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EuroRoadS project has started the 1st of March 2004 and
ended in August 2006.
There is a clear need for a standardised,
seamless, updated and quality assured digital road data infrastructure
for Europe as a basis for further development within the areas
of intelligent transport systems, mobility management, traffic
management, road main-tenance, traffic safety, environmental
and society planning and many other areas. EuroRoadS is a
project intended to lay the ground for the creation of such
an infra-structure.
Objectives
The main objectives for the project is to build a platform
for a European road data solution through a specification
framework consisting of a road data structure, description
of data content, data exchange mechanisms and interoperability
specifi-cations. The framework will be built on identified
user requirements and tested through a prototype. A service
provider will show that the data set can be used in an application
or product. Finally the project will give long-term recommendations
for implementation and exploitation aiming to support a rapid
establishment of a harmonised road data solution and stimulate
a widespread use of road data.
Consortium
The project consortium handed in an application for the EuroRoadS
project within the eContent programme in March 2003. The submission
was favourable reviewed by the independent experts in charge
of the technical assessment of the proposals submitted in
response to the actual eContent call and the Commission has
invited to contract negotiations, which are intended to be
finalised in September or October 2003.
Members
The consortium relies accordingly on both public sector agencies
and private sector companies. It consists of the following
organisations:
- Lantmäteriet (Sweden) , overall Project Management
- Ordnance Survey (United Kingdom)
- Vägverket (Sweden)
- Government of Bavaria represented by the Board of Building
and public works, Bavarian Ministry of Interior (Germany)
- Institut Géographique National (France)
- Institut für Anwendungen der Geodäsie im Bauwesen
(Germany)
- Bundesamt für Eich und Vermessungswesen (Austria)
- ERTICO (Belgium)
- EuroGeographics (France)
- Planung Transport Verkehr AG (Germany)
You can get further
information on EuroRoadS own website www.euroroads.org
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