ERTICO eMagazine: July 2013

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ERTICO eMagazine SPECIAL ITS Dublin edition In this Issue: Eric Sampson, Chief Rapporteur for Dublin 2013 shares his thoughts on the 9th European Congress

Kees Wevers introduces TN-ITS, the new ERTICO Partnership platform

The new ERTICO Network officially launched in Dublin

July 2013

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Introduction

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Eric Sampson, Chief Rapporteur for Dublin 2013 shares his thoughts on the 9th European Congress

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Future Congresses

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Putting the user in focus - setting the ground for Helsinki 2014

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eMobility ICT Interoperability Innovation group, (eMI3) launches new website!

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An Irish Night to remember

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Kees Wevers comments on his recent Presidency appointment and what is in store for TN-ITS

ERTICO eMagazine ITS Dublin edition

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11 The new ERTICO Network officially launched in Dublin 12 Best Paper Awards Winners 13 Women in ITS- an untapped workforce?

14 Find ERTICO online 15 Blue skies for Pre-commercial Procurement?

15 eCoMove and ecoDriver: where do we go from here?

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Introduction

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the special ITS Dublin edition of the ERTICO eMagazine!

Last time ERTICO published the eMagazine, we were working full speed ahead to ensure that the forthcoming European ITS Congress would be a success. Amidst the excitement, project managers were finalising their workshops and special sessions, our ITS experts were selecting the best research papers, our communications department was pumping out press releases, and the congress department was working around the clock with our excellent hosts ITS Ireland to prepare the venue and exhibition programme.

As always, it was a stimulating experience to be part of such a collective effort, and to witness everything coming together in the name of the congress. However, as launch date approached and as everyone involved made their way to Dublin, adrenaline ran high in hopes that everything would go off smoothly as planned.

Well, we are delighted to say that in Dublin, it did. Between 4 -6 June 2013 our efforts paid-off making the 9th European ITS Congress a huge success.

In total, 1738 delegates attended the event from 55 countries worldwide. They represented 204 companies, and took part in a total of 199 technical demonstrations.

We are delighted to be publishing this ITS Dublin Special Edition to sum up a memorable congress and to take stock of the achievements of the four day event.

We hope you enjoy every page.

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Not only did Dublin welcome us with four days of glorious sunshine, but delegates and exhibitors were treated to: •

A full programme of ITS events, workshops and special sessions

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Two floors of ITS exhibitions featuring Europe’s leading ITS companies and institutions

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The opportunity to mix with colleagues from across the world during an unforgettable Irish Night at the GUINNESS Storehouse

The views and opinions expressed in this magazine are solely those of authors and other contributors.

These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of ERTICO or its Partners.

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Eric Sampson, Chief Rapporteur for Dublin 2013 shares his thoughts on the 9th European Congress Following his return from the 9th European Congress in Dublin, we had the opportunity to talk to Eric Sampson, ERTICO’s Senior Adviser on Congresses and The Chief Rapporteur for Dublin 2013 about this year’s congress events, hot topics and new trends in the field.

Eric, to begin, can you tell us what the role of Chief Rapporteur entails?

I am responsible for producing two main record documents, a precongress synopsis of what is contained in the papers, headline descriptions of the Special Interest and Executive Sessions, and a post-Congress Report that summarises the proceedings of the week. But to do this I rely on a team of six rapporteurs who are my ‘eyes and ears’ and feed me their findings.

Can you give us a brief overview of the Congress?

The Congress headline was ‘Real Solutions for Real Needs’. We chose this slogan to emphasize the focus on proven deployed solutions and innovative R&D results that solve real problems and deliver value for money in today’s challenging economic environment.

Would you say that today’s context and needs are specifically different from those of 5 or 10 years ago?

If I had been asked to give a Congress summary 8-10 years ago I would have been reporting what we could do with single function technology (navigation, traveller information, traffic management and some invehicle driver support functions). The big issues then were cost, reliability, power consumption, price. We could deliver individual solutions quite well and demonstrate them but our users had bigger and more complex problems and wanted something more.

Looking back 4-5 years we saw all of these functions becoming extended.

Navigation was enhanced with realtime traffic congestion updates and re-routing. We began to see predictive as well as real-time traveller information, traffic management over large areas of networks with a mix of urban and inter-urban control.

What had previously been in a sense “uni-dimensional” had become ‘twodimensional’. Our users became concerned with real-world pilot trials of the new products and services we had given them.

A key observation from Dublin 2013 is the extent to which we have moved

on from there. We had the privilege of seeing a range of presentations and demonstrations and having direct engagement with suppliers of ITS products and services which are like any other mature consumer service: readily available, effective, efficient, affordable and reliable. Dublin showed the modern face of Intelligent Transport Systems. We indeed saw ‘Real Solutions for Real Needs’.

How did you structure the content of the congress to reflect the headline theme?

We aimed to deliver this by grouping material into four key topic areas (Sustainable City Regions, Smarter Travel, Knowledge Sharing, and Competitiveness through Innovation) and a sub topic of Peripheral Regions.

Can you give us examples from each topic to illustrate some recent developments in the field?

The Sustainable topic covered new creating smart cities handling transport,

City Regions initiatives for which focus on energy supply,

environmental impact water and waste systems, and IT services simultaneously. The big problem is that these services often conflict – for example if you enhance transport to meet demand you probably increase energy use and gaseous emissions as well. For city managers, it is this interlinking that brings them problems and challenges on a daily level. The emerging new initiatives exemplify a dramatic shift from conventional methods that look at isolated solutions for individual sectors. The discussions and presentations in this topic showed that the ITS field is steadily and consistently moving towards meeting the city managers’ needs.

The second topic revolved around Smarter Travel. Plenary Session 2 and Executive Session 2 addressed this in detail and discussions during the session raised the need for smarter travel options that recognise the many diverse constraints and demand pressures of modern European cities.

So ‘Smart’ was interpreted as a way of doing something that is not just efficient and effective, but also as a way that lowers emissions and reduces energy consumption.

Globally 50% of the population live in urban areas; in the EU it is about 65%. Urban areas are responsible for 70% of greenhouse gas emissions and consume 75 % of the world’s resources.

If cities are to expand as expected then individual travel by cars has to decline and collective travel by public transport has to increase. For many cities this probably means new infrastructure but there is no place to build it other than underground or on top of what is already in place. The emphasis has to be on the development and use of smart infrastructure and on the efficient management of these networks with a priority of helping the end user travel smarter.

In some ways the whole Congress was about Knowledge Sharing; Topic 3: The Dublin Papers and Special Session discussions described complex emerging chains of information handling, beginning with new types of sensors, both Hard sources (physical devices) and Soft sources (social media, human factors, behavioural science). We heard how material from soft sources combined with the Open Data Initiative information is feeding

new data mining and modelling techniques which in turn create new real time-information or control possibilities from which we can get new services.

The 4th topic was titled Competitiveness through Innovation.

Not every session in Dublin was about heavyweight developments with telecoms standards, design of satellites for navigation, etc. A key contribution under this topic came from some advances with stimulating markets through a different procurement approach. This subject first emerged in Lyon in 2011 with a short paper on pre-commercial procurement and ways of engaging with potential suppliers in a mutually efficient, effective and economically beneficial way. Last year, in Vienna, this seed flowered into a ‘Best Paper’ awardwinning contribution by ERTICO’s own Sébastien Mure. In Dublin this flower got its own greenhouse with a very lively special session devoted to the subject.

It seems then, that themes and topics carry on from congress to congress and get developed ?

Absolutely. For a couple of years Congress delegates have expressed a desire for continuity. They would like to see the same hot topics passed on from Congress to Congress until they have become accepted ‘standard’ production ideas, services or products.

Another such example this year was the field of connected systems. It was very popular last year at Vienna and as expected, it featured strongly in Dublin.

We had a number of contributions addressing the safety benefits, the potential to improve road network productivity while also cutting costs for the freight and logistics sector, and other benefits. For example we are seeing the design of infrastructure that is ‘smart’ and can warn vehicles of hazards such as potential collisions, congestion, or very bad weather and then advise drivers what to do. This is “thinking” infrastructure that can give public transport or emergency vehicles priority in traffic and at junctions.

What would you say was the main strength of the Congress?

4 I can’t ration myself to just one answer so let me cheat slightly. For me one of the strengths of Dublin was the nine Executive Sessions which covered all 4 of the main congress topics. We also had 4 sessions addressed strategic European priorities.

I’ll be reporting in detail separately on these in a month or so when their Moderators have sent me their accounts of the proceedings in the official Rapporteurs report.

Can you give us a bit more information on what we can look out for?

One key finding which was clearly identified in the Executive Session 09 (which was a huge success and covered all topics in the Congress) is that customers of ITS products are no different from ‘consumers’ of any service. In exchange for their time and money consumers expect specific problems to be solved completely, quickly and for the lowest possible price. They count on tools to perform particular tasks effectively and with the least amount of effort. Moreover the justifications for personal ITS uses were shown to be no different from justifications for commercial applications – peace of mind, reducing costs and increased convenience are major motivators for ITS consumers all around. This Session prompted valuable reflections on whether the ITS industry is targeting the right problems and providing appropriate tools to help individuals live their lives with less worry, lower costs, and saved time.

You seem to have had a lot of ‘business meetings’ during the Congress apart from the timetabled sessions

We certainly did. The World and European Congresses are wonderful opportunities to meet your professional colleagues and many organisations are aware of this. Consequentially we had at least 15 ‘Ancillary Events’ taking place under the Congress’s roof plus two workshops we organised ourselves.

They are a way to put more focus on discussion and debate as opposed to the traditional approach with Powerpoint presentations and they were met

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with a lot enthusiasm and curiosity from conference attendees.

The first stakeholder workshop was “Plugging the Skills Shortage – Women and ITS” and actually covered two topics that brought home that we are not doing enough to ensure our sustainablilty. This workshop concluded that we need to find strategies for boosting our stock of female engineers and technical support experts, especially after a maternity break, because we are not making proper use of a valuable and trained resource. Like any industry ITS needs a supply of skilled people and unfortunately we are not doing enough to enable younger delegates to join the congress. Both these issues will be taken forward to Helsinki.

The second workshop looked at the concept of an ITS Observatory. This idea addresses the multiple problems of repetition/duplication of research and pilots/demos/trials; a lack of awareness of ITS options available by local authorities many of whom lack ITS staff resource for product evaluation; national governments and the EC generally being unsighted on the overall deployment situation; and a suspicion that investments have been wasted as proper evaluations were not done so were not shared for wider benefit. The Observatory is seen as a possible solution and common way forward. It is in a sense a knowledge clearing house: a data warehouse logging who has done what with final reports and who is doing what with timescales; a collection of benefit/cost assessments; and a series of Green Papers based around case studies aimed at local authorities. The debate was robust but the conclusions were universally accepted.

Was there anything in the programme that was particularly specific to Dublin?

One of our topics was the special needs of Peripheral Regions; this was key for Ireland as an island nation but of course the problems of being peripheral are also found elsewhere such as in Finland who will host us next year.

The cross-border and interoperability issues here, in Finland, and of course the UK, are very different from

those in central Europe for example Germany or the Netherlands. It raises a number of questions about the real practical need for and benefit from for pan-European standards which were discussed vigorously but without a clear way forward; we will need to return to this issue.

Be sure to look out for the full report of the congress rapporteurs on the ERTICO Network!

For more information contact:

What other hot topics do you see carrying over from Dublin to the next European Congress in Helsinki in 2014?

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There are several topics, images and ideas that I can flag as being carried forward: • Automated detection of pedestrians,cyclists, children • Vehicle systems that advise drivers of the most fuel efficient route and the most economic driving style • Cloud computing being used to deliver better traveller services

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• Deployment of electric vehicles especially as mobile elements of a ‘smart’ grid • Open data and soft sensors and the use of behavioural science and social media

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• Joined-up user benefits • ITS for an ageing population • Cross-border roaming • Smarter cities • Connected systems

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• The concept of ‘mobility’ services rather than single mode transport

And finally Eric what would you say was most memorable about Dublin?

Other than the opportunity to hear the latest news and information in ITS? Or the networking and debate with colleagues from industry, the public sector and research within a uniquely Irish context? Perhaps it would be the ‘Night to remember’ at the world’s most famous brewery, the magnificent views of Dublin and the incredible hospitality and entertainment!”

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Putting the user in focus - setting the ground for Helsinki 2014

A delegation from the Helsinki Host lead by Transport Minister Ms Merja Kyllönen met with ERTICO - ITS Europe at the European ITS Congress in Dublin, on Wednesday 5 June to prepare the upcoming European ITS Congress in Helsinki, 2014. Minister Kyllönen put emphasis on the need to put the user in the focus. ITS services have to provide

added value to the user irrespective if is in the public or private domain.

To promote the further development of user focused services, the Congress will organise a competition for “Best New ITS Apps”. The launch of this competition was done on the Helsinki 2014 stand during Dublin Congress.

Further topics are of key importance will be ITS for urban mobility, road charging, users services for dedicated target groups like elder people hospital and medical responsible. The Minister also emphasised her aim to have a “Ministerial round table“. www.itsineurope.com @ITSCongresses

eMobility ICT Interoperability Innovation group, (eMI3) launches new website!

Recognising that an absence of common ICT interfaces to exchange data between the many actors in electro-Mobility is a critical issue that must be addressed together, a collective of 42 (and growing) organisations, joined forces and formed the eMobility ICT Interoperability Innovation group, eMI3. The website, launched at the ITS European Congress in Dublin, can be found at www.emi3group.com

all of the actors, will inevitably:

Representatives of the current state of the Electric Vehicles (EVs) market, with both significant and small-size players, the collective is driven by the common vision and belief that, harmonising the way ICT data is exchanged between the various platforms used by each and

The overall objective of eMI3 is to harmonise the ICT data definitions, formats, interfaces, and exchange mechanisms to enable a common language among all ICT platforms.

Although eMI3 intends to facilitate and promote their implementation, eMI3 core objectives lie in the development,

• Remove key obstacles to, and drive faster the development of a larger global eMobility market • Drive global growth and utilisation of EVs-related products and services • Increase the convenience and adoption rate of EVs

publication, sharing and promotion of ICT standards. eMI3 started as a 15-memberinterest group based on an initial Letter of Intent signed on 8 October , 2012. Since January 2013, eMI3 has been developing as an innovation platform hosted by ERTICO - ITS Europe. As of 4 June, 2013, eMI3 member count has already reached 42 members and continues to grow. Further details as to how to engage with eMI3 can be found on www.emi3group.com

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An Irish Night to Remember

Delegates attending the 9th ITS European Congress in Dublin spent an unforgetable Irish Night deep in the heart of the world famous GUINNESS storehouse.

The historical building, central to Dublin’s and Ireland’s heritage provided a fascinating blend of industrial tradition, contemporary design and lively Irish hospitality as the backdrop for the evening.

As guests worked their way up the pint-shaped interior of the building, towards the skyhigh GRAVITY® Bar, they were treated to a standing dinner, live music and, of course, the local beer - GUINNESS. Once at the top, guests were spoiled with breath-taking panoramic 360° views of Dublin city and beyond, and grooved the night away to traditional Irish music and local bands playing everyone’s favourite pop-rock.

ITS Ireland who hosted the event, did a wonderful job to ensure the event ran smoothly, and judging from the pictures everyone enjoyed the craic!

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Kees Wevers comments on his recent Presidency appointment and what is in store for TN-ITS The Transport Network ITS Spatial Data Deployment Platform, or TN-ITS for short, aims to facilitate the provision and exchange of ITS spatial data between public authorities and third parties throughout Europe. TN-ITS is directly linked to action 1.3 of the ITS Action Plan on “accurate public data for digital maps�. TN-ITS will maintain specifications and provide guidelines, tools and services for seamless provision and exchange of ITS spatial data, in support further improving the quality and accuracy of digital maps by timely updating for changes in road-related map attributes and features. This concerns static map data, not dynamic content. Static speed limits is a good example (but no more than that).

TN-ITS is a new deployment platform hosted by ERTICO, and was established on 5 June at its inaugural General Assembly, held at the 9th European ITS Congress in Dublin. Kees Wevers was elected President.

Kees comments on the mission of the new platform, the importance of the data chain for ITS spatial data, recent achievements, and the goals for the near future.

Kees Wevers addreses delegates at the the inaugural TN-ITS Breakfast General Assemby in Dublin

updates (changes in the attributes) rather than full data sets.

The concept behind TN-ITS originated some eight years ago from the EC-funded projects SpeedAlert and MAPS&ADAS. These projects focused on, respectively, speed advisory systems and map data for (advanced) driver assistance systems (ADAS). Many ADAS applications rely on accurate map data. To help map makers keep their maps up to date for critical road attributes on a day by day basis, the idea developed of retrieving information on changes in such attributes from the most efficient and immediate source: the road authorities who make the changes. The concept of the data chain was born.

Substantial work has been carried out since to move this forward and to prepare the concept for real implementation with both public and private players involved. A specification was developed and tested in the EC-funded ROSATTE project, for the exchange of road attribute information, with a focus on

Deployment and roll-out across Europe have been prepared in the Digital Maps Working Group of the iMobility Forum with the support of the EC-funded eMaPS support action.

The scope was widened from safety information to all kinds of ITS spatial data, and clear links were established with the ITS and INSPIRE directives.

The intended data exchange will be aligned with the INSPIRE theme Transport Networks (hence the name, TN-ITS), while adding elements that are essential for ITS spatial data but not currently offered by INSPIRE, such as maintenance of the data, quality control and location referencing.

Over time the concept has become all the more relevant. TN-ITS will provide substantial support to both road authorities and map makers in establishing seamless exchange of information on changes in critical road network related spatial data, with the ultimate goal of providing near-immediate updating of the digital maps in end-user devices for such changes. Once this data chain is in operation, it can provide

a substantial contribution to an improved user experience, to road safety and transport efficiency, and to the development and deployment of ITS applications in general.

It is great that we now are entering the deployment phase. I have been involved in much of the previous work on this concept and it is a real honour that I have been elected President of TN-ITS, and will be able to further contribute to make it a success. It is very encouraging that at the start we have already a substantial number of Member States on board as Founding Members, including Sweden, Norway, Finland, Flanders Region, Ireland and the UK, and as well the two providers of digital maps for ITS, HERE and TomTom. We hope that other Member States will recognise the importance of this joint effort and will follow soon. We have a lot of work in front of us, and it will be a real challenge, but it is at the same time very worthwhile to work on making it all happen.

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The new ERTICO Network officially launched in Dublin During the 9th ITS European Congress, ERTICO launched an exciting new ITS initiative, a web based platform called the ERTICO Network where the ERTICO Partnership invites the ITS Stakeholder Community to exchange and access information on development and deployment activities concerning ITS. We asked Ian Bearder who has been following the development project since its start to tell us more about it.

The ERTICO Network is an online community website that links ITS professionals, companies and research institutions. Anyone can join, and once they are loggedin, they have a whole world of ITS information available to them. This includes news, interviews and analysis from ITS experts, an online library Ian Bearder, of ITS documentation, and a Communications Oficer, ERTICO comprehensive event diary.

The point of the ERTICO Network is to make sure its members always know when industry events are happening.

Is it the same as the i-Mobility Network?

ERTICO launched the i-Mobility Network a few years ago, and the site provided a lot of information about the ITS industry online; however the new ERTICO Network has been designed to be much more interactive. It’s more of a platform for a live community of users that allows them to contribute news, upload documents and discuss and develop ideas.

What makes it unique?

We have tried to make sure that the Network provides as much useful information as possible in a single place. To do this, we pull together a lot of information about different ITS sectors and different projects, and we include videos, presentations and multi-media content.

However, this is just the start. The real value of the ERTICO Network comes from its members - the ITS professionals academics and policy makers. Thanks to them, the ERTICO Network is alive with the latest news and developments from around the world.

ERTICO CEO Hermann Meyer presenting the new platform the ERTICO Network at its launch in June at the ERTICO Stand at the Dublin congress.

For example, as a member, you can login and read the latest news and check out the latest ITS Library documents.

If something interests you, you can leave a comment and start a discussion with other members. You can also register for events, download the event programmes, and post questionss to others who might be attending. If you have news, you could post it to others and encourage them to share their own news.

Who can join the ERTICO Network?

Anyone with internet access can become an active subscriber. ERTICO Partners will be important contributors to the network, sharing their work and achievements on ITS. However, we hope to create a community that is attractive and beneficial to a wide community of ITS professionals.

12 The ERTICO Network has different types of membership?

Members can choose a plan that best suits their needs.

We offer plans that are tailored to different members For instance, ITS Nationals and Corporate/Business customers can benefit from a Gold membership which gives them

ERTICO Network launch at the ERTICO Stand in Dublin

How can users register or find out more information?

ERTICO Network launch at the ERTICO Stand in Dublin

additional privileges of submitting news, adding events listing and to maintaining a comprehensive profile in the ITS directory. This means they can promote their work and their services, and inform ITS professionals directly about the work they are doing. Essentially, we remove the ‘middle man’ and provide them with new ways of directly connecting to ITS professionals and decision makers.

It’s all available at www.erticonetwork.com. You can also find us on Twitter (@ERTICO) on Facebook and on LinkedIn (ERTICO Network). I am also happy to answer questions and help users with the website, so please feel free to email ian@erticonetwork.com If you would like to invite us to cover an event, or if you have news you would like to contrubute – we would also be happy to hear from you.

contact: Ian Bearder ian@erticonetwork.com www.erticonetwork.com @ERTICO

Wi nner s o f t he Best Paper Awards As at every Congress, this 9th ITS European Congress recognised exceptional contributions in the two categories Scientific and Technical papers. This year we received over 310 submission from 41 countries.

The Award winners were offically announced at the Closing Ceremony on 7 June in Dublin where they presented their research and answered questions about their work.

This year’s awards proudly went to: Julien Henaut, STERELA, France (Technical Paper category) “Innovative smart parking management system and low cost asset tracking without infrastructure to deploy” Dorin Dumitrescu, ITS Romania (Technical Paper catyegory) “eCall operational tests in the live system implemented in Romania” Florian Haeusler, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany (Scientific Paper catergory) “A framework for real-time emissions trading in large scale vehicle fleets”

Congratulations to this year’s winners!

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Women in ITS- an untapped workforce?

Engaging more women in ITS, and ensuring that women who enter the ITS profession stay on, is key not just to equality but also to help plug the skills shortage opening up in many countries. Less than 10% of those who participate in ITS (UK) are women. A lot more than 10% of the concerns voiced within our membership are related to the problem of recruiting and retaining staff in the ITS sector. We need to do much better at recruiting from the whole potential workforce to overcome this problem.

The question of how to make ITS a sustainable career choice for a potentially untapped workforce was discussed at the 9th ITS European Congress in a Special Stakeholder session in Dublin where participants had to opportunity to discuss and hear successful women ITS professionals share their views and ideas on the topic.

We take this opportunity to exchange with Jennie Martin (Secretary General, ITS United Kingdom and Spokesperson for the Women in ITS Interest Group), to get her reflections on session, to learn more about the WITS forum, to gather ideas on how to make ITS a sustainable career choice for an ‘untapped’ pool of talent and of course, to gain insight from her experiences as a successful woman in the ITS field.

Jennie Martin - Secretary General, ITS United Kingdom

Tell us more about WITS. When was it founded, what is its mission and initiatives?

WITS is the ITS (UK) group for those who wish to see more women recruited to working in ITS, and better retention rates of women once they have joined the sector. Men are very welcome in WITS since they are just as interested in having a well qualified and stable work force as women are. WITS was founded in 2009 and has grown a lot in size and influence since then.

Do you see it mainly as a support structure for its members or as platform that could possibly impact the image of the ITS field?

The human image of the ITS field is very much that of men of a certain age in grey suits, as any ITS Congress delegate can testify. In order to attract the best young people into our field, a more diverse and dare I say exciting image will help, and the work of the

various women in ITS groups has the potential to achieve this. Having a support structure is important, but the true aim has to be to actually bring about some changes.

Would you say that it is a priority of WITS to communicate the underrepresentation of women in ITS to a wide audience? Is there a need for advocacy in the ITS field?

When it comes to advocacy, the most important task of WITS is to establish and communicate the needs of women as ITS users in a well researched and argued way. Since nearly all designers of ITS are male, it is reasonable to assume that the needs of women are not always taken into detailed account.

Tell us more about the organisation of the session, who were the guest speakers and what did they bring to the table?

We had Natalia de Estevan Ubeda who is a senior manager at Transport for

London, Gertraud Oberzaucher who has done excellent work to promote women in ITS in Austria, and Rachelle Mulder who is a respected ITS specialist with Arup in Ireland. Their professional successes and experiences as women in ITS together created a really interesting session. I must also mention the audience, equally made up of men and women, whose comments were also very illuminating. The session continued the process of using the Congresses to highlight this important topic.

On the whole, do you interpret the existing skills shortage and the challenges in recruiting and maintaining staff in the ITS field?

In too many European countries, any engineering profession is not regarded as an exciting career by young people. Add to that the reluctance of girls to consider it as being a male option, and it is clear why changing

the image of ITS as a field of work is a priority for all of us. It is exciting and rewarding and it is very suitable for women – we need to keep putting this across?

that very few women reach high level and managerial positions in the field could be interpreted as indication that retention and lack of advancement possibilities are equally important issues.

How can recruitment avenues and processes be evaluated to gain access to a broader range of candidates?

As before: in Europe, girls do not choose technical subjects even as early as in secondary schooling, and women around 30 tend to leave if they joined in the first place. Schools can influence pupils choices, and employers can influence the choices of women who should be entering the second stages of their careers, not leaving the profession at that point.

Speaking mainly about the UK, where my experience lies, the problem is not so much at initial recruitment. It comes earlier, as teenage girls discard technical and engineering options, and then reappears later when the few women who do join these professions, typically leave after ten years or so and do not return. We need to influence girls, and we need to influence employers at that point where women seem to feel that the work is not compatible with the other things they want to achieve in their lives, such as having main responsibility for bringing up a family.

What do you see as being the main reasons for why there are so few women in ITS? Is it because traditionally there continue to be fewer women than men choosing scientific/technical studies or are there more complex reasons that need to be considered?

According to a recent report on the BBC 1 out of 2 female engineering graduates will enter the field, compared to 7 out of 10 of their male counterparts despite the fact that (in the UK) engineering students have an 85% chance of finding paid work within 6 months of graduating.

When adressing the skills shortage in ITS (and in engineering in general) it is commonly argued that a more diverse workforce must be recruited at entry level. However the fact

As a successful ITS professional would you agree that mid-career level is the most critical juncture on the technical ladder? Why or why not?

It is for women, as in most European countries it coincides with the time when family responsibilities tend to take up more time and effort. The employer needs to help at this time, by being flexible about hours and location – but not by expecting less work, obviously!

Do you believe that companies wishing to benefit from gender diversity need integrate strategies to revamp not only the recruitment practices, but ensure the advancement of technical women through the highest levels of the organisation? How? If you get your recruitment and retention strategies right, the very senior levels will work out as well.

Not everybody, male or female, wants those very demanding top jobs. As long as the first stages of the career structure are fairly organised, the top jobs will also be fairly allocated.

14 Do you see a need to encourage more women to study engineering, or encourage professionals who have no engineering degree to receive training on ITS? Is this a need or are there other avenues that could be taken in order increase the breadth of the potential candidate pool?

IT is not women we need to encourage, it is girls 13-16. If we can alert them to the benefits of a technical career, we will have succeeded in building an ITS work force representative of society.

What kind of measures could be put into place in order to make a more diverse workforce a reality?

How does the concept of the workforce need to be rethought, what kinds of values need to be re-evaluated, and which workplace practices and cultures need to be reviewed to take into account the needs of diverse workfoce in order to ensure longterm sustainable benefits for the field?

It is the quality of work that matters, not the hours you are present, the number of flights you take in a week, what you are wearing while doing that work, whether you go for a beer after work or not, or how many rounds of golf you get in with clients – everybody should be judged simply on whether their work is good. This will be just as beneficial to men as to women in the ITS work force!

For more information contact: Jennie Martin, ITS (UK) jmartin@its-uk.org.uk

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Blue skies for Pre-commercial Procurement?

Sébastien Mure, ERTICO - ITS Europe

If you remember the first time you moderated a Special Interest Session at an ITS congress, you probably have a good idea of how I felt when realising that the SIS 16 discussing PreCommercial Procurement received a full house! Not only was it well attended, but the presentations and discussions held during the session were right on topic. We could feel the common understanding growing and the desire of the speakers to share their experiences of how they solved problems. I believe it is therefore now official: Pre-Commercial Procurement is a topic, it is happening right now, in our line of business.

And you feel the difference. Public authorities are now looking at the topic and seriously asking: This is interesting, how can we do it? Can you help me? For me, this attitude indicates two things.

First, public authorities are finally considering purchasing what has for long time only been considered within the scope of research. We can only fully support this move, as many ITS systems are finally now about to cross the infamous final gap that separates research from market.

More importantly, more and more public buyers are realising they have the power to act as innovation demanding buyers. How does that

work? “Real solutions for real needs” (the slogan of the 9th European Congress) is the answer.

All PCP projects launch from the same starting point: “We have a problem for which there is no known solution. We don’t know how to do it, so let’s open up the field for specialist candidates to develop some solutions”. There is a lot to say about the corresponding programme and how to run the PCP, but this starting point is essential.

Following the first examples of PCP in ITS, we still need to encourage public buyers to put innovation at the core of their innovation strategies. PPI, or public procurement of innovation, is the next topic we need to invest our energies in the field. Most obviously because ITS is complex and cannot be bought as a stand-alone system, but also because public procurement remains a largely unexplored approach

of triggering innovation, even though it is capable of priming the pump for the deployment of new technology and services in very cost efficient ways.

Getting better services, through a cost efficient process, whilst supporting competitiveness and innovation? This is what we are talking about here. PCP and PPI are strong examples of new instruments which will grow in importance in the coming years. Take them into serious consideration and see you for more discussion at the next congress!

contact: s.mure@mail.ertico.com

eCoMove and ecoDriver: where do we go from here?

Julie Castermans, ERTICO - ITS Europe

The EC project eCoMove develops cooperative systems and applications for eco-driving, ecologistics planning and eco-traffic management. When combined, these can deliver up to a 20% reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. The EC project ecoDriver targets the same reduction by providing appropriate green driving feedback for any given situation, through a dedicated human machine interface.

Both projects presented their methodology for validation and impact assessment at the ITS European Congress in Dublin on 4 June 2013. This workshop was an opportunity to consult with valued stakeholders on the future of these solutions and the barriers and timeframe for their implementation (based on technological, political and societal variables).

Based on the analysis of the effect and use of the project systems over 20 years under different conditions -ecoDriver has defined three contrasting scenarios covering a range of plausible futures. The main drivers behind these scenarios are main policies that impact actual technologies as well as user attitudes and acceptance. The next step in the project will be to elaborate different scenarios by defining values for variables that will serve as input for traffic simulations, cost-benefit analyses, and the scaling up of results to the EU-27 level. The discussion raised during the workshop at the 9th European ITS Congress provided insight on what stakeholders deem relevant and valuable for inclusion in these scenarios.

The eCoMove project is coming to a close at the end of this year and the evaluation of its solutions and their benefits is currently ongoing. A preliminary analysis of the results from validation tests has already revealed a 5 to 25% reduction when using eCoMove applications in various conditions (compared with the pre-measured

baseline without the system activated). Other initial results have shown that eco-driving has very little negative impact on trip duration.

This is very important for driver compliance since the general default perception is that journey time is longer when adopting eco-friendly behaviour.

Those tests have been carried out through a mix of field trials, driving simulator studies and traffic network simulations. The results from the different methods used will be combined and the detailed findings will be communicated at the final event on 20-21 November in Aachen, Germany (details available on www. ecomove-project.eu).

speed advice (GLOSA). However car manufacturers cannot do this alone.

Fleet owners also need to invest in this because they have a vested interest in driver behaviour behind the wheel. Moreover this same list of applications is included in the MoU of the Amsterdam Group, which includes members of C2C-CC as well as road operators and members of city councils.

However, because of the value added to the customer in fuel savings, implementation of eco applications might happen sooner than we think.

Some pioneer cities in the Netherlands and the UK, for example, are willing to invest in these systems but, the question still stands if will a few well equipped cities will be able to convince all vehicle manufacturers to adapt their wholeaccross their entire range?

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significantly slow the adoption of those systems. In other cases, green considerations are simply still not a priority across the board.

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As part of its assessment activities, eCoMove will analyse different barriers to implementation of cooperative ITS on the side of infrastructure and vehicle and will establish a deployment roadmap for cooperative ITS. Are road networks really ready for implementation?

Who implements and pays for it? And finally, has a business case?

The MoU of Car2Car Communication Consortium (C2C-CC) already signed by 10 vehicle manufacturers - and soon to be joined by Ford, includes a list of first cooperative applications to be implemented in 2015. Among them is the energy efficiency application green light optimal

Unfortunately compared to number existing “smart� cities, there are many more that remain completey unaware of the potential of cooperative ITS in tackling urban mobility and environmental challenges.

This fact in itself is a major barrier for cooperative ITS. Technology is the smallest of obstacles when it comes to ITS. Business drives the whole process. Of course, standardisation and interoperability are a key, and so is the continuity of services across borders. Privacy and safety implications of new systems in vehicles remain key showstoppers.

Cultural differences and/or the availability of infrastructure may

For more information, you can consult the Presentations from the eCoMove-ecoDriver workshop in Dublin are available on the website: www.ecomove-project.eu/ contact: j.castermans@mail.ertico.com

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ITS Standardisation: Towards deployment International roundtable Meeting On Tuesday 4 June at the 9th Europena Congress in Dublin, Emilio Davila Gonzales (EC) opened the ‘Standardisation Towards Deployment’ International roundtable by highlighting the importance of standardisation for the interoperability of systems and services and the penetration of the services.

We share with you a detailed overview of the panels in this workshop.

The first Panel - ITS standardisation to support policymakers towards deployment was moderated by Emilio Davila Gonzalez, EC, and it covered the topics of : • ETSI TC ITS standards for deployment • Use of standards for deployment of C-ITS services • ITS standardisation to support policymakers towards deployment • ICTs and improving road safety

ETSI TC ITS standards for deployment Soeren Hess, TC ITS chair - ETSI According to Soeren Hess, the major achievements of ETSI on standardisation are: • Mandate M/453 finalised • Cooperative awareness service (CAM) ENAP • DENM approved for ENAP • Network and transport standards - GeoNetworking • Developed as EN’s – finalised end 2013 Use of standards for deployment of C-ITS services Hans-Joachim Schade, TSE Consulting - CEN According to Hans-Joachim Schade, a C-ITS is a subset of the overall ITS that communicates and shares information between ITS Stations to give advice or take actions with the objective of improving safety, sustainability, efficiency and comfort beyond the scope of stand-alone ITS. The minimum set of standards developed so far as part of the M/453

regards the Release 1 which contains a comprehensive suite of standards for C-ITS which, when combined with several core standards from ETSI and SAE, form a complete minimum set of standards for C-ITS. The standards are mature, tested and ready for implementation. They support a comprehensive set of applications that would be present in early deployments.

ITS standardisation to support policymakers towards deployment Knut Evensen, Q-Free Mr Evensen explained the role, the organisation, the structure and the objectives of the ISO/TC204. He focused on the organisation of the working groups within the TC204.

Knut Evensen focused on the main gaps in the ITS standards domain.

He believes that these gaps will not harm the initial deployment of the ITS standards. His point of view relies on a good set of standards already in place which have been proven in plenty of test-projects.

However, these gaps might harm the long-term interoperability, even though there are things that have priority and need to be covered at first place. Mr Evensen concluded affirming that standards take a lot of time, standardisation is a difficult and complex topic, but it represents the industry playing field. Moreover, he made some suggestions to the authorities by underlining that the public involvement is fundamental for the pre-competitive stage and for areas where standards will replace proprietary solutions or areas of public interests.

ICTs and improving road safety Martin Adoph, ITU Mr Adoph gave a short introduction about what ITU role is and its objectives. ITU is a specialised United Nations agency responsible for ICT, focusing on development,

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radiocommunication and standardisation. He strengthened the commitment of ITU in the field of ITS communication standards, in particular in investigating regulatory and legislative actions necessary to facilitate the deployment of ITS communications products and services based on the standards being developed. As far as safety is concerned, he highlighted the importance of creating a complete, coherent and effective package of security frameworks and standards for the use within ITS communications.

In conclusion, he underlined that safety can be improve by the deployment of ICT and ITS. Indeed, collaboration between authorities and concerted efforts at all levels are necessary to achieve this goal.

The second panel entitled: Policy needs on ITS standardisation for deployment was moderated by Paul Kompfner, ERTICO - ITS Europe) and covered the topics of: • ITS Standardisation towards deployment • Policy Needs on ITS Standardisation for Deployment • ITS Radiocommunications in Japan • Deployment of C-ITS • Policy needs on ITS

accelerated through standards • International standards harmonisation can further deployment Harmonised standards lead to lower costs, faster deployment of new technology and more innovation.

However, as the other speakers strengthened, the cooperation and the collaboration among stakeholders brings real benefits of standardisation.

manage synchronising action in a vehicle-infrastructure network.

Lastly, he presented the new Cooperative ITS Corridor between the Netherlands, Germany and Austria which aims at testing standards (cross borders), at large scale, and with the cooperation of three different countries.

Policy needs on ITS standardisation for deployment Martin Russ, AustriaTech

standardisation for deployment

Martin Russ, as representative of the infrastructure operators, focused on the role and the objectives of an infrastructure operator in the domain of the ITS standardisation for deployment. According to Mr Russ, there are 4 main pillars to deployment:

ITS Standardisation towards deployment Emilio Davila Gonzales, EC Emilio Davila reminded to the audience the importance of standards: • Enables interoperability of systems/services

• Regulation

• Encourages innovation, fosters enterprise and opens up new markets for suppliers

• Standardisation

• Creates trust and confidence in products and services

• Evaluation

• Harmonised specification

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• Expands the market, brings down costs and increases competition • Helps to prevent duplication of effort • Supports greater confidence in procurement • Interchange ability of system component suppliers Thanks to different policies, regulations and funding activities, the European Commission has always supported standardisation.

However, in order to succeed, the key to achieve the above goals are: cooperation among all the stakeholders, international cooperation and the support to funding activities through field operational tests.

Policy Needs on ITS Standardisation for Deployment Kenneth Leonard, Director ITS JPO According to Mr Leonard, there are 4 main points linked to the regulatory US program for standards: • US Regulatory approaches use standards • Standards support state and local agency deployment of ITS • Private sector Investment

ITS Radiocommunications in Japan Satoshy Oyama, Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, Japan Satoshy Oyama gave a presentation on the developments of the ITS Radiocommunications in Japan and about all the standards related to 700MHz band ITS and 79GHz highresolution radar and lastly about ARIB-ETSI Harmonisation.

Deployment of C-ITS Frans op de Beek, Ministry of Transport - Netherlands Frans op de Beek gave a presentation of the Dutch current status on the deployment of ITS focusing on the strong need for standards. In particular he presented the ‘Traveller conveyor and shipper central program’ from 2013 to 2030 aiming at deploying innovative services and technologies which focuses on a close cooperation between authorities and industries; the importance of collaboration not only with international stakeholders but also by creating and intensifying alliances. Frans op de Beek welcomed also the activity of the Amsterdam Group and its work on overcoming mutual dependency to achieve and

However, there are also different obstacles to the deployment in particular the financing, the legal and regulatory framework, the awareness and technical complexity.

Lastly, by explaining the example of the deployment of ITS in Austria, Martin Russ underlined that Member States should collaborate and learn from one another in this sector. Politicians are interested in knowing the impacts of this policy as well as of the deployment of cooperative systems.

The third panel: ITS standardisation and beyond - the new challenges of ITS standardisation supporting industry innovation and competitiveness was moderated by Marco Annoni, Telecom Italia; and had conisted of the following presentations: • A brief introduction to TISA and TPEG Standards/Specifications • ITS standardisation supporting industry innovation and competitiveness • Open Standards: Supporting the Second Convergence • Deployment of C-ITS services • The new challenges of ITS standardisation supporting industry innovation and competitiveness,Marco Annoni, Telecom Italia • Assessment standardised

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19 A brief introduction to TISA and TPEG Standards/Specifications Andras Csepinszky, TISA Andras Csepinszky gave an overview of the role of TISA by explaining that TISA offers an environment where the values and needs of traffic and traveler information service and content providers, public authorities, auto manufacturers, product industry, broadcasters and transmission operators meet. TISA derived from the former TMC Forum & former TPEG Forum, together with all their archives and that of the German national “mobile.info” Project.

Following a detailed presentation of the original ISO TPEG standards linked to TISA, Andras Csepinszky presented his conclusions confirming that TMC and TPEG standards are developed to answer real market needs. Feedbacks from implementation and deployment process will be processed during the ISO phase According to Mr Csepinszky, there are no perfect standards and the implementation and testing can reveal problems and gaps in the specifications.

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Deployment of C-ITS services José Manuel Menéndez, UPM According to Mr Menédez, the deployment of C-ITS services is determined by the complexity of the selected services: • Many involved entities: ITSrelated and non-ITS related • Different technical and operational requirements (safety, security, privacy, etc.)

• Administrative and procedural regional differences in regulations Mr Menéndez affirmed that nowadays the attention should be put on the finalisation of the specification and standardization of fully-interoperable communications and fully-linked to the C-ITS business model as well as to complete the analysis of a feasible business model of the C-ITS environment.

The new challenges of ITS standardisation supporting industry innovation and competitiveness Marco Annoni,Telecom Italia

Knut Evensen, Q-Free Mr Evensen presented the success story of CEN DSRC, considered as the most successful European ITS Technology. However, his conclusions are very important since he believes that standards do not create markets.

According to Mr Evensen, standards are mainly motivated for public or interoperability reasons. He believes that it’s very unlikely to identify a business case for C-ITS. In order to incentivise ITS towards C-ITS we need a clear regulations to enhance the efficiency, the safety and the sustainability of the services.

Marco Annoni focused on the importance and the role of M2M connected device. According to Mr Annoni, the M2M will represent the 50% of the devices connected in 2020.

Connected devices comprise all devices used for transmitting and receiving packet data telecommunications via any wide-area or local area network. In conclusion, he focused on the importance of business. The field of telecommunication needs more business and less regulation.

Moreover, this sector needs to be interoperable and standardised.

Assessment standardised Paul Spaanderman, TNO

Open Standards: Supporting Second Convergence

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David Pickeral, IBM David Pickeral underlined that open Standards Facilitate Free Flow of Data Within and Between All Ecosystem Elements offering integrating and interoperable solutions.

According to Paul Spaanderman, there is a high need of standardisation in the ITS field. Policy makers need ITS to solve different transport problems.

There is the necessity of implementing a common assessment methodology to measure the ITS impacts. Thanks to the project ECOSTAND, the consortium agreed on an assessment methodology focus on CO2 reduction ITS Applications. However, these ITS applications need data. This topic led to a discussion among the workshop participants regarding the importance

of data, if they are open or private as well as the sources of the data. The discussion covered also the topic of which business models accommodate the provisioning of the data.

Conclusion of the workshop Emilio Davila Gonzales, EC • Standards are needed for the deployment of ITS • Standards enables the interoperability of systems/ services • Working development of the standards have been achieved • There is a hard work towards the RELEASE 2 by ETSI • Standardisation activities can actively support public policies – standards can help to fulfil public policies • Cooperation and collaboration among different stakeholders is necessary • Best practises in particular via international cooperation need to be taken in consideration • There is not ONE single business model, but there are different business models for the variety of services • The model of the Amsterdam group can be very interesting • The idea of the corridor (such as the ‘Cooperative ITS corridor’) for testing standards is very valid In the standardisation sector, it’s important to attract more cities and stakeholders. Implementation platforms can be useful tools in particular to analyse which are the gaps and what is missing in the sector There is the need to investigate how to fill the gaps in the standardisation sector. This is still an open issue.

FFor more information contact: Lina Konstantinopoulou l.konstantinopoulou@mail.ertico.com

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Compass4D uses collaboration as a key strategy for success On 3 June Compass4D came together with COSMO at the 9th European ITS Congress in Dublin in a joint workshop where partners openly discussed the deployment of cooperative systems in European cities.

The two CIP (Competitiveness & Innovation Program) projects share a common goal of demonstrating the benefits of cooperative mobility services in realistic conditions and quantify their impact on increasing energy efficiency in transport.

The successful deployment of cooperative services in Gothenburg one of COSMO’s three pilot sites (which involved testing and implementing cooperative applications in the context of urban public transportion) was an inspiration for the 7 cities of Compass4D (Bordeaux,Copenhagen Helmond, Thessaloniki, Verona and Vigo). COSMO comes to a close in July 2013 after 3 years but Compass4D is just starting and is making a conscious effort to take advantage of COSMO’s best practises and lessons learnt in order to advance the sustainable deployment of of cooperative systems in Europe.

The collaborative workshop in Dublin focused on three main topics including: best practises and lessons learnt from COSMO, the successful deployment of C-ITS services afterproject life and current barriers to the deployment of cooperative systems. It represented a key point for both Compass4D and COSMO as a model for collaboration for other European projects and aimed to

highlight the value of exchanging of best practises between cities in the field of cooperative mobility.

Compass4D aims at becoming a model for deployment of cooperative systems in cities not only for Europe but also worldwide. Being a model does not only refer to specific results achieved but also in establishing methods of working and ensuring success. The project has already been used as example and considered a flagship European project in the field of cooperative systems during the ‘Global Symposium on Connected Vehicles and Infrastructure’ held in Ann Arbor on 14 – 16 May. Collaboration with other European projects is foreseen during the next 3 years, in particular with eCoMove, DriveC2X, Prevent, Score@F. These projects represent the technical basis of the Compass4D services.

Moreover, the potential of Compass4D services to achieve Europe-wide and possibly global implementation is closely related to the activities of three standardisation bodies: namely ETSI, CEN and ISO. Therefore, Compass4D will follow the standardisation activities, provide input to relevant working groups and promote international harmonisation with USA and Japan.

Anita Toni, ERTICO - ITS Europe

In terms of upcoming steps and events, Compass4D will be present at the iMobility Challenge event, which will take place on 11 September 2013 in The Hague. In addition, be present at the 2013 ITS World Congress in Tokyo with a special session dedicated to the theme: ‘Driven by Cities: deployment of cooperative mobility services in urban environment’. Speakers from Japan and the USA will focus on concrete examples of cities aiming to illustrate a wide deployment of ITS solutions while ensuring interoperability and scalability of the services.

Cooperation and collaboration are the key words for Compass4D. Cooperation does not refer solely to services, but also to different stakeholders, including public authorities, industries and users. Only through focusing on strong collaboration and the active involvement of more cities, fleet operators, providers and citizens will Compass4D guarantee a successful after life project. www.compass4d.eu/ contact: a.toni@mail.ertico.com

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