New Service-provider and Business-model Disruption in the IIoT
A typical journey might begin with road travel in a private vehicle, followed by parking at a train station, then travel by train and possibly a public-transit bus service at the end of the journey. If there are travel disruptions then traffic update services, based on recommendations from transportation and police authorities, become part of the end-to-end journey.
In today’ s transportation industry, there is no easy solution to link different private and public sector agencies involved in an end-to-end journey. Point solutions and proprietary products limit the opportunities for cross sector integration and have a detrimental effect on citizen end-users.
Multiple proprietary solutions to common needs are a recurring feature of today’ s transportation industry. For example, a local authority transportation services manager seeking an IIoT parking solution faces a choice of more than a dozen different solutions. All of them offer similar capabilities, but each implementation is different, with differing benefits, costs and( importantly) a lack of compatibility with neighboring county authorities and existing legacy systems. All these issues lead to a very fragmented experience where only partial information is available for travel journeys.
Transportation service providers are beginning to recognize that they are part of a larger ecosystem involving public and private sector organizations. No single organization owns the citizen end-user’ s problem and no single organization has the expertise or investment capacity to deliver an intelligent transport experience. This is where the role of a standards-based, open horizontal platform becomes so important. It enables a common technical, operational and business environment to facilitate collaboration between different agencies and associated service providers and to deliver a better intelligent transport experience.
2.5 Innovative Implementation of a Large-scale, Multi-party, Intelligent Transport System
oneTRANSPORT is a large-scale, intelligent transport system( ITS) trial 10, partially funded by Innovate UK. It involves eleven public and private sector organizations with an operational footprint that covers about 10 % of the population of England.
The trial is a useful reference model for future IIoT applications due to its target use-cases and system architecture. Specifically, several different user groups share a common IIoT platform and service-enablement capabilities. This offers significant commercial, technology-management and interoperability benefits. There are obvious commercial benefits from platform sharing and the pooling of expertise across different disciplines. These are important priorities for budget-
10 oneTRANSPORT Open Marketplace for Data, http:// onetransport. uk. net /
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