Intelligent Transport Solutions for Smart Cities and Regions: Lessons Learned
The governance of this multi-partner
initiative consists of a lead partner, in this
case InterDigital Europe, working in close
cooperation with Arup, Buckinghamshire
County Council and Imperial College to steer
the direction of the activities.
E ARLY R ESULTS P OINT TO THE
F OUNDATIONS FOR A L ONG -T ERM
S OLUTION
One of the key findings from the
oneTRANSPORT initiative is the need for
close cooperation with the demand side
(local authorities) of IoT platforms. This rich
interaction between the demand side and
solution vendors has led the in-field trials to
target real issues, not only in the
deployment of technology, but also on the
multiple legal and policy topics associated
with data and real applications of the data
marketplace.
Another more specific layer of control has
seven
key
components:
project
management; Local Authority work;
business models and exploitation; IoT
platform
implementation;
analytics
development; sensor deployments; and
operational evaluation. This structure
offered a great level of control and assigned
key accountable personnel to ensure the
implementation of planned tasks and
actions. This structure also allows for more
flexibility and autonomy to implement
solutions and achieve defined milestones.
For such a complex undertaking, both in
terms of scope and the number of new
partner relationships, this governance
model has been effective in keeping to the
schedule and delivering tangible outputs.
In addition to setting up a data platform and
data-related business models, an important
goal was to create real use cases that could
benefit from the trials. In the
oneTRANSPORT initiative, the applications
of the ecosystem centered on event
management, categorized by their scale and
frequency.
The first use case sought to provide better
information for transport and traffic
management for the Silverstone Formula 1
race and other large-scale events held at the
same venue. The second use case involves
traffic control for the Watford Football
Stadium, which hosts more regular events.
In the third use case, a park and ride scheme
was monitored and interfaced with a
mobility mobile apps for travelers visiting
the Oxford city center. The common data
platform, conceived with the aim of offering
a high degree of flexibility, ensured that a
single
architecture
could
in
fact
accommodate these different use cases.
IIC Journal of Innovation
The use of the oneM2M standard as a core
technology was fundamental to create the
concept of the open marketplace for data
and data services. Before the initiative
started, there was an understandable
concern on the part of participating counties
about the need for large sums of money to
deploy proprietary solutions. There were
other concerns about long-term contractual
commitments, locking in to single
technology or vendor solutions and solving
the smart city challenge via solution silos. In
contrast, the implementation of an open-
standard-based solution gave authorities the
reassurance of using a technology that
multiple vendors can offer and, within some
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