CCIR: An Architecture for Collecting and Storing Connnected Corridor Infrastructure and Mobility Data

Connected corridors are programs and initiatives that emerge under the umbrella of major paradigms such as SmartCities, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence or Internet of Things (IoT). Their main objective is to provide environments for testing, validating and demonstrating all kinds of technologies related to Cooperative, Connected and Autonomous Mobility, and Intelligent and Digital Infrastructures, within a real scenario. These corridors need to equip themselves with new intelligent and extremely powerful systems, based on technologies such as intelligent traffic systems. They aim to enhance and evolve these systems by leveraging the possibilities and solutions offered by this new wave of disruptive technologies allows. In this article, we describe the needs of a crucial component for connected corridors, such as the information repository, and we propose its possible technological implementation using the Data Lake paradigm, with a focus on data interoperability as a primary requirement. Finally, we validate the significant usefulness of the proposed architecture for the connected corridor information repository, called CCIR, through the concrete implementation of a specific collaborative corridor, such as the Bizkaia Connected Corridor - BCC is. To demonstrate it, we present different use cases that exploit the data generated and collected in the BCC environment relative to the infrastructure and mobility domain.