The ever growing mobility of citizens and goods is making Intelligent Transport System (ITS) a must-have for modern cities and countries. Although in many countries national ITS applications already exist, they are often fragmented and uncoordinated, thus preventing or making it very difficult to get a geographical continuity of ITS services.
In this regard, the European Community has acknowledged these difficulties and, as a consequence, the Directive 2010/40/EU established a legal framework for developing specifications to make ITS interoperable across borders. The regulation introduce the National Access Point (NAP) entity, as single point of access for ITS services that each Nation should provide. Moreover, the regulation gives precise requirements on travel data formats (DATEX II, Siri, NeTEx, etc.) to be used and on fundamental and recommended system-level services that must be offered, such as discovery and linking services. However, it does not (yet) pose constraints on how to implement them.
BONVOYAGE projects deals with the cross-border ITS services recommended by Directive 2010/40/EU, specifically the Delegated Act for the provision of EU-wide multimodal travel information services (1926/2017). BONVOYAGE proposes an innovative platform to implement discovery and linking services, and uses these services to design advanced multi-modal trip planners.
The BONVOYAGE platform can be exploited by:
• end-users, to provide the best information to go from a place to another, before and during the travel, door to door, by using any combination of any transport means, taking into account real-time conditions and user preferences;
• EU Member States for the implementation of the European Union Directive 2010/40/EU (Action A) through an open and federated architecture able to federate local routing services (aka soloists) and data sources, exploiting the functionality of an innovative information-centric networking approach
• Big and Small ITS stakeholders to advertise and provide the access to their routing services or data sources