The main benefits of the IF components that will encourage market uptake are:

• Enabling a complete transformation of the European transport system into a global services and data market place;
• Freeing stakeholders from technological barriers, so new actors and business models will be able to emerge and prosper for the benefit of European travellers;
• Promoting the development of a large, competitive market of independent and autonomous suppliers of business services, applications, devices and systems to the travel and transport industry by dramatically reducing the overhead, business and financial costs associated with making such services and applications interoperable;
• Promoting the development of a large, competitive market of independent and autonomous suppliers of interoperability products and services to developers of travel and transportation devices, applications and systems, thus submitting the cost of interoperability to downwards market pressure.