road corridors, as well as multimodal corridors, among different

member states in Europe could be an opportunity to develop interoperable systems.

4.2. Final concluding remarks

The European ITS Architecture could improve the quality of transport services, generally

speaking, and the efficiency of ITS deployment, particularly. The context diagram could

provide a first step for interoperability through identification of the links between the ITS

system and any other system. A detailed architecture, mainly based on the same European

architecture for both interurban and urban roads, could create the proper environment to

ensure the interoperability between systems, organisations and countries to provide, finally,

the continuity of ITS Services on TERN.

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