Following target outcome and characteristics, and expected impacts are estimated in the ICT PSP Work Program for Objective 1.3: Energy efficient co-operative transport management systems and addressed by the Cooperative Cities proposal:

1. "Contributing to the uptake of European innovative ICT based mobility services for sustainable and energy efficient transport systems, thereby reducing C02 emissions."

The first target outcome mentioned in the work program will be fully addressed by setting up the described transport information services based on the In-Time Commonly Agreed Standard Data Interface with European wide Traffic Information Service Providers (TISP) which have the opportunity to test and validate the interface and than prepare the uptake of these services in European cities and regions. On one side the participating cities support this uptake with their participation and data provision and proposing an advanced set of mobility services and on the other side the service providers can propose a set of common services to their user groups and foster the fast adaptation to feedback and user acceptance. These services will be tested in 3 In-time cities and 2 new participating ones, Prague and Bilbao and this demonstrates that the concept is interesting for cities interested in extending their mobility services. Only the strict budget limitations of the call prevented a further extension of the group of cities, which is demonstrated by the fact that follower cities, e.g Reading in the UK have joined the group even knowing that the project efforts can only be co-funded by a very limited budget.

For the wider uptake Wp6000 will elaborate a roadmap for deployment of cooperative services in cities and propose best practices to interested Cities and urban areas depending from their current status of equipment and the next planed steps for extending the information services.

As this results have also a policy implication also the recommendations for public authorities and policy maker with support the wider uptake of ICT based mobility services.

"Planning for the up-take of the technologies beyond the project."

All partner of the consortium are participating because they expect an up-take of the piloted technologies beyond the project. Key enabler is the service-oriented middleware infrastructure providing a number of data/services, covering individual traffic, public transport, weather, location based services, inter-modal transport planning, that enable the operation of end-user applications (e-services) by the Traffic Information Service Provider (TISP). This approach is seen by the partners as milestone in the external access to distributed data and content sources originally available from different heterogeneous providers. So in future for the TISP not several interfaces to the single data/service providers of a region are necessary, but all data are available via the harmonised standardised open interface in one place !

As it can be seen in the pilot description, also the single regional operators/pilots are expecting a huge benefit in offering data/services via the In-Time interface and have planned to expand the In-Time installation after pilot testing (e.g. it is planned to expand the Munich pilot solution to whole Bavaria). The fact alone that the Cooperative Cities have already invested large sums in the development and generation of RTTI services and plan to expand them in the future to mobile devices and dynamic navigation support is the best indicator that the developed technologies are transferred to daily operation after the project.

2. "Improving the readiness of the Member Sates for investments in upgrading their ICT infrastructures (in particular communication and sensor networks) in support of mobility."

In WP 6000 a roadmap for the deployment of cooperative services in urban areas will be developed, where all stakeholders and their interactions are identified and the partner experiences of the testing and validation phase incorporated together with the best practices of cities. On the basis of this depoyment road map financial or other benefits for the main stakeholders are identified, thus pointing out the business cases for the involved parties. Even more as single best practices the direct involvement of other cities in the Cooperative Cities Forum will give them the opportunity to discuss the details of the implementation with their peers and hereby highlight the best strategies to extend mobility services in urban areas.

The second reason to improve the readiness of member states for the investments in upgrading their ICT infrastructures is the combination of publicly available data and their future use in common and widely used consumer electronic products like a navigator or a smart phone. This makes this option for public investment particularly interesting because you can expect to reach a large number of mobile users with an initiative to enhance mobility services in urban areas for all modes of transport in the full respect of the principle of comodality.

Concerning the impact on the reduction of pollutant emissions it is planned to use data collected from probe vehicles to constantly monitor the operational effectiveness in terms of energy efficiency of the traffic control strategy. Additionally the questionnaire used for the user acceptance testing will also deal with questions like "how has the information influenced your travel route" that will give additional hints about the impact on the reduction of traffic pollutants.

Generally it is expected that services like the e-service proposed in Cooperative Cities will result in changes of the mobility behaviour. These changes decrease the negative impacts of road traffic on the environment. In this context the environment covers both, road network and natural environment:

• There will be less congestion along the road network, leading to enhanced traffic safety. In parallel the use of the road infrastructure will extremely be influenced by direct dynamic information exchange from traffic management to travellers. E.g. early rerouting to a near park and ride place, ..
• But major impact will be on the natural environment by reducing
  • pollutants and CO2 Emissions,
  • particle emissions,
  • noise, etc.

The approach selected in Cooperative Cities can only be achieved on a European level because the agreed solution from the Cities needs to be attractive to service providers for the market scale they envisage in the EU even if the integration with the available data needs to be achieved at regional or local level.

3. “Combine existing pilot implementation schemes of Co-Cities with the future initiatives of the EC in relation to the Future Internet PPP tenders and enlarge or extend the pilot implementations to further cities and regions.