Highlights

The EU EIP A2 Expert Groups Freight and Logistics, Traveller Information Service and Traffic Management met in Helsinki to align on a common approach for updating and presenting the existing 18 ITS Deployment Guidelines. The group took significant steps towards a new webbased format to present the knowledge in one European ITS Core Services – Reference Handbook, which is currently being drafted with interactivity and ease of use in mind.

The European Platform for Intelligent Transport Systems (EU EIP) was present at the 26^th PIARC World Road Congress.

As part of the technical session “cooperation strategies between national and local road agencies“, the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) presented „EU ITS Platform on Future Motorway Traffic”. The main focus of the presentation was on the strength of the Corridor-based ITS implementations and the three pillars within EU EIP activity 2:

National Access Points (NAPs) represent an important building block of European ITS Infrastructure.
EU EIP Sub-Activity 4.6 is committed to the harmonisation of such NAPs, in order to make them interoperable and effective across European ITS stakeholders.
An important harmonisation item are Metadata, describing the data offers of NAPs in structured and agreed manner.

On November 18^th- 19^th 2019, the second edition of Future Mobility Week was held in Turin, Italy.

During the Future Mobility week, the "Smart Road & Smart Traffic" workshop was a good opportunity for an innovative road technologies roundup, together with the leading personalities of the sector.

The covered topics were: European policies, national initiatives, legislation, technology and best motorway practices.

C-Roads Platform and EU EIP  gathered European C-ITS experts to attend the C-ITS deployment and evaluation workshop the 5^th – 6^th of November 2019 in Brussels.

The meeting proceedings and a detailed program are online at this link

Last October 17th the European Driving School Association (EFA) and the Simulation of behavioural aspects for safer transport (SIMUSAFE) organized in Torino (Italy) the 2nd International Workshop. The aim of the workshop was to answer the question: "Technology vs. driver training: a threat or an opportunity?".

On November 20^th,  2019, the Mediterranean Corridor Forum was held in the Brussels - premises of the European Commission. The event was Organized by the European Commission and chaired by Ms. Iveta Radičová, former Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic and currently high representative of the Commission for the Coordination of the Mediterranean Core Corridor.

Mr. Herald Ruijters DG-Move Director Investment, Innovative & Sustainable Transport of the European Commission, during ITS Forum in Utrecht, invited Member States to boost further cooperation among ITS Corridors in order to cover needs of Core Network Corridors (see forum proceedings). Actions from Platform leaders were assumed accordingly.

Manuel Picardi, general secretary of EFA (the European association of driving schools), talked to the European ITS Platform about challenges and opportunities of digitalization in the future of European transport.

A video is available in the YouTube channel of the European ITS Platform.

On October 1st and 2nd a workshop on the topic “Highly automated driving, an exploration of benefits, cost and ODD in Europe” was held in Turin (Italy):  the event was organized by the European ITS platform, and hosted by SATAP and SINA at ASTM headquarters.

The European ITS Platform organized a workshop concerning “Highly Automated Driving: an exploration of benefits, costs and ODD in Europe”.

The proceedings of the event are now available online following this link.

A detailed report is even available here.

The ESPORG (European Secure Parking Organisation) conference 2019 took place in Brussels last November 7^th. It was organised in cooperation with  International Road Transport Union (IRU) and the EC. The conference was opened by Mr Dirk Penasse, general manager of ESPORG followed by a number of speakers.

On 12 and 13 November approximately 40 experts from 14 EU countries and Switzerland met at BASt in Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) to discuss the future challenges of Traffic Management Centres (TMCs). The Programme consisted of 15 presentations and sufficient time for discussion among the experts. A visit of the TMC in Leverkusen concluded this very successful workshop.

This article highlights the main outcomes of the workshop. The workshop report and the presentations can be downloaded from the following links:

In the end of October 2019, a meeting on the topic of traffic management plans (TMPs) was held in Maribor, Slovenia. Representatives from five Central European Member States have participated and discussed the possibilities of implementing actual changes in their processes for coordinating and activating TMPs. Participants encompassed motorway operators, developers and automobile club representatives from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia.

EU EIP Sub-Activity 4.1 has published an update of the “Quality Package” for the domain of Multimodal Travel Information Services (MMTIS), representing a first quality framework related to data and information in MMTIS.

The presented “Quality Package” contains quality-related definitions and concepts, as proposed by EU EIP partners for the use in Europe:

Last October 24^th 2019, SINA organized a training session entitled "Roads for our Future" and based on experiences out of CEF Programs.

Phase 2 of the pilot Tyre Pressure Measuring System at the Dutch A16 highway was completed some time ago. You can download here the report with the findings of phase 2. A video of the pilot (only in Dutch) can be seen here.

On November 12^th 2019, 9.30 till 12.00, the first task force workshop about Road corridor information document, Road-CID was held. The workshop was hosted in BAST office in Bergish Gladbach (D) and was be prior to the workshop: ”future challenges for traffic management”. The workshop is carried out as a task within the Cross Corridor Cooperation (CCC) activity of EU EIP.

Why Road-CID?

Operators of National Access Points (NAPs) and National Bodies (NBs) from 14 different countries met at the LEF Future Centre in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on 30 October 2019