Background and History
The UTMC was launched in 1997; during the first three years, a number of research projects were undertaken to establish and validate an approach based on modular systems and open standards. These have contributed to the UTMC Technical Specifications, which define UTMC standards.
- To assist local authorities in gaining the most from Intelligent transportation system and to achieve their transport objectives, the DfT initiated the six-year, £6M UTMC programme in 1997. The first half of the UTMC programme (1997–2000) concentrated on specific applied research tasks, on both technical and operational issues.
- In January 2001, the programme embarked on a demonstrator phase to consolidate the results of the earlier research. Full scale demonstrator projects taking a pragmatic UTMC approach were run in Preston by Mott MacDonald, Reading and Stratford-upon-Avon by Siemens and York by Envitia (formerly Tenet Technology).
- Early in 2003, the UTMC Development Group or UDG of stakeholders, consisting of local authorities and suppliers was set up, with the support of the DfT, to oversee the future development of UTMC.
UTMC has helped local authorities achieve their goals by adopting an appropriate, but not over constraining, set of standards to allow users, suppliers and integrators of UTMC systems to plan and supply systems cost-effectively in an open market. These standards are essential in breaking boundaries and local authority borders to allow network interoperability.
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