task o9 – harmonise vms domain operations brian harbord, bristol, 26 january 2006
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
Domain Operations
Brian Harbord, Bristol, 26 January 2006
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• Not a ‘first priority’ Task, but…
• Start mid ’06, initial thoughts today
• Background – including lessons learnt
• Proposed way forward
• Discussion
all in 15 mins….
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• Background….• 1960s - VMS (graphics) on strategic
routes – safety• 1980s – Text/graphics VMS – congestion
- traffic management• Different countries, different approach,
different language.
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• Late ’80s, research on visibility, legibility
• Early ’90s, EC research - VAMOS, TROPIC, etc
• Start of harmonisation of standards
• EN 12966 – optical performance- visibility, legibility, etc. but not common usage
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• 2000 - WERDS/DERD - ‘FIVE’ Framework for Implementation of VMS in Europe
• 3 basic ‘rules’– Use Pictograms– Follow Vienna Convention– If text, use common format
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• 2000-2004 ‘VMS Platform’
• UK lead – £150k (€200k) per annum
• Lots of work – few results
• Why?– No clear objective/outcome, just deliverables– No programme/No end date!!– No control!!!
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• VMS Platform..– Library of documents– Website – but few ‘hits’– Several meetings – networking– No (very little) agreement/acceptance– Expanding ‘FIVE’ document
– too much for Directors
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• 2004: CEDR-EB asked SGT to investigate what was hampering implementation of FIVE– Claude Caubet – 3 meetings
- VMS action plan
• No deliberate avoidance, but…
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• Task O9 – ‘Harmonise VMS’
• Take account of ….– Mare Nostrum (M-VMS Working Group)
embraces FIVE and (may) fill in gaps
– UN-ECE WP1 small working group of 4 countries revision of VC on road signs and signals
– SOMS IN-SAFETY 6th FP develop new pictograms and structured rules
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• Task O9 – ‘Harmonise VMS’– Work with national VMS implementations– Develop an updated FIVE, with simple, clear
advice, including a handbook with good practice examples
– Disseminate and promote results
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
• Proposed way Forward
• PRINCE 2 – PID
• Project Initiation Document– Outcomes– Responsibilities– Programme
• Draft for next PG (end March in Copenhagen)for mid year start.
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Task O9 – Harmonise VMS
Discussion
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Gaps identified via VMS-action
• New needed pictograms for dynamic situations (see FIVE list such as "bad visibility", COST 30 and symbols for new traffic management situations such as "temporary use of hard shoulder"),
• Use of speed limits, and use of lane-control signs in terms of successive gantries,
• Language independent symbols (+, =, ->, …) in text messages,
• Some more clear rules specifying the text structure, • A focus on a clear distinction between immediate
danger warning messages (close to the event) and informative ones (upstream).