Evaluation of driving assistance systems exemplified by the Austrian project RONCALL_I2

The object of the research has been created due to the fact that road safety information is highly dynamic but traffic signs, which display such information, are definitely not. For the development of dynamic road safety information content providers and service providers always faced the problem that there are no standardised interfaces or billing procedures for the input they have to offer. So those simple services which are offered to customers at the moment are not very useful due to the lack of interfaces. To solve these problems the two projects RONCALLI and RONCALL_I2 have been carried out. RONCALLI dealt with the development of the structural and technical basis for the creation and display of road safety information services and in RONCALL_I2 the aim was to conduct a neutral marketplace for transport telematic information, to demonstrate it by several services and evaluate the services afterwards. Now the two projects are finished. Based on the system architecture the hardware and software components were adapted respectively developed, an electronic platform as market place including billing functionalities was set up and the evaluation of the demonstrated services was completed. All in all the projects have been a very good and successful attempt to develop the basis for dynamic road safety information services and their commercialisation. But as the developed services were only tested in a pilot trial they are of course not completely ready for the market, and further improvements towards perfection are necessary. For the covering abstract see ITRD E137489.