Cross-Border Data Exchange to Improve Traffic Management and End-User Information Services in Central Europe
摘要
In the European vision of a free movement of people and goods, it is obvious that traffic management strategies must not be limited to national borders. Due to the fact that Austria is a small country within an important transit area it is necessary to have a close cooperation with the neighbouring countries. Data is an important basis for modern traffic management, and it became apparent that motorway operators already have many relevant management strategies available. Therefore, ASFINAG has ever since pursued the coordination and harmonisation of Member-State specific approaches, on at technical and organisational level, by aligning topics such as traffic information and management at cross-border level. The ASFINAG solutions are in principle quite easy with mainly list views beside map based information delivered. Therefore similar operators might have no problems in establishing a similar service at low costs as well as in short term. However the content delivering backend systems need to be at hand in order to fuel the customer service.