Flexible and Plugged Peer Systems Integration to ITS-IBUS: The Case of EFC and LPR Systems

The development of new services to motorway users extending electronic fee collection (EFC) to car parking and gas stations requires an added flexibility from the underlying technological framework. The implementation of these facilities requires a new flexibility from the technological framework able to cope with the complex distributed cooperative processes crossing different companies. This paper describes the strategy adopted by the ITS-IBus project to promote a new organization for the toll underlying technologies, able to create the conditions to challenge new, flexible and innovative services. The adoption of a service based framework associated to the definition of a set of open interfaces based on existing standards is discussed.