scope:

This document focuses on the principal aspects of urban ITS where vendor lock-in is recognized as a technical and financial problem: primarily centre-to-field communications and traffic management systems. It will cover the following scope:

- approaches to the management of MVEs by urban authorities, including mitigation and migration options;

- procedural and operational protocols to achieve interworking, using product/interface adaptation, translation products, replacement/reengineering, and other migration strategies;

- technical options for interworking multiple vendors' products;

- mechanisms to enable interoperability through automated translation between specifications, frameworks and product interfaces;

- review of principal approaches taken to date to implement these options in community frameworks and specifications.