Case Studies of Systems: the ENTERPRICE Model

Traffic Information Centres (TICs) have acquired strategic role in the system approach adopted for traffic and mobility services management in the Trans European Transport Network. TIC systems allow collecting information from a variety of sources, processing such information, distributing this and additional added-value information to a large number of users of the transportation systems, using a number of different channels This paper describes the use of intelligent technologies for traffic information management adopted within the EU project ENTERPRICE, which has developed and evaluated the MObility and Traffic Information Centre (MOTIC) architecture, an open European architecture for a regional traffic information, mobility management and supervision centre. The use of intelligent techniques in the context of a MOTIC is related to three main issues: (1) the integration of data and information of different transport modes coming from different sources in the transport network, (2) the provision of added-value information services for travellers, to be operated and offered to the users by the relevant service operators and (3) the provision of a strategic traffic management “shell” for traffic managers and planners, including tools for scenario simulation and analysis, strategy planning and dissemination to local information/control centres and operators.