Advanced Telecommunication Services For Urban Transport
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
36
Pages
12
Published
1998
Size
1,087 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/UT980261
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
V. Galdi, L. Ippolito & A. Piccolo
Abstract
New solutions are necessary to reduce the high levels of accidents, congestion and pollution caused by today's ever-increasing traffic volumes. Advanced telematic applications can improve traveller support services, allowing citizens to make a better choice for their daily trips Tangible improvements are expected on indicators such as quality of service, travel times, number of accidents, regularity of public transport, and pollution. Moreover, sophisticated communication facilities should improve the competitive position of public transportation systems relative to others. In order to obtain this advantage it is important to keep pace with the development of the capabilities of mobile communication and information processing systems. In this paper we point out the re
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