Highlights

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 presented “Quality Package” contains quality-related definitions and concepts, as proposed and agreed by EU EIP partners for the use in Europe:

The Joint Technical Secretariat invites you to visit the YouTube channel of the European ITS Platform to have a look at quick video impressions about the friendly and professional cooperation sparkled in the Member State Supervision Assembly. Video available through this link.

3^rd Member State Supervision Assembly was held in Rome last 2019 15^th-16^th May within the historical library of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

On 4 June 2019 the European ITS Platform (EU EIP) and Arc Atlantique project (AA3) will organise a Special Interest Session at ITS Congress Eindhoven on Traffic Management in a changing world – fulfilling ITS promises.

On 7 and 8 May 2019 around 70 experts gathered in Verona to participate in the Intermodal Workshop in Verona, organised by the URSA MAJOR neo project. Host to the workshop was Interporto Quadrante Europa, located at the crossroads of the Brenner (north-south direction) and the Serenissima motorways (west-east direction), as well as the corresponding railway lines. Interporto Quadrante Europa extends over an area of 2,500,000 m².

The next technical workshop and steering committee of CROCODILE will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 22nd and 23rd of May. We will cover topics like cross-border traffic management plans, Traffic Management 2.0 and the role of digitalisation. Follow us here and on https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/crocodile-corridor to learn about the latest Member State implementations and plans for the future, we will keep you updated!

After testing 8 intelligent road side 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 is the application of this relatively new data source for ‘real time’ traffic management purposes (‘slow vehicle warning’).

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.