FEEDBACK OR FEEDFORWARD IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR FUTURE/INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS?

To achieve significant "steps forward" in the implementation of future intelligent transportation systems (ITS), more effective strategies are needed than simply trying to cash in on past developments or leaving the solution of implementation problems to research and development (R&D) rather than to engineering, manufacturing, and marketing people. Moving from the current R&D towards a market stage pulled by service evolution and competitive selection, for each application area the main focus should be shifted on specific targets, constraints, and opportunities; the corresponding critical factors should be analyzed, assessed, and compared with the parallel expected developments in all the other telematics markets. Therefore, standardization and related system architecture issues, rather than driven by a consensus formation approach, should become the first setp of an innovative industrial product/service engineering process. By shifting the focus on the main conflicting issues and identifying specific recommendations and guidelines, a minimum accepted level of interoperability can be achieved that would provide an optimal migration path for the upgrading opportunities allowed by future technology evolutionary improvements. By also focusing on the need to make new services available to both new vehicles and the in-place fleet, by assessing the benefits of conceiving and implementing all peripheral equipment as general-purpose, multi-service programmable units, and by considering all the specific and relevant marketing, legislative, and institutional constraints and opportunities, more effective implementation strategies can be identified that would lead to the definition of the necessary preventive or supporting actions.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Five volumes of papers and one volume of abstracts comprise the published set of conference materials.
• Corporate Authors:

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• Authors:
  • Traversi, M
• Conference:
  • Steps Forward. Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress
  • Location: Yokohama, Japan
  • Date: 1995-11-9 to 1995-11-11
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 2496

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Architecture; Implementation; Intelligent transportation systems; Market development; Standardization; Strategic planning; System design
• Geographic Terms: Italy
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00726052
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 5
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 11 1996 12:00AM