ITS - ITS Vienna Region
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ITS Vienna Region was jointly created in 2006by Austria‟s three Federal Provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland (Vienna Region) as an autonomous transport management project within the framework of the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR) transport association. ITS Vienna Region is involved in numerous research projects and introduced AnachB.at, the new real-time traffic information service for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland in summer 2009. AnachB.at offers intermodal journey planners for all means of transport and a web application featuring a dynamic traffic map. This service is available free of charge for all road users and travellers at www.AnachB.at and as an iPhone App. By the end of 2010, AnachB.at was answering some 1,000,000 journey planning requests per month.
AnachB.at is continuously updated with the latest data from construction site, service disruption, accident and service schedule databases, as well as traffic sensors, Floating Car Data (FCD) and traffic news. The data are provided by the partners of AnachB.at, which include ASFINAG, Wiener Linien, VOR, ÖBB, the police, taxi companies and the Ö3 radio station‟s traffic news service. They are then fed into the traffic model, which in turn continuously computes new comprehensive traffic maps for the whole Vienna Region and applies these to the digital transport network (graph integration platform, GIP). GIP was developed from scratch by ITS Vienna Region, and is not only much more detailed than conventional graphs, but is also updated continuously by the federal provinces and VOR, and used for e-Government and public administration. Municipalities can also work with this data basis. As part of GIP.at and GIP.gv.at, initiatives are currently underway to extend GIP coverage and applications based on GIP to other Austrian regions. The traffic map and GIP provide data on the basis of which AnachB.at journey planners continuously recommend
optimal routes from A to B.
Role in the project
Within the project ITS Vienna Region will take part in developing, collecting and combining traffic data and ensure their intercompatibility and quality standards. Therefore, ITS Vienna Region will provide its traffic data pool and the new intermodal traffic service AnachB.at as well as its excellent know how in designing multimodal traffic information systems. ITS Vienna Region will also join the evaluation, strategy and dissemination activities. Additionally ITS Vienna Region is highly interested in using the output of the systems for their future development of travel information systems.
Key Personnel
Dipl.-Ing. Hans Fiby MSc is projectmanager at ITS Vienna Region and will be mainly responsible on ITS side for the project. Before joining ITS Vienna region Hans Fiby was head of IT department in Rosinak & Partner and also consulter for computer science for this organisation.
Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Heimbuchner is expert and consultant for traffic telematics, technology marketing and public relations at ITS. He holds a deploma degree (traffic engineering) from the technical university in Vienna. Before joining ITS he worked as a spokesman for traffic affairs in the city council for traffic and city development in Vienna and also as traffic expert for the Austrian Road Safety Board. Within his other three collegues mentioned afterwards he will be responsible for the data providement (in close collaboration with Fluidtime) for Vienna. Additionally he will contribute to the exploitation and dissemination activies here in Vienna.
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Johann Kickinger is junior expert at ITS Vienna Region. He holds a diploma degree from the University of Applied Science for Traffic Technologies and Transport Management Systems.
Andreas Unterluggauer is senior expert at ITS Vienna Region. He holds a diploma degree in computer science from the Technical University of Vienna.
Mag. (FH) Nicole Prikoszovits is project assistant at ITS Vienna Region since 2006. She holds a degree from the University of Applied Science for Logistics and Transportation Management.
