Coordinated provision of C-ITS services for Dynamic Traffic Management

Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) enable vehicles’ communication with each other (Vehicle-to-Vehicle, V2V) and with roadside infrastructure (Vehicle-to-Infrastructure, V2I). In the context of traffic efficiency C-ITS technologies could assist through data exchange, improving traffic control and traffic management implementation. Coordinated provision of C-ITS services refers to the provision of several C-ITS services as one combined service. The purpose is to harvest the usability of C-ITS services by developing a strategy for the operation and exploitation of services in real-time and within varying geographical areas. Two different dimensions of the coordinated provision of C-ITS services have been recognized covering: 1) the drivers, and 2) the road network operators and managers. The present paper deals with the road network operators and managers dimension, the objective of which is the integration and coordinated provision of C-ITS services in operational dynamic traffic management.