Highlights

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

In the framework of prospective works on the evolution of motorways in the approach of the great European metropolises, ASFA (French motorways association) has considered these future evolutions and produced a video to show the main results.

The video was presented to the Utrecht JTS on May 31, 2018, as a contribution from MedTIS, in view of the Roadmap of European authorities and operators, creating a fair debate among members. Hereinafter a short summary.

Quality of data within Traffic Information Services is of high importance to end users as well as all involved service and data providers.

There are current efforts to establish data quality in the field of Multimodal Traveller Information Services (MMTIS), especially in the framework of the EU ITS Directive and the corresponding EU Delegated Regulation concerning MMTIS.

February 09, 2018

EU-EIP and TISA have collaborated in a series of sessions to harmonise the Declaration of Compliance for Priority Action B (EU-wide real-time traffic information services) for use in all Member States.

Delegated Regulation No 2015/962

The URSA MAJOR 2 Capitalisation Workshop, which was hosted on December 14th by the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority of Venice and Chioggia, was designed as an instrument to activate benefits from regional projects for the whole URSA MAJOR corridor.

The signature event was held during the December 14th Capitalisation Workshop in Venice and was opened with a speech from Iolanda De Luca.

She expressed her thankfulness to the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority of Venice and Chioggia for their engagement in hosting this important event, SINA for the support in the organisation and the audience. She also highlighted some important moments regarding the URSA MAJOR neo project, especially about the benefits and advantages expected from this project.

The Influencer Workshop has been hosted by the European Commission DG MOVE on December 5^th in Brussels and organised by EU EIP Activity 2 Monitoring and Dissemination. The European ITS Platform project (EU EIP) is a joint effort of European road operators that work together on harmonised ITS deployment.

The first URSA MAJOR neo meeting was held on December 15^th in Italy, hosted by the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority of Venice. During the meeting, a number of key issues that need to be taken into account during a project’s starting phase were addressed.

At the start of the Arc Atlantique2 action an evaluation plan is worked out. The plan is based on the output of the EU EIP Activity 5. The EU EIP KPI Definitions as produced in version 10.0 – 8 February 2017 are used. This document has defined common KPI for ITS deployment and benefit to support evaluation reporting in conjunction with Member States and ITS Corridors and in alignment to the EC KPI shortlist.

The Flemish ministry has implemented VMS on the E19 between Brussels and Antwerp in both directions. Preparation started in 2016 with European procurement, implementation of fiber optic and detection. End of 2017 23 VMS were implemented. The VMS are of the type full color/full graphic. They will be used for incident and event warning, travel time information and variable speed limits.

Good and bad practices from increasing the automation of road operators' ITS - Lessons learned

This report focusses on the lesson learned from existing automated ITS deployments; provides useful reference materials, proposes a framework and guidance for future road operators’ automated ITS.

The report includes:

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5th DATEX II Forum - ITS enabled by DATEX II

We are happy to announce the fifth DATEX II Forum on the 23rd and 24th of May 2018, to be held at the LEF Future Center of Rijkswaterstaat in Utrecht, the Netherlands!