The German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs plans to improve the situation of transport users with respect to more and better transport system information and services, less stress, improved availability and increased safety. In order to make use of all the resources of telematics applications an intensive coordination with the Ministry of Economics and Technology (transport research programme) was undertaken and the project 'the informed and oriented transport system user' was launched to improve the business cases for information services. The ideas is to create a meta data platform to enable data exchange of various sources, to provide common interfaces and protocols, to allow for exchange of geographical dataor different formats and enable business to business (b2b) processes between service and content provider organisations. State authorities for controlling the traffic, broadcasting stations for traffic warning news, service providers for individual route recommendations and content owners can make use of the system. The services of the meta data platform can be used as a virtual internet portal. Centralized services for judgement of data quality transfer of different interfaces and protocols and transfer of different geographical formats will be offered separately for example for service providers. Despite having intermodal transport in mind, there will be separate platforms for road and public transport. For the covering abstract see ITRD E146823
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