Have Open Standards Delivered ITS Architectures that Matter?
A Passenger Information Perspective
U.S. National ITS Architecture Framework and Template
In the beginning, there was analog
Boston Transit Commission Report, 1890s
Approaching Ubiquity
Oona Räisänen
2000-2006 Standards Era
TCIP – Passenger Information groupGood: Standards Process Bad: No major implementations
Backward looking: Year 2000 technology(Not thought through for web / mobile clients)
Ugly: Documentation “cumbersome at best, impossible at worst”
2005 - 2006
2007
2008
2011: GTFS-Realtime
Global ITS Architecture
Have Open Standards Delivered ITS Architectures that Matter?
YES!
The real question
The private sector uses sizeable public investments for profit. What are the incentives to push the next gen of tech forward?