“With Platform 3.0 the citizen will see us as a fellow traveler and never as a risk” “We don’t wish to obtain information associated to an individual. This has nothing to do with surveillance” “We intend to assist residents eradicate surprises on the highway, notifying them as quickly as doable of what’s taking place on it”
Can you think about having real-time visitors info always? How many visitors jams averted, scares averted and time and gasoline saved? Well, that’s the Connected Vehicle Platform or DGT 3.0, the newest growth of the Directorate General of Traffic[[[tohelpusavoidaccidentsandimproveourmobilityexperienceSometimesithasbeencalledthe”BigBrother”ofmobilitybut”Itisnotlikethatcategorically”assuresusJorgeOrdásdeputygeneraldirectorofMobilityManagementandTechnologyoftheDGT“WearenotgoingtohaveregistrationorpersondataWedon’twantthem”[[[paraayudarnosaevitaraccidentesymejorarnuestraexperienciademovilidadAvecesselehallamadoel“GranHermano”delamovilidadpero“Noesasítajantemente”nosaseguraJorgeOrdássubdirectorgeneraldeGestióndelaMovilidadyTecnologíadelaDGT“NovamosatenerdatosdematrículasnidepersonasNilosqueremos”
Question: Does the DGT intend to have management over the citizen by profiting from connectivity?
Answer: Absolutely no. We won’t have registration information. The Connected Vehicle Platform receives details about the place the automobiles are shifting, however by no means concerning the automobile it’s. This was already made clear within the contract paperwork from 4 years in the past and that we name “anonymization”. We don’t wish to obtain information associated to an individual, nor information by which we will receive the individual’s information. Therefore, this has nothing to do with surveillance, neither is it aspired to. This “goes” that the DGT desires to assist the citizen to eradicate surprises from the highway. Notify as quickly as doable what is occurring on the highway and what will be discovered.
Q: Why are you coming to the fore now?
A: Because we put out a young to which a number of joint ventures (Temporary Union of Companies) submitted and the one which was awarded was the one made up of Inspide, Kapsch TrafficCom, Pons Mobility and Vodafone.
Q: How lengthy will that contract final? What are your targets?
A: It is for 4 years. During the earlier 4 years now we have been consolidating it and now we’re starting the growth course of.
A: The very first thing shall be to launch the V16 incident mild venture. This mild with a radio beacon will join with the DGT to supply info that there’s a downside at an actual level. It comes to exchange the triangles on the highway, which claimed many lives misplaced yearly. This will notify different drivers. Its decree legislation has already been printed and from there it may be marketed.
Q: Will it assist drivers with Low Emission Zones?
A: Yes. These 150 low emission zones -which need to be created by legislation in cities with greater than 50,000 inhabitants- are going to need to be geolocated. From the DGT we wish to give info to residents who wish to enter them that they’re approaching an LEZ.
A: And present info on the occupation of all of the automobile parks in Spain. To do that, we’re speaking to the primary firms in order that they ship us that info in actual time. Thus, if a citizen goes from A to B, he’ll know if he’s going to have the ability to park there or that his navigator will redirect him to a parking zone the place he can depart his automobile. This will forestall him from going round and being a part of that “agitation visitors” that accounts for 30% of the town’s visitors and that generates a whole lot of congestion, emissions, and many others.
Q: Could the above concept of LEZs be utilized to info on charging factors for electrical vehicles?
A: Yes, the Climate Change Law explicitly says that the DGT will report the placement of the charging factors all through Spain. We are ready for the Ministry of Ecological Transition to supply them to us, which is in cost by legislation. It shall be one of many information that’s integrated.
Q: Can connectivity be utilized to different issues?
A: Yes. We will have the ability to join the cones of the works, for instance. Thus, the operators shall be extra protected, as a result of the primary cone has a light-weight and is related. It shall be seen from a larger distance and the DGT could have the placement of the work and shall be in a position -through variable message panels or by the related automobile platform- to ship this info to highway customers. Another instance, the crane staff. We have already got all of the cranes in Spain geolocated, so when a crane employee is engaged on the highway, we will warn the drivers. Also warn of cuts or diversions at school zones…
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Q: It seems like it will all be very depending on 5G. Is Vodafone there to contribute this half?
A: No. This will depend on mobile applied sciences, sure. But the large distinction between Spain and the remainder of Europe is that whereas they’ve been ready for 5G to reach, now we have not. We suppose that to be used instances that need to do with Road Safety, we needn’t have 5G, having 3G or 4G is sufficient. The elevated bandwidth or diminished latency (“response”) occasions provided by 5G are very constructive, however for now we do not want them. When it arrives, it will likely be welcome, however we aren’t going to be ready for the proper know-how to reach.
Q: At what stage does this platform place us in comparison with Europe?
A: We are leaders on this. It is due to the choice we made 5 years in the past after we drafted the primary assertion. We guess immediately on mobile know-how, whereas a lot of the EU nations did so by filling the highway with small beacons that despatched info. We noticed that this was not going to be sustainable, neither when it comes to upkeep, nor financial, nor was it going to be deployable to the whole highway community. The guess was right, which supplies us a sure benefit. We additionally assume the presidency of the working group of the European Union that’s devoted to learning the place connectivity goes, which known as “Data for Road Safety” (one thing like “Data for highway security”).
Q: Who will have the ability to have entry to this information? Will this information transcend know-how firms, producers, workshops…?
A: We are devoted to Road Safety. And the data that you simply maintain to your self doesn’t save lives. Our obligation is to present the perfect info and provides it free. We get info from completely different sources. We have 7,000 parts on the highway which are continually offering info to the visitors information facilities. 9,000 Civil Guard brokers inform us about issues that occur on the highway. And then now we have the DGT 3.0 Platform that captures different forms of info. In the tip now we have 1,000,000 items of data that come to us yearly and now we have to have the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff. How will we publish it? In actual time, as a result of in that info the second through which it occurs issues; freed from cost and thru the nationwide entry level for visitors info, so that every one purposes can join.
Q: Can anybody see it then?
A: Yes. There are two methods. One by the DGT web site, the place now we have a map with all of the incidents. The different is a system to which anybody who desires to can join and eat a typical information file in HTML language, however which on the similar time makes use of a selected format which is the DATEX2 format, which is the format required by the EU for any such information. communications. So now we have made it topic to EU requirements, free, public and in actual time.
Q: Can everybody profit from it and use it nevertheless they need?
A: For us the essential factor is that it reaches the residents. There could also be an organization that builds a system of huge added worth, with great usability and really engaging, and that there are residents who’re keen to pay for the information. There will even be firms that may give it immediately or use it as they see match and so they must compete available in the market. But to me as DGT I do not care if the citizen desires to pay for the information or not. For us the essential factor is that the citizen is aware of what occurs on the highway. I do not care how the information reaches you, what we would like is that if there’s an accident inside 200 meters or a landslide or whether it is an previous automobile and it will enter a low emission zone, to warn you upfront in order that you don’t go to get into hassle. Let an alert attain the citizen anyplace. It is our imaginative and prescient.
Q: What value do you estimate this Platform could have?
A: The full growth shall be lower than 4 million euros. But we have already got two contracts, the primary meeting contract and the second deployment contract, that’s, eight million. This is the place all of the service is available in, the rental of all of the infrastructure, the personnel who’ve made the developments, the participation in European teams… More or much less 1,000,000 per 12 months. I believe it’s a cheap value in relation to its “productiveness”.
Q: Is this the venture that you simply like essentially the most out of all the pieces you do on the DGT?
A: Without a doubt. Let’s see now we have a whole lot of issues, the helicopters, the administration facilities, the sign catalog of which the unification of indicators will even be authorized… however essentially the most progressive venture and the one with essentially the most energy to develop and to contribute to Security Vial is for sure this. Everything that might be executed in Road Safety has been executed. However, it is a new open discipline, very highly effective, which is able to permit us to supply high quality Road Safety and mobility providers. And the citizen will undoubtedly see the DGT as a fellow traveler and never as a risk.