ISCOM

The aim is to provide a value-added service on digital communication networks with a broad range of services for transport agencies and for road users. These services embrace commercial mobility services on demand either with fixed stops or haul requests such as shared-ride taxis and dial-a-ride shuttles. The evaluation will examine the user acceptance and traffic impacts due to changing behaviour. Direct user benefits as well as traffic impacts will be surveyed and assessed.

The overall objectives of ISCOM consist in:

• the development and demonstration of multimodal transport information and services to raise quality of life in the daily experience and in mobility, overcoming cross-border limitations in intermodal transport, reducing congestion, environmental pollution, energy consumption and accidents in road traffic,
• the creation of user-friendly applications of multimodal transport information and services to improve transport and congestion management,
• the support of intermodal transport by creating user-friendly interfaces and by improving efficiency through adaptation of existing electronic timetable software to different areas,
• the overcoming of the problem of different languages by offering bilingual traffic information and services by the specific cross-border demonstrator,
• the inclusion of specific traffic information and services for handicapped people.