Francisco R. Soriano

Deploying harmonized ITS services in the framework of EasyWay project: traffic management plan for corridors and networks

In the last decade, the use of new technologies in the transportation domain has made possible the development of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS). However, the ITS services were deployed isolated. The purpose of the EasyWay Project is to involve all the European countries to deploy harmonized ITS services taking into account the European citizen as final In this paper, an introduction of EasyWay project is done, including the ITS concept services and the Deployment Guidelines. A deployment guideline for traffic management and corridors is presented. Using this guideline, a real Spanish Traffic management Plan is analyzed.

Implementation of the ERI standard and Evaluation of Applications with several low-cost technologies

The electronic registration and identification (ERI) systems allow carrying out a remote, secure and univocal identification of a vehicle through electronic devices. This paper presents the implementation of the ERI standard (ISO 24534 & 24535) in an API to develop applications. The implementation took into account the different components of the system to build the architecture of the identification system. Several applications have been developed in order to test this API with several low-cost technologies (Wifi, Bluetooth and RFID).

Smart cities technologies applied to sustainable transport. Open data management

One of the objectives of the Smart Cities is the efficient and sustainable use of transport infrastructures. Sustainability is understood as the application of new technologies to minimize the loss of time and energy, and at the same time, to improve the satisfaction of citizens. Achieving this objective calls for making use of the mobility data collected from the existing transport infrastructure and services, as well as from the citizens themselves. After the data collection process, information must be stored (use of open data bases) and made accessible (available) to specialized applications and users. This paper highlights the opportunity to take advantage of emerging technologies, like the open source data platform CKAN, or to use services for data linked queries (SPARQL endpoint). As an example of application of these technologies to the transport domain, two use cases are presented: the proposed implementation of an information access point and a national project called “CONECTA”.

A nested virtualization tool for information technology practical education

BackgroundA common problem of some information technology courses is the difficulty of providing practical exercises. Although different approaches have been followed to solve this problem, it is still an open issue, specially in security and computer network courses.ResultsThis paper proposes NETinVM, a tool based on nested virtualization that includes a fully functional lab, comprising several computers and networks, in a single virtual machine. It also analyzes and evaluates how it has been used in different teaching environments.Conclusions The results show that this tool makes it possible to perform demos, labs and practical exercises, greatly appreciated by the students, that would otherwise be unfeasible. Also, its portability allows to reproduce classroom activities, as well as the students’ autonomous work.

Low Cost Identification Applications in Traffic Vehicular Environments

The world is becoming wireless. In contrast with wired technologies, wireless technologies are widespread in several sectors and they are more and more present in many aspects of life. Wireless includes any technologies which uses no wire. They can be applied for specific applications and have been standardized. (Bluetooth or IEEE 802.15.1, WiFi or IEEE 802.11, ZigBee or IEEE 802.15.4, RFID standardized as ISO 18000, etc). One of the most valuable reasons for the growth of wireless technologies for communications is the requirements for the mobility of modern applications. These requirements, and also security, make wireless technologies one of the best candidates for these applications and for establishing secure communications in traffic vehicular environments, so for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) as well as for vehicle to infrastructure (V2I). Electronic Registration and Identification (ERI) of vehicles is a way to identify a vehicle univocally by means of some kind of wireless technology for communication. This protocol allows a wide range of interesting ITS applications, which involves secure identification of vehicles using symmetrical and asymmetrical techniques. These applications could be applied in private and public services (tolling systems, access to parking lots, information services, etc ). Figure 1 shows a schema which explains the whole architecture in order to understand how ERI standards are settled within an AVI/AEI architecture proposed in ISO 14814. A specific application programming interface of wireless communications developed for Electronic Registration of Vehicles is explained in this chapter as an example of application of this technology. The philosophy of this concept is gathered in the ISO/TS 24534 and ISO/TS 24535 standards, also named ERI standards. This family of standards establishes the architecture of reference to Vehicle Identification independently of the physical technology used, so they do not specify a particular wireless technology to develop any kind of system application (the standard just suggests DSRC technology for deployment of the protocol). In other terms, these standards are linked to the Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI/AEI) family of standards, which are ISO 14814 to 14816. This family of standards is the framework in which ERI is included. Taking into account what is explained in the standards, ERI protocol allows establishing secure communications between the road infrastructure and the moving vehicles. This is an issue in which several Traffic administrations have been interested in. In this sense,