TRIDENT website
Objectives
TRIDENT's goal is to support multimodal travel ITS services by establishing common and reusable mechanisms that enable sharing and exchanging data between transport operators (content owners) of different modes (bus/tram/metro, rail and road) as well as information service providers. It will also investigate and propose solutions for the organisational and strategic issues hampering travel intermodality - leading to proposals for new standards and recommendations supporting the implementation of systems based on the project's results.
Specifications supporting an EDI approach have been completed, enhancing results from the 4FP (extensions of data dictionaries and location referencing rules, new messages for public transport delays, cancellations and schedules, etc.). TRIDENT's main focus is on the development of common specifications supporting an object-oriented approach (JAVA/CORBA/XML).
Approach
TRIDENT's work will extend over 30 months and is divided into six Work Packages (WPs), including WP1, project management.
WP2 has compiled an overview of user needs and communication scenarios. It takes full advantage of the user needs material already collected in previous European and national R&D programmes. It also investigates non-technical obstacles and formulates recommendations on how these can be overcome. It actively involves the transport operators in the project (De Lijn, Metro, MVG, Postbus, RATP, SPT and STA) and has validated its results through a forum open to all European operators.
WP3 consists of two parts:
1. the development of common specifications for data sharing and exchange supporting multimodal services
2. the development of common prototypes (reusable mechanisms) that will be implemented at the sites. Each part distinguishes between two phases: (a) an EDI approach that was widely investigated in the 4FP and (b) an object-oriented approach, using more recent technologies such as object-oriented exchange and database access techniques. Interim results of WP3 will be made available at an early stage to CEN to seek feedback from the standardisation bodies as well as from concerned operators. As the main area of innovation, the object-oriented specifications have been the subject of a technical workshop open to all interested European actors.
WP4 covers the field trials at test sites in Flanders, Paris, Rome, Bern and West Yorkshire and Strathclyde. The sites have an active involvement in the work toward the common specifications, prototype development, implementation and tests at the sites as well as in the validation activities. Progress in the test sites follows the two phases described for WP3: tests related to the EDI approach and tests related to the object oriented approach.
WP5 covers the technical assessment of the deployment of the common specifications and modules at test sites and the evaluation of their impact on multimodal services and applications. Project assessment and evaluation guidelines were provided at an early stage in the project. The results of the WP will be discussed at a user forum open to all European operators.
WP6 covers dissemination and implementation. TRIDENT provides an open door for all interested European actors that are not directly involved in the project - through this website, newsletters and a brochure. The WP will also produce a technology implementation plan.
Consortium
Milestones
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May 2002 |
technology implementation plan showing how the proposed solutions can be used throughout Europe |
| May 2002 |
validated recommendations to overcome non technical issues |
| May 2002 |
validated specifications for object oriented approach sent to CEN |
| March 2002 |
user forum on validation results of object oriented approach |
| March 2002 |
validated specifications for EDI approach sent to CEN |
| September 2001 |
draft specifications supporting an object oriented approach sent to CEN |
| 7 November 2000 |
technical workshop on the proposed object oriented approach (at the Turin ITS World Congress) |
| October 2000 |
draft specifications supporting an EDI approach sent to CEN |
| June 2000 |
agreed set of user needs and preferred communication scenarios |
| 20 April 2000 |
user forum to validate draft user needs |
Public documents
| D1.2 Final Report |
 2_d12.pdf (217 KB) |
| D2.1 Characteristics and benefits of state-of-the art data sharings technologies |
2_d21v50.pdf (285 KB) |
| D2.4 Results of the User Forum |
2_d24v20.pdf (50 KB) |
| D2.5 Final user needs and communication scenarios |
2_d2.5.pdf (660 KB) |
| D3.2 Results of Technical Workshop on use of New Technologies |
2_d3-2_v2-1.pdf (217 KB) |
| D3.4 Prototypes for the EDI Approach |
2_d34.pdf (618 KB) |
| D3.5 Prototypes for the OO Approach |
2_d35.pdf (88 KB) |
| D3.6 Final Specifications for the EDI Approach (User Agreement) |
 2_D36agr.doc (68 KB) |
| D3.7 Final OO Specifications (Introduction and User Agreement) |
 2_D37agr.zip (127 KB) |
| D4.1 Site Validation Plans |
2_D41v30.zip (1818 KB) |
| D4.2/3 Site Implementation Results |
2_d423.pdf (2814 KB) |
| D5.1 Project Evaluation Guidelines |
2_d51v14.pdf (264 KB) |
| D5.2/3 Validation results of the demonstration sites |
2_d523.pdf (1298 KB) |
| D5.4 Report on the Workshop on Results |
2_d5_4.pdf (3608 KB) |
| D5.5 Final Recommendations to Overcome Non-technical Obstacles |
2_d55.pdf (307 KB) |
| D6.1 Dissemination and Use Plan |
2_d61v40.pdf (444 KB) |
| TRIDENT Brochure |
2_broch.zip (594 KB) |
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