ISM Hessen was a German innovation project aiming at the design, realisation and demonstration of an innovative architecture to support management of coordinated, intermodal transport strategies in major metropolitan areas. The development of ISM-Hessen was part of the plans of the Hessian Road Traffic Authority (HLSV) for comprehensive strategic mobility and traffic information management in the Rhine-Main area, around metropolitan Frankfurt. The project was supported in the context of the national WAYflow initiative, to face mobility problems in congested urban areas.

THE PROJECT

ISM-Hessen provided information exchange and coordinated strategy management involving various mobility actors, including:

• the Traffic Control Centre Hessen,
• the city of Frankfurt/Main,
• the Rhine-Main Public Transport Association (RMV) and
• the Frankfurt Airport.

The Integrated Strategy Manager for Hessen supports the planning and on-line operation of new intermodal strategies agreed among the different traffic authorities involved.

WAYflow was one of the five national research projects promoted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the initiative “Mobility in Metropolitan Areas“. The goal of this innovative approach was to create preconditions for a sustainable mobility within congested urban areas.

A main goal of the project was to improve cooperationand communication among the decentralised traffic authorities and departments in the Rhine-Main region. The Integrated Strategy Manager for Hessen supports the planning and on-line operation of new intermodal strategies agreed among the different traffic authorities involved. Several benefits are expected from ISM as a part of the overall regional traffic management:

• unlike in more common solutions, based on centralised, hierarchical traffic control centres supervising the work of the other connected centres, the decentralised ISM approach avoids the problems with handing over responsibility from the partners (each partner is still responsible for his area and keeps the ability to manage and influence his own measures);
• the ISM development is system independent and allows each partner to decide how and when to conceive their own automatic Strategy Manager.
• the ISM architecture is largely based on internet / web communication technology, which is standard, easy to implement and requires very little technical or financial effort from the partners;
• the amount of data exchanged is small as no bulk data needs to be transferred

CONSORTIUM

A consolidated research group with a renowned academic and industrial profile.

• HLSV, Hessian Roadand Traffic Authority (DE)
• Momatec GmbH (DE)
• algoWatt SpA (IT)
• GEWI GmbH (DE)
• AS&P, Albert Speer und Partner (DE)
• TSS, Transport Simulation Systems (ES)