The mainport area in the Netherlands is one of the top-five economic areas in the world, with the highest traffic and transport density in Europe. Growth in travel and transport demand over the past years has been higher than extensions in the road network infrastructure can compensate, resulting in frequent congestion, putting a threat to vital economic functions in the country. Consequently there is an acute need for more and better traffic control tools. The development and deployment of new tools is complex and requires contributions from many different parties in an open market environment. Architecture development at Rijkswaterstaat, part of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, is aimed at providing a common framework in which new (and current!) developments can be better focused and from which better choices can be made for a technical infrastructure and system building blocks. In this paper this architecture is briefly described. For the covering abstract see IRRD E102946.
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