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Data can help manage traffic in cities – here is how

Data processing offers many possibilities to control traffic flows in urban areas, up to help in planning the cities of tomorrow.
Read more» December 2022

Today we completed the LOD-RoadTRan18 Open Data Project which facilitates Traffic Data to be exploited in Spain and Czech Republic

LOD-RoadTRan18 is a CEF Open Data Action (2018-EU-IA-0088) co-funded by CEF Telecom Programme of the European Commission aiming at publishing Traffic Data in data.europe.eu. It was launched in 2019 and has just been completed. This action promotes the re-use of dynamic Road Traffic Data in and across the Czech Republic and Spain. 
Read more» September 2022
 

The LODRoadTran18 project has concluded with success

The LODRoadTran18 project has concluded with success. desideDatum has been part of this Action coordinated by IRTIC which counted with EU funding. Now traffic data (LOD) from the participant Member States, namely Spain and the Czech Republic, can be found in Open Data portals.
Read more» September 2022
 

After 3 years of work, the open traffic data project in Czech Republic and Spain LOD-RoadTran18 comes to an end

The team formed by partners from Spain and the Czech Republic has been dedicated during 37 months of work to making open data related to road traffic in Spain and the Czech Republic available for dissemination using a standards-based semantic model, which avoids interoperability and ambiguity problems.
Read more» September 2022
 

Last meeting for the project

This morning the team leader of Desidedatum and the UPV had the final meeting to introduce the improvements in the TR of Activity 9 of the LOD-RoadTran18 project.
Read more» September 2022
 

The keys to the digital future come with Connected Europe from innovation and digital services professionals

The event brought together professionals from the sector who gave presentations focused on the relationship between public administrations and citizens through digital services, the keys to future innovation projects in Europe and the path followed by CEF success stories such as LOD-RoadTran18.
Read more» September 2022
 
 

At the final line of the project

The project is at its finish line, just before its final Steering Committee meeting. LOD-RoadTran18 started in September 2019 and with a duration of 37 months, has finally achieved the main goal of supporting the re-use of dynamic Road Traffic Data across the participant Member States (Spain and the Czech Republic).
Read more» September 2022
 

The LOD-RoadTran18 Consortium has developed the activities needed in order to start the technical implementation of the project

The LOD-RoadTran18 consortium (project approved under the CEF Telecom Public Open Data Call CEF-TC-2018-5) in which desideDatum is a part of, has developed the activities needed in order to start the technical implementation of the project.
Read more» September 2022
 

LOD-RoadTran18 in the Connected Europe conference

On 22 September, the day Connected Europe: Keys to digital integration will be held at the Parc Científic de la Universitat de València. The team will have the opportunity to talk about the LOD-RoadTran18 project.
Read more» September 2022
 

LODRoadTran18 project results will be presented in the Connected Europe conference to be held in Valencia

The Institute on Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC) of the Universitat de València (UV) is holding the conference “Connected Europe: Keys to digital integration”. In this event, professionals with a high expertise on R&D&I projects will present and discuss about EU financing of projects that promotes relationship between public administrations and citizens through digital services.
Read more» September 2022
 

Final Consortium Meeting of the LODRoadTran18 Action

The members of the LOD-RoadTran18 – Supporting the cross-border use of Road Traffic Data with Linked Open Data based on DATEX project are preparing themselves for the final consortium meeting, where they are going to discuss the results of the project and the last steps to formally complete the management of this co-founded project with the HADEA Agency.
Read more» September 2022
 

The LOD-RoadTran18 project is now finished and we can present the results

The LOD-RoadTran18 European project (2018-EU-IA-0088), in which a team from the CTU Faculty of Transportation Sciences is part of, has successfully concluded. LOD-RoadTran18 was promptly coordinated by Universitat de València and TTR from the Czech part and counted with the support of nine members in order to achieve the objectives.
Read more» September 2022
 
 

Final Consortium Meeting of the LOD-ROADTRAN18 project

The members of the project are preparing themselves for the final consortium meeting on the 27th September 2022, where they are going to discuss the results of the project and the last steps to formally complete the management of this co-founded project with the HADEA Agency.
Read more» September 2022
 

Connected Europe offers the keys to European innovation projects on September 22

During the session, professionals from the sector will give several presentations focusing on the relationship between public administrations and citizens through digital services, the keys to future innovation projects at European level and the path followed by successful cases such as the LOD-RoadTran18 CEF call.
Read more» September 2022
 
 

Final tweaks of the LOD-ROADTRAN18 satellite ontologies

The most important ontology created for the project by Tam Tam is DATEX II SRTI ontology derived from DATEX II v3.3 model. According to this ontology the received DATEX formatted files are imported into a RDF store.
Read more» September 2022
 

LOD technical system implementation in the LOD-ROADTRAN18

Within the LOD-ROADTRAN18 project, activity 7, Tam Tam has proposed technical solutions that were further proved by a proof of concept and later adapted / upgraded as the technology changes dictated.
Read more» August 2022
 

Czech vocabularies development

Within the LOD-RoadTran18 project, Tam Tam proposed two satellite anthologies: Administrative units ontology and Roads ontology. For both ontologies, several resources could be used to create linked data record.
Read more» July 2022
 

LOD-RoadTran18 presents a paper at the 11th EATIS conference

On 1, 2 and 3 June 2022, the 11th Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS) took place at the Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Informática de Aveiro (IEETA), Portugal. A paper was presented by the members of the project consortium.
Read more» June 2022 
 
 

Work progressing on LOD-ROADTRAN18 project activities

Project partners we are working on video presentations about interesting linked open data topics. The main concern is to deliver the message in an easy to process way.
Read more» May 2022
 
 

Work progressing on LOD-ROADTRAN18 project activities

TamTam is making making some final adjustments to a model to be used in the linked open traffic data context and progressing our work in the design and creation of the interface, which allows data to be queried in a uniform manner.
Read more» May 2022
 

Meeting to plan the last steps of Activity 9

A predefined set queries will evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the project including the interfaces and APIs for usability purposes, and a re-usable and applicable-EU-wide evaluation and monitoring framework.
Read more» April 2022
 

Spain and Czech Republic's linked open data initiative reviews its current status

Members of the LOD-RoadTran18 projec thave discussed its administrative, dissemination and technical aspects, emphasizing its status and results on Tuesday. The initiative, which will be completed in the last months of the year, is a joint effort by Spain and the Czech Republic to reuse dynamic road traffic data from both countries.
Read more» March 2022
 
 

LOD-RoadTran18 plenary meeting

The 4th LOD-RoadTran18 project meeting has taken place, where UPV reviewed the advances of the activities from the other groups. Conclusion: the project is moving forward. The activity 7 will be delivered at the end of April.
Read more» March 2022
 

LOD technical system proposal in the LOD-ROADTRAN18

Within the LOD-ROADTRAN18 project, TamTam Research is striving to design and create an interface, which allows data to be queried in a uniform manner; making the publication of data in Category 5 (LOD) possible with a supplementary service SPARQL endpoint.
Read more» March 2022
 

How much do you know about Public Traffic Open Data and LOD-RoadTran18?

The core of the Public Open Data infrastructure is a comprehensive pan-European Open Data portal providing harmonized access to data sets created and managed by public bodies in the Member States, including national, regional and local levels of government.
Read more» March 2022
 
 
 

LOD-RoadTran18 designs a configuration to collect data in a uniform way

The LOD-RoadTran18 partners have developed a model that includes ontologies and vocabularies to be used in the context of linked open traffic data, taking into account service-related metadata. In addition, its members have also designed and created an interface that allows data to be queried in a uniform way.
Read more» March 2022
  
 
 

The Seminar in Valencia for the LODRoadTran18 Action will be held soon

Universitat de València (Spain) and LMT Group (Spain) are preparing a Spanish Seminar to disseminate the results of the LOD-RoadTran18 project. Any public administrations and stakeholders are invited to participate, specially those universities, public institutions and private companies that are related or interested in traffic issues and/or open data concepts.
Read more» March 2022
 

The Fourth Consortium Meeting of the LODRoadTran18 Action will be held soon

The members of the LOD-RoadTran18 – Supporting the cross-border use of Road Traffic Data with Linked Open Data based on DATEX project are preparing themselves for the fourth consortium meeting, where they are going to review the project progress and the next steps to reach all results and outputs expected according to the Grant Agreement of this CEF Open Data action.
Read more» February 2022
 

Development of LOD conversion tools in the LOD-ROADTRAN18

As part of the LOD-ROADTRAN18 CEF Action, a team from the CTU Faculty of Transportation Sciences is working together with TamTam Research and other participants from the Spanish side to implement and test some translation tools for converting traffic data into a new semantic model. 
Read more» January 2022 
 

Meeting between partners

The last year of the LOD-RoadTran18 project has begun. UPV has worked in the case studies to feed the SPARQL point of the transport incidents and developing the technical control panel.
Read more» January 2022
 

Creation of a tool

As part of the LOD-ROADTRAN18 CEF Action, a team from the CTU Faculty of Transportation Sciences is working together with TamTamResearch and other participants from the Spanish side to implement and test some translation tools for converting traffic data into a new semantic model. 
Read more» January 2022
 

Tools used to translate traffic data

Under the LOD-ROADTRAN18 CEF Action, the participants are implementing and testing some translation tools to convert the traffic data published by DGT into a new Semantic Model. These tools are part of the results of this Action for Activity 6. 
Read more» January 2022
 

LOD-ROADTRAN18 present the Second Interim Report

The Action started in 2019 and during 2021 the consortium designed and proposed the technical system aligned with the Spanish context to publish traffic data in the European Open Data Portal. It included the creation of interfaces which allows data to be queried in a uniform manner.
Read more» December 2021

New report for the project

Along with all project partners, TamTam Research has prepared the Second Interim Report that will be sent to HaDEA, where partners reviewed the activities carried out of the action so far.
Read more» December 2021 
 

LOD-ROADTRAN18 Participants present the Second Interim Report

The members of the LOD-RoadTran18 project prepared the Second Interim Report that will be sent in the next few days to HaDEA, where they reviewed the activities carried out of the action funded by the European Commission through the CEF Telecom programme.
Read more» December 2021
 
 

New consortium meeting

During the meeting, the members of the LOD-RoadTran18reviewed the activities carried out so far and the steps to be completed until the fulfilment of the action during the second half of 2022.
Read more» October 2021
 

The Third Consortium Meeting of the LODRoadTran18 Action helped to review the completed activities and the next steps

The members of the LOD-RoadTran18 – Supporting the cross-border use of Road Traffic Data with Linked Open Data based on DATEX project held their third consortium meeting on October 15th, where they reviewed the activities carried out so far and the steps to be completed until the fulfilment of the action funded by the European Commission through the CEF Telecom programme.
Read more» October 2021 
 

LOD-RoadTran18 consortium holds its third meeting and presents its technical developments

The members of the LOD-RoadTran18 project held the third consortium meeting on Friday, when it was reviewed the status of the initiative and the next steps to be taken. In addition, several of the beneficiaries gave a technical overview of the implementation being carried out in Spain and the Czech Republic.
Read more» October 2021
 
 

The Action LOD-ROADTRAN18 continues progressing

The implementation of the first version of the LOD vocabulary and the semantic models developed according to the Spanish context is now completed. The participants from Czech Republic are reviewing and improving these models according to their national context, and the final version will be validated before the end of the Activity 6.
Read more» October 2021
 

Resuming work on LOD-RoadTran18

After a fruitful summer break, UPV is back to work on the project. The team caught up, among other things, with 4 questions that can be answered with information from official open data portals. They were matched to the extracted data, with the DATEX II vocabulary.
Read more» September 2021
 

Progress of the Action

LOD-RoadTran18 is focused in the improvement of the interoperability, distribution and reusability at European level of traffic data from Spain and the Czech Republic.
Read more» July 2021
 
 

The Implementation of a LOD enhanced Traffic Information System and Testing of the LOD-RoadTran18 project has started

The consortium is also completing the implementation of the LOD vocabulary and the semantic models developed for Spain and Czech Republic, taking into account the evolution of the DATEX II standard and also the particularities of each country.
Read more» July 2021
 
 

New meeting about the initiative

UPV and Desidedatum have held a new meeting regarding Activity 9. They shared the data identified in the European portals and the questions they can answer. They will come back to their findings on 5th July. 
Read more» June 2021
 

LOD-RoadTran18 continues moving forward with the planned tasks and milestones

Activity 8 has just started  benefiting from the results of the previous activities. This activity is composed of three different tasks; the enhancement of the Spanish NAP with LOD; the implementation of an LOD platform in the Czech Republic and the LOD deployment and testing.
Read more» June 2021
 
 
 

LOD-ROADTRAN18 is in the right way

Activity 8 (Implementation and deployment of an LOD enhanced TIS and Testing) has just started (on 01/06/21) benefiting from the results of the previous activities. This activity is composed of three different tasks; the enhancement of the Spanish NAP with LOD; the implementation of an LOD platform in the Czech Republic and the LOD deployment and testing.
Read more» June 2021
 
 

Meeting between partners of the project

After the Easter holidays, the core team of activity 9 met and pooled the data found so far on weather, pollution, events that affect traffic and the way a driver reacts to any incident.
They are working towards reliable and standardised data. 
Read more» April 2021
 
 

Current steps taken in the Action

LOD-RoadTran18 is focused in the improvement of the interoperability, distribution and reusability at European level of traffic data from Spain and the Czech Republic.
Read more» February 2021
 
 

Checking the next steps of the action

Members of the LOD-RoadTran18 project are working on its Activity 9, which consists in the development of a reusable and applicable-EU-wide evaluation and monitoring framework aiming at assessing the impacts of the reuse of traffic LOD. Moreover, it also aims to deploy an EU-wide guide for national access points (NAPs).
Read more» February 2021
 
 
 

LOD-RoadTran18 participants work on developing a guide for national access points

The main objectives of Activity 9 are the development of a reusable and applicable-EU-wide evaluation and monitoring framework aiming at assessing the impacts of the reuse of traffic LOD, as well as the deployment of an EU-wide guide for national access points (NAPs).
Read more» February 2021
 
 
  

LOD-ROADTRAN18 follow-up with coordinators

A fruitful meeting with the coordinators of the LOD-ROADTRAN18 global project has taken place. The sequencing of Activity 9 with Activity 6  and Activity 7 has been established.
Read more» February 2021
 

Working on LOD-ROADTRAN18

Partners working on Activity 9 are already moving forward in the search for data to make it FAIR (findables, accesibles, interoperables and reusables) and LOD (linked open data), supporting the reuse of traffic data in the Czech Republic and Spain. The idea is to connect data from other sectors using the semantic web technologies.
Read more» January 2021
 
 

LOD-ROADTRAN18 meeting about Activity 9

Work on Activity 9 of the LOD-ROADTRAN18 project on traffic data semantization has started. This activity will locate compatible data, build an evaluation framework and write the implementation guide for other National Access Points. 
Read more» December 2020
 
 
 

LOD-ROADTRAN18 holds its second consortium meeting 

The entities participating in the LOD-RoadTran18 project met on October 1st for the second consortium meeting. The project aims, among other matters, to improve the interoperability, distribution and reusability at European level of traffic data from Spain and the Czech Republic, as well as for them to become linked open data.
Read more» November 2020
 
 
  
 

The Second LOD-RoadTran18 consortium meeting

The second consortium of the LOD-RoadTran18 has taken place in order to check the next steps on the action. The project's goal is to support the reuse of traffic data through the European Data Portal.
Read more» October 2020
 
  

The Second LOD-RoadTran18 consortium meeting

The second consortium of the LOD-RoadTran18 has taken place in order to check the next steps on the action. The project's goal is to support the reuse of traffic data through the European Data Portal.
Read more» October 2020
 

Two new phases completed during the progress of the project 

The LOD-RoadTran18 project has carried out analyses, such as the one related to the implementation of priority actions stemming from the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Directive.
Read more» October 2020
 
 

 Checking the next steps of the action

The second consortium meeting of the LOD-RoadTran18 project has taken place on October 1st in order to check the next steps on the action. LOD-RoadTran18 system will support the reuse of traffic data through the European Data Portal, allowing this information to be accessible through different sectoral platforms internationally.
Read more» October 2020
 

Second consortium meeting

The second meeting of the consortium for the LOD-RoadTran18 project was held, a project co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of the CEF Telecom programme. The action will improve the interoperability, distribution and reusability of traffic data from Spain and the Czech Republic.
Read more» October 2020
 
 
 
 

DATEX-LOD first deliverable on legal and technical issues related to PSI

LOD-RoadTran18 project concludes its first phase in which a comprehensive analysis of European legislation has been carried out regarding to the development of intelligent transport systems and their implementation in the European Union. The study is the basis of project goal to re-use dynamic traffic data between European Union countries.
Read more» February 2020
 
 
 

The first phase of the project LOD-RoadTran18 concludes

LOD-RoadTran18 project concludes its first phase in which a comprehensive analysis of European legislation has been carried out regarding to the development of intelligent transport systems and their implementation in the European Union. The study is the basis of project goal to re-use dynamic traffic data between European Union countries. LOD-RoadTran18 is co-financed by the European Commission under CEF projects.
Read more» February 2020
 

The LOD-RoadTran18 project completes its first phase with the aim of achieving the re-use of dynamic traffic data between EU countries

LOD-RoadTran18 concludes the first phase of the project in which a comprehensive analysis of European legislation has been carried out in the framework of the development of Intelligent Transport Systems and their implementation in the European Union. The project is co-financed by the European Commission under CEF projects.
Read more» February 2020
 
 

The European project DATEX-LOD has started

The European project LOD-RoadTran18 aims to encourage the re-use of road traffic data in Czechia and Spain to make this data accessible, interoperable and reusable through the European Data Portal using linked open data.
Read more» January 2020
 
 

The European project to improve the interoperability of the traffic data through linked open data

A team from the Department of Transport Telematics is working on the European project LOD-RoadTran18 which aims to encourage the re-use of road traffic data in Czechia and Spain to make this data accessible using linked open data.
Read more» December 2019
 
 
 

El open data está cambiando el mundo (published by ESAM)

Esta semana os comunicamos en nuestras redes sociales nuestro próximo proyecto LODRoadTran18. Y queremos aprovechar para hablar sobre la importancia del Open Data, un termino que esta cambiando la visión del mundo.
Read more» December 2019
 
 
  
 

An IRTIC Project will improve the interoperability of the traffic data through Linked Open Data

The objective of LOD-RoadTran18 is to improve the interoperability, distribution, and re-usability of traffic data from Spain and the Czech Republic at the European level in order to make them Linked Open Data-LOD.
Read more» October 2019
 
 
 
 

DesideDatum participa en el proyecto europeo "LOD-RoadTran18" para mejorar la interoperabilidad de los datos mediante Linked Open Data-LOD

LOD-RoadTran18 es el nombre del proyecto impulsado por la Comisión Europea, que tiene como objetivo apoyar la reutilización de datos de trafico vial entre España y República Checa. Permitiendo que esta información sea accesible a través de diferentes plataformas sectoriales a nivel internacional. Además de solucionar problemas de interoperabilidad y ambigüedad.
Read more» October 2019
 
 

The first face-to-face consortium of the LOD-RoadTran18 project 

Last October 21st, in Valencia, the IRTIC of Universitat de València hosted the first face-to-face consortium of the project LOD-RoadTran18 – Supporting the cross-border use of Road Traffic Data with Linked Open Data based on DATEX II (INEA/CEF/ICT/A2018/1803421). 

Read More  » October 2019

 

Consortium meeting

The Action's overall objective is to support the re-use of Road Traffic Data in and across the Czech Republic and Spain, making this data accessible, searchable, interoperable, and reusable via the European Data portal, and enabling it to be connected to data from other sectors by using Linked Open Data (LOD).
Read more » October 2019
 

The LOD-RoadTran18 project on Public Open Data has started

The project was approved in the framework of the 2018 CEF Telecom Call – Public Open Data (CEF-TC-2018-5). 

Read More » January 2019

 

INEA selects LOD-RoadTran18 for a grant under the CEF-Telecom Public Data call

The project aims to support the re-use of dynamic Road Traffic Data in and across two Member States (the Czech Republic and Spain) made findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable through the European Data Portal and crossed with other sector data by using Linked Open Data (LOD). 

Read More » November 18th 2018