The City
Athens (Municipality of Athens), the Greek capital, has a population of about 750,000 and a land area of 39 km2.
The urban area of Athens, however, extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million and a land area of 412 km2, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the European Union. Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece and is rapidly becoming a leading business centre in the European Union. Athens has one of the most complex mass transit systems in Europe. This consists of six transit systems: metro, bus fleet, electric railway, a trolleybus fleet that mainly serves the downtown area, a tram line connecting the southern suburbs to the city centre and finally the Athens suburban railway service. For the last 5 years, the few real time information services deployed are operative mainly in Athens greater area.
Viajeo in Athens
In Athens, the Viajeo project collects real-time traffic data for Public Authorities and Transport planners, for taxi fleet management, for multi-modal journey planning and real time traffic services. The demonstration in Athens will collect floating vehicle data from up to 300 vehicles and integrate it with existing traffic data collected from other sources (loop detectors, historical database etc). Real-time and historical traffic data is processed by the open platform to forecast traffic conditions and to provide traffic alerts concerning traffic incidents on the entire road network. These will be used as an input to public authorities for real-time traffic operations and planning strategy for local authorities. The traffic conditions forecast will also be used to support dynamic route guidance, multi-modal route planning and traffic information for professional fleets and end-users.
For demonstration purposes and for project needs ten vehicles (taxi fleet) will be equipped with on-board units with dynamic navigation using real-time and forecast information provided by the open platform in order to evaluate quality and impacts of dynamic route guidance. The three services that are planned to be implemented in the framework of the project for the Athens site are taxi fleet management and traffic information, end-user multi modal trip planning and traffic information and observatory for Public Authorities and Traffic Planners.
Viajeo Demo site Leader
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Infotrip
Greece
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Viajeo Demo site Partners
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CERTH
Greece
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SWARCO MIZAR
Italy
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Magnetti Marelli
Italy
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