The development of Cooperative multimodal travel guide

Travel and traffic data, due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies are becoming increasingly and more fast accessible to the users. However, the technologies which would facilitate users to find and use such data do not follow such rapid development. For this reason, European regulations and guidelines for the development of sustainable mobility in cities are increasingly emphasizing the importance of the use of multimodal travel guides. The aim of this paper is to describe the concept of cooperative development of multimodal guide based on the optimal use of travel and traffic information. Such systems should provide information about optimal route taking into consideration optimal spatial, cost and time variables. The research reported in this paper is PART OF the FP7 - Collaborative Project: Intelligent Cooperative Sensing for improved traffic Efficiency (FP7-317671 ICSI).