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Roadworks information for improved Traffic Management

Resilience

Roadworks are inevitable, but almost always have a negative impact on traffic flow and thus on the environment. Information about roadworks both when given in advance for the purposes of better planning and also when given in real time for e.g. safety is extremely important. This Session will provide an overview on the challenges of the optimal dissemination of the Roadworks information to the proper private and public stakeholders and possible coordination mechanisms based on the TM2.0 collaboration model in traffic management operations. This session will focus on the clarification of the difficulties that exist on the municipal side, with regard to the planning and diversion measures for roadworks, based on the experience of the two cities of Hamburg and Lisbon. At the same time, shortcomings to the transfer of road works-related information from cities to users and the wider public will be assessed and discussed, also through the industry perspective. At the same time, shortcomings to the transfer of road works-related information from cities to users and the wider public will be assessed and discussed, also through the industry perspective.

Organiser

Sascha Westermann , Hamburger Hochbahn, Germany

Moderator

Tiffany Vlemmings , National Data Warehouse, The Netherlands

Speakers

• Vasco Móra , City of Lisbon, Portugal
• Nuno Rodriguez , MAP traffic management, The Netherlands
• Jeroen Brouwer, TomTom, The Netherlands
• Jeff Marengwa , LSBG Hamburg - The State Office for Roads, Bridges and Waters, Germany

Building a European road safety data ecosystem

Resilience

Members of the European Data Task Force (DTF) started a 12-month proof of concept in Eindhoven last year called ‘Data for Road Safety’. It is designed to improve road safety by sharing data generated by vehicles and infrastructure between countries and manufacturers. Using the latest technologies, vehicles can detect and warn occupants about dangerous road conditions. However, these warnings can also be beneficial to other drivers and road operators. The Memorandum of Understanding signed by all participating members provides the basis for the proof of concept and aims to facilitate a fair and trusted partnership. It is based on the principle of reciprocity where safety data will be offered in return for safety services. This session aims to showcase how the partners got to where they are now, what they have learnt from the proof of concept so far and what we can expect in the future moving forwards.

Organiser

Stephanie Leonard , TomTom, Belgium

Moderator

Edoardo Felici , European Commission, DG MOVE, Belgium

Speakers

• Joost Vantomme , European Automobile Manufacturers' Association – ACEA, Belgium
• Stephanie Leonard , TomTom, Belgium
• Erik Vrijens , The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands
• Bjorn Zachrisson, NIRA Dynamics, Sweden

Delivering Resilience and reach with 5G and Satellite Communication

Resilience

Deploying resilient ITS services that work seamlessly irrespective of the users location – whether rural or urban - poses an interesting challenge for ITS connectivity. With 5G and new satellite constellations in the near future, along with the convergence of terrestrial and satellite technology, the provisioning of seamless connectivity on the move – in urban, rural and wilderness - will become a reality and pave the way for resilient ITS services. 5G has the ambition to enable harmonious integration of heterogeneous networks whether terrestrial and satellite. It is forecasted that by 2025 around 27.2% of automotive use cases will use satellite connectivity. Through its global reach, satellite communication plays a key role in creating a resilient and affordable connectivity fabric for both infrastructure and vehicles. Such connectivity is crucial for the deployment of essential ITS services such as emergency calls, fleet management, remote diagnostics and road tolling.

Organiser

Ashweeni Beeharee , Satellite Applications Catapult, United Kingdom

Moderator

Ashweeni Beeharee , Satellite Applications Catapult, United Kingdom

Speakers

1. Tim Last, Iridium, United States
2. Choi You Jun, Korea Automotive Technology Institute, Republic of Korea
3. Terry Neumann, ST Engineering iDirect, Belgium
4. Ian Goetz, Juniper Networks, United Kingdom

Architecture for a federated platform for logistic information exchange

Resilience

The progress in techniques and Traffic Management 2.0 improves the moving load, delivery speed, service quality, operation costs, the usage of facilities and energy saving. The increasing digitization, platform-based business models will connect new players. To deal with them in a sustainable way, the Public Administrations are facing the need to formulate new strategies and the concerned Road Managers to activate a new generation of Traffic Management plans and measures growing together with the technology innovation (V2X and X2V, 5G), mobility trends (MaaS, TMaaS, multimodality) and richer and more visible logistics data. This session presents approaches and best practices on how the Traffic Management is correlated/interconnected with the logistics operations focusing on ICT platforms, able to achieve a cloud based cooperative logistics ecosystem. Supply chain visibility across of TEN-T corridors and use of large logistics related corridors information is an important issue for the deployment of pan-European logistics solutions.

Organiser

Jana Habjan , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Eusebiu Catana , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

•  Szymon Oscislowski, European Commission, DG MOVE, Belgium
• Roeland van Bockel, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands
• Barry van Leuven, Pionira, Belgium
• Dr. Laura Coconea, Swarco, Austria

Delivering Resilience to the transport sector

Resilience has long been a driving ambition for the transport sector. Unless a transport system offers the flexibility to handle change, unless it is designed well enough to be able to foresee and accommodate disruption, services and operations are in danger of not performing according to demand or may even collapse altogether. In the evolution of mobility, resilience is a strong tool for ensuring cybersecurity and safety within the system, one that could be potentially faced with natural and man-made disasters, such as the recent health pandemic.

How can we make sure that transport and mobility of goods and people are not only designed to best serve the needs of customers and users but are also able to adapt to unforeseen and planned change quickly and efficiently? Traffic Management, Data exchange and Connectivity and the digitalization of freight are all areas where our system can still considerably enhance its strength and adaptability.

The complementarity of ITS services and operations with transport stakeholder governance schemes will be discussed at this High Level Session with representatives from both the public and the private sectors with the overall aim of identifying some of the measures and tools that can make the future of mobility as resilient as possible.

Moderator

Ananda Groag

Speakers

• Jan Vos, CEO Dynniq Mobility
• Oliver Bahns, Head of Connected Mobility, T-Systems International GmbH
• Richard Szostak, Principal Adviser for digitalisation and smart mobility,  DG MOVE, European Commission

• Martin Huber, Director-General for Transport and Roads, Hamburg’s Ministry of Economy, Transport and Innovation

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Highlight Session: Public-private cooperation for Safety on the Road

With the numbers of fatal accidents still high in the statistics issued annually by the Member States, we are still far from having achieved our vision zero in Europe. Data-driven actions and strategies by national, regional and local public authorities have to be based on a coordinated set of actions undertaken by the public and the private sectors in cooperation and aiming towards enhancing the safe driver behaviour on the road.  Reliable digital maps serving ITS services and automated driving can enhance accurate and sustainable navigation, which in turn ensures positive road safety. The cooperation between public authorities and map providers in TN ITS is an important step towards this direction. Related to maps and geofencing, is a safety scheme enacted by an increasing number of public authorities in their effort to mitigate the negative aspects of traffic congestion and environmental pollution: Urban Access Regulations (UVAR).  Access to UVAR by service providers and other mobility operators but also by users, is the first step towards users being safely guided through the road network while adhering to the geofencing priorities of the public authorities.  Another safety measure that public authorities are putting on the table of discussion with the private sector is Jam Tail Warning (or ‘end of traffic’). Countries like the Netherlands are very much interested in a European approach on how to improve road safety. Understandably, the question rests on the degree of cooperation between the public and the private sector in exchanging data that is safety critical. Finally, the harmonised communication protocol (TPEG2) on Emergency Alert Warning developed by TISA provides an international standardized solution that brings public authorities and private service providers in cooperation in managing road safety during large-scale catastrophes or emergencies and avoiding vehicles entering dangerous areas or uninformed drivers causing chaos on the roads.

The Session will discuss the cooperation between the public and private mobility stakeholders on these different safety schemes that require the cooperation of the public and the private sector on road mobility.

Organisers

Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki , ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderators

Giacomo Somma , ERTICO-ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers:

Christian Kleine, HERE, Germany

Jop Spoelstra, Technolution, The Netherlands

Ronald Adams, RWS – Rijkswaterstaat, The Netherlands

Thomas Kusche-Knežević, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln and TISA, Germany

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Revolutionising mobility with drones

Resilience

This Proposed Session will sketch an exciting picture of our future urban and suburban mobility. The main goal of this session is to support cities and regulators in preparing their responses and actions regarding emerging, prominent services enabled by urban air mobility (aka drones). The key question to be tackled by the panel is on the actual usage of drones: from the maturity of the drone and complementary technologies in terms of safety and security, to operational topics such as integration to the mobility fabric (e.g. MaaS) and to more social perspectives. The session will explore answers to these questions and discuss the potential of drones to contribute toward integrating the needs of local communities and urban areas for last mile transport for goods and people, fast medical response and care as well as traffic management and monitoring.

Organiser

Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki , ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Vlad Vorotovic, ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Rohit Kumar , Toulouse Métropole, France
• Rodrigo Castiñeira, INDRA SISTEMAS, S.A., Spain
• Vassilis Agouridas , Airbus, Germany
• Monica Pesce , VVA, Italy
• Ken Engelstad, EASA - European Union Aviation Safety Agency, Germany

C-V2X on the road to deployment

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Vehicle‐to‐everything (V2X) technologies enable vehicles to communicate with each other and everything around them in order to support today’s intelligent transport systems (ITS) and tomorrow’s cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM). As an interactive communication system, V2X complements the capabilities of other advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) sensors. The V2X defined by the cellular V2X (C‐V2X) standard established by the 3^rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in Rel. 14 has been shown to provide improved range and reliability for enhanced safety services. Its full potential can be exploited with 5G New Radio (NR) sidelink technologies which will be introduced from 3GPP Rel. 16 onwards. In this panel, experts will review current and future C‐V2X technologies, its associated envisioned use cases and examples of C‐V2X technology readiness and rollout in different regions of the world.

Organiser

Ralf Weber , Qualcomm, Germany

Moderator

Bob Banks , Vodafone, United Kingdom

Speakers

• Ralf Weber, Qualcomm, Germany
• Thomas Jäger, DEKRA, Germany
• Carmen Vicente Villares, Cellnex, Spain
• Spencer Rosen, Savari, United States

The business case for closed loop Smart cards in MaaS

Vision

Many cities across Europe still use closed loop smart ticketing solutions installed many years ago. These solutions still work very well for the public transport agency and the cities, so why should they invest in the new technology that will enable MaaS to operate in the region? It appears that cities and agencies would bear the brunt of technology improvements necessary for MaaS with little return on investment, but this may bring immediate benefits to private mobility service providers, who can now link with, and sell tickets. How we can build a successful business case taking into account this situation? Should we test different scenarios in order to find the optimum solution? We aim to highlight the numerous standards and regulations pertaining to closed loop cards, and discuss what are the technological, regulatory, operational and political barriers to bringing closed loop smart cards into a MaaS account-based environment.

Organiser

Vladimir Vorotovic, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Vladimir Vorotovic, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Andy Taylor, Cubic, United States
• Daniela Vasari, PlusService, Italy
• Paulo Humanes, Vice President, Business Development and New Mobility, PTV Group, Germany
• Piia Karjalainen, ERTICO - ITS Europe / MaaS Alliance, Belgium
• Matthew Hudson, Transport for London, United Kingdom

Out of the box Mobility: why do we move?

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Why do we move? Do we travel because we have to or is it because we wish to? One notable impact of the recent pandemic, is the change of attitude of employers towards ‘homeworking’. Many of us, do not have to travel anymore for work, as almost all our meetings take place on line. The digitalisation of so many aspects of our lives has made this possible. How many of us would like to work from home for the rest of their professional career? Already some companies have taken this path while others are assessing the options. In attempting, to answer the question of ‘why are we moving and what is mobility for us’, we have to examine the parameters of the recent disruptions that recently took place in our cultures and human behaviour. Automation in Traffic management, multi-modal travel planning and MaaS are offering us the opportunity to continue our travel and mobility patterns as we did before the pandemic and with as less impact as possible. On the other hand, the public measures taken to contain the pandemic, climate change and the turn of public policy towards setting sustainable and green objectives in, among other areas, transport, have brought a change of attitude towards both vehicles and mobility as a whole. The concept of shared mobility is losing ground while private vehicles and privately owned micromobility vehicles seem to have gained the trust of the users. New forms of business models are being sought in order to ensure that our transport systems are both agile and resilient. Can real-time operational and demand data answer why we move?

This session will provide 4 minute pitches from ITS and Mobility experts as well as non-traditional social stakeholders, in order to stimulate the discussion and debate on ‘why we move’.

Organisers

Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki , Innovation and Deployment, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderators

Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki, Innovation and Deployment, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Pedro Barradas, Chief Strategy Officer, ARMIS ITS, Portugal

Pitches by

• Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki, Innovation and Deployment, ERTICO –ITS Europe, Belgium
• Stephanie Leonard, Head of Policy and Innovation, TomTom, Belgium
• Dr. Gino Franco, Business Development Manager, SWARCO, Italy
• Peter Staelens, Senior Project Coordinator, Eurocities, Belgium
• Pedro Barradas, Chief Strategy Officer, ARMIS ITS, Portugal
• Guido di Pasquale, Deputy Director Knowledge and Innovation, UITP, Belgium
• Dr. Angelos Amditis, Research Director, ICCS & Chairman, ERTICO –ITS Europe
• Dr. Raquel Sousa, Senior Manager R&D Investment, CEIIA, Portugal
• Dr. Martin Russ, Managing Director, Austriatech, Austria

Disrupting towards the new normal in mobility

Seamless mobility, holistic mobility management and MaaS schemes have defined what is new in mobility over the past few years. Disruption in transport has brought new ways of re-thinking on how mobility should be evolving. Experts are seeking new ways to satisfy users’ demands for ‘connected’ and ‘smart’ modes, while at the same time working on overcoming regulatory and systemic obstacles, such as national legislation and the fragmentation of mobility modes within mobility systems. Seamless connectivity and urban air mobility are just some of the mobility fields where both the public and the private mobility stakeholders are seeking cooperative models of work.

The panelists of this High Level Session will share their views on how the ‘new’ can become normal in mobility and how our transport systems can address disruption and refrain from becoming obsolete.  Identifying gaps and brainstorming on new ideas is the key to innovation.

Moderator

Ananda Groag

Speakers

• Christian Ulrich Haas, Chief Executive Officer, PTV Group
• Sandra Witzel, Head of Marketing, Skedgo
• Michael Schuch, Speaker of the Executive Board / COO, SWARCO Group

• Manuel Lopez Villena, Traffic and Infrastructure Director, Indra

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National Access Points for multimodal services and MaaS

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A National Access Point (NAP), a digital interface providing access to open mobility data either directly or through reference to the data sources, successfully facilitates the access to data in unified format. NAPs were introduced by EU regulation in 2017 and all EU countries should have opened their NAPs by 1 December 2019. All transport actors are required to as a minimum to make static travel and traffic data available as open data and register their basic data and relevant travel and traffic data to NAPs at same quality as used internally on the actors own digital platforms. With top experts and practioners this session seeks answers to the following questions: What does NAPs mean for MaaS? Are all NAPs in different members states similar (enough)? Does NAPs solve all the data harmonisation and access issues? What is the relation between NAPs and EU Mobility Data Space?

Organisers

Piia Karjalainen, ERTICO - ITS Europe / MaaS Alliance, Belgium

Moderators

Ferdinand Burgersdijk, MaaS Alliance, Belgium

Speakers

• Timo Hoffman, German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Germany
• Victoire Champenois, European Commission, DG MOVE, Belgium
• Laura Lassila, Traficom, Finland
• Søren Sørensen, SFMCON, Denmark
• Piia Karjalainen, ERTICO - ITS Europe / MaaS Alliance, Belgium

Business cases for traffic management and AV applications

Transversal

This session focuses on business modelling experience from (pre-)deployment activities in the field of cooperative ITS and traffic management as pathway towards connected and automated mobility. The session will address business modelling touching on service level agreements, safety requirements, data access, organisational and operational aspects, regulatory and liability aspects looking at the entire value chain. Here, a key element is the value of co-creation to reach balanced cost (not only economic) and benefits situation and viable business cases for all public and private actors. The end-user perspective will also be looked into in relation to value of new and enhanced services. The session will also look into pre-requisites to step from business modelling to concrete business cases and exploitation plans for the roll out of a mature market.

Organisers

Giacomo Somma , ERTICO-ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderators

Giacomo Somma , ERTICO-ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Petri Mononen , VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland
• Tiffany Vlemmings , NDW, The Netherlands
• Lluis Puerto , RACC, Spain
• Aigars Jaundālders, WeAreDots Ltd., Latvia
• Geert van der Linden, European Commission, DG MOVE, Belgium

High-density truck platooning & highway chauffeur in real-life environments

Transversal

The gradual introduction of advanced automated driving capabilities in passenger vehicles and trucks will have a significant impact on European motorways. State-of-the-Art technologies for cooperative ITS services in such vehicle systems have the potential to be the decisive differentiation factor for user acceptance, effectiveness and efficiency of automated driving. To make this a reality and to support automated driving, interoperability testing will be carried out throughout different communication systems. A close cooperation with C-ITS and C-Roads platform involving a wide list of European Member states countries, will support this initiative together with EU funded projects like CONCORDA and ENSEMBLE. The impact of advanced automated driving and high density truck platooning goes far beyond the transport sector and offers promising benefits to many actors that will be presented in this session: technology actors, service providers, OEMs and public authorities.

Organiser

Jana Habjan , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Eusebiu Catana , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Dehlia Willemsen, TNO, The Netherlands

• Michael Menzel, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany

• Sebe Vogel, Rijkswaterstaat, The Netherlands

• Geerd Kakes, KPN, The Netherlands

• Jim Misener, Qualcomm, USA

Interactive Session - Bridging Commercial & Societal Transport Digitisation Strategies (5GAA)

In this interactive session, participants will be invited to exchange around Road Authorities and Operators’ objectives and expectations towards OEMs and Communication Services Providers to deploy I2V and V2I services.

Participants will be distributed in thematic sub-groups focused on a specific road environment to foster interactions around the respective pain points and priority V2I services that could address these.

The outcome of the discussions will feed 5GAA’s “BRIDGE” Work Item, which aims at providing a ‘Playbook’ type report for Road Operators MNOs, OEMs can refer to when aiming to enter into some form of collaborative partnership or business arrangement alongside their own pre-existing business objectives.

Mobility platforms for smart and sustainable EU transport

Green

Mobility platforms have an important potential to provide an attractive and efficient alternative to private car use and to promote a shift towards sustainable transport modes and a more efficient use of transport networks. Hence, mobility platforms are seen as a tool for the reduction of congestion and negative environmental impact. However, many challenges remain for their development. Those challenges are of different nature: technical, legal and commercial. What is needed to support the development of fair, sustainable, customer friendly mobility platforms at EU level? A. Opening further data? 1.Which data are essential for mobility platforms? 2. What is needed in terms of standardisation? B. Rights and obligations for mobility platforms? 1. Ensuring that public transport is the backbone of mobility platforms in urban areas 2. Establishing a governance framework of mobility platforms.

Organiser

Victoire Champenois, DG MOVE, European Commission

Moderator

Victoire Champenois, DG MOVE, European Commission

Speakers

• Jean-Gabriel Audebert-Lasrochas , Trainline, France
• Guido Di Pasquale , Union Internationale des Transports Publics - UITP, Belgium
• Piia Karjalainen , ERTICO - ITS Europe / MaaS Alliance, Belgium
• Victor Alonso, Ministry for the Ecological Transition, in charge of Transport, France

Mobility platforms for smart and sustainable EU transport

Green

Mobility platforms have an important potential to provide an attractive and efficient alternative to private car use and to promote a shift towards sustainable transport modes and a more efficient use of transport networks. Hence, mobility platforms are seen as a tool for the reduction of congestion and negative environmental impact. However, many challenges remain for their development. Those challenges are of different nature: technical, legal and commercial. What is needed to support the development of fair, sustainable, customer friendly mobility platforms at EU level? A. Opening further data? 1.Which data are essential for mobility platforms? 2. What is needed in terms of standardisation? B. Rights and obligations for mobility platforms? 1. Ensuring that public transport is the backbone of mobility platforms in urban areas 2. Establishing a governance framework of mobility platforms.

Organiser

Victoire Champenois, DG MOVE, European Commission

Moderator

Victoire Champenois, DG MOVE, European Commission

Speakers

• Jean-Gabriel Audebert-Lasrochas , Trainline, France
• Guido Di Pasquale , Union Internationale des Transports Publics - UITP, Belgium
• Piia Karjalainen , ERTICO - ITS Europe / MaaS Alliance, Belgium
• Victor Alonso, Ministry for the Ecological Transition, in charge of Transport, France

Freight transport's answer to the climate crisis and the European Green Deal

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Decarbonisation of freight transport remains to be one of the key challenges towards addressing climate crisis. As highlighted by the European Green Deal, in order to reach carbon neutrality, Europe would need to shift 75% of all road freight carried by trucks onto other, more sustainable modes of transport, such as rail and inland waterways. This has however been tried before, with little achievements made. At the same time, the industry is pointing out increased efficiency as the most imminent step that can be made in order to reduce freight transport emissions of green house gases. This session will serve as the place for debate amongst industry experts on which solutions have the most potential when it comes to carbon reduction and what needs to be done for Europe and other parts of the world to take them up on a large scale. Speakers will present their experiences on how shippers, forwarders, transport operators and all other stakeholders in the supply chain can benefit from increased visibility of transport chains through digitalisation of transport documents, sharing of estimated times of arrival, optimised route planning and other solutions. They will also highlight role of ITS in creating wider uptake of electric vehicles for last mile and regional deliveries. Finally, all speakers will be asked to outline their view for where freight transport will be by 2030.

Organiser

Zeljko Jeftic , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Zeljko Jeftic , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Marcel Huschebeck, PTV Group, Germany
• Barry van Leuven , Pionira, Belgium
• Tom Antonissen, AKKA Technologies, Belgium

Making ports greener through ITS

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Ports have become the nodes of the logistics and a window on the global economy as they handle nearly 75% of global trade. They face the multimodal aspects connecting the vessels with the hinterland through rail and road and are at the centre of decisions to meet the overall environmental and efficiency improvements. At the same time, ports balance the short term improvements and the longer duration cycle linked to infrastructure investment. So doing, they regularly drive economy and social structures towards greener and more sustainable models. We present in this session first hand implementations and strategies from large and medium-sized port-cities as well as the result of applied research and pre-deployment projects. We discuss the environmental and cost benefits of digital twinning of ports as well as optimization planning and day-to-day smaller improvements and the organization of how to implement these changes.

Organiser

Frank Daems, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Frank Daems, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Giannis Kanellopoulos, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece
• Raf Willenbrock, T-Systems, Germany
• Peter Bresseleers, PortExpertise, Belgium
• Deniss Bičkovs, Port of Riga, Latvia 

Using connectivity and automation to deliver sustainable mobility

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Sustainability will undoubtedly be a predominant concern for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) this decade. Not only has the European Commission’s Green Deal launched a roadmap (starting 2020) for accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility, the countdown towards the UN’s agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 has also begun. CAM has long prioritised safety, which is now accepted as a major selling point in terms of societal benefits but for meaningful impact, CAM stakeholders must be on board with sustainability as a prominent goal. In addition to the UN’s SDG11 (sustainable cities and communities) and SDG13 (climate action), CAM also has an impact on SDG08 (decent work and economic growth).

In this session, a cross-section of experts (representing the European Commission, a regional authority, a vehicle manufacturer and a transport service provider) will discuss the greening potential of CAM, its challenges, and how, through innovation, smart mobility can boost sustainability with economic, environmental and social impact for the planet and the people. The focus will be on SMART objectives, KPIs and evaluation matrices to help determine and measure real benefits of Connected and Automated Mobility for a sustainable future.

Organiser

Rita Bhandari, ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Joachim Klink, Head of Autonomous Driving & Smart Mobility, T-Systems, Germany

Speakers

• Prabs Johal, Transport for West Midlands, United Kingdom
• Armin Graeter, BMW Group, Germany
• Thomas Ledoux, Michelin, France
• Tom Alkim, European Commission, DG RTD, Belgium

Redesigning mobility to meet today’s climate emergency

The climate emergency is, together with COVID-19, the most talked about challenge that our society faces today. The scientific communityis united in their view that all integral elements of our society need to be decarbonized. In response to this threat, the European Union has outlined a highly ambitious plan, the European Green Deal, which will have a significant impact on the transport sector. Transport needs to reduce its CO2 emissions by 90% by 2050, which presents the transport community with one of the most formidable tasks it has ever had to deliver, but at the same time presents the sector with a wonderful opportunity to re-think today’s mobility landscape. High-level speakers from the European Commission, the public sector and industry will address the challenges and outline the solutions that will lead society towards new, cleaner and greener transport services.

Moderator

Ananda Groag

Speakers

• Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director General, DG MOVE, European Commission
• Marshall Poulton, Head of Transport Strategy, Glasgow City Council
• Angela Hultberg, Head of Sustainable Mobility, Ingka Group I IKEA
• Maik Stephan, Head of Business Portfolio Management & Transformation, Volkswagen AG

Satellite Symposium: Sustainable Traffic Management

How digital transformation in transport and logistics helps to improve air quality.

In May 2018, the European Court of Justice initiated legal actions against five member states, including Germany, for failing to meet the agreed air quality limits. Since then, the Federal Government of Germany launched many support actions and regional projects to reduce air pollution in the most affected German cities. Thus, the digital transformation of traffic systems towards Intelligent Transport Systems (I.T.S.) moved to the center of the political awareness. This is because today’s traffic management must comply with air quality regulations and socio-economic mobility needs at the same time. Thus, sustainability merges with traffic management and becomes sustainable traffic management.

Mobile telecommunication and ICT are important building blocks for sustainable mobility.

ICT solutions should not be limited to purely technical enablers because they also help complex institutional stakeholder groups to share information and to manage decision support. Over the last years, cloud based IOT and telematics platforms proved to successfully distribute sensitive data among decision makers. These platforms are nowadays mature. Connected mobility services heavily rely on their underlying ICT infrastructure, especially whenever payment and data privacy are involved. Air quality regulations increase the complexity for mobility services by introducing e.g. temporarily access restrictions for the most polluting vehicles.

Solutions for sustainable traffic management are data-driven.

T-Systems International GmbH, 100% affiliate of Deutsche Telekom, has long-term experience in setting up innovative ICT infrastructures to implement innovative and sustainable traffic management. T-Systems’ portfolio includes GPS-GSM based Toll Collection, development and global operations of Connected Vehicle Backends including dynamic navigation and real-time traffic information as well as the use of floating car data technology for decision support.

Low Carbon Mobility Management has proven CO2 reductions between 4% and 15%.

With these experiences, T-Systems developed a monitoring tool for fuel consumption and carbon footprint helping logistics and traffic managers to better understand where to cut emissions in short- and long-term. Such “Low Carbon Mobility Management” (LCMM) based on GPS-GSM smartphone technology was implemented by T-Systems, ERTICO and other partners in several European projects. After evaluating more than 1 million kilometers of truck trips, the solution has proven carbon reductions between 4% and 15%. In the pioneering Horizon 2020 project AEOLIX, LCMM was rolled out European-wide and passed all reviews before being published as ISO-Standard IS23795-1 Ed.1 recently.

Given the importance of carbon footprint mitigation in transport, LCMM and the corresponding data sets collected by smartphones will be implemented as core element into the T-Systems solution suite targeted to support European cities to comply with legally binding air quality regulations by introducing sustainable traffic management systems.

Speakers:

Joachim Klink and Ralf Willenbrock, T-Systems                   

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Mobility Network Management with interactive traffic management and MaaS

Vision

The task of traffic management has predominantly been limited to re-routing of traditional car traffic, but cities are increasingly developing multimodal transport systems and services. As a result, better information and re-routing functionalities for all transport modes and users are required if cities wish to see their mobility networks balanced and optimised. This session will explore the approach of future mobility management, which is integrating the concepts of Interactive Traffic Management and Mobility as a Service, respectively known as TM 2.0 and MaaS into a fully interactive and collaborative Network Mobility Management System. In this orchestration of mobility, mobility modes are not dealt separately as such. The key element is the travel and not the ‘travel by car’, ’travel by autonomous shuttle’ or ‘travel by bike’. There is simply a ‘traveller’. The concepts of TM 2.0 and MaaS combined, provide a solution.

Organiser

Carmela Canonico , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki, ERTICO –ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

1. Pedro Barradas, Armis, Portugal
2. Silvia Magnalardo, PlusService, Italy
3. Dr. Laura Coconea , Swarco, Italy
4. Dr. Isaak Yperman, Be Mobile, Belgium

Transforming vehicles and transport systems with 5G and AI

Vision

Automotive industry is undergoing digital transformation where 5G will be the connectivity fabric and the emergence of a supporting smart transportation system. At the intersection of this mobility revolution lie 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which represent the enablers for tomorrow’s more connected, intelligent transportation system. If the engine is the heart of the vehicle, then artificial intelligence (AI) is its brain, processing and analyzing the surrounding environment. AI is the underlying tool to provide capabilities like in-car virtual assistance, natural voice control, language understanding and adaptive human machine interfaces to make these experiences happen. The highest AI requirements relate to the ultimate goal of reaching autonomy levels L4 and L5. In this session, experts will discuss how the combination of AI and 5G connectivity will play a key role in not only for getting A to B but for the transformation of the entire transportation sector.

Organiser

Ralf Weber , Qualcomm, Germany

Moderator

Nikolaos Tsampieris, ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Dino Flore , Qualcomm, Spain
• Johannes Springer, T-Systems, Germany
• Markus Dillinger, Huawei, Germany
• Peter Stuckmann, European Commission, DG CNECT, Belgium

Accelerating cycling uptake through ITS in smart cities

Tranversal

Cycling and new technologies such as e-bikes, shared bikes and cargo bikes have been star performers in the recovery from the COVID pandemic and identified as key tool in the greening of urban mobility. Over €1 billion has already been pledged for new cycling measures in Europe since March.

However this session is about more than cycling growth. It is a case study and an inspiration for ITS as a catalyst for city change. It brings together leaders who are using ITS tools to remodel the physical space in the city for more and safer cycling. It demonstrates that the cycling sector is using ITS as a basis for a new collaborative approach to innovation, building new business models with partners such as multi-modal transport operations, ITS partners, financial services and governments. And at a physical level the tools and data created are allowing cities to remodel themselves at the human scale.

Organiser

Kevin Mayne , Cycling Industries Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Kevin Mayne , Cycling Industries Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Jamie Cudden , Dublin City Council, Ireland
• Ronald Jorna , Mobycon, The Netherlands 
• Raymond Gense, Director of Future Technologies, PON, the Netherlands
• Nikolaus Stieldorf, SWARCO, Germany

Electro-micro-mobility

Vision

Sales of electric vehicles have been on the rise in recent years, with a particular uptick during 2020, while micromobility, which comprises electric bikes and scooters as well as cycling, has increased in popularity this year, as an attractive alternative to the car or busy public transport services in the light of  COVID-19.

A seamless electric charging experience is key to the development of light electric modes. For this to become the preferred short-distance mode for more people, users need to be confident that they can easily locate and book charging stations, as well as having easy and immediate access to shared micromobility vehicles in urban centres and less densely populated areas (where there are fewer alternative transport options). Sharing information in real-time on the what-where-how of these green and micro vehicles is crucial for both the users and the mobility suppliers. It is also important for traffic management and city planning, as well as for transport integration, where Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) can be a one-stop-shop for information and payment for different services including electromicromobility. Technology solutions should reflect business models behind the electric and micro mobility offerings. Stakeholders such as energy providers, charging operators, fleet operators and mobility providers are cooperating to materialise the vision for the clean, integrated micromobility that cities and users need.

Speakers at the Session will examine the availability of business models and standards, the issues of regulation and integration, as well as political plans for cities and the industry to continue on the path of electromicromobility.

Organiser

Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki , ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Andrew Winder, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium 

Speakers

• Villy Portouli, ICCS, Greece
• Orestis Trasanidis, City of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Bhaskar Deol, eDRV, The Netherlands
• Meyseng Se Tchao, DEKRA, Germany

Making way for the new revolution in mobility

As mobility evolves, setting ambitious, yet still achievable targets is vital to the success of the entire mobility system. Mobility professionals often state that the aim of mobility services is to satisfy the needs of citizens, users and cities. Setting a vision that is shared and that insists all stakeholders cooperate and deliver together ensures that all mobility players are aligned. Enhanced and new connectivity technologies are already expected to satisfy user demand for efficient and smart mobility. Connected Cooperative Automated Mobility (CCAM) is being supported by both private and the public mobility stakeholders as the result of a fourth industrial revolution. At the same time, green and multimodal schemes are empowering mobility and offering seamless travel for both goods and people. Micromobility, having gained ground within urban areas is also claiming its place in MaaS schemes. Based on these developments, the new Mobility paradigm appears to be inclusive and cooperative in terms of technology and in terms of governance. The panellists of this High Level Session have accepted the challenge to discuss the vision that is appearing as a result of thesedevelopments. They will consider the mobility revolution that is changing the parameters of our thinking towards the creation of a resilient, new, green and visionary mobility landscape.

Moderator

Jacob Bangsgaard, CEO, ERTICO - ITS Europe

Speakers

• Eddy Hartog, Head of Unit Smart Mobility and Living, DG CONNECT, European Commission
• Joanne Kubba, Senior Director EMEA Public Policy, Uber
• Barry van Leuven, Managing Director, Pionira
• Anne Friedrich, Deputy Director Marketing & Communications in charge of Public Affairs, AKKA Technologies

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An international citizens’ dialogue on driverless mobility

Transversal

Driverless mobility is announced as a technological revolution, but the dialogue related to the requirements and impacts for its deployment is not discussed with the main future users and affected stakeholders, the citizens. Creating the frame and conditions for the dialogue is essential to build trust between all stakeholders, including the citizens. Missions Publiques and its partners launched an International Citizens’ Dialogue, that involved 24 cities so far, in Europe, North America and Asia. This session will discuss the key learning of the 24 first citizens’ dialogue and the experience of the dialogue organisers from the different regions and participants. City and public authority representatives as decision and policy makers will then exchange about how they can use the results to develop or update the roadmaps for Automated Driving.: What did the dialogue reveal on the citizens’ hopes and concerns regarding the future mobility? What are the regional specificities? How do the international private and public decision makers intend to integrate the citizens’ views in their mobility and smart city strategies?

Organisers

Yves Mathieu, Missions Publiques, France

Stephane Dreher , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Stephane Dreher , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Yves Mathieu, Missions Publiques, France
• Scheherazade Zekri , Keolis, France
• Natalie Rodriguez, Hamburger Hochbahn AG, Germany
• Isabelle Vandoorne, European Commission, DG MOVE, Belgium

Making MaaS a reality

Transversal

Mobility as a Service has been a key topic of discussion at ITS Congresses for several years now, but the question remains: how can we foster and speed up in turning the idea into a reality? And above all, how to secure, that this reality has a positive impact on the society and business perspectives across Europe in order to support the creation of new and resilient mobility services that are less depended on the personal car usage. The Network of National ITS Associations across Europe will host a focused session about “Bringing MaaS for Real” at the Virtual ITS European Congress 2020 to further examine key actions and frameworks. The session will discuss how the concept has grown from theory towards reality, what more needs to be done and how solutions may vary depending whether the service area is a city or rural.

Our speakers include representatives from the following countries with their specific expertise:

• Germany: MaaS as part of an overall ITS strategy of the City of Hamburg
• Finland: the MaaS “Leverage layer”, Ecosystem & Transport Code; Nordic collaboration to enable cross-border roaming of services
• Austria: MaaS – a Decentralised Framework
• Switzerland: national MaaS implementation

Organiser

Network of National ITS Associations

Moderator

Paul Hutton , ITS United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Speakers

• Laura Eiro, ITS Finland, Finland
• Steve Schneider ITS mobility GmbH, Germany
• Martin Russ, ITS Austria, Austria
• Andreas Kronawitter, ITS Switzerland, Switzerland

Meeting mobility challenges with Mobility on demand services

Transversal

The concept of automated, shared, on-demand and sustainable are often competing but they should, in reality be complementary. Real city mobility issues and needs of different user groups must be the basis and address concept definitions, and societal impact. In this session, we are discussing these issues with cities in the north and south of Europe (Hamburg and Trikala), representative of the global mobility leader, Siemens and finding out more about ERTICO’s own initiative City Moonshot, a global survey on the most important topics in the world of mobility. Is Mobility on Demand (US), or Mobility as a Service (Europe) the solution to all mobility issues and challenges?

Organiser

Vladimir Vorotovic, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Moderator

Vladimir Vorotovic, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium

Speakers

• Sascha Westermann , Hamburger Hochbahn, Germany
• Filippo Logi, Siemens, Germany
• Odisseas Raptis, e-Trikala, Greece
• Zeljko Jeftic , ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium

EU urban mobility, what’s next?

Transversal

Mobility is one of the main challenges for EU climate-neutral cities to allow citizens to move and live in clean and healthy cities. To change mobility, cities have to further support smart urban logistics solutions, cleaner public fleets, shared / public / active modes of mobility, manage mobility using the power of digitalisation, innovate and test new mobility concepts and services, and more generally rethink urban space. The EU urban mobility package is currently being evaluated to examine whether the framework is fit for purpose and delivers as intended. What’s next? The purpose of the session is to discuss what the European Commission should consider for the future.

Organiser

Isabelle Vandoorne , European Commission, DG MOVE, Belgium

Moderator

Isabelle Vandoorne , European Commission, DG MOVE, Belgium

Speakers

• Martin Russ , ITS Austria, Austria
• Siegfried Rupprecht , Rupprecht Consult, Germany
• Stephanie Leonard, TomTom, Belgium
• Anne-Marie Jean, Eurometropolis of Strasbourg, France