Personal Mobility

A survey conducted on behalf of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s (MTC)
2006 Transit Connectivity Plan found that travelers use all available sources of transit
information including in-person assistance, printed materials and Web sites to support
pre-trip and en route transit trip planning. According to the plan, customers also showed a
strong interest in real-time departure information, wanting the information to be logically
located and easily readable. Kiosks were cited as one of the ways that the real-time
information could be disseminated. In order to provide these sources of information to the
public, three key Bay Area transportation agencies – Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART),
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SF MTA or Muni) and MTC –
partnered on the Transportation Information Kiosk Project, which began as a one-year
pilot in the Embarcadero BART/Muni station in San Francisco.

Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

JustNu (translated “Right Now”) is SL’s (SL common short form for AB Storstockholms
Lokaltrafik, translated Greater Stockholm Public Transportation Authority) main focus
project to provide the Public Transportation operations four transport types (buses, local trains,
metro and commuter trains) in the Greater Stockholm area with real time traffic information
and data. The main purpose is to provide traffic information on SL transport services to be
available to all customers. This means to provide real-time reliable and easily accessible
traffic information and data, before and during the journey to the traveler, so the traveler can
plan and travel the entire journey with SL.

SL – Greater Stockholm Public Transportation Authority

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Nowadays there’s an increasing need to guarantee people’s mobility at acceptable cost and in
safe conditions, and to provide mobility related services according to the user’s profile. Safety
and comfort, co-operation between vehicle and infrastructure or service centre, configurable
human machine interfaces according to user’s profile, are key concepts which will
characterise the future vehicles. In this context, special care has to be dedicated to elderly
people’s needs as road users. OASIS Integrated Project comes to fill this by proposing an
elderly friendly transportation information system and route guidance, as well as technologies
for promoting personal mobility. In this paper emphasis is given to the personal mobility
promotion, by developing elderly drivers’ real time stress and discomfort assessment
algorithms and automatic seat and key vehicle configuration elements.

Centre for Research & Technology Hellas/Hellenic Institute of Transport

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

SUMMARY - ROADIDEA project (www.roadidea.eu) studies the innovations potential of
the European ITS sector by analysing available data sources, revealing existing problems and
bottlenecks for data utilisation and service build-up. ROADIDEA also makes an effort to
develop better methods and models to be utilised in different service platforms. Road
transport is the main focus of research, but co- and multimodality and other forms of transport
will be considered too. As final outcome, a road map to more innovative and competitive
European ITS services is introduced. The research and innovation work is organised into three
main layers: information infrastructure, innovation, and exploitation layers. In two
consecutive cycles, the project innovates in a systematic manner new service concepts and
improvements to existing systems and models for engineering, transport management and
road user services. Awareness of new kinds of data and data fusion techniques are recognised
as enablers for these improvements and innovations. This paper describes the innovation
cycles, the pilot evaluation and assesses some first experience and results.

Foreca Consulting Ltd

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

ASK-IT is a web-based system that provides a range of services in a ‘one-stop shop’ format
enabling people to interact with their environment, whether it be home, at work, in education,
participating in social activities, or on the move (multi-modal and pedestrian transport). These
‘info-services’ are personalised and seamless. They cater for people’s specific mobility
requirements and thus enable disabled people to engage more fully in everyday life. This
paper provides early results of the ASK-IT project, focusing on the UK pilot site in
Newcastle-Gateshead. The trials involve up to 50 disabled volunteers taking part in activities
designed to demonstrate the ASK-IT system and a selection of services, including
personalisation, outdoor and indoor positioning and route guidance, accessing a database of
point of interest and ‘what’s on’ content, transport timetables, and personal support services.

Newcastle University

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York