ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 305 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 areas have the potential to offer the following benefits40: 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. 3.3.1 M2M use cases: e‐health41 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. ____________________ 40 \"Benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems Technologies in Urban Areas: A Literature Review\" Portland State University http://www.its.pdx.edu/upload_ docs/1248894206QpPC5zVqkd.pdf 41 Focus Group on Machine‐To‐Machine Service Layer M2M‐I‐196