A Novel VOBE Framework for Road Safety Management

Abstract

Virtual Organization Breeding Environments (VOBE) represents a framework of organizations, institutions and individuals that cohere to long term base co-operations and infrastructures, mainly towards ensuring the ability of rapid configurations of temporary alliances working in potential Virtual Organizations. In order to produce positive road safety outcomes, strong management in all aspects of road safety is required. Integrating road safety management technologies with VOBE will provide a unique resource sharing capability that will improve road safety .In this paper, we propose a framework based on the VOBE concept to model the functional structures and processes between diverse interdisciplinary entities (e.g. police stations, health institutes, intelligent systems etc.).Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used as a standard way to visualize the design of the new framework. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework by applying it to two case studies representing major problems on the road. The evaluation of the framework shows that it is both applicable for resource sharing in road safety management scenarios. The framework is designed in a conceptual way without committing to any specific programming or technical aspects of implementation which make it very scalable