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Thetis to travel to Beijing for VIAJEO
On Thursday, 8 September, a workshop for the VIAJEO project was held in Beijing. The event was organized by Thetis, which is coordinating the team of European and Chinese partners involved in the project. At the workshop, the project and pilot programme initiated in Beijing will be presented.
Participants has included Paolo Squillante of Thetis, Italian representatives from the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, the European Commission, and ERTICO (the coordinator of the VIAJEO project), as well as leading public and private players in the transport sector in China’s large cities.
VIAJEO, a name that combines an Oriental and a Latin root to express the concept of travel and movement, is a European Project developed under the Seventh Framework Programme FP7. The project has involved numerous international partners and has had the objective of creating, testing and validating an "open platform” that supports the planning activities and daily operations of urban transport companies and provides a wide range of information-mobility services for transport users in urban environments.
The pilot programme in Beijing is designed to increase the use of public transportation, thereby reducing traffic and pollution. It will provide residents with real-time information on public transport and traffic, allowing users to better plan their route and decrease travel time. The information will be posted on a website, which can be consulted via computer or handheld devices (mobile phones, IPADs, PDAs), and on information boards at Beijing’s main bus stops.
The pilot platform interfaces with existing public transport management technology that was created by the ITS Division as part of a joint Chinese-Italian environmental project supported by the Ministry of the Environment (ITS-TAP and IBOCS projects). In addition, it will integrate urban traffic information and provide public transport operators with more information to effectively manage public bus transport services.
Participants has included Paolo Squillante of Thetis, Italian representatives from the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, the European Commission, and ERTICO (the coordinator of the VIAJEO project), as well as leading public and private players in the transport sector in China’s large cities.
VIAJEO, a name that combines an Oriental and a Latin root to express the concept of travel and movement, is a European Project developed under the Seventh Framework Programme FP7. The project has involved numerous international partners and has had the objective of creating, testing and validating an "open platform” that supports the planning activities and daily operations of urban transport companies and provides a wide range of information-mobility services for transport users in urban environments.
The pilot programme in Beijing is designed to increase the use of public transportation, thereby reducing traffic and pollution. It will provide residents with real-time information on public transport and traffic, allowing users to better plan their route and decrease travel time. The information will be posted on a website, which can be consulted via computer or handheld devices (mobile phones, IPADs, PDAs), and on information boards at Beijing’s main bus stops.
The pilot platform interfaces with existing public transport management technology that was created by the ITS Division as part of a joint Chinese-Italian environmental project supported by the Ministry of the Environment (ITS-TAP and IBOCS projects). In addition, it will integrate urban traffic information and provide public transport operators with more information to effectively manage public bus transport services.
