Title: THE INTRODUCTION AND USE OF TRANSPORTATION TELEMATICS SYSTEMS IN GERMANY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY
Abstract: The politicians expect the use of modern telematics systems in transportation to contribute considerable to a more efficient use of the infrastructure, particularly in order to increase capacity in bottleneck areas and improve the traffic flow, to reduce traffic and traffic-related strains on the environment. Above all, however, telematics are supposed to contribute decisively to the integration and interlinking of the different modes of transportation and facilitate the establishment of travel and transportation chains. The industry, too, expects to gain new fields of activity due to the creation of new markets through the development and use of transportation telematics systems. The fast and wide introduction of telematics applications on the market is, however, faced with very complex problems. These include the large number of competent bodies and decision-makers in a state with a federal structure, the political and social process of introducing new technologies and the fundamental question of which tasks in connection with the introduction of new technologies are incumbent on the government and which are incumbent on the industry. In Germany, it is now generally accepted that the wide use of telematics is mainly the task of private industry; the swift introduction of services does, however, require a close cooperation of the public and the private sector in terms of a public/private partnership. One important arrangement for a public/private partnership is that traffic data that are collected by the public sector are combined with those traffic data that are collected by private service providers. Here, the government and the industry are working together in order to establish an economically efficient model for the intermodal management of traffic data. It will be a task for the future to establish a public/private partnership also in the field of traffic management itself, e.g. at the local or regional level.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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