CAPITALS-ITTS (Integrated Travel and Tourism Services)

The CAPITALS ITTS Project developed, set up and demonstrated Integrated Travel and Tourism Services (ITTS) for users in five European capitals (Brussels, Berlin, Madrid, Paris and Rome), already having developed their mobility service platforms.

The project aimed at:

• integrating tourism and transport information, allowing authorities to manage tourist coaches in a way compatible with their mobility policy and to improve the city information services for travelers and actors of the tourism value chain (e.g. tour operators and coach drivers) by ensuring coach management with route guidance and parking availability information and by providing traffic, tourism and proximity information.
• specify and implement a common service using a Common ITTS Interface Language to exchange information related to travel and tourism.
• using only usual mobile devices such as WAP phones and PDAs and the we at the user side. A GPRS test will be performed in at least one site (Rome and/or Brussels).

The project ended October 2003. The demonstrations within the capital cities comprised a common validation, dissemination activities (conference, workshop, newsletters, website, ITS Show Case 2003) and exploitation plans for marketing the services.

Key partners included the cities of Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Berlin and Rome, Alcatel, Heusch/Boesefeldt GmbH, Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas S.A. MIZAR Mediaservice s.r.l. , etc. The project is lead by the city of Brussels.

See also project Website: Capitals ITTS