Preliminary Remark

„The Deployment Guidelines are subordinated to the Delegated Regulations. The Deployment Guidelines pursue the goal of applying the legally binding Delegated Regulations to the specific ITS services. Table 7 shows the Deployment Guidelines affected by the Delegated Regulations.“

ITS-Core Services affected by European Delegated Regulations:

European Delegated Regulations (EU) No 886/2013 & (EU) No 962/2015 versus TTI & TMS – Core Services in terms of data/information:

 

Background

In 2013 the European Commission adopted the first two Delegated Regulations on the provision of Information by ITS-Services:

The Delegated Regulation No 885/2013 classifies „Information for safe and secure parking places for trucks“ as follows:

    • 1. Static data related to the parking areas, including (where applicable)
      • Identification information of parking area (name and address of the truck parking area (limited to 200 characters))
      • Location information of the entry point in the parking area (latitude/longitude) (20 + 20 characters)
      • Primary road identifier1/direction (20 characters/20 characters), and Primary road identifier2/direction (20 characters/20 characters) if same parking accessible from two different roads
      • If needed, the indication of the Exit to be taken (limited to 100 characters)/Distance from primary road (integer 3) km or miles
      • Total number of free parking places for trucks (integer 3)
      • Price and currency of parking places (300 characters)
    • 2. Information on safety and equipment of the parking area
      •  Description of security, safety and service equipment of the parking including national classification if one is applied (500 characters)
      •  Number of parking places for refrigerated goods vehicles (numerical 4 digits)
      •  Information on specific equipment or services for specific goods vehicles and other (300 characters)

Contact information of the parking operator:

The Delegated Regulation No 886/2013 classifies „Safety-Related Traffic Information“ as follows:

    • (a) temporary slippery road
    • (b) animal, people, obstacles, debris on the road
    • (c) unprotected accident area
    • (d) short-term road works
    • (e) reduced visibility
    • (f) wrong-way driver
    • (g) unmanaged blockage of a road
    • (h) exceptional weather conditions.

Two additional Delegated Regulations were adopted in 2015 and 2017 respectively:

The Delegated Regulation No 2105/962 classifies „Real-Time Traffic Information“ as follows:

    • (a) road closures
    • (b) lane closures
    • (c) bridge closures
    • (d) overtaking bans on heavy goods vehicles
    • (e) roadworks
    • (f) accidents and incidents
    • (g) dynamic speed limits
    • (h) direction of travel on reversible lanes
    • (i) poor road conditions
    • (j) temporary traffic management measures
    • (k) variable road user charges and available payment methods
    • (l) availability of parking places
    • (m) availability of delivery areas
    • (n) cost of parking
    • (o) availability of charging points for electric vehicles
    • (p) weather conditions affecting road surface and visibility

Those short-term data need not to be included in digital map updates as they shall not be considered as changes of a permanent nature.

The types of the traffic data include in particular:

    • (a)  traffic volume
    • (b)  speed
    • (c)  location and length of traffic queues
    • (d)  travel times
    • (e)  waiting time at border crossings to non-EU Member States.

The Delegated Regulation No 2105/962 classifies „Types of multimodal dynamic travel and traffic data“ as follows:

    • Level of service 1
      • Passing times, trip plans and auxiliary information:
        • (i)  Disruptions (all modes)
        • (ii)  Real-time status information — delays, cancellations, guaranteed connections monitoring (all modes)
        • (iii)  Status of access node features (including dynamic platform information, operational lifts/escalators, closed entrances and exit locations — all scheduled modes)
    • Level of service 2
      • (a)  Passing times, trip plans and auxiliary information (all modes):
        • (i)  Estimated departure and arrival times of services
        • (ii)  Current road link travel times
        • (iii)  Cycling network closures/diversions
      • (b)  Information service:
        • Availability of publicly accessible charging stations for electric vehicles and refuelling points for CNG/LNG, hydrogen, petrol and diesel powered vehicles
      • (c)  Availability check:
        • (i)  Car-sharing availability, bike sharing availability
        • (ii)  Car parking spaces available (on and off-street), parking tariffs, road toll tariffs
    • Level of service 3
      • Trip plans:
      • Future predicted road link travel times