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)
Samenvatting