Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications on dangerous good transport on road in Italy

In this paper the authors describe the architecture and the functionalities of the Transport Integrated Platform (TIP), an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) application on Dangerous Good Transport on road in Italy. The TIP represents a System of Systems (SoS) application because it aims to manage different kinds of sub systems (each module of the platform) and different kind of entities (electronical devices, DG vehicles, drivers). TIP manages the DG fleet planning routing and the real time vehicles´ tours, the customer orders, and other support tools for drivers including training, resource management and advanced data mining. TIP application aims at promoting a safe management of DG freight transport providing timely information to truck drivers and fleet managers about weather, traffic, emergency or other critical situations on the road infrastructures.