Intelligent Transport Solutions for Smart Cities and Regions: Lessons Learned
Such an approach combines the best of the
public and private sectors.
manage their own IoT platforms. InterDigital
addresses this need by providing its IoT
platform based on the oneM2M™ standard 6
as a managed service offering (PaaS) for all
trial participants, and data as a service
(DaaS) as a result of implementing an “open
marketplace for data and data services.”
ONE TRANSPORT – A P UBLIC -
P RIVATE E CO -S YSTEM FOR S MART
C ITY AND R EGIONAL I NNOVATION
The oneTRANSPORT initiative is a large-
scale, intelligent transport system (ITS) trial 4 ,
part-funded by Innovate UK. It involves
eleven public and private sector
organizations with an operational footprint
that covers four counties and roughly 10% of
the population of England.
One of the factors driving the choice of the
oneM2M standard is to anticipate future
growth as the system absorbs or
interoperates with platforms belonging to
oneTRANSPORT - ITS Trial participants
Platform provider
Transport expert
Several different user groups share a
common IoT platform. This offers significant
commercial, technology-management and
interoperability benefits. There are obvious
commercial benefits from platform sharing
and the pooling of knowhow across different
disciplines. This is a clear priority for cash-
constrained public-sector agencies whose
core mission does not extend to significant
capital investments in IoT technologies 5 .
Use case owners
IoT & Intelligent Transport Analytics
Within the trial, five organizations represent
the demand and use case points of view.
These include four English counties,
Buckinghamshire,
Hertfordshire,
Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, as well
as the Highways England transport agency.
Sensors
Trials Sponsor
At present, the counties outsource the
management of their transport services and
have no immediate appetite to own or
Figure 1 oneTRANSPORT, multi-owner ITS eco-system
4 oneTRANSPORT Open Marketplace for Data, http://onetransport.uk.net/ oneTRANSPORT is a trademark of InterDigital
5 Connect It – oneTRANSPORT: using open IOT standards to connect UK counties, IEEE Communications Society webinar,
http://www.comsoc.org/webinars/connect-it-%E2%80%93-onetransport-using-open-iot-standards-connect-uk-counties
6 oneM2M™ is a trademark of the Partners Type 1 ARIB (Japan), ATIS (USA), CCSA (China), ETSI, TIA (USA), TSDSI (India), TTA (S.
Korea), TTC (Japan), www.onem2m.org
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