General News: Hungarian TMC Research Consortium presents first results

Date: 14 November 2008

The Hungarian TMC Alternative Data Sources and Users Consortium began its practical work in January 2008, with the primary objective of developing a unified domestic transportation information collection and distribution system. On the domestic plan, to date, members of the consortium (Térképtár Ltd., TrafficNav Ltd., iCell Ltd. and Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research – BayLOGI) have achieved substantial results in the GIS, GPS navigation-based systems, satellite-based vehicle tracking and fleet management fields. The consortium’s work is based on a winning proposal, which was awarded to the consortium by the National Research and Technology Office, under the Jedlik Ányos Program, aimed at support for user-oriented research and development.

The Hungarian TMC Research Consortium is planning to work on the following main objectives during the two-year lifetime of the project:
• Expansion of traffic data sources, and continually improving the quality of the existing service
• Elaboration of public transportation services based on TMC technology (provision of TMC-based passenger information and schedule information)
• Extension of TMC-based services towards logistics systems
• Development of self-organising community transportation solutions, based on WEB 2.0 and WEB 3.0 platforms.

In the course of the project, the consortium plans to cooperate with domestic public transportation and logistics service providers, as well as navigation solution providers and developers, together with their end-users. The consortium intends to regularly inform trade forums and other interested parties on the results obtained and applications developed.

Please visit the consortium’s site for more information: www.tmc-kutato.hu