Transport information and roles of the public sector.

Author(s)
Samstad, H.
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Abstract

Along with the growing use of information and communication technology (ICT) there is a need to examine what should be the roles of the public and the private sector, respectively, in providing ICT infrastructure and ICT based services in the transport sector. ICT based systems in transport are often referred to as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In 2003, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications a study was carried out by the Institute of Transport Economics. One of the purposes was to point to how the public sector could contribute to efficient utilisation of ICT infrastructure in the transport sector. As ICT has a wide range of applications in transport, it was necessary to limit our project to two case studies, as a first step into this problem. Information for travellers and information flows in intermodal freight transport were the selected fields. These covered both passenger and freight transport and offered a variety of relevant topics. A qualitative approach was used in the project. This paper gives an outline of the study and the theory on which it was based, and presents the main findings. (Author/publisher)

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20051141 h ST (In: ST 20051141 CD-ROM)
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In: Young Researchers Seminar 2005, arranged by European Conference of Transport Research Institutes ECTRI, Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories FEHRL and Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI), The Hague, The Netherlands, 11-13 May 2005, 11 p., 10 ref.

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