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The development of sustainable urban transport networks is a
present priority for world leaders, national governors and local
authorities. The challenge is to increase mobility reducing the
adverse impacts of transport. The potential of Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) to provide solutions for the 21 st
century sustainable urban transport system has already been
demonstrated in several piecewise applications. An integrated
framework that addresses the needs of municipal authorities,
that integrates the data spread through different sources, that
supports the intelligent traffic & environment operations, and
that provides information to the citizens steering their
involvement and commitment is of critical importance and can
be the enabler towards the creation of more efficient, safety, and
environmental-friendly transport networks that promote the
citizens’ quality of life.
This work describes an integrated GPS (Global Positioning
System) / PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) / GIS (Geographical
Information System) system which is part of the mentioned
framework. The system includes prototypes for mobile urban
traffic data acquisition, with a GPS -equipped vehicle, a PDA
application and wireless communications, and for a geodatabase
with a related Web application for urban traffic & environment.
Their integrated operation is exemplified for a real urban
transport system.
