Tyre pressure measuring system installed on A16 motorway

Experts of the European ITS Platform received an invitation to take part to the “46^th ASECAP Days 2018” (Ljubljana, June 6-8^th). The debate organized by ASECAP was devoted to European actions and plans towards Road Safety, taking the cue from EC priorities presented as part of the 3rd mobility package on the specific subject of Road Safety.

Objectives:

Introducing the first joint Intelligent Truck Parking workshop between URSA MAJOR neo & URSA CZ. The workshop will be held June 19th, in Praque at the "Bio Ponrepo", Bartolomějská 291/11. It addresses the challenges and opportunities of ITP with a focus on today´s ever-changing environment. The workshop is a unique event that emphasises the importance of collaboration and networking within the same area of deployment. The freight traffic on roads is steadily increasing.

The 2nd Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS2018) will be hosted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Italy).

On two days (11 and 12 June 2018) representatives of policy, industry and science will discuss the latest advances in the field of Traffic Management. 

On May 16^th 2018 the European ITS Platform and the ITS corridor projects Arc Atlantique, Crocodile, MedTIS, Next-ITS and Ursa Major met with stakeholders in the European Parliament building. The session was held upon invitation of Dominique Riquet, MEP and vice-chair of the TRAN committee of the European Parliament.

Thanks to the kind invitation of Mr. Dominique Riquet, MEP and Vice-Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, the European ITS Platform organized an interactive debate concerning “How the European ITS platform and ITS corridors can facilitate the large-scale deployment of safe mobility services in Europe”.

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) allow the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) entering in transport. The ITS Directive establishes a framework in support of the coordinated and coherent deployment and use of Intelligent Transport Systems within the European Union.

EU EIP Sub-Activity 4.1 has organised a follow-up workshop to discuss definitions for quality criteria, quality requirements and assessment methods for Multimodal Travel Information Services (MMTIS).

25 experts on MMTIS quality from ten European Member States joined this workshop on 21st March 2018 at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam.

On 9 April 2018 the conference “National Access Point as a tool to support the quality of travel” took place in Warsaw, a joint cooperation between the CEF projects Crocodile and EU-EIP, ITS Polska and Rzeczpospolita Polska. The conference was successfully organized by Generalna Dyrekcja Drog Krajowych I Autostarad and supported by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury, Ministerstwo Inwestycji I Rozwoju. The conference was attended by approximately 150 delegates, moderated by Mr. Krzysztof Nalewajko.

That was the title of the presentation made by Louis Hendriks (Rijkswaterstaat) at the Dutch National Road Safety Conference (NVVC) on 26 April 2018. According to Mr. Hendriks the future is full of beautiful promises, but in the meantime road operators have to manage the road network today for traffic flow and safety which becomes more difficult due to the growth of the fleet. Road operators are dealing with an innovation dilemma between the daily operation and future. Which innovation(s) will have impact in the coming years or will it be later?

Nowadays, nodes of transport are less and less isolated and more and more interconnected with the external environment. The creation of smart, integrated, trusted, and secure logistics chains is the challenge to be faced. This discussion was in focus of the TRA 2018 strategic session “Transport and Data Security in a Digital Era”.

The European ITS Platform organized a two days meeting in Frankfurt (28^th February - March 1^st 2018) to monitor and coordinate the corridor’s activities. The main topics discussed in the meeting were:

• the overall status of the Best Practice collection,
• the update of the Deployment Guidelines,
• the format and the next steps of the Best Practice report,
• next steps towards the Reference Handbook,
• the liaison with external stakeholders and the upcoming workshops.

URSA MAJOR neo & URSA CZ invite you to

Intelligent Truck Parking Workshop

19^th June 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

On the 20th of March 2018, ASECAP organized in Brussels its 11th Annual Road Safety Conference, hosted by the Member of the European Parliament Mr. Georges BACH.

The EU EIP project has published the ‘EU EIP Annual report 2017 about NAPs’ (link),  giving an overview of the state of the art of National Access Points in Europe. Among others it includes a list of web links of NAPs in operation.

Besides the EU EIP Annual NAP report 2017 several other NAP supporting documents were published as well:

EU EIP sub-activity 4.1  has produced an update of the Quality Package for Safety-Related and Real-Time Traffic Information Services (SRTI and RTTI).

The Quality Package contains recommended quality criteria, requirements and assessment methods for data and services covered by the priority actions c) and b) of the ITS Directive.

The taskforce of sub-activity 4.3 on ITS deployment roadmap carried out a workshop in Frankfurt 2 March with focus on development of ITS deployment drivers and incentives which is the core part of task 5 in SA 4.3.

The questions discussed related to which measures can support and drive ITS investments to be made with a corridor perspective, and which services are relevant with this perspective?

Warsaw, April 9th, 2018

International conference entitled "National Access Point as a tool to support the quality of travel", organized on 9 April 2018 at the Novotel Warszawa Centrum hotel in Warsaw (Marszalkowska 94).

The patronage over the event was taken by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ministry of Investment and Economic Development and the Project Consortium EU European ITS Platform.

Program highlights

• Digitalization of transport
• Public / private / PPP opportunities
• Cross-border testing
• ITS corridors: a catalyst of EU harmonization
• Achievements of the EU ITS Platform and CEF ITS Corridors
• Multimodal (passenger/freight)
• European dimension of services
• ITS roadmap for tomorrow transport system
• Smart mobility innovation process
• Connected and Automated Driving