Project Summary
Project Goals
The MAPPED project aims to provide disabled users with the ability to plan excursions from any point to any other point,
at any time, using public transport, their own vehicle, walking, or using a wheelchair, taking into consideration all their
accessibility needs. In addition to this, MAPPED aims to provide the users with location-based services tailored to their
accessibility needs.
Project Description
MAPPED is a project co-funded under the IST 6th Framework Program of the European Commission, and it started on the 1st of
September 2004.The duration is 36 months, involving 5 international organisations, co-ordinated by
British Maritime Technology.
MAPPED is clustered with ASK-IT (Ambient Intelligence System of
Agents for Knowledge-based and Integrated services for Mobility Impaired Users), an Integrated Project that aims to develop
an Ambient Intelligence (AmI) space for the integration of functions and services for Mobility Impaired (MI) people across
various environments, enabling the provision of personalised, self-configurable, intuitive and contextrelated applications
and services and facilitating knowledge and content organization and processing.
Many disabled users are prevented from accessing functionally and socially important activities such as shopping, visiting
public parks, theatres etc. because of a lack of real-time accessibility knowledge.
Currently the simplest of excursions can involve military scale planning to ensure that the planned journey is feasible.
MAPPED will develop an intelligent system that will empower persons with disabilities to play a full role in society and to
increase their autonomy. To meet these goals MAPPED will incorporate: