An ITS toolkit, developed within the 2Decide project funded by the European Commission DG Move (Mobility and Transport) in the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development, is now available to the public for free (registration is required), although some work is still on-going to improve and finalise it, in the light of the recent validation exercise by external users.
The Toolkit covers intelligent transport systems for road and public transport applications and can be used to search for ITS applications which are relevant to specific context (geographical context, area of transport, problem or policy goal). It can also be used to obtain expected values and ranges for benefits of applications (where data is available), based on evaluation reports of real deployments, or to access structured summaries of ITS deployment case studies and evaluations, and to download the original report (where this is publicly available),
While the toolkit does not give ‘instant solutions’, nor can it replace a feasibility study, it can assist in such studies by providing evidence of relevant deployments and their results, success factors and lessons learned elsewhere. The user functions and basic descriptions are available in English, German, French and Italian, although the more detailed data (including descriptions of case studies and evaluations) is in English only. Available case study and evaluation reports for download are in the language of the study concerned (usually the language of the country of implementation, and often English for EU/international studies).
For full details and free registration, visit
www.its-toolkit.eu.