Increasing motorised traffic demand with its impacts and limited transport infrastructures ask for intelligent transport systems to manage traffic on the existing networks. The European R+D programmes on Transport Telematics have initiated several projects and activities to design, demonstrate and validate telematics technologies as well as transport management strategies. Administration, industry and research institutions co-operate in the Munich Greater Area to develop strategies and technologies and to carry out assessments of intelligent transport systems to cope with the increasing urban and regional traffic problems. This paper reports on the structure and achievements of major projects such as Munich-COMFORT, TABASCO, INFOTEN and CORVETTE as well as on first progress to integrate the individual telematics components in the Munich Greater Area and Bavaria into multimodal information services in the project BAYERNINFO and into control systems in the project MANAH as part of a future Regional Transport Management.
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