SAM-AT – Strategy and implementation preparation for traffic information through integrated traffic management in the mobility system
In the SAM-AT study, the technical and organizational requirements as well as recommended measures for a cross-operator traffic information and traffic management system at national level are being developed.
Traffic participants seek reliable traffic information and efficient mobility opportunities with suitable alternatives offered even in case of disturbances. Restricted opportunities for new constructions to increase capacity lead to a significantly grown need for integrated traffic information and integrated traffic management for efficient use of the available capacities.
In order to leverage this potential and achieve the goals of the mobility master plan, we need to define comprehensive traffic information and traffic management measures as well as strategic, operational and legal prerequisites.
The operators of the national transport infrastructure, ÖBB Infra and ASFINAG, as well as the mobility associations Austria MVO and the operators of national traffic editorial offices, ORF and ÖAMTC, are committed to the goals already formulated within the framework of ITS Austria. Their aim is to substantially improve traffic information and traffic management through integration and cooperation in Austria. At this point, regional traffic management centers or traffic management centers for specific networks are responsible for traffic management. But a comprehensive, operationally active, integrated traffic management is not established.
The study SAM-AT will target technical, legal and organizational requirements for integrated traffic management and traffic information as well as a set-up plan with recommended measures. Existing regional and supra-regional institutions as well as responsibilities and the foundation of the last years work in the area of digitization and ITS (e.g. GIP, VAO, EVIS and DOMINO) are taken into account. Essential input will be derived from the exchange and alignment with the stakeholders concerned, in particular operators, authorities and local authorities.
The common understanding of the partners is that the set-up plan of SAM-AT will enable integrated traffic management measures of the future and that this will be a reliable basis for the traffic information and recommendations issued by public and private agencies on all their respective channels. This information should increase the confidence of traffic participants in the recommendations of the operators and enable steering effects in accordance with the mobility master plan in the sense of avoiding-shifting-improving mobility.
