Berlin wants to develop into an international centre for research and technology. Within this framework, transport telematics is an area in which Berlin has been involved since around 1985, and plans to increase its involvement in development, testing and implementation within the framework of such European Union projects in the future. Transport telematics belongs to one of the areas which is increasingly attracting political attention and in which, in the last few years, it has become particularly clear that technical development is taking place at an astounding rate and the implementation possibilities are very practical. Success for transport telematics as far as mutual interests and usage are concerned will primarily take place in the form of Public-Private-Partnerships. The dynamic route guidance system developed in Berlin in association with commercial companies and successfully operated is a prototype of a system component which could provide important knowledge and experience for further development in the direction of an intermodal `Personal Travel Assistant'.
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