RONCALLI - first Austrian clearing house for Traffic Telematics Informationen

Different reasons, as unsatisfactory quality and reliability of services or missing up-to-date transport telematic related data, caused that transport telematic services did not reach the expected market penetration. At least in Austria there exists no commercially independent transport telematic service at the moment. Moreover another difficulty is that transport telematic service providers are all-purpose actors. They buy ordinary content from suppliers and prepare this content for one specific service offered to end-users. The combination of all these circumstances leads to a strong slow-down in the development of new transport telematic services, respectively the available services are because of their inadequate functions not very attractive for customers. Against the background of this situation the project RONCALL_I2 was started. To offer attractive services networking between content suppliers, content providers and service providers was necessary. The consortia developed the neutral clearing house as market place for multimodal transport telematic information. Herewith a communication and innovation platform for content and service providers was born with the aim that for the first time end-users can benefit from potential advantages of transport telematic services to the full extent. The following realisable results have been created during the project:

• RONCALLI market place: a common, electronic market place for supply and demand of transport telematic information.
• RONCALLI clearing house: central infrastructure for billing and financial clearing for the transport telematic sector.
• RONCALLI reference system: transport telematic content based on a standardised linear location referencing system.
• RONCALLI clearing interface: central infrastructure for the exchange of transport telematic content and standardisation of data exchange based on xml-technology.
• RONCALLI services: prototypic realised services to increase road safety.

After the prototypic installation of the marketplace the consortia reasoned that the following general conditions have to be implemented to integrate this innovation in the daily life of content providers, service providers and end-users successfully.

• Content availability: reliability and quality (up-to-dateness, area coverage) of content has to be assured by public authorities through appropriate co-operations between e-government and transport telematic.
• Networking and standardisation: content-sided the basis could be created by the market place; but service-sided is the necessary network still missing and therefore any product development related with extremely high risk.
• Creation of awareness in all levels: for the end-users as well as for all public and private institutions benefiting from increasing road safety, rethinking concerning the cost-value ratio is necessary.