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	ETIS-AGENT Summary In the ETIS-Agent project, the design, the initial implementation and the validation of a flexible, scalable and open transport data Agent is undertaken. The Agent will constitute the main tool for unobtrusively accessing the various ETIS data sources and it will be offered to the transport community as a communication facilitating service, passing data to different information systems. More specifically, this Agent will be used for selecting and retrieving transport data and related metadata from external ETIS sources, i.e. European regional, national or supranational transport and socio-economic databases, as well as for mapping them into a common, generalised format, merging and organising them in consistent data sets meeting the requirements of transport models supporting corresponding policy measures or options. The proposed Agent will be able to support the maximum degree of openness, automation and re-use of the transport data. The ETIS-Agent will provide the common platform for the retrieval of the data required for the assessment of the external effects of transport, in relation with the corresponding transport demand and service information. The ETIS-Agent will access and link distributed transport and environmental related data, thus enabling further processing of these data and making possible the investigation of various policy questions on possible transport system changes and on the related impacts. Thus, the ETIS-Agent will contribute to the improved understanding of the indirect and direct impacts of transport policy, and will enable policies to be designed and tested in order to improve the operations of the EU transporz.

ETIS-AGENT Summary

In the ETIS-Agent project, the design, the initial implementation and the validation of a flexible, scalable and open transport data Agent is undertaken. The Agent will constitute the main tool for unobtrusively accessing the various ETIS data sources and it will be offered to the transport community as a communication facilitating service, passing data to different information systems.

More specifically, this Agent will be used for selecting and retrieving transport data and related metadata from external ETIS sources, i.e. European regional, national or supranational transport and socio-economic databases, as well as for mapping them into a common, generalised format, merging and organising them in consistent data sets meeting the requirements of transport models supporting corresponding policy measures or options. The proposed Agent will be able to support the maximum degree of openness, automation and re-use of the transport data.

The ETIS-Agent will provide the common platform for the retrieval of the data required for the assessment of the external effects of transport, in relation with the corresponding transport demand and service information. The ETIS-Agent will access and link distributed transport and environmental related data, thus enabling further processing of these data and making possible the investigation of various policy questions on possible transport system changes and on the related impacts. Thus, the ETIS-Agent will contribute to the improved understanding of the indirect and direct impacts of transport policy, and will enable policies to be designed and tested in order to improve the operations of the EU transporz.