SAA, 1st version - Net!Works

eMobility – Strategic Applications AgendaTransportIII. TransportIII.1. DescriptionMobile and wireless technologies can contribute to the sustainable development of cities and facilitate nationaland international transportation. New approaches for decongesting traffic and reducing the time needed to travelare under development through the creation of intelligent transport systems. At the same time, users desire toobtain as many services as possible during their travel to allow them to take advantage of the time used whentravelling. Some examples of such services include: location based services, context-aware services, spare timeapplications, transportation-based services, etc.In this chapter we explore future trends for mobile and wireless technologies to enhance the users experiencewhen travelling. As key research lines we consider:1. Urban and road traffic management2. Efficient trip management3. Communication services and new applications for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure(V2I) communications4. The mobile officeIII.1.1. Urban and road traffic controlOur first line of research is urban and road traffic control. There are a wide range of projects at both Europeanand national level which focus on various applications and services in the transport industry and primarilyintelligent transport systems. They include: advanced vehicle control systems, travel information and trafficmanagement systems, public transport applications, digital mapping solutions, smart cards and communicationstechnologies that enable the various components and applications to interact. Many of these applications arefocusing on integrating vehicle movement with the road and wider transport environment.Many of these applications and services must also be understood in the context in which they take place and therelated impact they may have on policies for mobility, transport and the environment.III.1.2. Efficient trip managementOur second line of research is to review how mobility can be enhanced via applications and services which focuson creating efficient travel. Providing efficient and cost effective public transport is considered a key objective ofnational transport policy in order to:Cope with ever increasing mobility demandsManage increasing energy prices as well as environmental pollution.Today the traveller using public transport is faced with several information challenges. For example these includewhich tram to take if tram A is delayed or which alternative bus route would be best or where should the travellerpark their car to change to a bus. One potentially important advance would be to utilize ―pervasive computing‖technologies to enable users to better organize their travelling needs. However, for this to succeed an overallmulti-modal travelling solution is required.27