About Arktrans

ARKTRANS is based on comprehensive studies of the transport sector. Stakeholders, projects and activities representing all transport modes, freight transport, passenger transport, and different responsibilities have contributed to the establishment. ARKTRANS is used in national and European projects, which address co-modal as well as modal solutions, and ARKTRANS is continuously updated based on results and new knowledge from these projects.

By being a common multimodal framework, ARKTRANS promotes more efficient co-modal transport solutions. System interoperability, efficient information flows, coordination across transport modes, etc. are supported by common concepts and specifications that bridge the current gaps in semantics, and arrange for interoperability and efficiency.

In short, ARKTRANS

• Provides a holistic and mode-independent understanding of the responsibilities, relations and dependencies within the transport sector.
• Defines multimodal terminology and concepts (semantics) for the transport sector.
• Supports specification and implementation of ITS solutions that are in compliance with a common and holistic view of the transport sector.
• Supports analyses and simplifications of transport solutions by different abstraction levels and views.

The ARKTRANS Reference Model

• The Transportation Network Management domain arranges for safe, efficient and environmental friendly transport. It includes the management of the physical transportation network infrastructure (e.g. road, railways, fairways and terminal areas), traffic management (of traffic flows and individual transport means), regulation enforcement (e.g. customs), and emergency management.
• The Transport Demand domain represents the transport user, which defines the transport demands, does transport planning, requests the required transport services, and follows up the transport.
• The Transport Service Management domain is responsible for providing transport services to the transport user in the Transport Demand domain. This also includes the management and execution of the transport operations (e.g. transport, passenger/goods handling, document handling, etc.).
• The On-board Support and Control domain is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the transport means (e.g. navigation and adaption to traffic situation).
• The Transport Sector Support domain provides generic services to the other domains, (e.g. different types of information services).

The ARKTRANS Reference Model

ARKTRANS Establishment History and Strategy

The work on ARKTRANS was initiated by Norwegian transport authorities, and a pilot study was carried out in 2001. A research project, co-funded by the Research Council of Norway, was started in January 2002 and ended in 2004. Since then, ITS Norway has been responsible for the further development of ARKTRANS with founding from the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications and government departments for transport. ARKTRANS version 6.0 will be available by June 2009.

Since the start in 2001, SINTEF has been responsible for the actual work on the ARKTRANS framework. The results are based on comprehensive studies of the transport sector, and stakeholders, projects and activities representing all transport modes, freight transport, passenger transport, and different responsibilities have contributed to the work.

ARKTRANS is used in national and European projects, which address co-modal as well as modal solutions. The figure below illustrates the history and strategy of ARKTRANS. It shows how influences and contributions are a two-ways relation between ARKTRANS and related projects, stakeholders, standards and other frameworks.

ARKTRANS History and Strategy

Use of ARKTRANS in Projects

ARKTRANS has been influenced by and has contributed to several different projects; both national and European projects. Below is a list of projects where ARKTRANS has been used and/or applied as the conceptual architecture.

• Freightwise - Management Framework for Intelligent Intermodal Transport
• SMARTFREIGHT - Freight Transport in Urban Areas
• MarNIS - Maritime Navigation and Information Services
• ROSATTE - Road Safety Attributes Exchange Infrastructure in Europe
• EasyWay - ITS Deployment in European Transport Corridors
• EFFORTS - Effective Operations in Ports
• Door-2-Door - Management and Intermodal Transport Chains
• MultiRIT - Multimodal Travel Information Services
• INTRANS - Intelligent Goods

Contact Information

ITS-Norge

Trond H. Hovland, General Manager,  22 64 34 80 / 90 76 08 31
E-mail: trond.hovland@its-norway.no

Helge Jensen, Technical Director,  22 64 34 81 / 97 72 19 42
E-mail: helge.jensen@its-norway.no

SINTEF

Marit Natvig, Senior Scientist, 73 59 70 73 / 95 70 67 49
E-mail: marit.natvig@sintef.no

Hans Westerheim, Research Scientist, 73 59 29 56 / 93 06 83 06

E-mail: hans.westerheim@sintef.no