Abstract

Review of the developments and trends in computing and telecommunications that have the greatest impact on the documentary and library environment. Among the topics considered are: expanding the markets of large internet companies that want to include new activities, competition between social networks, evolution of ereaders to tablets, increased use of mobile devices (with plenty of features, such as ways to make payments) to the detriment of the PC, tran0sfer of information technology services to the cloud as this provides much more flexibility to institutions, not having so many fixed devices, search engines becoming personal assistants (calendaring, home automation, recommendations), semantic web e-commerce applications, rise of the “open” concept (content, software, data sets), and the professionalization of blogging, which is now more geared to income.

Abstract

INTEND Deliverable D 2.1 main is to provide a transport projects and future technologies synopses handbook. The overall aim is to gather, review and analyse relevant research documents from the European and international literature that has been produced through sponsored research projects, scientific publications, forward looking exercises, industry studies and strategic research agendas, with emphasis on transport. The aforementioned combination of research projects and pertinent literature has been reviewed with the purpose of identifying technologies that require advancing or future technologies that will be used by the transport sector within a time horizon of 2020- 2035 thus enabling the sector to meet future demand and needs within the future context. The transport modes that were covered include road, aviation, rail, and maritime while transport systems and infrastructure are treated horizontally across the four modes.