ITS – towards Integrated Transport Solutions!? How to foster ...

Highlights ITS World Conference Vienna 2012Challenges• more cooperation on national level among ministries.joint developments of policies and strategies, the creation of international legal frameworks andthe harmonisation of standards as well as financial support• urban ITS developmentgovernments should enter a dialogue with municipalities• integrating ITS in transport policyneeds an innovative transport policy by new ways of political thinking and acting. This policyshould also include a common approach to educating people to intelligently use transport.• opening up public data resourcesConsequence: integrated ticketing solutions and a common framework forinteroperable cross border traffic information and management services are stillmissing. Overcoming those challenges will help to make ITS user-friendlier andmore accepted, because the benefits for the end-users will multiply.Vienna | Austria © AustriaTech