Highlights

In May URSA MAJOR neo Corridor launched an "Observatory of the Mobility during Covid" within the Evaluation task, led by SINA. This Observatory targets to monitor the mobility and traffic volumes trying to understand trends during the Covid-19 Pandemic on part of the European transport network of interest for URSA MAJOR.

The Italian magazine "LeStrade", specialized in  mobility infrastructures, published an article devoted to the report "Needs for autonomic function in ITS road operator"  delivered by the European ITS Platform.

The article drafted by the journalist Stefano Chiara, was published on the issue 5/2020 of the magazine.

EU EIP has produced an updated version of its deliverable ”Identification of requirements towards network operators” with regard to highly automated driving. The deliverable elaborates on the expectations that the general public, owners of commercial vehicles and fleets, and road network managers have on automated driving. Then the deliverable looks at determining the requirements of automated vehicles via their Operational Design Domain (ODD) towards physical and digital infrastructure.

The reports including the collection of highlights published by the EU EIP and corridors in  2019 and in the 2015-2016 two-year period have been drafted and published. This way the “fact sheet” page of the platform was duly updated.

Today Rijkswaterstaat achieved a new milestone in Rijkswaterstaat’s traffic centre Rhoon (close to Rotterdam). The Site Acceptation Test of the video analysis system was successfully completed, which is an important step in this Proof of Concept of the Smart Cameras project. Now a development and optimisation period of six month will start in which we will jointly further develop the quality and functionality of the system. The Smart Cameras project is part of the Arc Atlantique project, cofunded by the European CEF programme.

On 30 April 2020 a web conference was organized for the community of National Access Points and National Bodies. No less than 57 participants from over 20 countries participated in this online event, showing that there is a great interest in understanding how we can harmonize the NAPs, share best practices and cooperate on improving quality and access to data in order to facilitate and increase the use of data by information service providers.

Over the past two years the East-West Corridor of the EU EIP project has made an inventory of ITS projects that are or have been implemented on the EWC and these projects have been categorised. The results are now accessible via the EWC GIS tool at the following url: www.mobycon.nl/eastwestcorridor.

GIS tool

The deliverable “Needs for autonomic functions in road operators' ITS. Good and bad practices from increasing the automation of road operators' ITS – lessons learned – status update 2019” is now available. The document is the 2019 update of the “Needs for autonomic functions in road operators' ITS” and “Good and bad practices from increasing the automation of road operators' ITS - Lessons learned” reports first delivered in 2017.

Transport and "Green deal" - the European perspective

"Green Deal" is the strategy that commits the EU to make the European economy neutral  with regard to carbon by 2050. Transport is expected to make a significant contribution to achieving this goal of sustainability and safety. The innovations in the European institutions and the green deal are the subject of the editorial written by SINA for the issue 2/2020 of "Le Strade" magazine.

On March 17th the EU EIP Activity 4.2, Task 2 published “Summary of impacts, benefits and costs of highly automated driving”. The work for this report is carried out within EU EIP Activity 4.2, Task 2: Impacts and economic feasibility of automated driving aiming to identify and discuss the likely direct and indirect impacts of automated driving on mobility, traffic and the operations of road authorities and operators.
 

The second newsletter of NEXT-ITS is now available.

Picture: f.l.t.r. Stephanie Kleine, UMneo International Coordinator, Dr. Volker Wissing, Minister of Transport RP, Arno Trauden, Managing Director at Landesbetrieb Mobilität RP

As part of the URSA MAJOR neo project Rijkswaterstaat tested eight intelligent roadside units (iRSUs) in July 2018 in existing operational circumstances. In December 2018 another 20 iRSUs were installed to be used for the real-life pilot using floating car data instead of induction loops. Goal of the pilot was the application of this relatively new data source for ‘real time’ traffic management purposes (‘slow vehicle warning’). Rijkswaterstaat produced a short unconventional(!) movie to announce the development and installation of the first intelligent roadside unit.

Members of the five ITS Corridors, EUEIP Activity 5 – Evaluation and other interested parties attended a two-day workshop in Paris to review and consider the future for evaluating the benefits derived from implementation of ITS and digital services on the road network.

Sub-Activity 4.5 partners participated 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 4^th list of consolidated user requirements presents the results of the work performed in 2019 among actors allowing to prepare future work, to propose classes and attributes for the following Guidelines.

The Annual Report National Access Point 2019 has been published. In this article the highlights of the report are summarized. The full report (pdf) can be downloaded from the following link: https://www.its-platform.eu/filedepot_download/1971/6598

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: