Highlights

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

Sean Carroll, journalist of the independent pan-European media network specialised in EU policies, Euractiv, participated at the webinar of March 25^th and drafted the article “Digital solutions can stem the economic toll of road congestion, official says”.

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 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 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 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/

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.

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.

On March 10^th, 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.

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.

As part of the URSA MAJOR neo project, the Dutch national road operator Rijkswaterstaat started a pilot on the A16 (south of Rotterdam) concerning the measurement of tire pressure of trucks.

In the periode 2018-2020 Rijkswaterstaat tested two aspects:

1. is the measurement system reliable, and
2. is the system effective, in other words: did the trial result in less tire-related incidents with trucks and in less congestion?.

Apart from these two questions Rijkswaterstaat also focused on future use of this system.

EU EIP sub-activity 4.1 is dedicated to frameworks and guidelines to describe and assess the quality for ITS data and ITS services in Europe. Besides several Quality Packages, being reported frequently on this website, a dedicated task was to explore optimisation aspects in terms of quality, from the perspective of European road authorities.

The goals of this co-called “Optimum Quality” task were:

ITS, C-ITS and digitalization in the transport sector as a "laboratory of the future" also related to other fields, from energy to health. The common path is based on two cornerstones identified by the European Commission, the digital strategy and the Green Deal, in which mobility can and must play a key role. As the representative of the ITS Unit of the European Commission DG MOVE Claire Depré explains in this interview.

EU EIP sub-activity 4.1 “Determining Quality of European ITS Services” has been dedicated to establish frameworks for quality assessment in several ITS data and service domains.

One product of this sub-activity is a quality framework for the domain of Intelligent Truck Parking Information Services (ITPS). This framework, called the ITPS Quality Package, defines quality criteria, quality requirements and assessment methods for ITPS across Europe. It has been published here:

EU EIP sub-activity 4.1 “Determining Quality of European ITS Services” has been dedicated to establish frameworks for quality assessment in several ITS data and service domains.

A major milestone of this sub-activity is a brand-new quality framework for the C-ITS domain. This framework, called the C-ITS Quality Package, adds quality aspects to parallel implementation and pilot projects across Europe.