ITS information sharing

Depending on the particular requirements, ITS includes many aspects such as:

1. Road congestion reduction often includes road usage charging and some travel information services. If the goal of road charging is to reduce congestion, the charging needs to depend on the location, time of day, and other factors. One purpose of travel information services is to give real-time route advice to travellers in order to avoid congestion, which also depends on the location and many other factors.
2. Vehicle safety improvements often include better real-time communications to travellers, such as automatic on-board speed limit displays and road condition warnings, as well as automatic reaction to safety-critical events such as cars within the safety-critical zone and obstacles.
3. Public safety improvements often include better real-time, context-sensitive alerting of travellers, for example about road accidents, closed airports, terror attacks etc.
4. The environmental impact of transportation can be reduced if travel is optimised, if multi-modal public transport can be made more attractive through better real-time information, if accidents hazardous goods vehicles are minimised etc.

All these examples share the common requirement for secure, real-time, flexible, extensible, low-maintenance, and robust information sharing. Various sensors such as vehicles, cameras, induction loops etc. provide information that needs to be pulled together and processed in real-time. In addition, travellers need to be informed on a need-to-know basis about aspects of their journey.

ITS security

Security and secure interoperability are critical, especially if services and road usage are charged for and if driving offences are identified via these new services. In addition, transport systems are safety-critical and part of the critical national infrastructure, and therefore need to be protected well.

ObjectSecurity's technologies and services can form an integral infrastructure part of most ITS solutions. ObjectSecurity's secure information integration technologies and services are ideally suited for ITS secure information sharing: SecureMiddleware, ObjectWall, and SecureMICO are building blocks of an open, flexible information integration architecture that can be adapted to changing requirements (which will inevitably happen over time). ObjectSecurity's secure middleware platforms are ideally suited to integrating information from many different sources in a secure, manageable, flexible, modular, low-maintenance, robust, interoperable, and standards-based way.

ObjectSecurity's ground-breaking OpenPMF security management technology enables centralised, low-maintenance security management for the entire ITS system.

ObjectSecurity also offers products (SimulateWorld) and expertise for 4D simulations and modelling, which are another critical building block for congestion prediction and avoidance, as well as mitigation of safety-critical events.

ITS in the UK

A number of ITS standards are used in the UK to enable information sharing. ObjectSecurity's technologies are ideally suited for secure integration using these standards. For example, the Urban Traffic Management & Control ( UTMC) standard mandates the use of CORBA, Webservices, and SMNP (hardly used in practice). ObjectSecurity's technology suite includes open source CORBA/CCM and Web services, so that UTMC systems can easily be securely integrated and managed in a low-cost way.

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