Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) refers to efforts to add information and communications technology to transport infrastructure and vehicles in an effort to manage factors that typically are at odds with each other, such as vehicles, loads, and routes to improve safety and reduce vehicle wear, transportation times, and fuel consumption. On the other hand eSafety (= electronic safety) is a joint initiative of the European Commission and many industrial and other stakeholders having an interest in road safety. The initiative's aim is to increase road safety by deploying and developing safety systems based on modern information and communication technologies (ICT). To deal with tomorrow’s transportation challenges, systems allowing vehicles to communicate with other vehicles and with the infrastructure, also known as co-operative systems, are needed. In order to cope with these requirements Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) have introduced in e-safety concept. In the paper we are presenting a service oriented architecture to make interconnected ICT systems for e-safety more manageable, allowing dynamic adaptation to manage changing situation and counter the risk amplification effect of interconnectedness. (Author/publisher)
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