Mu ITS Tool

This page describes a prototype tool with which you can define, test, and deploy a Micro-ITS or Green CDA. The purpose of the tool is to encourage experimentation with Micro-ITS or Green CDA, to help elicit the full requirements for these facilities.

The tool can be downloaded from [1]. It meets most of the requirements in [2]. The download contains a sample Micro-ITS project and help files.

Each Micro-ITS is derived from a V3 RMIM (with templates, if it is a CDA). The Micro-ITS is a definition of an XML structure, which is simpler and flatter than the V3 ITS for the RMIM, and which carries a defined subset of the information in it. The XML can use meaningful business names for tags and attributes. The tool provides a reliable means of transforming instances between the Micro-ITS and the full V3 ITS, in both directions.

You define a micro-ITS by navigating the tree structure of the V3 RMIM, and choosing:

• Which attributes will be included in the XML, with which business names • Which associations will be ‘collapsed’ to make the XML flatter than the full V3 ITS • For the remaining associations, what business names are used for the XML tags

The tool then generates:

• Semantic mappings from the XML onto the RMIM • A skeleton instance of the XML • A schema for XML • Driver files for a Java runtime translator, which can translate from the Micro-ITS to full V3, or in the reverse direction.