PROJECTS
Funding
European
Duration
-
Status
Complete
Geo-spatial type
Network corridors
Total project cost
€1 999 500
EU Contribution
€1 999 500
Project website
Project Acronym
SPRINT
STRIA Roadmaps
Transport mode
Transport policies
Societal/Economic issues,
Other specified
Transport sectors
Passenger transport
Overview
Link to CORDIS
Background & Policy context
The Semantics for PerfoRmant and scalable INteroperability of multimodal Transport (SPRINT) project will make steps towards the uptake of the IP4 multimodal transport ecosystem by addressing the following specific challenges arising from TD4.1’s objectives and explicitly addressed in the S2R-OC-IP4-01-2018 topic:
- Improve Interoperability Framework (IF) performance and scalability to sustain a large deployment.
- Simplify/automate all the necessary steps needed to integrate new services and sub-systems in the IP4 ecosystem.
Moreover, SPRINT contributes to the realisation of the IF by:
- masking the complexity of interoperability to travel applications by publishing in the IF’s Assets Manager uniform abstractions of services enabling travel applications to know how to communicate with them (e.g., web service/API interfaces, communication protocols);
- providing additional technical means to operate on the “web of transportation data”; for example, the IF will enhance its ability to act as a (distributed) broker to communicate with different services and as a means to dynamically discover, bind and inject data and services, including the MSP identification on the basis of their geographical area and offered service capabilities.
Objectives
SPRINT Objectives:
- Definition of a reference solution to automate the creation/extension of domain ontologies.
- Evaluation of the complexity-expressivity trade-off between the adoption of fully-fledged ontologies and light-weight schemas.
- Potential extension to existing IP4 ontologies.
- Assess and enhance/revise IT2Rail IF software components and resolvers in order to automate as much as possible the mechanisms to join the multi-modal transport ecosystem and to improve IF performance and scalability. This contribution will be (i) complementary to the work performed by the parallel CONNECTIVE project, and (ii) compliant with the governance structure defined by GoF4R.
- Assess and revise/enhance the ST4RT approach to automate the definition of ontology-based annotations and mappings.
- Assess and revise/enhance the ST4RT approach to automate the conversion/translation of heterogeneous messages exchanged by different systems, without asking for changes in their data structures and communication protocols.
- Evaluate the architectural solutions adopted in IP4 projects and propose enhanced/alternative architectural solutions and new software paradigms for the IF and for each of them evaluate how current performance and scalability issues can be solved. This contribution will be complementary to and coherent with the work performed by the parallel CONNECTIVE project.
- Define recommendations for IP4 to support the market uptake by simplifying/automating all the necessary steps which are needed to integrate new services and sub-systems in the multi-modal transport ecosystem.
- Document best practices and recommendations to adopt semantic interoperability solutions as assessed and proposed in the project.
Partners
Lead Organisation
Organisation
European Union Road Federation
Address
Avenue Louise 106, 1050 BRUXELLES, Belgium
Organisation website
Partner Organisations
Organisation
Oltis Group As
Address
Dr Milady Horakove 1200/27A, 77900 Olomouc, Czechia
EU Contribution
€5 998 251
Organisation
Oltis Group As
Address
Dr Milady Horakove 1200/27A, 77900 Olomouc, Czechia
EU Contribution
€274 750
Organisation
Rina Consulting
Address
RUE BELLIARD 2A, 1040 BRUXELLES, Belgium
EU Contribution
€60 000
EU Contribution
€355 500
EU Contribution
€267 500
Organisation
Cefriel Societa Consortile A Responsabilita Limitata
Address
VIALE SARCA 226, 20126 MILANO, Italy
EU Contribution
€417 250
Organisation
Union Internationale Des Transport Publics
Address
Rue Ste. Marie 6, 1080 BRUXELLES, Belgium
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€185 625
Organisation
Politecnico Di Milano
Address
Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€313 750
Organisation
Universidad Politécnica De Madrid
Address
Avda. Ramiro de Maeztu, 3, 28040 MADRID, Spain
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€248 750
Technologies
Technology Theme
Information systems
Technology
ICT support system for multimodality