A major strategy to reduce transport congestion and other social costs
of transport is to ensure that travellers make the best decisions, based
on real time information. A wide range of technological systems have
been developed to provide this information, but little is known about
how travellers actually respond to it. This book offers an overview of
various transport telematics options and provides an appropriate
methodological framework, followed by a presentation of results from
actual applications of these telematics systems from a range of European
countries in various transport sectors. The empirical results are
supplemented by analytical models and geographic information systems
representations with a view on generalizing these findings and
identifying the key parameters which determine user response.