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safety. Thus, it is important to understand the benefits of both existing and emerging technologies.
Based on documented experience locally and throughout the country, ITS deployments in urban
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areas have the potential to offer the following benefits :
 Arterial management systems can potentially reduce delays between 5% and 40% with the
implementation of advanced control systems and traveler information dissemination.
 Freeway management systems can reduce the occurrence of crashes by up to 40%, increase
capacity, and decrease overall travel times by up to 60%.

 Freight management systems reduce costs to motor carriers by 35% with the implementation of
the commercial vehicle information systems and networks.

 Transit management systems may reduce travel times by up to 50% and increased reliability by
35% with automatic vehicle location and transit signal priority implementation.
 Incident management systems potentially reduce incident duration by 40% and offer numerous
other benefits, such as increased public support for DOT activities and goodwill.
Besides ITU and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute), there are works from
other institutions, thus IEEE has an organization named "IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
Society". In the same way a helpful resource was the National ITS Benefits Database available at
www.benefitcost.its.dot.gov.

3.3 Healthcare

Healthcare delivery can benefit from a connected approach, with Electronic Patient Records (EPR)
available to all medical services. This will enable public health professionals and clinicians to
collaboratively access information in a secure way, at any time, from anywhere and from any device.
In many cases, telemedicine solutions, connected through broadband, wireless or satellite, can
prove vital in situations where the infrastructure or specific contingencies do not allow for the
physical presence of a specialist – such as natural disasters or remote geographical locations.

An ageing population needs traditional care, but also assisted living and health monitoring services
to enable independence at home. This can be achieved through the utilization of sensors and
devices connected to health operators through broadband, wireless and data analytics, and crucially,
the deployment of privacy, identification and security systems.

The new telemedicine services, such as online medical consultations, improved emergency care and
portable devices that allow monitoring the health status of people with chronic diseases and
disabilities, can provide a freedom of movement which was previously unknown.

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3.3.1 M2M use cases: e‐health
Figure 59 shows overview of e‐health M2M use cases written in this deliverable. There are various
kinds of sensors near patients and their sensors send data to M2M Platform. In e‐health use cases,
caregiver provides care services supported by medical institutions using vital data and related
information on M2M Platform.

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40 "Benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems Technologies in Urban Areas: A Literature Review"
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