1. Introduction

1.1 The DACCORD project and its objectives
1.2 Objectives of Work Package WP11
1.3 Objectives of Deliverable D11.2
1.4 Cohesion of the DACCORD end results
1.5 Structure of the Deliverable
1.6 Structure of this document
1.7 The DACCORD test sites
1.8 Acronyms and Abbreviations

2. Products and Services

2.1 System Architecture

2.1.1 Overview
2.1.2 Description of product
2.1.3 Competition
2.1.4 Status and ownership
2.1.5 Intellectual property
2.1.6 Infrastructure requirements
2.1.7 Regulatory Constraints
2.1.8 Future Development: competitive technologies
2.1.9 Need for replacement of existing products and services
2.1.10 Research and development

2.2 Advanced Control

2.2.1 OASIS
2.2.2 METACOR
2.2.3 METANET and Applications
2.2.4 AMOC
2.2.5 Non-minimal State Space Co-ordinated Ramp Metering Strategy (PIP-LQ)

2.3 Italian Test-site

2.3.1 Connection of Motorway and Urban Traffic Control Centres (TCCs)
2.3.2 Connection of Motorway Traffic Control Centres (TCCs)
2.3.3 Traffic Modelling and Management Tool

2.4 French Test-site

2.4.1 Data Cleaning
2.4.2 Travel Time Forecasting

2.5 Dutch Test-site

2.5.1 BOSS+
2.5.2 On-line Scenario Evaluation System

3. Markets and Marketing

3.1 System Architecture

3.1.1 Overview
3.1.2 Segmentation
3.1.3 Competition
3.1.4 Marketing
3.1.5 Interest shown by prospective customers
3.1.6 Production and operations

3.2 Advanced Control

3.2.1 Segmentation
3.2.2 Marketing

3.3 Italian Test-site

3.3.1 Segmentation
3.3.2 Competition
3.3.3 Marketing
3.3.4 Interest shown by prospective customers
3.3.5 Production and operations

3.4 French Test-site

3.4.1 Segmentation
3.4.2 Competition
3.4.3 Marketing
3.4.4 Interest shown by prospective customers
3.4.5 Production and operations

3.5 Dutch Test-site

3.5.1 Segmentation
3.5.2 Competition
3.5.3 Marketing
3.5.4 Interest shown by prospective customers
3.5.5 Production and operations

4. Management

4.1 System Architecture
4.2 Advanced Control
4.3 Italian Test-site

4.3.1 Connection of Motorway and urban TCCs
4.3.2 Connection of Motorway TCCs
4.3.3 Traffic modelling and management tool

4.4 French Test-site

4.4.1 Data Cleaning
4.4.2 OASIS
4.4.3 Travel Time Forecasting

4.5 Dutch Test-site

5. Financial Forecasts

5.1 System Architecture
5.2 Advanced Control

5.2.1 OASIS
5.2.2 METACOR
5.2.3 METANET and Applications
5.2.4 AMOC
5.2.5 Non-minimal State Space Co-ordinated Ramp Metering Strategy (PIP-LQ)

5.3 Italian test-site
5.4 French test-site
5.5 Dutch test-site

6. Conclusions

APPENDIX B: TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

This deliverable D11.2 is a result of the Work Package WP11 of the DACCORD project and it describes the project’s consolidated Exploitation Plan. It constitutes the final, consolidated position of the project with regard to the exploitation of its end products.

The major part of the DACCORD project is aimed at the further development of advanced traffic models and control tools. These models will form in the future a kernel part of a sophisticated traffic control system for central co-ordination of traffic control tools. The main objective of the project was to design, implement and validate these models in a practical system environment. A smaller part of the project was allocated to system architecture, where the objective was to develop a system architecture for interurban traffic management in which the DACCORD models will be applied.

13 DACCORD End Products have been identified. Most of them involve field implementation and evaluation in the three project sites (Amsterdam, Paris and Brescia-Venice). Consequently the End Products have been allocated to the following five categories:

	System Architecture
	Advanced Control
	Italian Test-site
	French Test-site
	Dutch Test-site

As explained in the ‘Introduction’, this deliverable is intended to supersede the previous Draft Exploitation Plan produced in June 1997 as Deliverable D11.1. This previous deliverable was presented at an intermediate stage of the project and its main objectives were to give a clearer, more precise specification of the DACCORD end products and to give a better understanding of similarities between test sites. For the purpose of the present deliverable, it was considered appropriate to make the above classification in view of the different emphases of post-implementation and post-evaluation exploitation on design migration paths and specific presentation material for the Amsterdam, the Brescia-Venice and the Paris test sites.

1. Connection of Motorway and urban Traffic Control Centres (Italian test-site)
2. OASIS (Advanced Control)
3. DACCORD System Architecture (System Architecture)
4. Connection of Motorway Traffic Control Centres (Italian test-site)
5. BOSS+ (Dutch test-site)
6. METACOR (Advanced Control)
7. Data Cleaning (French test-site)
8. Travel Time Forecasting (French test-site)
9. On-line Scenario Evaluation System (Dutch test-site)
10. METANET & Applications ((Advanced Control)
11. AMOC (Advanced Control)
12. (PIP-LQ) (Advanced Control)
13. Traffic Modelling & management Tool (Italian test-site)

Key exploitation issues for each of the five categories are the following:

	The DACCORD system architecture is not proposed as a definitive model for the whole of Europe, but it will be incorporated into the KAREN system architecture, which is intended to become the formalised and official architecture for intelligent transport systems in Europe (KAREN is project number TR 4108 in the Fourth Framework Programme). The activities of the KAREN project over the next two years will provide an approval procedure and evaluation of the practical feasibility of the DACCORD system architecture. The aim of these activities is to achieve co-ordination and inter-operability between traffic centres. KAREN aims to create a minimum stable framework necessary for the deployment of working and workable intelligent transport systems within the European Union until at least the year 2010. More information on the KAREN project can be obtained at the website http://www.trentel.org.transport.
	DACCORD has tested and developed modelling tools (METANET, METACOR) and control tools (PIP-LQ, OASIS, AMOC) that provide high performance and general applicability. The modelling tools METANET, METACOR were developed in previous projects and have reached a high level of reliability. Tools developed completely within DACCORD need to undergo substantial testing in the near future in order to ensure they are able to achieve the reliability standards required in real-world applications. Continued testing and improvements of the tools will ensure they maintain their strong market position.
	DACCORD has developed and tested three products on the north-eastern Italian motorway network. There are plans for the near future to extend all the products to the areas nearby. Currently the products related to the connection of Traffic Control Centres are in a prototypal form but they have both demonstrated the effectiveness of the DATEX protocol for the exchange of traffic information data. The products constitute a basis for solving most traffic management and control problems. They are extendible geographically, politically, functionally and technologically. They enable collaboration between different jurisdictions and operators and permit the integration of existing and new applications.
	At the French test-site two principal software tools have been developed and tested to provide data cleaning and travel time forecasting respectively. The data cleaning software has been extended to the SIRIUS system in the Ile de France motorway network comprising 6000 detectors and divided into 4 main control centres. Travel time forecasting will be applied to the Ville de Paris and SIER variable message sign system and in particular to the travel time display system.
	Two products have emerged as suitable candidates at the Dutch test-site of DACCORD: BOSS+ and an On-line Scenario Evaluation System. The BOSS+ system is a decision support system under development. Its aim is to support traffic control managers in regional traffic control centres, by providing short-term forecasts of expected traffic conditions on the inter-urban motorways. The system has been designed for use with the Dutch Ministry of Transport's loop detector based monitoring system (MONICA), but the algorithms used are generic and suitable for application elsewhere. The on-line scenario evaluation system has been prepared for co-ordinated merging control by means of co-ordinated ramp metering and motorway to motorway control. Studies with the system were carried out in conformity with current and future national developments in the Netherlands.

This document has been drafted in compliance with the Guidelines issued by the European Commission - DGXIII in August 1997. It has the following structure:

	Chapter 1 presents the objectives and main characteristics of the DACCORD project in general and of WP 11 of the project in particular
	Chapter 2 describes the products and services that constitute the end products of DACCORD, which are the object of the exploitation report
	Chapter 3 provides a description of the key markets that the products and services are targeted at, and the marketing activities that are anticipated
	Chapter 4 describes the management issues surrounding the end products, including information about the organisations involved and their roles with regard to the end products
	Chapter 5 gives, as far as this is possible for the sorts of products that are obtained within DACCORD, a financial forecast including a crude cost/benefit analysis
	Chapter 6 provides conclusions on exploitation.

Chapters 2-5 are each split into five sections, each one dealing with a specific product category (system architecture, advanced control and the Italian, French and Dutch test-sites).

Appendix A provides the list of DACCORD project deliverables.