Highlights

Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch national road operator, has carried out a research with smart cameras to monitor the situation on the road. These cameras will make the opening and closing of hard shoulder running faster, easier and safer. Smart software on existing cameras learns to detect abnormal situations such as incidents and debris on the road. The traffic manager in the traffic centre within seconds receives a signal and can respond immediately for example by closing the lane for hard shoulder running.

Joint EU EIP 4.2 & L3Pilot stakeholder workshop, Athens, 25 October 2018

On 25 October EU EIP 4.2 and L3Pilot held a joint workshop on the impacts of automated driving and how to maximize the benefits. The workshop was held in conjunction with the L3Pilot consortium meeting in Athens.

This article, written by Howard Knott, IEA Logistics Consultant, is copied from the Supply Chain & Customs Newsletter (April 2019).

Sub-Activity 4.5 partners participate to DG Updated processes by developing Guidance for creating DATEX II profiles by selecting in the model the minimum of classes and attributes allowing to guarantee the data exchanges among traffic managers and services operators compatible with the Directive action b requirements.

The 3^rd list of consolidated user requirements presents the results of the work performed in 2018 among actors allowing to propose classes and attributes for five guidelines:

On 7 and 8 May 2019 an Intermodal Freight Workshop will be held in Verona, including a visit to the rail-road terminal of Interporto Quadrante Europa in Verona. The workshop is organised by the URSA MAJOR neo project.

Road Safety: new rules clear way for clean, connected and automated mobility on EU roads

On March 13^th 2019, the European Commission has adopted new rules stepping up the deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) on Europe's roads.

On March 1^st, the national Italian symposium on autonomous driving (S.E.M.A.) was held. The event performed within the premises of the Roman Aquarium in the capital district of Rome.

During the week from Monday 18th February to Friday 22nd, the 81st session of the ECE Inland Transport Committee took place, featuring  participants from all over the world, and from the European Commission, International Institutions, Governments, Industry, Academia, NGO.

This year, the focus was on Automation in Transport, the transformational consequences of the so- called Fourth Industrial Revolution on the way world moves and connects.

On March 1 the EU EIP project published its NAP Annual Report 2018 on the status and harmonisation of National Access Points (NAPs) in Europe. This report (82 pages) follows earlier reports published in 2016 and 2017.

Download NAP Annual Report 2018.

Status of National Access Points in Europe

According to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962, road authorities and road operators shall provide static road data, which they collect and update, in a standardized format, if available, or in any other machine-readable format, on a non-discriminatory basis; and digital map providers shall collaborate with the data providers to ensure that any inaccuracies related to static road data are signalled without delay to the road authorities and road operators from which the data originates.

Activity 2 prepared and released its annual deliverables for 2018. The two deliverables released are the “Achievements Report on collecting best practice in ITS deployment 2018” and the “Stakeholder Liaison Report 2018”. More information on these reports and links to download them can be found below.

Sub-activity 4.1 has so far provided several frameworks to define and assess the quality of data, information and services in various domains of ITS.

The current task is to touch on the so-called Optimum Quality, exploring quality aspects in terms of what is most cost-efficient in terms of socio-economic benefit/cost ratios, and looking for different operating environments.

ITS Romania together with POLITEHNICA University Timisoara will organize the third edition of the ITS Romania Congress on 16-17 May 2019 in Timisoara, at the Conference Center of the University. This international event is endorsed by the Transport Ministry and Timisoara Municipality and is set to be the main national platform to exchange information and knowledge between academia and industry, technology suppliers and users, national and European initiatives.

Leaders of the European ITS Platform were hosted in Milano to step forward in the European cooperation. Several subjects were under discussion:

For years, speeding has been recognised as one of the main contributing factors to deaths on our roads. Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) will have a huge impact on traffic safety. TN-ITS GO (Transport Network Intelligent Transport Systems) is a Connecting Europe Facility project that contributes to ISA’s success by deploying standardized advanced exchange and update mechanisms for digital map data. TN-ITS GO is planned to be a key part of the digital infrastructure of 15 European Member States and road operators by 2022.

In February 2018, the partners of the CROCODILE corridor have started to elaborate in detail the current status of supply and demand of cross-border traffic information exchange within corridor from Poland down to Slovenia. An initial workshop in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and subsequent coordination meetings were used to confirm certain assumptions, but have also revealed new aspects and viewpoints on the matching of supply and demand of cross-border traffic data.

From detecting to signaling

The results of the first phase show that the tyre pressure measuring system is reliable enough to inform interested parties about the detected deficiencies. As a result, Rijkswaterstaat started the second phase of the pilot in December 2018. During this phase participating companies will get a message if a deficiency is observed in the tyre(s) of one of their vehicles. At the moment already 40 companies are participating with a total of 10.000 vehicles.

ΙΤS Hellas, the “Hellenic Association for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems”, organized its 4^th Conference entitled: “Intelligent Transport Systems in Greece: Latest developments” on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 December 2018 in the premises of the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in Athens, Greece.

The European News Bulletin of Aiscat (issue November/December 2018) reports a 3 pages survey on ITS Forum 2018.

Since its establishment back in 1966, AISCAT (Associazione Italiana Società Concessionarie Autostrade e Trafori) has been active with collecting, comparing and presenting at a common table for exchange the experiences and needs of Italy's toll motorway and tunnel operators.

SAVE THE DATE

High-level Conference “Multimodal transport – towards the future”

in the afternoon of 26 February 2019

Hotel Crowne Plaza Bruxelles, Rue Gineste 3, 1210 Brussels