TRASCOM - Traveller Assistance for Combined Mobility in regional areas
Overview
Background & policy context:
TRASCOM (TRAveller Assistance for COmbined Mobility in regional areas) aimed at developing multi-media applications using mobile Internet telephony to improve user mobility, combining all modes of transport, and covered three aspects:
- simplify real time access;
- include payment operations;
- link users and information/service suppliers.
TRASCOM included following tasks:
- requirements and system architecture;
- software development;
- integration and test;
- evaluation and assessment;
- dissemination and contribution to standardisation.
Objectives:
The overall objective of the TRASCOM project was to apply mobile technologies to the development and to validate prototype of a new multi- and intermodal transport software platform providing a set of integrated services in order to reduce the traffic congestion in urban areas and to meet specific transportation needs of people living in very low density or in cross border areas.
The set of integrated services was supposed to consist of trip information, trip selection and optimisation, booking, purchase, confirmation, localisation, access, real time assistance, payment, control, service and fleet management for different modes of transport by car (individual car, car renting, car sharing), bicycle, bus, train and aeroplane.
The project was applied to the advanced mobile technologies available in 2003.
Methodology:
Work sequence of the project was as follows:
- Functional specifications for mobile technology use in future transportation systems;
- Technical specifications and software architecture;
- Advanced mobile technology availability;
- Application software production;
- Field experimentation;
- Evaluation and assessment.
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