2009-02: A Report on Progress on the FREIGHTWISE Requirement Generator (WP12) by Christina Paschalidou

The objectives of WP 12 are to provide a broad and integrated definition of stakeholder requirements that can be mapped onto the emergent FREIGHTWISE Framework, to identify aspects already covered and highlight the ones that the market demands, to establish a formal requirement structure for the FREIGHTWISE Framework architecture, and to develop a high-level model by providing a reality check linking the outcomes of the business cases with the a priori generated requirements.

A revised version of the Deliverable D12.1 Previous RTD projects findings and EU policy was officially submitted at the end of Year 2 incorporating the results of a survey and review of industry initiatives.

Additionally, the WP team provided a reference document (D12.3 Requirement handbook) in the form of a "checklist" guiding interested parties through the development of an intermodal transport monitoring solution. The original design and requirements are reconciled by the actual implementations resulting from the needs of the project case partners and augmented with additional information emerging from the demonstrations. This report was revised and officially submitted at the end of the project's 2nd year, while a second release is expected to be issued when new requirements might have been raised from the appliance of the framework to pilots.

The High Level formal model (D12.4) uses the reference handbook from D12.3 and formalises it in three top level framework models. A first release was delivered in the first year and was revised during the second according to the comments received after the technical review. Release 2 is expected to be issued by the end of the 3rd year after the appliance of the framework.