PRETIO

Multimedia ITS services over hybrid communication systems

The PRETIO vision is to provide travellers in Europe with a new generation of multimedia/multi-modal traffic, traveller and tourist information services as well as entertainment in their preferred language. It will build on the technical platform and commercial feasibility established in the DIAMOND project.

Objectives

• Develop an outline of a Business Plan for envisaged services
• Find a mutual agreement between the service providers and terminal manufacturers on the product
• Develop the draft business plan based on the agreed product and available outline 
• Create a framework to validate both the product and the business plan in real market conditions
• Create the final business plan and market approach

Part of the project was used to provide services, including:

• Basic services - free-of-charge to the user
• Plus services - additional information, enabled by a one-time user payment
• Premium services - personalised information, on a pay-per-use basis

Duration and Funding
March 2003 - (extended until) November 2004, funding through the EC eTEN

Validation Sites
Italy, Germany and the TransAlp region

Consortium
ERTICO (coordinator), Blaupunkt, bmt, DRN, ifak, IRT, Mizar Mediaservice, move, MSA, ORF, ptv, RAS, Robert Bosch, RTL 102.5, T-Systems, Transver, VTCon, WORDUp

Access information from the former PRETIO website

PRETIO validation information is available at www.pretio-project.com

 Download the final PRETIO project brochure (311 KB) (11/2004)