Towards a Typology of European Interurban Transport Corridors for Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT) Applications

Abstract In recent years there has been a growing awareness that advanced transport telematics (ATT) may offer a significant contribution to the solution of problems in European transport corridors. Such problems include congestion, lack of safety and environmental decay. However, the use of road transport informatics is not justified under all conditions and on all European roads. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a priority scheme of roads (links and corridors) that lend themselves in particular to the application of ATT. The present paper develops a practical typology of European inter-urban road corridors aimed at tracing the effects of ATT applications on constituent road links. In this study the identification of typologies is based on relevant attributes of a set of European transport corridors by gathering all appropriate information on region-specific and site-specific links of these corridors in order to determine in a systematic way the potential of these connections for ATT introduction and application. Furthermore, ranking(s) of corridors according to the needs of ATT are developed by means of multi-criteria analysis. Various results on European transport axes are shown as well.