Recent years have seen the increasing success of navigation technologies, fuelled by the booming market of retail personal navigation systems. Expected technological development will increase the diffusion and acceptance of transportation services based on localization technologies. This, together with the constantly increasing number of real-time sensor information available from the web, challenges the extension of the paradigm of Ambient Intelligence from indoor to complex outdoor scenarios to set the basis for new mobility concepts based on more effective infomobilty systems as well as management platform for critical transportation networks.

On the one hand, widespread diffusion of novel info-mobility services promoting multi-modal transport will have a profound impact on citizen’s lives across EU, in terms of safety, efficiency and environmental sustainability. On the other hand, management of key transportation infrastructures such as railways, main roads and motorways plays a strategic role, as they are very intensely used and susceptible to decay and congestion. The complexity of urban areas requires defining complex intelligent infrastructure that can be used to track and facilitate mobility according to persons, vehicles.

The tangible exploitation of the ambient intelligence that can be inferred from geographical information has not been fully exploited. Open challenges are: How to make this data available? How to transmit them? How to model reality with the additional intelligence regarding the entity moving on it?

The workshop on “AmbienT Intelligence at the services of inFo-mobility and Critical Transportation networks” has been organised aiming to match scientists and business counterparts to share the latest fare fronting outcomes of the research and best practices in the industry, transport network operators and public administrations.