TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN EUROPE

There is a current focus in the United States toward providing travelers with information that enables them to make informed decisions about their schedules, modes, and routes of travel. U.S. transportation agencies are developing traveler information products that are coupled with weather, location, event, and emergency information. The scan team visited cities in Spain, Germany, Sweden, Scotland, and England that have established traveler information products and services that reflect all transportation modes. The timing for the tour also allowed the team to examine European practices that could be applied in implementing "511" telephone traveler information services in the United States. The scan team evaluated findings in information content, customer needs, business/cost recovery models, technology applications, consistency and standards, and legal and policy issues and made specific recommendations for applications in the United States.

• Record URL:
  http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/travelinfo/traveler_information.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  American Trade Initiatives

  P.O. Box 8228
  Alexandria, VA  United States  22306-8228

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of International Programs, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Rupert, B
  • Wright, J
  • Pretorius, P
  • COOK, G
  • Hutchinson, K
  • Kell, W
  • Lister, H
  • Nevarez, M
  • Sanders, L
  • Schuman, R
  • Taylor, R
  • Almborg, J
• Publication Date: 2003-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 100 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Cost recovery; Customers; Legal factors; Needs assessment; Policy; Recommendations; Routes; Schedules; Standards; Technology; Telephone; Transportation modes
• Identifier Terms: 511 (National Travel Information Number)
• Geographic Terms: England; Europe; Germany; Scotland; Spain; Sweden; United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Society; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00961906
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-PL-03-005
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-99-C-0005
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 5 2003 12:00AM