Commission funds transport location referencing project
A project funded by the European Commission which aims to demonstrate and promote universal location referencing was launched in October. The AGORA project will build on the successful completion of the EVIDENCE project, which validated a new universal location referencing method in a laboratory environment. AGORA will refine the location referencing approach developed in EVIDENCE, and will bring this method to real-world telematics applications. The project will last 18 months and has a budget of 1 673 902 euro. The project is being led by ERTICO in conjunction with NavTech, Tele Atlas, Move GmbH, Bosch, Blaupunkt and VDO. Location referencing is essential to transport telematics applications as it is reliant upon geographic position. The geographic information component will provide answers to questions such as 'where am I?', 'where are you?' and 'where is the accident?'. Answers will range from positions expressed in terms of scientific co-ordinates to positions expressed in terms of objects of direct human experience, or 'locations'. Locations may be a junction, a section of road, a point of interest etc. The EVIDENCE project developed a generic method of location referencing, which was successfully implemented, tested and validated in a laboratory type map database environment. The method is designed for traffic telematics systems that use a digital map on both ends of the communication chain. A location code is created when needed from the map database in the sending system, embedded in a message, sent on wireless data carriers, and interpreted by the receiver using the information in its map database. The target of AGORA is therefore to adapt the EVIDENCE location referencing method for extensive use in transport telematics applications, and to foster interoperability. To accomplish this, AGORA will initiate a trial implementing the full telematics service chain with respect to location referencing. The trial will focus on the Hanover region in Germany.use if y
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