SELECTION TOOL

The Selection Tool helps you to create your own ITS architecture using the European ITS Framework Architecture as a basis. It allows you to:

select a sub-set of the User Needs and the Functional Areas that meet your requirements
create a specific system (i.e. a Physical Architecture) using this sub-set.

Using the Tool you can:

choose the elements you require from the lists of:
- user needs
- functions
- functional data flows
- data stores
- 'terminators' and 'actors'
carry out an automatic consistency check to confirm that you have all the elements required
allocate functions and data stores to sub-systems and modules
identify the physical data flows required.

The Selection Tool uses Version 3.0 of the European ITS Framework Architecture; the corresponding database can be downloaded from this page (see below).

Please read the system requirements and INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS before downloading. Unless you already have experience in using the Tool, you are recommended to read the USER HANDBOOK before doing so.

System Requirements

MINIMUM requirements: 10MB hard disk space

The Selection Tool is designed to run on PCs with the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 4)
Microsoft Windows XP (with Service Pack 2)

IMPORTANT NOTES:
1. This page contains a new version of the Selection Tool which solves the problems that some users were experiencing with Version 1.1.5 (including the "Active X" problem).

2. The Selection Tool uses queries that are stored in the Database. It is therefore essential that you update both files when moving from one version to the next.

3. Some PCs will not run the Selection Tool without some extra "system" files. If you are experiencing difficulties please download the Patch below and follow the instructions.

4. The Database may now be modified with most versions of Microsoft Access®. If you wish to make changes to the Database, then you do so at your own risk.

DOWNLOAD	INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
USER HANDBOOK 2.8 MB	Click on link to download PDF version of the Handbook. (NB. a new version of this handbook is currently being written)
SELECTION TOOL 400 KB zip DATABASE 2 MB zip	Click on 'SELECTION TOOL' link. Select "Save this file to disk" and press the "OK" button. Select/create a folder from which you want to run the Tool and press "save" button. Extract the files contained within the zip file into this folder (ensuring that "use folder names" is selected). Before you can use the Selection Tool for the first time, you will also need to download the current version of the 'DATABASE' into this folder and extract it from the zip file. Since this database also contains the queries used by the Selection Tool, please ensure that the extracted file has the same "ST" version number as the Selection Tool exe file. Go to the folder in which you have saved the file and then launch the Selection Tool by double-clicking the file named "FRAME_SelTool.exe". (where is the version number) In the window that appears, select the name of the database you have just downloaded and press the "OK" button. The Tool is now open and ready for use.
PATCH 785 KB zip	If you experience difficulty in running the Tool, it may be necessary to use this patch, which provides a set of 'ocx' and other files. Copy the 5 files contained in the zip file into the same folder of any directory on your computer. Execute the file 'patch.bat' and follow the instructions

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