Abstract
The article will give a brief presentation of the comprehensive projects in Europe, US and Japan: (1) Europe: PROMETHEUS, DRIVE, EUREKA transport related projects (2) USA: MOBILITY 2000, ELECTRANS and (3) Japan: AMTICS, RACS. Similarities and differences in objectives and approach will be treated. Common related opportunities and problems that will be touched upon are for example key policy issues, like privacy, liability, financing, standardisation and international cooperation, RTI investments and implementation relations to the general road investment levels, the importance of man machine interfaces and tuition and RTI from the point of view of living patterns and city-building.