The future of mid-sized cities depends very much on their ability to attract people to live, work and visit. The economic and environmental challenges require cities to control costs and meet the needs of both the citizens and the environment. In City of Tampere, in Finland, various intelligenttransportation system (ITS) parties established an open co-operation network in 2007 to promote existing and future ITS activities in the Tampere Region. These activities could support each other and make Tampere one of the main ITS test-beds. The economic crisis has increased the importance ofITS: Are there heavy infrastructure investments that could be replaced bycost effective ITS actions?
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