/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 1 Organisation, Co-operation and Pricing Issues Mr. Jan Juslén
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 2 General The main objective of DIGIROAD is to promote development of ITS sector services in Finland Public funds are used to provide services by public authorities Public funds are used to provide services on equal terms to all users Data on commercial services is not included in DIGIROAD
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 3 UPDATING DATA
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 4 Organisations and Forms of Co-operation Organisations: Road Administration Municipalities National Land Survey Forest sector organisations Others Forms of co-operation: Co-operation (agreements) Paid services (agreements) Normal duties of the public sector Legislation
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 5 Legislation Legislation can be used to allocate responsibilities to municipalities and public sector organisations. Critical issues when using legislation: funding resources motivation tools quality know-how sanctions Minimise obligations and maximise benefits in order to motivate municipalities
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 6 Contracts All updating is governed by standard contracts Contracts specify: geographic area road class attribute data updating frequency Data must conform to specified quality
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 7 Copyright and Liability Issues DIGIROAD requires all rights that are necessary for the sale and distribution of data Data is sold for a specific purpose, with limited rights and for a limited period DIGIROAD is not liable for losses caused by errors in the data
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 8 Payments DIGIROAD does not pay for updating data to owners of roads and streets DIGIROAD may pay for updating data if a significant responsibility is transferred to the updating organisation from DIGIROAD
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 9 Questions related to updating of data How to motivate organisations to update data? What special services and rights can be given to updating organisations? Should organisations be paid for updating data? What rights from updating organisations are needed to provide functional data services?
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 10 DATA SERVICES
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 11 Organisations Target groups: End users Product developers Value added service providers Including data updating organisations These may be: Government organisations Municipalities NGO’s Commercial companies
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 12 Legislation Legislation can define minimum services that must be provided Legislation can define maximum prices Everything else must be open to agreement
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 13 Contracts Standard contracts Standard pricing Standard formats Tailored updating frequency Tailored data specification (geographic area, road classes, attribute data)
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 14 Payments Free of charge to public sector organisations Nominal fee for organisations’ internal use Commercial pricing for commercial uses (set fee + % of turnover) Free of charge r&d data sets
/ Jan JuslénDIGIROAD 15 Questions What is the correct price level for data? Should a % of data service payments be returned to updating organisations? What rights to the data must be retained?