7. Conclusion

European cities, and Greater Lyon in particular, have great ambitions to offer their residents and all those who travel and work in their conurbations the best possible travel conditions.

Pooling the resources and assets of public and private players, with an intelligent articulation of roles, is the only solution for developing high-performance, reliable ITS tools adapted to the urban environment, which will meet a market independent of public funding for traveller information. Over and above current dogmas about making data available, the priorities for achieving this are a drastic increase in data quality (completeness, real time, etc.), which means pooling data and increasing the collection of real time data. The organization proposed here seems to us to satisfy the different groups of players, with public players focused on network management and public policies,...