Conceptual approach of a hierarchical cloud architecture for intelligent transport systems

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) can improve safety, mobility and productivity for cities, but the ITS ecosystem lacks efficient methods to ease content integration and communication between different road transport modes. We believe that an emerging technology able to provide relevant capabilities to integrate content, applications and services for ITS users is Cloud Computing. This technology offers the delivery of computing services through the network and is characterized by different service and deployment models, which can allow scalability, reliability, pay as you go, shared resources and service customization for the heterogeneous ITS users. In this paper, we propose a Conceptual Approach of a Hierarchical Cloud Architecture for ITS that is able to provide content integration, and may also provide the possibilities to create different business models based on the Cloud and the ITS ecosystem.