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VAMOS Traffic Management System and Parking Guidance

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 10 claims and 7 source dossiers.

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-19a6366f47d6cbb7 quantitative
built up step by step after a 2003 city council resolution
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What the mapping says
The university's project page says VAMOS2 was built up step by step as the city's traffic management system after a city council resolution in 2003.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TU Dresden — VAMOS2: Verkehrsmanagementsystem VAMOS Dresden (project page)
Claim 2 clm-8060c8ddfed62d32 quantitative
developed and maintained for the city by TU Dresden, in a project running since July 2004
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What the mapping says
The page lists the project term as running from July 2004 with the City of Dresden as partner, and says the system is maintained and extended on the city's behalf.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TU Dresden — VAMOS2: Verkehrsmanagementsystem VAMOS Dresden (project page)
Claim 3 clm-9bebc0325a56a07c quantitative
more than a thousand traffic detectors
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What the mapping says
The state portal says VAMOS is based on more than a thousand traffic detectors in the region; the university's lab page speaks of data series for more than 1,000 detectors.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sächsische Staatskanzlei — Smarte Mobilität aus und für Sachsen: VAMOS
  2. TU Dresden — VAMOS Lab
Claim 4 clm-b62a77e5c8c302a8 descriptive
links the control systems of the city's streets and the motorways
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What the mapping says
The page says VAMOS2 networks the region's detectors and the various traffic control and guidance systems of the city's road network and the motorways.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TU Dresden — VAMOS2: Verkehrsmanagementsystem VAMOS Dresden (project page)
Claim 5 clm-53a1bf286c582118 descriptive
controls the traffic control systems automatically around the clock
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What the mapping says
The page says VAMOS2 controls the traffic control systems on the basis of the estimated traffic state, in fully automatic operation around the clock.
Caveat
The source does not say which control systems VAMOS switches directly; the signal controllers themselves sit on separate traffic computers.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TU Dresden — VAMOS2: Verkehrsmanagementsystem VAMOS Dresden (project page)
Claim 6 clm-fdfa2e4df671cb43 descriptive
operators can step in from the city's control centre and from a station at the university
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What the mapping says
The page says operators can intervene manually from an operator station in the city administration's control centre and from one in the VAMOS centre at TU Dresden.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TU Dresden — VAMOS2: Verkehrsmanagementsystem VAMOS Dresden (project page)
Claim 7 clm-1a23aadf90e39a82 descriptive
A dynamic parking information and guidance system is part of it.
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What the mapping says
The state portal says a dynamic parking information and guidance system is part of VAMOS.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sächsische Staatskanzlei — Smarte Mobilität aus und für Sachsen: VAMOS
Claim 8 clm-f00570a74a4f9936 quantitative
In 2017 the university said the city passes on only processed data such as the traffic state, never raw data.
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What the mapping says
The developers told the university journal that the city made a policy decision on data sharing: no raw data is passed on, only processed data such as the traffic state, so the city keeps control over route recommendations.
Caveat
A statement from 2017; no later source on the city's data-sharing rule was found.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Universitätsjournal — Erst kommt die Verkehrssicherheit, dann das Flüssigmachen des Verkehrs (2017)
Claim 9 clm-6c3a18af132ce5b8 quantitative
In 2015, volunteers who wanted the car-park figures as data had to scrape them from the city's website.
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What the mapping says
The post says the city published free car-park spaces on its website but not in machine-readable form, so the OK Lab team wrote a program that fetches the figures from the city's website and stores them.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Code for Germany — ParkenDD: Vorausschauendes Parken in Dresden (31 Aug 2015)
Claim 10 clm-81b00f581bf69760 quantitative
in 2017 its own developers said no serious congestion figures can be given for Dresden, because there is no clear definition of a jam in urban traffic
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What the mapping says
The professors who develop VAMOS say that because a jam is not clearly defined for the urban environment, no serious figures on congestion times in Dresden can be given from a scientific point of view.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Universitätsjournal — Erst kommt die Verkehrssicherheit, dann das Flüssigmachen des Verkehrs (2017)

Source dossiers and revision state

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
City of Dresden (Straßen- und Tiefbauamt), with TU Dresden's chair of traffic process automation developing and maintaining the system
Actor types
city-government, research
Funding model
public
Funding description
Built up through federal and Saxon research and funding projects; maintained and extended by TU Dresden on the city's behalf.
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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7 source dossiers

TU Dresden — VAMOS2: Verkehrsmanagementsystem VAMOS Dresden (project page) tu-dresden.de · 5 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-f9daa1a1b378519f
Publisher
Name not classified · tu-dresden.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
2021-06-10
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The TU Dresden chair's standing project page: VAMOS2 was built up step by step as Dresden's traffic management system after a 2003 city council resolution, links regional detectors with the control systems of city streets and motorways, controls the traffic control systems automatically around the clock and is maintained and extended on the city's behalf. Project term listed as from 07/2004.

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Claims linked
TU Dresden — VAMOS Lab tu-dresden.de · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-f14200dcf32292be
Publisher
Name not classified · tu-dresden.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
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Updated
2024-06-10
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note

The university's description of the VAMOS lab: the traffic data centre is the core of the system, and data series for more than 1,000 detectors are kept for research.

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Claims linked
Dresdner Universitätsjournal — Erst kommt die Verkehrssicherheit, dann das Flüssigmachen des Verkehrs (2017) tu-dresden.de · 2 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · tu-dresden.de
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-11-06
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2026-11-06
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Open the recorded source note

Interview with the TU Dresden traffic telematics professors who develop VAMOS for the city's road and civil engineering office: the city passes on only processed data such as the traffic state, not raw data; because a jam is not clearly defined in urban traffic, no serious figures on congestion times in Dresden can be given; cooperative signal solutions are in regular operation on the north-south link.

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Claims linked
Sächsische Staatskanzlei — Smarte Mobilität aus und für Sachsen: VAMOS smartes.sachsen.de · 2 linked claims

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src-84367592abfc816b
Publisher
Name not classified · smartes.sachsen.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
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Saxony's state portal describes VAMOS as developed by TU Dresden with the city's road and civil engineering office, based on more than a thousand detectors, and states that a dynamic parking information and guidance system is part of it.

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Claims linked
Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Freie Parkplätze (live occupancy page) dresden.de · background

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Stable source ID
src-410455beb44ae501
Publisher
Name not classified · dresden.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
2026-01-20
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
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No local capture recorded
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Open the recorded source note

The city's live page listing capacity and free spaces per car park, grouped by area, including park-and-ride sites and coach parking; contact is the civil engineering office's traffic engineering unit.

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Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Code for Germany — ParkenDD: Vorausschauendes Parken in Dresden (31 Aug 2015) codefor.de · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-fe02913a3fa9f014
Publisher
Name not classified · codefor.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2015-08-31
Updated
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
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Code for Germany's account of the OK Lab Dresden app ParkenDD: the city published free car-park spaces on its website but not in machine-readable form, so the volunteers wrote a program to fetch the figures from the city's website and store them, and built an occupancy forecast on top.

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Claims linked
Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Zweite Evaluierung Verkehrsentwicklungsplan 2025plus (Oct 2023) dresden.de · background

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Stable source ID
src-31198070fc4d1618
Publisher
Name not classified · dresden.de
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note

The city's second evaluation of its transport development plan (data as of 2020) lists the expansion of the traffic management centre VAMOS as a standing task and the second expansion stage of VAMOS as built; it reports annual travel-time measurements without attributing them to VAMOS and notes a high scatter in the car values.

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Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
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  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
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