The ROADIDEA data sources – results, utilisations and mediation

Abstract

The main objective of the EU FP7/INFSO research project ROADIDEA is the development of new and innovative services for European transport systems. It aims at improvements of road traffic conditions and forecasts with special respect to certain weather conditions in different parts of the European continent. The main prerequisite for achieving this goal is the knowledge about and the availability of valuable and high quality road traffic and weather data sources, which have not been used systematically so far. The base for the targeted approach to be applicable all over Europe is twofold. It consists of the following elements: • a comprehensive investigation of available data sources in Europe and • a reliable data mediation between data/service providers and the project data ar-chive. The investigation of available data sources and a tailor-made data mediation system have been the subjects of the ROADIDEA work package 2 (WP2) “Data Collection”. With the start of the project WP2 began in December 2007. All five WP2 tasks (2.1 – 2.5) have been finalized by now. The results are reported with corresponding public deliverables D2.1 - D2.5 which can be found at www.roadidea.eu. This paper describes the main result and achievements of the mentioned data collection as well as the applied data mediation system. Besides that some example are given how data may be assessed, utilized and merged.