Increasing connectivity in transport, new organization of the actors in the transport domain, and huge demand for user information caused a paradigm shift from ITS systems to ITS service delivery. Consequently, complex Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) necessitate a structured implementation approach based on the use of ITS Architectures and related methodologies. The FRAME NEXT project is developing the European ITS Framework Architecture, in short FRAME, further. The extension of FRAME is based on the oncoming needs from authorities and private ITS providers to full fill the latest regulations of the EU ITS Directive 2010/40/EU on their way to interoperable services including reference architectures for single points of access to transport data. The FRAME NEXT architecture will incorporate knowledge and experience from other related work, e.g. the ARKTRANS and Common Framework. The resulting Frame Architecture will offer a common ITS architecture for interoperable intelligent transport services with additional views, like the physical and the organizational view, but also with delivering a common starting point for projects and an additional impetus for the fast implementation of ITS services in Europe.

The FRAME NEXT project: an ITS Framework architecture as reference for building a single point of access to transport data in Europe.