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"ASSEMBLING A European Network of Monitoring Centers for Transport Infrastructures" is a research project in the   4th Research Framework Programme of the European Commission.

Research partners are LT Consultants (Helsinki), INRETS (Paris), SYSTEMA (Athens), COMBIMARE (Rome), Delft University (Delft), SOFRES (Paris), WCMC (Cambridge), IWW (Karlsruhe) and Mkmetric (Karlsruhe).

The project is co-ordinated by Mcrit (Barcelona).

The duration of the project is from June 1997 to June 2000.

The main goal of ASSEMBLING research is to explore and apply methodologies and technologies to assemble heterogeneous transport related monitoring sources at European level.

• On one hand, ASSEMBLING explores the use of recent developments in information and communication technologies to manage, harmonise and disseminate regional, field-oriented, and even informal databases, into an homogeneous European-wide knowledge system to be used by European experts and policy-makers.

• On the other hand, ASSEMBLING analyses the institutional and financial strategies to create and sustain the network of field-oriented information sources (so called "Observatories" or "Monitoring Centers").

• ASSEMBLING was designed as a "learning by doing" research and five pilot observatory cases were selected.

ASSEMBLING main outcome is the constitution of an Internet service based on an Executive Support System concept which integrates monitoring information into a European knowledge-base providing relevant indicators to assess strategic transport planning and decision-making.
  

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