The project will start from the architecture work that has already been undertaken by the current Cooperative System integrated projects, and the combined set of User Needs that is currently being produced. The FRAME Architecture will then be extended to include the applications and services being considered by these integrated projects and thus provide a common language with which to describe them. This will be updated later with inputs from other Cooperative System projects. The project will then use the Extended FRAME Architecture to create Physical and Communication Viewpoints to show how these applications and services could be deployed in an ITS Architecture for Cooperative Systems. It will also show how sub-sets can be used to describe the integrated project Test Site demonstrators in a common manner.

Standards are needed to ensure compatibility and the ITS Architecture for Cooperative Systems are to be used to study the likely standardisation requirements and create a set of recommendations for the appropriate organisations. The project added to the existing guidance on using the FRAME Architecture by producing Deployment and Organisational Models for Cooperative Systems. It also provided a Help Desk, Seminars and Workshops to those national, regional, Euro-regional or EC projects that wished to know how to apply the Extended FRAME Architecture to develop their plans for Cooperative Systems.