Project

Strategy-Compliant Multimodal Routing

To reduce the burden on people and the environment caused by traffic, traffic management must be continuously improved. This requires inter-municipal cooperation, rapid data flow, and direct communication with traffic participants.

Man driving a car, viewed over his shoulder through the windshield.

Rethinking Traffic – Connecting Cities and Surrounding Areas

Traffic in Germany continues to grow, putting a strain on the environment and on people’s surroundings. Daily commuting to work, shopping trips and day trips to tourist areas often cause unwanted and sometimes unnecessary traffic and environmental pressures.

This is where solutions from the fields of traffic information and traffic management come into play. Coordinated control strategies between cities and suburbia aim to improve the situation and present route/travel alternatives. Currently, only a few state of the art traffic information data sets are available to be implemented in information and navigation systems (mobile or in-car) on a rural level. Traffic management strategies are lacking in both rural and urban areas, making city- or town-compatible traffic handling significantly more difficult.

funded by: German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) as part of mFUND
Consortium lead: Zweckverband Kommunales Dienstleistungszentrum Oberland, Bad Tölz
Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI)
Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt)
Mobility Department of the City of Munich
Integrated Traffic Control Centre of the City of Stuttgart
Consortium partners: RIWA – Gesellschaft für Geoinformationen GmbH
ivm Region Frankfurt RheinMain
Okari GmbH
Trafficon Software GmbH
Project duration: 01/2021 – 02/2024

On the Way to Saturn

The research project SATURN (StrATegy-conform mUltimodal RoutiNg) aims to guide better informed traffic participants to their destinations. A system was created to standardize the transmission and processing of traffic management strategies from cities, regions, and countries to routing and information services.

With the improved data basis, service providers can offer their users more up-to-date and municipally/regionally compatible route suggestions. This will minimize traffic jams, misguided trips, and mobility-related emissions and imissions.

The central data hub for data transmission is the national access point for traffic and mobility data, the Mobilithek.

Over the roughly three-year project term, nine project partners from industry, research and public administration worked together and tested the standardised creation and transmission of traffic management strategies and traffic information in three pilot regions.

Services

Connecting Data, Linking Mobility

Trafficon provides services across the entire data and service value chain – from data integration to routing.

Mapping data provision processes, actors and roles in the pilot regions
Ongoing dialogue with service providers, OEMs, and national bodies regarding requirements along the data and service value chain
Design and implementation of a data integration platform
Integration of static and dynamic traffic data from the pilot regions
Harmonization of strategy data into the DATEX II Publication V.3 „ReRouting“
Provision of strategy data in the Mobilithek and the Mobility Data Space
Development of research demonstrators with strategy-compliant multimodal routing, including real-time traffic conditions in the pilot regions
Development of a distributed routing API (Distributed Journey Planning) with exchange points between research demonstrators
Provision of strategy data for route monitoring in a digital commuter service

Outlook

New Paths for Multimodal Routing

The project was successfully completed in 2024, producing a project demonstrator for multimodal routing as well as an organisational and business model for actors in the ITS value chain.