EC launched the Multimodal Journey Planner Challenge

Multimodal Journey Planner Challenge

Vice-President Siim Kallas, Commissioner responsible for transport, launched the challenge at a conference on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) on 6 June 2011. Although more than 100 journey planners already exist, there is not one yet that allows users to find information or book a ticket for a journey within Europe regardless of the number of countries or transport modes involved.

There are two categories for submissions:

• Operational European (or at least cross-border) multimodal journey planners;
• New bright ideas on how to develop a real European multimodal journey planner – ideally including reservation and ticketing facilities to make sure people can also book their whole journey online.

The deadline for submitting contributions to the multimodal journey planner challenge has been extended to 15 October.