JDG009 - Common Interface Dataset

Tender description

To support the National TM solution, the Joint Development Group (JDG) wishes to invite suppliers with expertise in developing TM systems to address the following problem statement. The TM delivery strategy as part of its development has considered the need for commonality of interfaces between the different levels of equipment interfacing into Traffic Management. Particularly in the “Interfaced” version of TM. To this end it has identified that the layer between the Signalling Control/ARS and the Traffic Management layer on all current three deployments is proprietary; a scenario which will be potentially repeated on further TM deployments, locking NR into a single supplier’s architecture once deployed or necessitating interface development with every change in TM or ARS/Signal Control. To avoid the scenario described above and to encourage consistency, competition and innovation, NR intends to define the Common/minimum Dataset necessary to allow the deployment of a Traffic Management System with whichever Signalling Control/ARS system is already deployed.