Europe On The Way : a Traveller Information Service on Internet

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: INFMM3017

Project closed

Start date 1 January 1997

End date 30 June 1997

Funded under

• Multiannual Community programme to stimulate the development of a European multimedia content industry and to encourage the use of multimedia content in the emerging information society (INFO2000), 1996-1999

Total cost € 56 000,00

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Elda Ingegneria SpA
Italy

Objective

Europe on Way concerns the development of a multilingual travel information service for the European market of tourist and travel organizations. The distinguishing features of the service are: a) it is based on a very high quality road network database with pan-European coverage. The database is owned by Navigation Technologies B.V. b) the service is available on line via Internet c) the service offers different geographic data processing possibilities d) the service will be developed and marketed by organizations with notable reputation in the transportation and tourist area It is generally recognized that the growth of pan-European applications is severely limited by the availability of European wide quality data and by the different national approaches and standards. The most significant pan-European data sets are the road network databases for auto navigation and truck routing. One of the leading companies in Europe in the production of such databases is Navigation Technologies. Automotive is the primary application area of the Navigation Technologies database, nevertheless the characteristics of completeness, accuracy and detail of the data set makes the navigable geographic database the optimum basis for a wider range of applications. The main goal of Europe on Way is to capitalize on the Navigation Technologies database by offering spatial data processing services in the niche market of tourist and travel agencies. The business challenge is to provide low cost access to high quality and pan-European spatial information through Internet. The project Consortium has the marketing and technical skills to pursue the ambitious goal: ELDA Ingegneria - I (project coordinator) has a consolidated experience in the development of geographical applications for road management and is VAR of Navigation Technologies in Italy; the competence of the partner SEIS Net - I, operating as Internet provider in Italy, will complement the technical expertise of ELDA Ingegneria ; Navigation Technologies - NL will provide the European database and will contribute to the technical assessment; Automobile Association - UK will contribute to the service specification and to the promotion and marketing of the service in Europe.

Programme(s)

• IS-INFO2000 - Multiannual Community programme to stimulate the development of a European multimedia content industry and to encourage the use of multimedia content in the emerging information society (INFO2000), 1996-1999

Topic(s)

Data not available

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Elda Ingegneria SpA

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Reginato 87 ; 31100 Treviso ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (3)

Automobile Association Developments Ltd

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Fanum House Basing View ; RG21 2EA Basingstoke
• Total cost: No data

Navigation Technologies

Netherlands

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Best
• Total cost: No data

Seis Net Srl

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 31020 Villorba Treviso
• Total cost: No data