ROSATTE

The ROSATTE project aims to establish an efficient and quality ensured data supply chain from public authorities to commercial map providers with regards to safety related road content.

Up-to-date safety attributes are needed by road authorities and for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). ADAS applications are commercial products that can contribute significantly to achieving objectives for reducing the yearly number of road fatalities on European roads by half in 2010. The fact that solutions for providing access to such data, and especially to timely incremental updates thereof do hardly exist in Europe constitutes a major bottleneck in the data chain for large-scale exploitation of in-vehicle road safety applications. A viable solution would require commitment by road authorities to report and notify updates in a timely and standardised manner.

The ROSATTE project considers national organisational issues and technical interoperability issues and includes a substantial number of road authorities and motorways operators, both with and without national road databases. The proposed solution is based on appropriate procedures and tools to be implemented by road authorities (data owners) at the different levels (national/regional/local) with respects to their organisational and legal framework and an adapted harmonised data exchange infrastructure. A viable solution needs to generate benefits for the administrations themselves in addition to enabling the data provision to third parties. Hence, one effect of this project may be that road authorities decide to move forward to establish national road databases.

The ROSATTE project intends to develop the enabling infrastructure and supporting tools that will ensure European access to road safety attributes including incremental updates. This infrastructure will facilitate administrative internal functions as well as supply of data to third parties e.g. for safety relevant services.

Objectives

• Facilitate access to, exchange and maintain European-wide core road safety spatial data from national/regional/local sources by standard procedures.
• Enable multi-level aggregation and update of European-wide safety map data.
• Assess the technical and organisational feasibility of this infrastructure.

Duration and Funding

January 2008 – June 2010. Funding through the EC Directorate General Information Society & Media

Consortium

Coordinator: ERTICO - ITS Europe

Partners: ASFA, Laboratoire Régional de l'Ouest Parisien, Flanders DoT- Vlaamse Overheid - Dept MOW (Flanders Traffic Centre), NAVTEQ, Norwegian Public Road Authorities (NPRA), OBB, Bavarian Department of Highways and Bridges, PTV AG, SETRA, French Ministry of Transport, SINTEF, SRA, Swedish Road Administration, Tele Atlas, TRIONA, University of Stuttgart, Transport for London