Customer: European Commission, ΕU IST-2002-2.3.1.10

Duration: January 2004 – December 2005

The project aims to develop one and single access point, through which the end user can obtain location-based, intermodal information (static and dynamic), mapping and routing, navigation and other related services everywhere in Europe, anytime, taking into account personal preferences of the user. Thus, IM@GINE IT targets the facilitation of seamless travel in Europe.
Key innovative features include the design of a user preference and context of use, issuing of guidelines towards on-board compatible and off-board user interface, the possibility to interchangeably provide the service through many different mobile devices (mobile phone, mobile PC, PDA, in-car device), a Multi-Agent System that recognizes and even learns user preferences and guides the system ambient intelligence, an intelligent user localization technique (combining GPS, Cell ID and logical localization techniques) a common data management module for interfacing a wide range of contents, the independency from transport mode (covering car, bus, train, metro, tram, ship, airplane, airport facilities and even touristic POI’s), an integrated route guidance approach (combining in-vehicle, pedestrian, PT-based and within-building route guidance modules), the development of common transport and tourism ontologies for semantic web applications, the centralized provision of integrated and dynamic services and the open interface to many existing systems; all within a common, modular and intuitive concept. Thus, IM@GINE IT intends to become a universal platform, covering urban, interurban and crossborder areas.
The system will be tested in 5 pilot-areas:
• Finland
• Germany
• Italy
• Hungary
• Greece

Role of TREDIT:
– Technical Management
– User requirements and use cases
– Market analysis and exploitation plan
– Development of PDA, mobile PC application