Setting up the SOCRATES information centre for the RHAPIT field trial

RHAPIT (Rhein/Main Area Project for Integrated Traffic Management) is an initiative of the German federal state of Hessen. The Commission of the EU supports this three year project within the framework of the research and development program, ATT (advanced transport telematics). RHAPIT is intended to be a component of an integrated traffic management in the Rhein/Main area. The aim of the field trial is thus to determine which kind of contribution the guidance and information system SOCRATES (System Of Cellular RAdio for Traffic Efficiency and Safety) can make to an integrated traffic management. The Rhein/Main area is one of the several European test areas where such systems are tested and evaluated in terms of their applicability. The area was chosen due to the fact that the existing collective traffic control systems and the extensive traffic database offers ideal conditions for such a field trial