The Role of Telematics in Integrating Ireland into Europe's Information Society

Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick

doi:10.1080/0965431022000031266

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“…In Greece, the development of transport telematics presents a constant progress, although relative penetration levels have not reached those of other EU countries (e.g., U.K., Germany, France) (see Grimes and Collins, 2002;Jarašūnienė, 2006) In particular, there are limited ITS applications in the field of public passenger transport apart from the urban transport in the areas of Athens and Thessaloniki. These specific applications include dynamic route information and navigation systems, such as the dynamic traffic map in Athens (Stathopoulos and Tsekeris, 2008), changeable message signs and information systems for road and public transport passengers (tram, metro, suburban rail).…”

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Intelligent transport systems and regional digital convergence in Greece

Tsekeris

Koskinas

et al. 2013

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This paper investigates the aspects of regional digital convergence, i.e. the capability of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) among all people living in the peripheral areas of a country, in relation to the ICT applications into the transport sector, known as Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). It also examines the interdependent relationships between the digital and physical accessibility. Firstly, the ICT infrastructures and their access via the households and enterprises set the conditions for the use of ITS. On the other hand, the expansion of transport networks and decentralization of transport flows can contribute to the widespread adoption of ITS and ICTs in general, and the higher specialization and diversification of digital services. These interactions are analyzed in Greece, through investigating the spatial allocation of public expenditure, at a regional level, for the Information Society and the transport sector, during 2000–2009. The findings indicate that the increased concentration of public investments in road projects in peripheral areas does not imply the bridging of the digital gap between the metropolitan areas (Athens and Thessaloniki) and the rest of Greece. The need for designing a comprehensive regional investment policy is suggested to jointly reinforce the digital convergence and physical accessibility

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confidence: 99%

Intelligent transport systems and regional digital convergence in Greece

Tsekeris

Koskinas

et al. 2013

J. Transp. Lit.

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“…Given that ICT also serves to ubiquify the conditions of production, distribution and consumption, we may assume that space and geographical differentiation are given a partially new meaning. There are many who expected ICT to even out regional differences and make it possible to conduct business operations more or less anywhere (Grimes, 2003;Grimes and Collins, 2002;Sternberg and Krymalowski, 2002;Graham, 2002). What people forgot, however, or failed to take into account, was that research, which has for a long time focused on the urbanisation process and which has developed techniques to link space and the economy on a number of different analytical and geographical levels, was rather quick to develop a sceptical view of this possibility.…”

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Towards a Digital (Societal) Infrastructure?

Öhman

2009

Urban Studies

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In what ways might informational techniques and information technology alter the infrastructure of society? The approach employed in this paper involves a number of fundamental, almost historically determined, conditions for the emergence of an increasingly societal infrastructure. This discussion is then related to analyses of the significance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in terms of ubiquities, agglomerations and clusters. Are there grounds for assuming that these trends are having an impact on the systems of towns and cities of differing sizes and at varying distances? In conclusion, the discussion turns to the issue of whether developments in informational techniques over the past 20 years are leading towards what has been referred to as a digital division of labour and, by extension, also towards a ‘digital (societal) infrastructure’.

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