Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962Show full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 4 of Directive 2010/40/EU shall apply.

The following definitions shall also apply:

(1)

‘core trans-European road network’ means the road transport infrastructure that is part of the core network as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;

(2)

‘comprehensive trans-European road network’ means the road transport infrastructure that is part of the comprehensive network as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

(3)

‘motorway’ means a road which is designated as such by the Member State in which it is located;

(4)

‘priority zones’ means road sections identified by national authorities where they consider this to be relevant, in particular in urban areas, that are not part of the comprehensive trans-European road network and are not motorways, based on the levels of recurring traffic congestion or other traffic management considerations;

(5)

‘accessibility of the data’ means a possibility to request and obtain the data at any time in a machine readable format;

(6)

‘static road data’ means road data that do not change often or on a regular basis, as listed in point 1 of the Annex;

(7)

‘dynamic road status data’ means road data that change often or on a regular basis and describe the status of the road, as listed in point 2 of the Annex;

(8)

‘traffic data’ means data on road traffic characteristics, as listed in point 3 of the Annex;

(9)

‘data update’ means any modification of the existing data, including its deletion or insertion of new or additional elements;

(10)

‘real-time traffic information’ means information derived from any static road data, dynamic road status data, traffic data, or the combination thereof, provided by any road authorities, road operators or service providers, for users and end-users, through any communication means;

(11)

‘real-time traffic information service’ means an ITS service that provides users, and end-users, immediately with real-time traffic information;

(12)

‘road authority’ means any public authority responsible for the planning, control or management of roads falling within its territorial competence;

(13)

‘road operator’ means any public or private entity that is responsible for the maintenance and management of the road;

(14)

‘service provider’ means any public or private provider of a real-time traffic information service, excluding a mere conveyer of information, to users and end-users;

(15)

‘user’ means any road authorities, road operators, service providers, and digital map producers;

(16)

‘end-user’ means any road user, a natural or legal person, who has access to real-time traffic information services;

(17)

‘access point’ means a digital interface where the static road data, dynamic road status data and traffic data, together with the corresponding metadata are made accessible for re-use to users, or where the sources and metadata of these data are made accessible for re-use to users;

(18)

‘metadata’ means a structured description of the contents of the data facilitating the discovery and use of this data;

(19)

‘discovery services’ means services allowing for the search of the requested data using the contents of the corresponding metadata and displaying such contents;

(20)

‘temporary traffic management measures’ means temporary measures intended to solve a given traffic disturbance and designed for example to control and guide traffic flows;

(21)

‘traffic circulation plans’ means permanent traffic management measures that are designed by traffic managers to control and guide traffic flows in response to permanent or recurring traffic disturbances.