StrATegy-conform mUltimodal RoutiNg

ON THE WAY TO SATURN

To reduce the burden on people and the environment caused by traffic, traffic management must be continuously improved. This requires inter-municipal cooperation, rapid data flow, and direct communication with traffic participants.
Traffic in Germany continues to grow, putting pressure on the environment and us humans. Daily commutes to work, trips for shopping, or day excursions to tourist areas often lead to unwanted and sometimes unnecessary traffic and environmental burdens.

This is where solutions from the fields of traffic information and traffic management come into play. Coordinated control strategies between cities and suburbia aim to improve the situation and present route/travel alternatives. Currently, only a few state of the art traffic information data sets are available to be implemented in information and navigation systems (mobile or in-car) on a rural level. Traffic management strategies are lacking in both rural and urban areas, making city- or town-compatible traffic handling significantly more difficult.

Trafficon project demonstrator:
The research project SATURN (StrATegy-conform mUltimodal RoutiNg) aims to guide better informed traffic participants to their destinations. A system was created to standardize the transmission and processing of traffic management strategies from cities, regions, and countries to routing and information services.

With the improved data basis, service providers can offer their users more up-to-date and municipally/regionally compatible route suggestions. This will minimize traffic jams, misguided trips, and mobility-related emissions and imissions. The central data hub for data transmission is the national access point for traffic and mobility data, the Mobilithek.
Over the course of the approximately three-year project, nine project partners from industry, research, and administration worked together and tested the uniform creation and transmission of traffic management strategies and traffic information in three pilot areas.
Services provided by  Trafficon Consulting:
Services provided by Trafficon Geoservices:
•   Assessment of the system and data status in the pilot areas, identifying existing traffic management strategies, data processing tools, data formats, availabilities, and qualities
•    Development of new cross-jurisdictional strategies for dynamic traffic management with public authorities and other stakeholders to optimize traffic control
•   Support in the digitization and provision of strategies on the Mobilithek in accordance with the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/670
•   Design of quality assurance processes for construction site information and testing in the Munich-Oberland pilot area
•   Development of a business model for ITS processes using the Munich-Oberland pilot area as an example
•    Conceptualization of a guideline for municipalities on the digitization and transmission of traffic data
•   Mapping and depiction of data provision processes, actors, and roles in the pilot regions
•   Ongoing dialogue with service providers, OEMs, and national bodies regarding requirements along the data and service value chain
•   Design and implementation of a data integration platform
•   Integration of static and dynamic traffic data from the pilot regions
•   Harmonization of strategy data into the DATEX II Publication V.3 "ReRouting"
•   Provision of strategy data in the Mobilithek and the Mobility Data Space
•   Realization and implementation of research demonstrators with a strategy-conform multimodal routing function including real-time traffic conditions in the pilot regions
•   Development of a distributed routing API (Distributed Journey Planning) with exchange points between research demonstrators
•   Provision of strategy data for route monitoring in a digital commuter service
Outlook
The project was successfully completed in 2024 with the development of a project demonstrator for multimodal routing as well as an organizational and business model for stakeholders in the ITS value chain
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Consortium partners



Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV) im Zuge von mFUND

Zweckverband Kommunales Dienstleistungszentrum Oberland, Bad Tölz

Fraunhofer Institut für Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme (IVI), Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt), Mobilitätsreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, Integrierte Verkehrsleitzentrale der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, RIWA - Gesellschaft für Geoinformationen GmbH, ivm Region Frankfurt RheinMain, Trafficon GmbH – Consultants und Geoservices
Project run time
01.2021 – 02.2024