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Project: IV: Transforming Traffic Systems Through Information Technology

Project description

Traffic policies aim at guaranteeing the mobility of persons and goods, while simultaneously attempting to encourage ecologically more advantageous or reduced forms of traffic or mobility. This means that the further increasing total traffic load needs to be allocated to the existing and in its future growth restricted infrastructure in such a way as to retain a high degreee of individual freedom in choosing a particular traffic mode while improving the ecological and overall rationality of traffic-related decisionmaking.

Here modern information technology can be exploited either to improve the efficiency of existing traffic modes or to substitute physical traffic via electronic communication. This includes the coordination and control of transportation activities within (intrasystemic) and between(intersystemic) traffic networks. One focus of the research is on the impact of new information technologies on the decisionmaking process, especially concerning the assistance through dynamical information systems pertaining to timetables and fares, as well as easier electronic forms of payment for public transport. Another focus is on the analysis of testbeds for electronic road-pricing.

From the results, an encompassing concept including the relevant criteria for the technical and organizational
requirements may be derived, which must conform to the basic market-economy and data-security needs. The effort is guided by the principles of simplicity, tailorability and anonymity.

Duration

1 January 1994 until 31 December 1999

Funding

  • Dr. Joachim und Hanna Schmidt - Stiftung für Umwelt und Verkehr (foundation, 1 January 1998 until 31 December 1999)
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