A Nationwide Video System to Assist Incident Management from the Infrastructure Providers Point of View (Taking into Account Legal Issues and Protection of Investment)

ASFINAG, the Austrian operator of motorways and highways has a fully functional, widely distributed video system. This video system is used in the daily life of the TMC- and highway agency operators that are responsible for their stretch of motorway. In addition to the internal use of the video system for the operation of the road network, the video streams are also distributed to radio and television stations, emergency services as well as towards the end customer “internet”. On some stretches video surveillance is required by law, other areas are equipped with cameras to have an overview of the traffic flow and the roadside weather conditions. This paper shows technical solutions for the requirements of an infrastructure provider considering legal issues and protection of investment. Some further special technical video solutions for infrastructure providers are described in detail in the paper “Special applications and innovative aspects.