ITS a tool to deliver the European transport policy

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ITS a tool to deliver the European transport
policy

• Olivier Onidi
• European Commission, DG TREN
• Satellite Navigation (Galileo), Intelligent
  Transport

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Outline

• Introduction
• Achievements of European projects since 1996
• The European Transport policy and the role of ITS
• New priorities, policy development
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• DG TREN in charge of
• an Energy Policy developed following the 2 oil
  crises to ensure the security of energy supply in
  the EC
• a Transport Policy aiming at eliminating
  cross-border obstacles to contribute to free
  movement of people and goods
• Transport Policy active especially since
  Maastricht (1993) and the development of
  Trans-European networks for transport (TEN-T)
• 2 main tools for action
• legislative regulation / directives / decisions
• financial Trans-European networks research
  850 million / year

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ITS in Europe from research to deployment

• Since 1987, the Framework Programmes have given
  an important place to ITS (from DRIVE, to the 6
  FP)
• In 1995, Euro-regional projects were created to
  ensure the deployment of ITS on the
  Trans-European Road Network (125 M between
  1995-2000)
• Europe-wide projects
• Euro-regional projects
• National projects

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Achievements since 1996

• Europe-wide projects focused on
• Cross-border RDS-TMC - (ECORTIS 1995-1999)
• Exchange of traveler information across Europe,
  networking of Traffic information centers the
  foundation for the DATEX MoU (1997)
• Deployment of urban ITS - ITS City Pioneers
  (97-99)
• EFC CESARE project
• National projects on RDS-TMC, Traffic Management
  centres, Systems Architecture (ACTIF),

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Achievements since 1996

• 5 Euro-regional projects initially created to
  co-ordinate implementation plans for traffic
  management and user information services
• RDS-TMC
• Traffic management
• Data exchange

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2001 the TEMPO programme

• 6 year programme for ITS deployment in the MIP
• Officially adopted on 19/09/2001
• Six Euro-Regional projects on major TERN
  corridors
• 192 million to support ITS investments
  amounting to 1.2 billion
• 14 Member States (3 non-EU MS), 80 organisations

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Achievements since 2001

• Six truly European projects have been created
  bringing together a European ITS community
• Many implementations carried out on the TERN for
  
• traffic management VMS, traffic management
  plans, TCCs
• traveler information radio, traffic information
  web-sites,
• Data exchange DATEX links finally operational
• Some continuity of service across operational
  boundaries, within and across countries (e.g.
  travel times)
• Cooperation between projects is producing results
  
• evaluation guidelines
• monitoring guidelines
• new DATEX MoU being finalised
• common work on information portals (Via Europa)

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The European Transport Policy

• White Paper European Transport Policy for 2010
  time to decide
• Underlines the contradiction of ever growing
  demand and limited supply
• Forecasts dramatic increases of traffic for
  goods, passengers, especially HGV
• Identifies the difficulties to finance the
  infrastructure
• Identifies 60 measures with the aim
• Shift the balance between modes
• Eliminate bottlenecks
• Gear transport policy towards users

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ITS a tool to deliver transport policy

• Strong contribution to solving the problems
  identified in the white paper especially network
  congestion
• Provide services to the users
• Link with Safety (Road Safety Action Plan)
• Key aspects of ITS
• GALILEO ITS will change in the coming years,
  with enhanced positioning and widely deployed
  receivers
• EFC an important tool at European level to
  finance the networks and eliminate barriers to
  internal market
• other major applications include Electronic
  Tachograph, EVI, black boxes ...

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New trends / new priorities

• The general shift from a system approach to a
  service approach needs to be recognised
• Developing continuous traveler information
  services across Europe will be a priority for
  tomorrow
• A need for strategic large scale initiatives
• A need to involve new actors e.g. freight
  industry, service providers, industry
• ? will form the basis of the TENs revision,
  funding projects between 2007-2012

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New priorities developing policies

• Conditionality funding should be given for
  infrastructure/ITS projects if certain conditions
  are met regarding design, interoperability, level
  of service, etc.
• Regulatory actions
• EFC directive proposed by the EC in April 2003
• Potential future regulatory action in the field
  of traveler information