DEFRAGMENTING INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

This chapter explores the evolution of the transport industry and apply lessons from the telecom industry to revolutionize the transport experience for its users. In the 1980s, the Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL) independently developed traffic responsive coordinated systems in cooperation with other governmental and industry players. This system later morphed into two competing proprietary solutions known as Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique (SCOOT) in the United Kingdom and Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) in Australia. SCOOT and SCATS have been successfully deployed in many cities around the world. The chapter presents oneTRANSPORT project as a case study that is an Innovate UK‐supported project initiative in the area of “Integrated Transport‐In‐Field Solutions”. The project addresses both immediate and anticipated future challenges facing the transport industry. The oneTRANSPORT solution is based on oneM2M, an international standard to truly enable the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution.