Improving traffic information
For Werkspoor 2, we at NDW have launched ARAMIS (Advanced Route And Mobility Information Services). In this initiative, NDW, I&W, road authorities, service providers and regional mobility programmes are working together on the further digitisation of traffic management.
ARAMIS contributes to the Draaiende Ringen (Running Rings) objective by ensuring better traffic flow on the ring roads. With smart traffic management and reliable, up-to-date traffic information, we actively direct traffic and ensure that travellers always have access to up-to-date, reliable information. Together with road authorities and service providers, we guide traffic smoothly across the road network, provide travellers with tailored information and encourage smart travel choices. In this way, we make optimal use of existing road capacity and improve traffic flow, safety and quality of life. ARAMIS also ensures that the new digital way of working becomes an integral part of operational traffic management.
The project ties in well with national developments, such as the Digital Mobility Data System and European ITS regulations, including the RTTI Regulation for real-time traffic information. This European regulation will bring about significant changes for road authorities. They will have to share traffic data with service providers, but in return they will gain new information channels, such as in-car route advice. More importantly, the regulation promotes public-private partnerships. Road authorities and service providers will share more data, learn from each other's feedback and thus gradually improve the quality of the information. At the same time, they make agreements to better manage the use of the road network.
With ARAMIS, we are taking a big step towards digital traffic management and complying with the latest European requirements.
Focus of the project
In order to make the most of the opportunities offered by digital traffic information and cooperation with private parties, we will be working on developing, improving and scaling up in-car information services in the coming years. These services should improve traffic flow, safety and quality of life, particularly on the ring roads around Amsterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven, Rotterdam and The Hague, but also in the rest of the Netherlands.
We are focusing on four lines of action, namely:
A. Better quality data on rules and restrictions on the road network
B. Up-to-date and reliable traffic information
C. Prevention of undesirable use of roads
D. Further development of effective and efficient traffic information services
This will ensure that:
- Road users clearly know what is and is not permitted (with less risk of accidents);
- Road users receive reliable information in good time (and can adjust their driving behaviour accordingly);
- Road users no longer receive route recommendations for roads that are not intended for that purpose;
- Road users receive personalised and smart route recommendations (leading to a better distribution of traffic across the available road network).
The measures within these action lines build on what has already been proven in previous projects such as VM-IVRA, Safety Priority Services, IDEA and SOCRATES2.0.
What do we want to achieve?
The aim of ARAMIS is to further accelerate the transition to digital traffic management by:
- Creating greater insight into data quality and agreeing on minimum data quality levels via dashboards and internationally agreed KPIs;
- Improving data quality by combining data from different sources and developing public-private feedback loops
- Integrating traffic circulation plans and temporary traffic management measures into navigation services;
- Developing effective traffic information services through close cooperation between road authorities and service providers, so that road users receive reliable and personalised travel advice that is also socially responsible.
- Establish uniform, data-driven, public-private traffic management that serves as a national basis for guiding the transition to digital traffic management, creating uniformity among all road authorities, establishing preconditions for high-quality and reliable data, providing frameworks for cooperation with service providers, and translating policy and European obligations into practice.