“ITS projects in Italy – state of play and recent outcomes” at the Working Group Meeting of the “Scandinavian-Mediterranean Core Network Corridor Macroregion “Mediterranean”
In the morning of Tuesday, 13th July 2021, Pat Cox, European Coordinator of the Scan-Med Core network corridor, chaired the Working Group Meeting of the “Scandinavian-Mediterranean Core Network Corridor Macroregion “Mediterranean”. The meeting aimed at the southern section of Scan-Med i.e. Italy and Malta addressing investments in general - not only ITS.
The European Mobility Week hosts the 5th event of the Web ITS Forum: “Future mobility trends – digitalisation opportunities”
The EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK takes place from 16-22 September, 2021 and it is the European Commission’s flagship awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility. It promotes behavioural change in favour of active mobility, public transport, and Intelligent Transport Solutions.
The purpose of the event is to bring together operators in the sector: companies, public administrations, associations and start-ups.
EU EIP at the concluding Webinar of the DATEX II Forum
EU EIP was present at the Concluding Webinar of the DATEX II Forum. The Webinar, which took place on the 9th of June 2021, was an opportunity to look back on the great steps the DATEX II community has made to contribute to the acceleration of the digitalisation of traffic, travel and its related management processes.
Resilience of road infrastructures – an Event in Italy
A new event concerning “Resilienza e cambiamento climatico: l’impatto sulle infrastrutture stradali” (Resilience and climate change: the impact ) was organized Within the frame of the SINA (ASTM Group) school for infrastructure engineering. The event will be in Italian only.
Autonomous Driving: Social and Safety Aspects - May 28th, 2021
PIARC Italy through a working group on Ethical, Social and Safety Aspects from Autonomous Driving has organized a webinar to be held on May 28th, 2021.
The event will be in English only. This page of the PIARC website includes the program and details for, free of charge, participation.
NEXT-ITS Newsletter Nr 3
The third newsletter of NEXT-ITS is now available.
“Digitalisation of road transport in Europe”: the book is freely available online
The book “Digitalisation of road transport in Europe”, edited by the European ITS Platform, is now freely available for download through this link.
It provides an insight into the achievements of EU co-funded projects, where implementation of ITS has been used to target mobility inefficiencies, as well as mitigate safety risks and environmental pollution on the trans-European road network.
A CROCODILE 3 statement on the progress of digitalisation in cross-border traffic management
The partners of CROCODILE 3 used the webinar on digitalisation of cross-border traffic management for broadly communicating their progress and their next steps in this field. The afternoon was started off with a strategic session, featuring representatives of the European Commission and the Austrian Ministry for Climate Action, and followed by in-depth insights to the Traffic Management Plan application from an operator viewpoint.
Smart Road works of Anas in the Italian A2 "Mediterranean Highway" within URSA MAJOR neo Project
In the Italian region Calabria Anas’s plan, co-financed by the EC within the URSA MAJOR neo Project, has started for the installation of advanced systems of telecommunication, the realization of enabling platforms and C-ITS services.
Euractiv published an Event report on Intelligent Transport Systems
The event report prepared by Euractiv, available here, focuses on Intelligent Transport Systems. It stresses the effort of European Union to promote ITS as a way to increase road safety and to tackle Europe’s growing emission and congestion problems. It is also the opportunity to take stock of where the EU stands with ITS deployment and identify the roadblocks still lying ahead.
The contents of the report:
"Road digitalisation will lead to safer and greener highways" Pierpaolo Tona interviewed by Sean Carroll
The interview “EU official: Road digitalisation will lead to safer and greener highways” to Pierpaolo Tona, EC INEA senior Project Manager, drafted by Sean Carroll is published on Euractiv the network specialised in EU policies.
On Euractiv media network an overview of the results of Platform and Corridors
Sean Carroll, journalist of the independent pan-European media network specialised in EU policies, Euractiv, participated at the webinar of March 25th and drafted the article “Digital solutions can stem the economic toll of road congestion, official says”.
On YouTube the EU EIP web ITS forum "Digitalisation of road transport in Europe: the great progress under the Connecting Europe Facility"
On the YouTube channel of the European ITS Platform it is possible to watch the recording of the webinar “Digitalisation of road transport in Europe: the great progress under the Connecting Europe Facility” https://youtu.be/w8UCKN6kaoM
More information available on https://www.forumeuropeanitsplatform.com/
On YouTube the EU EIP web ITS forum "Perspectives and contribution of road operators for facilitating automated driving"
On the YouTube channel of the European ITS Platform it is possible to watch the recording of the webinar “Perspectives and contribution of road operators for facilitating automated driving” https://youtu.be/LXHM6Bkq-CI
More information available on https://www.forumeuropeanitsplatform.com/
On YouTube the EU EIP web ITS forum "Actions for Core Network Corridor Digitalization"
On the YouTube channel of the European ITS Platform it is possible to watch the recording of the webinar “Actions for Core Network Corridor Digitalization” https://youtu.be/Qe0DJiXJ0Rw
More information available on https://www.forumeuropeanitsplatform.com/
On YouTube the EU EIP web ITS forum "A preview of ITS Handbook for Road Operators"
On the YouTube channel of the European ITS Platform it is possible to watch the recording of the webinar “Digitalisation, best practices and best use of the road: a preview of ITS Handbook for Road Operators” (https://youtu.be/UEttS6ZvagQ).
More information available on https://www.forumeuropeanitsplatform.com/
The Italian Magazine Strade&Autostrade relies the platform policy brief
Lorenzo Merendi, a journalist from the Italian magazine Strade&Autostrade wrote an article titled “The seven key actions for the digitalization of the European Corridors – part one”. The article starts from the policy brief published for the 2nd Webinar - Actions for Core Network Corridor Digitalization (Friday 4th December 2020). The article is published both in the web and in the paper magazine. Part two will be published in the issue n ° 147 May/June 2021 and will be online from Tuesday 18 May 2021.
CROCODILE 3 Technical Workshop: Digitalisation of cross-border traffic management
The CROCODILE corridor unites public authorities, road administrations and traffic information service providers of 7 European Member States. Co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility, they are committed to cross-border data exchange and harmonisation on different layers.
Euractiv published a European ITS Platform opinion on corridor results
On March 10th, Euractiv published an opinion of the European ITS Platform concerning results of the evaluation on implementations performed by 4 CEF ITS corridors. Euractiv is the independent pan-European media network specialised in EU policies.
EU EIP publishes annual NAP report 2020
Since its start in 2016 the EU EIP has published five annual reports about the status of the National Access Points (NAP) across Europe. The annual NAP report 2020 is the final one, describing the deployment status of NAPs in Europe as well as harmonising work on metadata, common features, data standards and common formats, harmonised declaration of compliance, and other issues, related to the Commission Delegated Regulations for ITS Directive priority actions.