The In-Time newsletter Intelligent and efficient travel management for European cities Issue 2 - January 2011
IN-TIME GOES PUBLIC It’s time for greener moving! To support travellers in reaching this goal, the In-Time project was started 1.5 years ago. By providing travellers with intermodal real time traffic information before as well as on their journey, In-Time enables travellers to make a better choice of routes and means of transport and gives alternatives in real time in case of traffic events and incidents. By doing so a promotion of public transport with a reduction of energy consumption is expected. A milestone in Traffic Service Provision has been reached by In-Time. Six European cities – Brno, Bucharest, Florence, Munich, Oslo and Vienna – are InTime project members; on their transport network In-Time will be rolled out and piloted. During the last couple of months the In-Time Interface, developed on the basis of European standards, was implemented in these cities, providing static and real time traffic data and services on different modes of transport. This interface enables Traffic Information Service Providers (TISPs) – In-Time partners Fluidtime (i-phone), Geo Solutions (Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 or higher), and Telmap (Nokia S60 3rd edition) – to take and understand data and services from all test sites and provide processed routing and web feature services to their users.
First public live demonstration of In-Time Services in Vienna The In-Time public event, 25 January 2011, is hosted by the city of Vienna and denotes a critical milestone in the project: the development and implementation phase of the In-Time system has been finished, and the test series on the streets and in vehicles, carried out by hundreds of test users and surveyed by the In-Time partners, can start. This public event presents In-Time to stakeholders and authorities, to technical and research companies and institutions, to the ITS community and to other cities, and, above all, to potential followers. The concept, structure and technical details, as well as the “In-Time follower package” for cities and TISPs, are shown and presented at that event.
Testing and using In-Time The pilot cities will attract hundreds of test users, who will test In-Time for free on their different mobiles. A so-called “landing page” on the In-Time website: http:// www.in-time-project.eu/en/test_users/ guides them in their native language and, additionally, in English through the registration process. Evaluation, improvement, and then: please follow us! During the one year test period, test users answer questionnaires about changes in their travel In this Issue: behaviour and experience with the In-Time page 2 Launch agenda services. These questionnaires will be evaluated page 3 In-Time video and will help to improve the services. Follower page 4 Weather in In-Time cities and TISP are invited to take part in In-Time. page 6 In-Time Forum After the finalisation of the project, In-Time shall page 7 Florence and will live on, becoming a European standard in Traffic Service Provision, helping travellers to move greener! 1.