1.4  Guidance for reading this handbook

The content is aimed at individuals and organisations operating at political and policy development level, from implementors to engineers. It is therefore not aimed at a single user group, but rather at anyone involved in the decision, implementation, deployment, operating and quality control process of an ITS Core service.

To allow rapid assimilation, Table 5 provides a quick reference to pertinent chapters within the reference handbook based on the potential audience/interest group for this document and where the reader might be situated in the decision-making chain. For the convenience of the readers, the key chapters for the defined user groups are marked accordingly with a pictogram next to the chapter heading.

Table 5: Reading Guidance for this handbook