1 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:
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— approaches to the management of MVEs by urban authorities, including mitigation and migration options;
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— procedural and operational protocols to achieve interworking, using product/interface adaptation, translation products, replacement/reengineering, and other migration strategies;
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— technical options for interworking multiple vendors' products;
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— mechanisms to enable interoperability through automated translation between specifications, frameworks and product interfaces;
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— review of principal approaches taken to date to implement these options in community frameworks and specifications.