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EasyWay at the European Parliament

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EasyWay Annual Forum 2011

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EasyWay 2011 results

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EasyWay Deployment Guidlines 2012

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EasyWay ITS Deployment Road Map

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EasyWay launches Awards 2012

DATEX II User Forum

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Transport XXL Workshop

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Selected EasyWay Projects

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EasyWay Special Interest Session at

the Vienna ITS World Congress

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Upcoming Workshops

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EasyWay at the European Parliament On 24 January 2012, the European Parliament in Brussels hosted the meeting “EasyWay: mak-ing road mobility safer, greener and more effi-cient for the European citizen”

The event was organised by the EasyWay Programme with the sponsorship and collaboration of the Honourable Antonio Cancian of the PPE party and member of the TRAN (Transport and Tourism) parliamentary committee.

The meeting, which kicked-off at the end of the first session of the TRAN committee in 2012, saw the participation of numerous European parliamentarians, including the Hon. Inès Ayala Sender, member of the TRAN committee and co-supervisor, together with the Hon. Riquet of the Connecting Europe Facility EC initiative; the Hon. Anne Jensen, member of the BUDG - Budget committee and supervisor of the recommendation to adopt the ITS Directive

in July 2010; the Hon. Giommaria Uggias, member of the TRAN committee; the Hon. Georgios Koumoutsakos, member of the TRAN committee and Supervisor appointed for the regulatory pro-posal relating to a revision of EC policy of TEN-T; the Hon. Carlo Fidanza, member of the TRAN committee; the Hon. Theodoros Skylakakis, member of the BUDG – Budget committee; the Hon. Othmar Karas, member of the ECON – Economic and Financial Af-fairs committee; the Hon. Giancarlo Scottà, member of the AGRI – Agriculture committee; and the Hon. Roberta Angelilli, Vice Presi-dent of the European Parliament. • • •

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The European Commission was represented by Fo-tis Karamitsos, Director of the Directorate C “Sus-tainable and Innovative Mobility” of DG MOVE, who intervened during the first session of the event after the presentation given by the EasyWay Pro-gramme chairman for 2012, Andreas Arnaoutis. The EC TEN-T Agency was also represented by Cris-topher North, Director of the “Air, internal naviga-tion, Transport, Logistics, Innovation and Co-mo-dality” unit, who illustrated the activities and role played the agency with regard to ITS in general and, more specifically, with regard to management of the EasyWay Programme. Also, significantly, mention must be made of the attendance and in-terventions of ASECAP President Klaus Schierhackl and CEDR President Skirmantas Skrinska, whose presence demonstrated the cooperation that ex-ists between the EasyWay Programme and the two European Associations representing tolled motorway concessionaire companies (ASECAP) and the Euro-pean Public Administrations responsible for manag-ing non-tolled roads (CEDR). At the opening of the meeting the Hon. Antonio Cancian acknowledged the need to make more intelligent use of existing infrastructure and, in order to do so, the need to optimise the use of different modes of transporta-tion within the scope of a co-modal European view. The Hon. Cancian added: “It is my opinion that the EasyWay Programme, but more in general the appli-

cation of ITS to the road sector, addresses the need for a more intelligent use of existing infrastructure: available applications and ongoing tests can bring important benefits from an environmental point of view, reduce traffic congestion and encourage a bet-ter use of the infrastructure.”

The meeting held on 24th January 2012 certainly proved to be an important occasion to promote, within an important European gathering, the results and objectives of the EasyWay Programme. The oc-casion also served to illustrate the contents of the EasyWay Programme and to present to the Europe-an Parliament the role played by EasyWay partners in the delivery of services in the field of ITS for the ben-efit of road users . After having achieved further im-portant steps within EasyWay, a similar event could be organized in the future.

4th EasyWay Annual Forum in Rome (9-11 November 2011)EasyWay community, it attracted various stakehol-ders, having specific strategic sessions on coopera-tion and the future ITS challenges: Europe has come together in Rome, in order share views on the har-monised deployment of ITS services and to discuss the future of road transportation and (multimodal) mobility. The Rome Forum gathered representatives from the EU Institutions and from the road transpor-tation sector in Europe who together analyzed the results achieved so far by the EasyWay Programme and, furthermore, served to elaborate and further develop future strategies in the ITS field, primarily in the light of the ITS Directive which will soon be transposed into national legislation by EU Member States. Of particular interest was the video message from the Transport Commissioner and Vice-President of the European Commission Mr Siim Kallas.

The message was projected during the opening ses-sion of the Conference and that will be also available on the EasyWay program’s website.The Commissio-ner stated that one of the primary objectives of Eu-ropean transport policy is to achieve an integrated transport system which underpins EU-wide economic progress and competitiveness and that, at the same time, this system should provide high quality mobility services which are also resource-efficient. Mr Kallas added that transport has to be safe and efficient - smart, predictable and clean. While the TEN-T net-work forms the backbone of our European transport infrastructure, Intelligent Transport Systems are the keys to better interconnection of individual modes of travel to the improved use of existing capacities and provision of user-oriented services.


Mr Kallas also acknowledged the need to continue supporting research and development and address the innovation dimension for new transport techno-logies, covering the full development cycle to market take-up and deployment, and that, more than ever, we need an effective roll-out of interoperable and in-tegrated real-time travel information, traffic manage-ment and freight and logistics services taking place across Europe.Mr Kallas stated that this will enable the most appro-priate transport modes – including public transport – to be selected at any time and for any operation. In addition, deploying novel transport technologies and smart services will further reduce road fatali-ties, improve operational excellence and contribute to fuel efficiency and an increasingly lower impact on the environment. In this framework, the Com-missioner said, the EasyWay programme comes into the picture by addressing the concerted deploy-ment of interoperable services and smart solutions. The Commissioner continued: “….EasyWay is unique - it provides a large-scale instrument for the coordi-nated deployment of ITS-for-Roads driven by Mem-ber States. It builds on sound common principles for deployment and strong governance and contributes effectively to shaping the transport system that we have in mind for the future. The project‘s visibility is enhanced due to the fact that it concentrates on a set of identified Core European ITS Services. You, experts and practitioners, actively working together, are the key drivers for realizing the potential of ITS and rolling out the services that give added value to our society, businesses and citizens. You ensure that all the inte-rested parties get involved and that all relevant issues and concerns are properly addressed. You also make sure that the project demonstrates its added value by establishing effective partnerships and putting all the pieces together. It is therefore necessary, collectively, to build on all the good achievements of the past and expand deployment beyond the road system and en-courage interfaces with complementary

transport modes and networks. This will require further coordination and investment. With the Connecting Europe Facility initiative and the revised TEN-T Guide-lines, we should be ready to continue supporting the deployment of ITS in Europe - across boundaries, net-works, operators and the different transport modes. In parallel, the Commission will put ITS into practice in its own legislative work, to allow more integration of increasingly intelligent vehicles, smart services and robust infrastructure networks....“Commissioner Kallas concluded his video speech by saying: ....“Together with my colleagues in the Com-mission, we look forward to taking stock of the tangi-ble achievements which the EasyWay programme has made so far and to our renewed cooperation. I thank you for your commitment and wish you fruitful and lively exchanges, along with an excellent learning ex-perience on ITS deployment. This is still a challenging environment. We rely on you!”

EasyWay 2011 resultsIn 2011, EasyWay partners from more than 25 Euro-pean countries have deployed or improved:

• 230,000 km of the Trans European Road Network with Traveller Information Services (including pre-trip and on-trip information)• 15,000 km with Traffic Management Services for counteracting adverse traffic conditions (including dy-namic speed, lane and access control)• 150 parking areas for HGV transport (including de-dicated information)• 5,000 monitoring systems (including road, traffic and weather monitoring)• 700 Traffic Centres (including DATEX connections for communication)

These outstanding achievements have led EasyWay partners to meet the overall objectives and milesto-nes that were defined in 2010 before Europe was struck by one of its strongest economical crises. This has been made possible by the strong support of the European Commission and the commitment of all Ea-syWay partners to harmonised ITS deployment. .The EasyWay partners invested around 235m€ (inclu-ding 47m€ of financial support from the EC) in 2011. In terms of global benefits for European Road Users, evaluation shows that deployments carried out within the frame of EasyWay 2 contribute to annual savings of approximately 400m€ by reducing congestion as well as the reduction of about 250 fatalities every year on the Trans European Road Network.

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The EasyWay Deploy-ment Guidelines 2012 The main goal of EasyWay is the improvement of the situation on the road regarding safety, efficiency and environment by means of ITS, and the main approach to achieve this is the use of seamless, continuous and interoperable ITS services for European road users and hauliers. This implies that no geographical, ad-ministrative or language barriers prevent users from using a service. The long-term vision is that the road user knows where to expect which ITS services in ac-cordance with the relevant operating environment that she/he encounters – all over Europe.The EasyWay programme partners have therefore de-veloped the concept of ITS Core Services and a com-prehensive set of guidelines (Deployment Guidelines – DGs) that aim to ensure service harmonization in terms of the perception of the service by the road user, but also regarding the interoperability of services (via external interfaces). It is important to understand that this initiative is not about standardisation of sys-tem internals. The guidelines contain a pan-European understanding of long and mid-term goals and the benefits of ITS-Services, as well as requirements re-garding the functional structure of ITS Services, their organization and their common Look & Feel.The guidelines also include criteria for assessing the quality of ITS Services from a road user’s perspective aiming at allocating appropriate Level of Service based on a commonly agreed classification of the European road network TERN (Operating Environments).Interoperability is fostered by providing common data profiles (DATEX II) and the provision of appropriate technical requirements. The process of generating the

DG2012 version of the EasyWay Deployment Guide-lines for operational use in EasyWay from 2013 on-wards is now approaching a crucial phase.The first draft set of the documents was delivered ac-cording to schedule at the end of 2011 and was then circulated for formal Member State consultation and external Stakeholder comments by 30th April 2012.The Member States have provided a substantial num-ber of comments that now have to be considered and consolidated in order to make the best possible amendments and produce Deployment Guidelines of the highest possible quality which can be expected to find support and be adopted by the Member States in their November 2012 Supervisory Programme Board Meeting.The timeline for the process of finalising the guide-lines is outlined as follows. This plan has now been detailed and the required meetings and working ses-sions have been fixed. This includes a working session with EasyWay partners on 24/25 July where all pen-ding comments which remain to be solved by that time shall be discussed and, it is hoped, a good, har-monised solution supported by all EasyWay Member States can be found.The communication between the EasyWay authoring teams – each Guideline is led by a Deployment Gui-deline Coordinator – and the commenting Member States makes use of a common Logfile that integrates all comments received within the commenting peri-od. The template used to collect this feedback allo-wed Members States to amend requirements, modify minimum and optimum level of service criteria per operating environment, and also provided scope for more general comments. The templates – as well as the guidelines – were all available via the EasyWay website and although the Formal Consultation was limited to Member States, external stakeholders were also invited to provide comments.

Creating these gui-delines was a huge challenge for the Ea-syWay experts and using them from 2013 as a common basis for EW implementati-on is a huge step to-wards seamless and continuous services which will go a long way towards fulfilling EasyWay’s unique po-tential as a platform for harmonised ITS de-ployment in Europe!


Through EasyWay, national ministries and road au-thorities, road operators and partners from the pri-vate and public sectors of almost all EU Member Sta-tes and bordering countries (totaling 150 different organizations) cooperate with the aim of alleviating road transport problems (e.g. concerning mobility, road safety and environmental impact) through co-ordinated the deployment of European ITS services for the users of the European road network.

The provision of European ITS services for European road users requires two types of coordination:

• The services need to be harmonized to provide a minimum level of common content and functionality and a “common look and feel” in user interfaces• The deployments need to be synchronised to make sure that the user receives the services that are ex-pected in a certain environment and situation

The elements of the ITS Deployment Road Map pro-cess provides these two elements: harmonization and synchronization. However, a European ITS De-ployment Road Map that adopted by European road operators has an additional important role to play.

It will provide stakeholders in European ITS with information on current plans, priorities and visions ahead, which will support them in their business and strategic planning.

Hence the purpose of the EasyWay ITS Deployment Road Map process is threefold:

a) It provides the guidelines required to ensure har-monized deploymentb) It provides a reference for the Member States / EasyWay partners in their deployment planning as it defines agreed priorities on the European levelc) It communicates EasyWay priorities to the outside world, thus supporting external development

The Road Map process will be reported through the following interlinked documents which all are im-portant deliverables from EasyWay 2:

1. Deployment Guidelines for Core European ITS Services2. Classification of the EasyWay road network into Operating Environments3. EasyWay Vision and Priorities for the ITS Deploy-ment Road Map

Two methods to collect information for the third de-liverable - EasyWay Vision and Priorities for the ITS Deployment Road Map – are a survey and a number of workshops targeting different groups.

EasyWay ITS Deployment Road Map

EasyWay ITS Deployment Road Map Survey

EasyWay has developed a survey for the European ITS community that is carried out in order to genera-te complementary background information for the Road Map. Around 50 questionnaires have been re-ceived from all over Europe. Feedback received will be analysed by the Road Map Task Force and integ-rated into the Road Map. EasyWay ITS Deployment Road Map Workshop

The EasyWay Technical Coordination Team held a workshop on European ITS Services on 28th March in Brussels. The workshop focused on development towards 2020, following the evolution of needs and requirements expressed by road users and society

as a whole. The workshop included 33 participants from several organizations including European Com-mission, Euralia, IRF, TISA, ASECAP, IRU, T&E and PO-LIS. Different stakeholders presented their views on the driving forces and barriers to ITS services deploy-ment as well as their expectations on European road operators. Scenario-driven breakout sessions were also held as part of the same workshop. The groups discussed ITS service composition, road operators’ roles and priorities in the transport system based on two scenarios, namely: “We are facing serous con-gestion on the TEN-T Road Network” and “The road operators are not in control of service provision to road users”. The outcomes of the workshop will be integrated into the EasyWay ITS Deployment Road Map. A second Road Map workshop will be held in Brussels 12th of June.

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The CENTRICO EasyWay Forum Management Team has prepared details for this year’s Annual Fo-rum which are available on the EasyWay Website at http://www.easyway-its.eu/events/2012- London.Delegates can register and details are given on how to propose a paper and apply for an Award for an EasyWay project. The awards will be presented at a special session during the morning of the 22nd November. Our Forum will be held at Institution of Engineering and Technology in central London from the 20th– 22nd November immediately following the EasyWay Supervisory Programme Board meeting which will be held during the morning of the 20th November. We look forward to welcoming all parti-cipants and stakeholders in the EasyWay programme for what promises to be an interesting time spent together in a stimulating environment in an exciting city. Our themes for this year present the opportuni-ty for all delegates to consider and learn about the achievements of EasyWay in deploying ITS services across Europe as well as to gain more in depth un-derstanding of the work of the EasyWay Expert Stu-dy Groups and to share knowledge around topical subjects.We wish to make the Forum of direct interest to Members States, National Road Authorities, the EU and stakeholders whilst at the same time highligh-

ting how the deployment of ITS within nation states and across borders can decrease congestion, impro-ve safety and reduce the environmental impact of transport – all EasyWay objectives.Furthermore, to make the Forum even more topi-cal we wish to touch on how ITS saves money and delivers greater transport efficiency to support our individual and European economies.By attending you will have many opportunities to learn about the application of ITS and ITS technolo-gies in real life through practical applications presen-ted by road authorities from throughout Europe as well as gaining a greater understanding of how ITS supports the effective management of the network. You will be able to learn about how London has met the transport challenges of hosting the Olympic Games, update yourself in national and European policy perspectives for ITS, learn how the Member States are starting to address the challenges of the ITS Directive as well as learning more about the De-ployment Guidelines. It’s time to Sign Up!Registration is open right up to the event. The earlier you book, the more you will save, so please register early. You will find reasons to attend highlighted on the website. We look forward to seeing you in Lon-don. It’s Time for ITS!



EasyWay launches Awards 2012

EasyWay has seen many exciting achievements over the past 3 years. There have been some excellent examples of Member States working to deploy new ITS services and systems that make a real difference despite our challenging economic circumstances. Experts from across Europe have come together to share best practice and develop Guidelines. EasyWay has being responding to the changing technical and institutional environment in the knowledge that ITS services can improve congestion, reduce environ-mental impact and reduce accidents. There has been a good deal of hard work at every level.The Awards acknowledge and recognise what Easy-Way has achieved and our award categories reflect the objectives of EasyWay. All Member States partici-pating in EasyWay are eligible to submit candidates.

The categories for 2012 are as follows:

A. Best example of cross-border cooperation B. Best example of knowledge sharing C. Most notable impact on EW objectives for a small and simple deployment costing up to 0 – 250k D. Most notable impact on EW objectives for a medium size deployment costing between 250k – 3mE. Most notable impact on EW objectives for a larger deployment costing upwards of 3m

STREETWISE are organising and managing this year’s ceremony which held at the Annual Forum 2012 in London on Thursday 22 November, prior to the An-nual Forum closing session.

DATEX II User Forum

The DATEX II User Forum was held in Stockholm on 20th and 21st March 2012 and was a huge success, not least regarding two particular aspects:

• Many industry and external stakeholder atten-dants, even outnumbering the EasyWay programme members, some of whom were particularly high pro-file attendees (e.g. from INRIX, TomTom and BMW)

• A large number of deployment reports telling the success story of DATEX II roll-out all over Scandinavia (Finland, Norway and Sweden), in the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and Spain.

A new feature of improved user support was a hands-on workshop on DATEX II profiling and exten-sions that was very well received (except maybe for the overcrowded room!). The workshop will be tur-ned into an on-line webinar during summer 2012.The liaison with Cooperative Systems (in cooperati-on with ESG6) was widely discussed and the topic of many presentations, indicating a need for intensi-fied discussion on standardisation issues and about the relationship between the various standardisation working groups, committees and Standard Defining Organisations (in particular CEN and ETSI).

The fruitful cooperation with TISA was also addressed and the common work on improved DATEX- to-TPEG mapping is continued, aiming for a demonstration at the ITS World Congress in Vienna in October. It was also encouraging that, for the first time, CEDR Task 14 members attended the DATEX Forum in or-der to continue the considerations about the future organisation of DATEX.

The ESG5 Technical Group used the Forum as a plat-form to announce the forthcoming DATEX II v2.1 minor release by the end of May, which is expected to contain an approved extension on parking that is supposed to support urban parking facilities as well as Intelligent Truck Parking on trunk roads.

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Transport XXL WorkshopOn Thursday, March 8th 2012 the workshop on “Abnormal Transports in Europe - Services for Road Authori-ty and Transport Industry” took place in Hamburg. The combined Viking A3 and ESG3 event, which was or-ganised by the Ministry of Science, Economic affairs and Transport of Land Schleswig-Holstein, offered scope for an interested audience. There were not only informative lectures, but also the opportunity to discuss problems with dedicated experts from industry and the public sector. Guests from nine European countries were welcomed at the workshop.Nils Heine (CPL) addressed the welcoming speech on behalf of Kurt Richter from the Ministry of Science, Economic affairs and Transport of Land Schleswig-Holstein to all participants. Arne Lindeberg (EasyWay TCT Chair; Swedish Transport Administration) subsequently provided an overview of the deployment of harmo-nized ITS services in Europe.The deployment guideline on “Access to Abnormal Goods Transport Regulations” (http://www.easyway-its.eu/deployment-guidelines/) was also presented as transportxxl.eu were introduced by Nils Heine at the be-ginning of the workshop. A special highlight of his presentation was the integration of two new countries as the audience witnessed the introduction of Spain and France as two new members to the platform. After-wards, representatives from these two countries and Germany illustrated the functionality of their national ITS services for abnormal road transports (Dr. Marta Pla-Castells, University of Valéncia; DGT, for Spain (Traza), Jean-Philippe Méchin, Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea France (TNET) and Marcus Sütterlin for Germany (VEMAGS)).An example of good work in cross border transport was given by Marcus Sütterlin who presented the project x-trans.eu, which is a cooperative initiative between Bavaria (Germany) and Austria. Next was Kristina Hunke (Hochschule Wismar) who presented the project Baltic Oversize and talked about the experiences with the Oversize Transportation Information Network (OTIN) which offers information on Mecklenburg-West Pome-rania (Germany), Sweden, Lithuania and Poland.The presentation of Moritz Dickmann (Nöpel GmbH Schwertransporte) offered hauliers point of view of the process of operating abnormal transports. Additionally Volker Sieben (Vestas) gave an interesting speech from the perspective of a manufacturer of wind turbine generator systems. Both Mr Dickmann and Mr Sie-ben have insight into the process of applying permits. They demonstrated that the applicants’ requirements implicitly have to be considered and be included in the application process.At the end of the workshop there was an inspiring discussion which was the climax of a successful workshop on “Abnormal Transports in Europe - Services for Road Authority and Transport Industry”.The workshop provided an excellent opportunity for the participants to get in touch with each other and created a basis for seminal cooperation. Finally, the participants agreed to meet again in about a year and evaluate the development of old and new cooperation agreements.The presentations can be requested from Nils Heine ([email protected]).


Selected EasyWay Projects

1. Development of an iPhone, iPad and Android Application (APP A22)

Today we are witnessing a radical change in me-dia, as we have gone from mobile devices that allow the exchange of phone calls and text mes-sages to an advanced system that allows cons-tant connection to the Internet. This new com-munication channel is incredibly powerful when connected to a series of sensors (GPS, accelero-meter and so on).

In this way you can obtain information about who is viewing the information and filter con-tent according to his/her interest. The Apple devices iPhone and iPad are devices that allow such features. The A22 (Autostrada del Brennero S.p.A., Italy) decided to start with these products without forgetting that there are on the market a variety of alternative devices (Android, Symbi-an, etc.). For this reason the system studied and developed provides a “multi-platform“ that will also be used in 2012 for Android devices. On Oc-tober 27th, 2012 this application was awarded best application of the year at the “Interactive Key Award” in Milan.

Project description

The project includes the development of an ap-plication for the iPhone OS operating system and a content management system dedicated to the mobile environment of the Brenner motorway.The application uses the contents provided by the management system that retrieves, updates and processes all that is necessary for the func-tioning of the application. It is created with Microsoft.Net and Microsoft SQL technology. The system inter-faces with the outside world by RSS, WebServices and API and becomes a central part of the distribution of services for mobile users on different platforms. This choice, more expensive initially, then allows better management of the variety of today‘s and future devices. Relying on a multi-platform allows, at little cost, the addition of applications and interfaces to the contents. The Brenner motorway is now adding Android applications (project’s end: April 2012). The application derived will be faster to use and will be able to run on devices with limited computing resources. The platform also allows the monitoring and revision of contents coming from outside.

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2. Success of the M42 managed motorway in Birmingham

Managed Motorways (MM, formerly known as Acti-ve Traffic Management) was introduced by the High-ways Agency (HA) on both carriageways of the M42, East of Birmingham.The key aspects of MM on the M42 are:• the use of variable mandatory speed limits;• the dynamic use of the hard shoulder during periods of congestion;• the provision of dedicated Emergency Refuge Areas (ERA) for use when vehicles break down;• the installation of gantries with signals and Variable Message Signs (VMS).

The implementation of MM, in particular hard shoul-der running, represented a change in policy in terms of the operation of motorways in England. To deter-mine whether this has had a detrimental impact on road safety or not, MM operation has been monito-red throughout its early stages of implementation.Following the period prior to the implementation of MM, known as No-Variable Speed Limits (NOVSL), MM was introduced through two main operational regimes which are used to manage motorway traffic:

- Three Lane Variable Mandatory Speed Limits (3L-VMSL), which uses variable mandatory speed limit signs to maintain flow through heavily congested sections of the motorway. The activation and deac-tivation of the system are reliant on pre-identified flow and speed thresholds.

- Four Lane Variable Mandatory Speed Limits (4LVMSL), which uses variable mandatory speed li-mits, as well as the optional use of the hard shoul-der as a running lane, to manage the traffic on the motorway.

The hard shoulder can only operate as a running lane for traffic when the operators in the West Midlands Regional Control Centre are confident that the lane is free from obstructions and/or stationary vehicles.Once the check is complete, the hard shoulder is opened and a mandatory speed limit of 60mph or less is activated. The monitoring and evaluation pro-gramme was started back in 2002, some four years before the scheme commenced. The early years were spent collecting data on the M42 in order to be able to carry out a full assessment of ‘before and after’ conditions. The programme has since delivered a se-ries of reports. In March 2011, the HA published the definitive safety review of the M42 Managed Mo-torway J3A-7. The report provided a detailed analy-sis of accident data for the first three years of Hard Shoulder Running, through a comparison of ‘before’ and ‘after’ data, and helped to validate the decisions taken to progress Managed Motorways.A collaborative approach to monitoring of the M42 MM over the last nine years has paid dividends through reduced risk, continually reducing costs and a high degree of control over the programme. Now that the review has been completed, the HA have provided conclusive evidence of the derived bene-fits brought about by Managed Motorways, and have helped to guide the evolution of the Managed Motorways concept. This is borne out by the UK Government’s decision to roll-out further schemes across the country.

Operational Regime

Number of Months

Fatal Serious Slight TotalMonthly

Mean

NO-VSL 60 7 42 256 305 5,08

3L-VMSL 6 0 3 16 19 3,17

4L-VMSL 36 0 6 75 81 2,25


1110 EasyWay Special Interest Session at the Vienna ITS World CongressA Special Interest Session will be dedicated to EasyWay at the next ITS World Congress held in Vienna from October 22nd to 26th. EasyWay: the European platform to foster ITS implementation on the Trans-European Road NetworkThis session will address Policy and Strategy in the field of Intelligent Infrastructure. It will be moderated by Christer Karlsson, ITS Sweden, with the participation of the following speakers: • Andreas Arnaoutis, EasyWay Chairman, Greece• Fotis Karamitsos, Deputy Director General EC DG MOVE (invited), Belgium• Kick Steudle, AASHTO Executive Director (invited), USA • Stefan Strick, EasyWay Supervisory Programme Board Chairman, BAST (invited), Germany• Dean Herenda, EasyWay Future Task Force, Slovenia• Klaus Schierhackl ASECAP Chairman (invited), Austria• Michael Nilsen, IRU Executive Director (invited), Belgium

The discussion will focus on the Deployment Guidelines that have been elaborated with EasyWay, aiming to answer the following questions:

• Why did the EasyWay community elaborate these Deployment Guidelines?• What are the link between theses Deployment Guidelines and the ITS Directive?• What will be the next steps?

All these questions will be raised with partners in-volved within EasyWay, a representative of the EC and other stakeholders, including the point of view from USA regarding an ITS deployment project car-ried out at a federal level.

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Upcoming Workshops

In-vehicle platforms workshop in Frankfurt on July 17th 2012How to move with the times while mobile devices and onboard systems are evolving in fast motion? Which strategies do road operators have to apply in order to secure the control of their own networks while si-multaneously utilizing the new possibilities of communication and data collection in the smartest and most sustainable manner?The EasyWay Expert and Studies Group 6 - ICT Taskforce ”In-Vehicle Platforms and Road Operators“ aims to develop a common vision and to position road operators for the future traffic management. Over 15 traffic experts from all euro regions are compiling a practical guideline which will be discussed in workshops, com-bining their experience on innovative mobile technology in order to enable the Easyway members to stay ahead when it comes to research and implementation of a new generation of traffic management solutions. For further information please contact [email protected] or [email protected]

“Workshop on ITS Evaluation” in Copenhagen on November 8th 2012EasyWay VIKING will arrange a workshop on ITS Evaluation to be held in central Copenhagen. The overall aim is to show the participants some of the ITS results from EasyWay as well as to give a good insight into the EasyWay evaluation database, including the evaluation reporting guidelines and challenges in using these, etc. The workshop will also present some other sources on ITS results. EasyWay phase 2 will end in December 2012 and the workshop will also be an important opportunity to show what EasyWay has achieved when it comes to ITS evaluation, including concrete results. Furthermore, it will be an opportunity to discuss con-tinuation of the good work as well as what has been learned and a focus on areas for future development. The target group will be planners, project leaders for ITS deployment and practitioners more than high-level decision makers.


Documents

07 · ing non-tolled roads (CEDR). At the opening of the meeting the Hon. Antonio Cancian acknowledged the need to make more intelligent use of existing