Day 3 - urban mobility day Wednesday 24 October saw the start of something new at ITS Congresses – an entire day devoted to one topic, including stakeholder sessions, executive sessions and a special urban mobility tour round the exhibition area. The Urban Mobility day was organised by ERTICO and the European Commission, and is part of the ERTICO strategy to drive forward the deployment of ITS where it is needed most, in urban areas.
European Commission’s expert group on ITS for urban areas The first, and opening, session of the day focussed on the European Commission’s Expert Group on ITS for urban areas. The expert group has been working on guidelines for the
The main outcomes of the expert group’s deliberations are: ¤¤ identifying best practice for applications of urban ITS ¤¤ guidelines for urban ITS deployment ¤¤ identifying the possible need for further standardisation on a European level
deployment of key ITS applications in urban
Mrs Szeligowska highlighted 15 May 2012 Forum
areas, and in particular on the provision and
on urban mobility organised jointly by ERTICO
organisation of multimodal information, traffic
and EUROCITIES, where the expert group’s
management and smart ticketing.
preliminary findings were discussed amidst
The proceedings were opened by Gunter
much interest from the wider ITS community.
Zimmermeyer, past Chairman of ERTICO.
This directly led to the organisation of the Urban
Mr Zimmermeyer reiterated ERTICO’s ongoing
Mobility Day at ITS Vienna 2012.
commitment to ITS for urban mobility, underlining
In general, Mrs Szeligowska highlighted the need
its growing importance now that the world’s population is more urban than rural - and will become ever more so. Dorota Szeligowska, European Commission, took the floor as the session moderator, giving an overview of the expert group and its work. Placing the guidelines in the context of the Commission’s renewed focus on the urban dimension in EU transport policy, Mrs Szeligowska explained how the ITS expert group, which came together in December 2010
for: ¤¤ raising awareness of ITS ¤¤ guidelines for ITS deployment ¤¤ addressing decision makers not producing technical documents ¤¤ analysing how ITS solutions can help resolve problems and achieve policy goals ¤¤ identifying stakeholders and roles ¤¤ identifying key points to foster deployment ¤¤ providing recommendations
for 24 months with 25 members from different
The first ITS expert to speak was Jean Coldefy,
stakeholder groups, has focussed on four key
Grand Lyon, who reported on the groups work on
applications:
multimodal information services. Leading with
¤¤ traffic and travel (multimodal) information ¤¤ smart ticketing ¤¤ traffic management ¤¤ urban logistics
a very positive assessment - “the expert group is convinced that the technology and business model are ready to support information services not for research but real users”, Mr Coldefy