Supporting the Political Decision Making Process with an Ontology-Based Database of Transport Knowledge

This paper describes how in 2001 the German Federal Ministry of Transport assigned 12 research institutes to develop an Internet-based research information system (“FIS”) to accelerate the translation of recent research findings into political decision making. Mapping techniques along with hypertext concepts are used to introduce users to the complexity of problems on the political agenda while putting corresponding research results and other scientific publications into perspective. The system is fully operational since 2003 and currently offers a thematic network with close to 90,000 links associating 600 knowledge maps, 5,700 synthesis reports, 8,800 publications, 650 projects and another 8,000 entries from other information categories. By the end of March 2007 about 2,100 users have registered to use the FIS and are accounting for approximately 23,000 queries per month.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

  Secretariat, 14 Avenue Berthelot
  69363 Lyon cedex 07,   France 
• Authors:
  • Ott, Anselm
  • Wessels, Lars
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Expert systems; Information systems; Internet; Knowledge; Mapping; Political factors; Research; Websites (Information retrieval)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ontologies (Computer science)
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01130225
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 19 2009 9:28AM