Highlights

The Netherlands as UM2 partner

URSA MAJOR 2 is based upon an established, well-working cooperation of the involved road operators and road authorities. 

A special situation needs to be considered for the Netherlands. The Netherlands traditionally has a very high traffic density and has consequently started early and swiftly to deploy ITS. In the Netherlands, not only the potential to expand the road network but also the deployment of traditional ITS are nowadays saturated.

Amsterdam Practical Trial, phase 2

Starting in 2015, the Landesbetrieb Mobilität (LBM) Rheinland-Pfalz has been establishing a traffic management system on 16km of the highly frequented motorway A61.

On 30^th June 2017, this system was put into service by Dr Volker Wissing, Minister for Economy, Traffic, Agriculture and Viniculture, Mainz and Christian Weibrecht head of the subdivision “Straßenbau, Straßenbaupolitik, Straßenplanung, Straßenrecht“ of the Ministry for Traffic and digital Infrastructure, Bonn, right in time for the beginning of the holiday season.

At the 12^th ITS European Congress in Strasbourg, the European ITS Platform’s Activity “Monitoring and Dissemination” led by Stephanie Kleine organised a session titled “the future of road operation and traffic management”.

The congress’ visitors were given the chance to hear some top-class professionals’ view of the future. For further information, please download the flyer below.

ITS Strasbourg Highlight

On June 8th, 2017 the EU EIP project (subactivity 4.6) organised a workshop in Frankfurt on the use of metadata in National Access Points (NAPs). The objectives of the workshop were:

• To review existing practices among operating NAPs

• To evaluate the concept and the usage of the “Coordinated Metadata Catalogue” as a proposal for a harmonised set of Metadata

• To develop a common understanding for a harmonised Metadata approach across Europe.

The Newsletter aims to diffuse the progress achieved within the European ITS Platform and relevant Corridors, in this way it links the community of the platform with the external world of technicians, instituti

As part of Task 1 of EU EIP Sub-Activity 4.1 "Stakeholders, value chains and recommended work processes for ITS services", a focus was laid on Service ’Round Tables’ which have been identified as a possible platform for stakeholder communication and cooperation.

The report summarises roles and structures of and gives recommendations on such Service ’Round Tables’.

The goal of Task 1 of EU EIP Sub-Activity 4.1 was the definition of stakeholders, value chains, recommended work processes and quality assurance methods. This task, performed in strong interaction with stakeholders, lays the fundament for widening the scope of the quality related work to other ITS Directive priority services in identifying relevant stakeholders, scope and way of working of ITS Directive priority services, and figuring out anchor points for quality assurance and quality assessment methods.

EU EIP Sub-Activity 4.1 has organised an open workshop to discuss definitions for quality criteria, quality requirements and assessment methods for Multimodal Travel Information Services (MMTIS).

More than 25 experts on quality of multimodal traveller information services from ten European Member States have joined this workshop in Bruxelles on 30th March 2017. The attendance demonstrated a good mix of four major stakeholders:

-  the European Commission;

One of the key tasks of the EU EIP project (www.its-platform.eu) is to develop a European ITS Deployment Road Map with the overall objective to support the alignment of national, regional and CEF corridor ITS deployment plans. This is expected to contribute to higher efficiency in ITS deployment and more impact from the use of ITS on European roads.

EC is hosting an EU EIP Activity 2 External Stakeholder Session on “future road operation and road management” at the EC exhibition booth Tuesday 20 from 16:45-18:00. This session will consider managing the road traffic of the future. Electrification, automation and connectivity are major disruptive paradigm shifts in how road transport will evolve in the next two decades.

Together with the redesign process of the ITS Deployment Guidelines (ITS DGs) in order to facilitate their handling, it is planned to renew the existing best practices with a special focus on supporting the DG requirements and to enrich the result with new innovative examples for ITS deployment.

Are we on the right direction to reach the objective to have harmonized ITS deployment beyond borders? The European Commission is active in boosting member states cooperation. The session will present successful cross border ITS implemented in MedTIS and Arc Atlantique projects (co-financed by the European Commission). These deployments will consist of a series of proven ITS technologies and services which have known and proven impacts on the efficiency of the road network as well as successful cross border services.

DATEX II will consult its own Stakeholder Advisory Board (STAB). This high level board consists of external stakeholders (key public or private organizations with a stake in the DATEX maintenance and developments).

Last May 4^th and 5^th the 1st Intermediate Member State Supervision Assembly was held in Rome in the venue of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

At this Workshop, representatives from major European C-ITS Corridor projects and involved stakeholder organisations will present and discuss lessons learned from the first pilots and deployment initiatives.

On 8 May 2017 the Swedish road administration Trafikverket launched the Swedish National Access Point Traficdata.se for priority actions b (real-time traffic information), c (safety related traffic information) and e (truck parking information). The National Access Point was launched during a combined information and “try out” meeting with future users of Trafficdata.se, including private service providers such as TomTom, HERE and Mediamobile.

On the 10th of April 2017, the second EWmap webinar was held. Attendees from 5 member states participated in the web conference and were informed about the following topics:

Are you interested to learn about the use of metadata in existing National Access Points? Do you want to learn more about the “Coordinated Metadata Catalogue” developed in EIP+? Do NAPs with a broker function have different requirements than NAPs with a portal function?

If these questions are interesting to you, then join us at the Workshop on the Use of Metadata in National Access Points.