The launching phase analysis of the implementation of Polish largest intelligent transportation system

The implementation of ITS is carried out with the use of standard project management tools. Therefore, it includes certain phases. One of the most difficult and risky phase of ITS implementation is launching of such projects. An important factor causing this difficulty is the fact that launching is being done on „living organism”. Thus it has to be time-consuming mostly due to the necessity of a proper real-time city traffic data collection. Additional factors are occurring failures (eg. the tram network or traffic lights system) or accidents. Another problem are social expectations, which does not take into account the specifics of ITS implementation. The citizens expect immediate results. The aim of people responsible for the launching phase of such systems is to ensure smooth operation of all its components and to provide local community with information on a relatively long system activation to its full operation. This article presents the analysis of the launching phase of the biggest ITS in Poland.