R&D in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) develops fast. Applications focus on all levels of the transport system: driver behaviour, infrastructure, traffic management and travel choices. Smart combinations of these applications in coherent ITS concepts will be the challenge for the future. Applied to urban systems, it is assumed that different ITS concepts will work out different with respect to urban patterns of economic activities. So far this possible impacts has hardly been a subject of research. This paper elaborates on the first step of a project that research on this relationship. In the paper attention is paid to the possible distinctions between ITS concepts. An illustration of such a concept, designed for public transport in a city in the Netherlands, is briefly described. For the covering abstract see ITRD E128680.
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