scope:

This TS will focus on the principal aspects of urban ITS where vendor lock-in is a technical and financial problem: primarily centre-tofield communications and traffic management systems. It will cover the following scope: - Analysis of vendor lock-in challenges, and mitigation and migration options - Technical options for interworking multiple vendors' products - Review of principal approaches taken to date to implement these options in comunity frameworks and specifications - Translation between frameworks/products - Technical and management protocols to achieve interworking, using product/interface adaptation, translation products, replacement/reengineering, and other migration strategies