Objetivo
TEMSIS will employ telematics to help public authorities in a cross-border region inform citizens of ongoing policies to upgrade its environment in the wake of industrial transformation. The project will provide tools to gather already available data into a transnational network where opinions on environment matters can be fed into decision-making early on. Information to facilitate such participation will be available at central public locations, or at home on the Internet. The longer-term aim will be a complex distributed support and information system giving communities a substantial say in regional policies for a better environment.
The demonstration region for the TEMSIS project is the Saar-Rosselle Region, which consists of the urban agglomeration of Saarbrücken and Moselle Est.
The whole region shares a common industrial history. For over a century its industry was shaped by coal, iron and steel. For the past 25 years radical structural changes have been taking place. This has left the region with a number of serious environmental problems.
The communities on both sides of the border have been meeting for a number of years to discuss their common problems. Any decisions concerning new industrial development on one side of the traditional border, like a new public transportation systems or the SMART Car Production near Sarreguemines, will have environmental as well as social impact on the region as a whole, without respecting the national frontier. Environmental impact statements are usually necessary in preparing decisions by local authorities.
The participation of citizens is required by national laws and European guidelines. Local authorities will inform their citizens about the various projects and their impact. Because general interest in environmental problems has been increasing, the TEMSIS project will develop tools to help citizens as well as experts in administrations in their discussions about how sustainable development can be achieved. It will inform citizens about the day-to-day changes in their local environment, presenting it either in central places like the City Hall or in their homes through Internet if they have access to it.
These measures require efficient tools to gather information quickly from diverse sources, e.g. from local or regional environmental information systems. TEMSIS will provide a trans-national environmental information network, where environmental views can be introduced into decision processes at an early stage. Applying advanced telecommunication technology to environmental problems will increase the strength and quality of the decision-making process and have a considerable social impact as a result.
The demonstrator prepares the basis for a complex distributed support and information system which provides users with access to a large reservoir of environmental information backed by interpersonal desktop collaboration services. Thus the TEMSIS project will be a good starting-point for the communities in the user group to improve the environmental quality in the region.
Major Validation Sites
Stadtverband Saarbrücken, DE
Ville de Sarreguemines, FR
Users
The inter-communal work group managed by the Stadtverband Saarbrücken and Ville de Sarreguemines comprises over twenty Cities and local government associations ('Kreise' or 'Districts'). In addition, organised citizen groups, regional and national authorities and industrial enterprises are represented.
Approach
Use will be made of existing standard GIS, standard market relational DBMS accessed via ODBC, UNIX based products like GDB-x to store Geo-Data on the server, viewer systems like WinCat for Geo Data visualisation, with a product like InfoDesk being customised for a common user interface.
Expected Benefits
- easier access to more up-to-date environmental information (knowing about changes in environmental conditions in the shortest time is especially important in regions with high levels of environmental pollution)
- help with administrative and political decisions, especially in regions with environmental problems
- help in clarifying complicated facts, by means of multimedia presentation in the form of maps, pictures etc.
- clearer comparisons between similar or different regions
- improved decision-making through greater cooperation between administrations
- use of Info.Kiosks to inform citizens, thus reaching a wide segment of the public: there are more then 60,000 communities in the EU with this potential, which enterprises are using increasingly.
Contribution to EU Policies
TEMSIS will be an exemplary implementation of the EU guideline concerning the access to environmental information.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural. Véas: El vocabulario científico europeo..
- ingeniería y tecnología ingeniería mecánica ingeniería de vehículos ingeniería automotriz vehículo autónomo
- ciencias naturales informática y ciencias de la información internet
- ingeniería y tecnología ingeniería ambiental energía y combustibles energía fósil carbón
- ciencias sociales geografía social y económica transporte transporte colectivo
- ciencias sociales derecho
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Coordinador
Saarbrücken
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