Pooled resources - Klaus Schaefer-Breede and Ulrich Just discuss the variety, structure and coverage of internet-based information services in the geographic area covered by the VIKING Euro-Regional Project

摘要

In the pre-MIP period (1996-1999) the VIKING countries developed several pilot internet information services. The Scandinavian partners created both regional and national websites, which focused in the main on road traffic, Today, given the massive expansion of the World Wide Web, there is a strong impetus to bring together services with the aims of increasing efficiency and reducing the levels of maintenance involved in their upkeep. In Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, therefore, a process of concentration leading to national control and management is under way The result will be a decrease in the overall number of Travel Information Services (TIS) websites to the benefit of complex national information systems provided by national authorities, User surveys have paved the way to these second- and third-generation national services.