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Connecting Traveller and Traffic Information Internet Services Bembennek, Jan ; Just, Ulrich ; Schafer-Breede, Klaus

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Bryssel ITS in daily life: 16th world congress and exhibition on intelligent transport systems and services, Stockholm 21-25 September 2009. Paper, 2009Description: 7 sSubject(s): Bibl.nr: VTI P1835:16 [World]Location: Abstract: The project focuses on a joint venture based on the idea of "distributed information systems". Facing both the rapid development of Internet and information technologies and today's advanced status of traffic and traveler information distributed via different media, the countries co-operating within the Easyway-VIKING project (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Northern Germany) have decided to replace their common Internet information service at the end of 2009. Within the scope of a new pilot project a solution is studied and under development that enables national/regional Internet portals to embed information from adjacent areas or neighboring countries in their own web sites (mash up from different sources) instead of operating a joint portal. To a large extent the updating of the embedded information will be handled automatically. Perceptively, basing on the VIKING pilot, new partners shall be gained to take part in the project. The system is open for geographical extension by involvement of new countries/areas beyond VIKING. Therefore the project was chosen as one of the viability studies of EasyWay European Study 1. Its main purpose is to enable easy access for the end-users to traveler and traffic information all over Europe by connecting existing portals and services with each other. The first version of the new web application developed and tested by the VIKING partners will be demonstrated at the ITS World Congress in Stockholm.
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The project focuses on a joint venture based on the idea of "distributed information systems". Facing both the rapid development of Internet and information technologies and today's advanced status of traffic and traveler information distributed via different media, the countries co-operating within the Easyway-VIKING project (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Northern Germany) have decided to replace their common Internet information service at the end of 2009. Within the scope of a new pilot project a solution is studied and under development that enables national/regional Internet portals to embed information from adjacent areas or neighboring countries in their own web sites (mash up from different sources) instead of operating a joint portal. To a large extent the updating of the embedded information will be handled automatically. Perceptively, basing on the VIKING pilot, new partners shall be gained to take part in the project. The system is open for geographical extension by involvement of new countries/areas beyond VIKING. Therefore the project was chosen as one of the viability studies of EasyWay European Study 1. Its main purpose is to enable easy access for the end-users to traveler and traffic information all over Europe by connecting existing portals and services with each other. The first version of the new web application developed and tested by the VIKING partners will be demonstrated at the ITS World Congress in Stockholm.