LOD-RoadTran18: Supporting the cross-border use of Road Traffic Data with Linked Open Data based on DATEX II.

In this article we demonstrate a particular use of ontologies based on the European specifications of the DATEX II UML model with Safety Related Traffic Information (SRTI) version 3 scope. These specifications are designed and developed as an exchange of traffic data and mechanisms for sending information by a working group to establish and standardize the interface between traffic control and information centers. It is the standard reference for sending and receiving traffic information between applications developed by different countries in Europe. This specification of DATEX II XML/UML describes concepts and data structures related to traffic, but the description is only syntactic, not semantic. Therefore, the objective to be achieved in this part of the research has been to develop a semantic description of the contents based on the UML data model and to link the data of the new general ontology with other vocabularies or related ontologies already developed and available on the internet.