Highlights

The proceedings of the European ITS Forum are available online on the website of the Forum and in the YouTube channel of the European ITS Platform.

In order to allow delegates and interested parties to properly store the web-links to different parts of the proceedings, a fact sheet was produced. Through this page you can access: Summaries for each session, Presentations to be downloaded, Opening speeches, Videos (impressions of the first day and collection of pictures).

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Around 300 experts from 21 different countries met on 14/15 November 2018 to exchange views on 'Traffic Management in a changing world' during the ITS Forum 2018. This Forum was organised by the European ITS Platform and the ITS Corridor projects and was hosted by Rijkswaterstaat in the LEF Future Centre in Utrecht (The Netherlands).

Opening by Dutch Minister

Ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to the Netherlands. And, especially, welcome to the LEF future centre here at Rijkswaterstaat.

As you can see, this is no ordinary venue for a conference. Its layout, design and setting all invite dialogue, conversation and encounter. This centre was designed for breakthroughs – to achieve results. And that’s what we’re going to do in the next two days.

The coordinator of the European ITS Platform contributed to the opening ceremony of the European ITS Forum held, in the Utrecht premises of Rijkswaterstaat. The text of the speech is available here in the following:

Honourable Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management,

Dear Representatives of European and National Authorities,

Dear Coordinators of CEF ITS Corridor projects,

New services, new actors looming on the scenario, an entire Europe is now ready far beyond the starting blocks for the development of intelligent infrastructures, connected cars and (in perspective) autonomous vehicles that can facilitate sustainability, environmental protection, improving the quality of life and services for EU citizens with their cross-border or national journeys, providing the energy to revive the economy of Member States and create new jobs.

Smart roads of the future are crossing in Utrecht (Le strade intelligenti del futuro si incrociano ad Utrecht): this is the title of the leading article published by the Italian magazine LeStrade in the issue of April 2018. The article takes the opinion of Roberto Arditi, addressing, on behalf of the platform, some of the key topics of the road technology in Europe.

In spite of a further increase in traffic on the motorway A 3, traffic on one of the most congested motorway sections in Germany is now to flow better. Tarek Al-Wazir, Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development, Steffen Bilger, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and Gerd Riegelhuth, Vice President of Hessen Mobil, pressed the start button for an important expansion of intelligent traffic control on the motorways in Hessen on the 8^th August 2018.

On Wednesday 14th November from 9:00-10:45 a special warm-up session is organised for National Bodies and National Access Point Operators. Theme of the session is: tackling common challenges. Topics addressed in the session are:

•    Current status of National Body (and NAP) implementations
•    Identification of common challenges and open questions for National Bodies and NAPs
•    Managing communications towards international companies
•    Further need for collaboration

The programme of the bi-annual ITS Forum of the EU EIP project and ITS corridor projects is nearly completed. Under the title ‘Traffic Management in a Changing World’ we are proud to present to you:

·      Over 90 speakers and panel members from 15 different countries

·      15 parallel sessions

·      3 plenary sessions

·      1 exhibition area with demos

Traffic Management in a changing world
Digitalization, Multimodality, Smart Infrastructures

14-15 November 2018 at LEF Future Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
 

Dutch Minister to open the ITS Forum 2018

This week the ITS Platform and ITS Corridors will be present at the ITS World Congress in Copenhagen. Many of the project partners will be attending the congress.

In addition, a number of partners will present results from the ITS Platform and ITS corridor projects:

Wednesday 19 September 2018, 13:30 - 15:00 (Melbourne (B3 M6))

National Access Points: Challenges for Success  

The URSA MAJOR neo partners are excited to present you the new UMneo brochure: 

Vessel Elbefeeder at Dublin Port loading containers for Rotterdam and Antwerp (courtesy: Howard Knott)

Save the date

Roadworks information systems are important to enhance safety along the UMneo network and can significantly contribute to avoid congestion by coordinating road works across the border of operator responsibilities and by sharing data with end user services, e.g. navigation. Digitalisation of all processes in the transport system – including roadworks planning – is a major requisite for future connected and automated mobility.

Delegates of the ITS forum 2018 have the opportunity to visit the Galileo Reference Centre (GRC), located in Noordwijk (The Netherlands  - 75 km from Utrecht).

Op 23 en 24 mei organiseerde Rijkswaterstaat het 5^e DATEX II Forum in het LEF Future Meeting Centre. 143 deelnemers uit 20 verschillende landen kwamen samen om meer te leren over de standaard, kennis uit te wisselen met de rest van de community en discussies aan te gaan over de toekomst.

Declaration of Utrecht shows great promise for the future of DATEX II

On the 23^rd and 24^th of May the 5th DATEX II Forum was held in the LEF Future Meeting Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 143 participants from 20 different countries came together to learn more about the standard, to exchange knowledge with the rest of the community and to enter into discussions about the future.

The Report drafted, by the EU EIP project management, collects highlights published. 

Officials and experts of the of the European ITS Platform and CEF ITS corridors published the highlights to inform on produced deliverables and other results achieved by the projects.

The information collated into the report is delivered in three sections: