Highlights

SAVE THE DATE 11^th December  2020, 09:30 – 11:00 CET

SAVE THE DATE 4^th December  2020, 10:30 – 12:30 CET

With Version 3, DATEX II is now at the heart of connectivity, supporting the digitalisation of road traffic and travel information. Next to important updates implemented for national road operators and service providers, DATEX II has broadened its focus to the domains of urban mobility, electromobility charging infrastructure, logistics, electronic traffic regulations and cooperative, connected and automated mobility.

The first webinar of the European ITS Platform took place on 3^rd November 2020. Its focus was on the preview of the “Reference Handbook for harmonized ITS Core Service Deployment in Europe” and on the European commitments towards a safer and sustainable road network.

This year the ITS European Congress takes place on November 9-10 in a virtual and more compact form due to the Covid pandemic.

NAP Consumer Registration – the pros and cons

EU EIP sub-activity 4.2 “Facilitating automated Driving” organised a virtual workshop on 30 September to validate the “Road map and action plan to facilitate automated driving on TEN road network” document’s final draft. The workshop focused on two aspects of highly automated driving – the requirements towards physical and digital infrastructure as well as the benefits and costs of automated driving.

EU EIP sub-activity 4.1 is dedicated to establishing Quality Frameworks for various domains of ITS.

For the domain of C-ITS services, we are currently drafting a first elaboration of such Quality Framework, taken into consideration quality aspects from ongoing C-ITS deployments, such as in C-Roads.

To exchange the first outcomes, EU EIP is inviting C-ITS stakeholders to join our:

EU EIP sub-activity 4.1 is dedicated to establishing Quality Frameworks for various domains of ITS.

For the domain of Truck Parking Information Services, we have previously published a first version of a Quality Framework .

The opening was performed by the European Commissioner for Transport Adina-Ioana Vălean and the Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Paola De Micheli. Interventions of top level speakers (see hereinafter) have brought from the analyses of the current situation on “Automated vehicles: challenges and opportunities for road operators and road authorities” until the perspective of future developments and achievements.

On October 7^th and 8^th members of the EU EIP WG NAP (National Access Points) held their online project meeting. Main topics discussed were (1) the preparation of the EU EIP NAP 2020 Annual Report and (2) the upcoming Programme Support Action (PSA) for a “Coordination mechanism for NAPs in Europe”.

In the morning of next October 6^th, 2020 the 2nd PIARC Webinar is devoted to “Autonomous driving and Smart Mobility”.

The seminar is promoted by Italian PIARC in partnership with the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT), ANAS (Italian Road Administration) and the role of Engineers of Rome. It will be moderated by Domenico Crocco (Head of International Affairs in Anas and First Delegate of PIARC Italy)

The Brexit transition period will come to an end on 31^st December 2020. No matter what, if any, trade agreement between Great Britain and the EU is put into place every vehicle travelling between Continental Europe and Ireland using Landbridge across Britain from then on will be subject to Customs and other Border controls.

For many years, the NAP Working Group has fostered the harmonised usage of Metadata across European NAPs.

One major milestone is the “Coordinated Metadata Catalogue” as a blueprint for Metadata structures in NAP data portals. The “Catalogue” was updated in 2019 and can be accessed here:

https://eip.its-platform.eu/highlights/harmonised-metadata-national-access-points

Since 2015 the National Data Warehouse for Traffic Information (NDW) is responsible for the publication of data related to safe and secure Truck Parking Facilities, according to the delegated Regulation (EU) No 885/2013 (part of ITS Directive 2010/40/EU). Data on both public and private truck parking facilities (TP’s) is accessible on the Dutch “National Access Point (NAP)” (https://nt.ndw.nu/). 

The Working Group NAP (National Access Points) of the EU EIP project was one of the initiators of the NAP&NB Harmonisation Group. This week the NAP&NB Harmonisation Group has published its first Newsletter, covering the following topics:

Looking for something to read during the summer holidays? If so, then it is the right time to remind you of the annual reports of Activity 2, which you can download below.

1.  Achievements Report on collecting best practice in ITS deployment 2019

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.