EXPERIENCE OF WEB-CENTRED NETWORKINGBETWEEN ITS PROFESSIONALS: LESSONS FROMTHE ATLANTIC PROJECT

摘要

The ATLANTIC project brought together ITS professionals from Europe, the USAand Canada in eight working groups with specific goals, co-ordinated around a speciallydeveloped website. It became a forum for experts to share and develop their thinking onresearch priorities, and a resource for policy and decision makers. This innovativeproject created great enthusiasm and pioneered techniques of remote working betweengeographically dispersed ITS experts. There were difficulties of organisation, motivation,technology and funding. This paper outlines some of the successes, difficulties, andlessons learned.