CONNECT WP 2007-2009 final 24022009 - TRIMIS · 2007-2009 EasyWay 1. INTRODUCTION Background From the years 2004 to 2009, the EasyWay CONNECT project, together with other Euro-regional

EasyWay CONNECT Workplan Page 1 2007-2009

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CO-ORDINATION AND STIMULATION OF INNOVATIVE ITS ACTIVITIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (A EuroRegional Deployment Plan for Road ITS inside the EasyWay Project between Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia)

Project co-funded by the European Commission (DG TREN)

Document version: 0.4 Status: Final Document nature: Work Plan Dissemination level: EasyWay CONNECT Partners and EasyWay Secretariat Date of preparation: 24.02.2009


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Table of Content

1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 5

2. OVERALL EUROREGION ORGANISATION ..................................................................................... 8

2.1 PROJECT ORGANISATION AND PARTNERSHIP ................................................................................................ 8 2.2 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AND RESPONSIBILITIES .................................................................................. 8 2.3 ACTIVITIES AND SUB-ACTIVITIES................................................................................................................ 11

3. DEPLOYMENT ACTIVITIES.............................................................................................................. 13

3.1 ACTIVITY 1: TRAVELLER INFORMATION SERVICES ....................................................................................... 13 3.2 ACTIVITY 2: TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SERVICES........................................................................................... 35 3.3 ACTIVITY 3: FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS SERVICES......................................................................................... 72 3.4 ACTIVITY 4: EFFICIENT ICT INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................................................... 87

5. EUROPEAN STUDIES..................................................................................................................... 116

6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT (ACTIVITY 6) ...................................................................................... 117

6.2 EXPERT GROUPS: CROSS FERTILISATION ................................................................................................. 118 6.3 DISSEMINATION ...................................................................................................................................... 118 6.4 OVERVIEW OF BUDGET ...................................................................................................................... 119


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Table of Figures

Figure 1: The main International traffic flows crossing Europe in the EasyWay Euro-regions, with the

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Figure 2: Organisational structure of the EasyWay EuroRegion CONNECT.................................................... 9

Figure 3: Traffic Management plans in Slovak TERN ..................................................................................... 39

Figure 4: Areal presentation of Austrian TCU implementations ...................................................................... 44

Figure 5: Timeline of Austrian TCU implementations...................................................................................... 45

Figure 6: Contribution to European Studies from EasyWay Euro-Region CONNECT ................................. 116

Figure 7: Indicative Budget 07-09, EasyWay CONNECT ............................................................................. 119

Figure 8: Indicative Budget 07-09, Austria within EasyWay CONNECT....................................................... 119

Figure 9: Indicative Budget 07-09, Czech Republic within EasyWay CONNECT......................................... 120

Figure 10: Indicative Budget 07-09, Germany within EasyWay CONNECT ................................................. 120

Figure 11: Indicative Budget 07-09, Hungary within EasyWay CONNECT .................................................. 121

Figure 12: Indicative Budget 07-09, Italy within EasyWay CONNECT ......................................................... 121

Figure 13: Indicative Budget 07-09, Slovakia within EasyWay CONNECT .................................................. 122

Figure 14: Indicative Budget 07-09, Slovenia within EasyWay CONNECT .................................................. 122


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Abbreviations/ Glossary DVB Digital Video Broadcasting DVB-H Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld DVB-MHP Digital Video Broadcasting - Multimedia Home Platform

is an open middleware system standard designed by the DVB project for interactive digital television.

DMB Digital Multimedia Broadcasting EFC Electronic Fee Collection HGV Heavy Goods Vehicles JSDI Siehe prn5 GIS Geographic Information System P+R Park and Ride ITS Intelligent Transport Systems and Services TIS Traffic Information Services RDS Radio Data System RDS-TMC Radio Data System – Traffic Message Channel TPEG Transport Protocol Experts Group GST Global System for Telematics GNSS Global Navigation Satelite System OBU On-board unit ADAS Advanced Driver Assistance Systems VMS Variable Message Signs FCD Floating Car Data PRN Project Reference Number TMP Traffic Management Plans TCU Traffic Control Unit CCTV Closed Circuit Television TIC Traffic Information Centre TMC Traffic Management Centres TCC Traffic Control Centre DATEX Data Exchange XML Extensible Markup Language TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol EFC Electronic Fee Collection OBE On-board Equipment TMIS Traffic Management and Information System VoIP Voice over IP ICT Information and Communication Technologies LCS Lane Control System RSU Road Side Unit


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1. INTRODUCTION

Background

From the years 2004 to 2009, the EasyWay CONNECT project, together with other Euro-regional projects, achieved successful results in improving road safety, in implementing traffic information and management services, in installing advanced traffic and weather monitoring systems and in promoting new ICT and ITS technologies applications, which focus particularly on tackling traffic problems in Eastern parts of Austria and Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, as well as Slovenia.

The continuous actual and expected road traffic increase will continue, even if other transport modes are strongly fostered. As highlighted by the EasyWay document, “roads remain by far the most relevant mode for transport in Europe with international traffic and transport rising at a faster rate than national traffic and ITS is continuing to play an important role on mitigating the negative effects of the increasing role of road demand”.1 New elements of the EasyWay programme, like quantitative and measurable results towards objectives, integrated pan-European approach on network operations and a supporting EasyWay secretariat function, have removed doubts from policy and decision makers within the EC on the effectiveness of Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS) deployment.2

In June 2006, the White Paper mid term review document (“Keep Europe moving”) was issued and reasserted the objective of road safety and congestion reduction, plus the promotion of energy efficiency at EU level. In addition, the concept of co-modality was introduced where each mode has to play its own role. Important items at the heart of Europe’s renewed transport policy are innovation and technology and setting Intelligent Transport Systems.

For these reasons the EasyWay CONNECT project will continue in the next 2007-2013 EU Programme, with the objective of completing and improving the existing ITS infrastructures and applications, of identifying and implementing new available technologies, of researching and experimenting innovative tools and systems useful for road safety, and traffic management and for the co-modality needs.

European Traffic: the challenges and role of ITS on the European road network (EasyWay)

Improving safety and mobility on the European road network is critical to keep the European road network as a strong backbone for prosperous economic development of EU 27. Throughout the period 1995-2004, goods road transport and passenger road transport grew by 35% and 17% respectively3. Road has a share of 80% of transport in the European Union and forecasts indicate that this situation will not alter significantly in the mid-term future. The Mid-term review of the European Commission’s 2001 White Paper on Transport, confirms this “most likely 2000-2020 growth in demand” (road freight 55% and private cars 36% for the indicated period)3.

Roads remain by far the most relevant mode for transport in Europe with international traffic and transport rising at a faster rate than national traffic. ITS is continue to play an important role on mitigating the negative effects of the increasing role of road demand. The 2006 White Paper mid term review document (“Keep Europe moving”) was issued in June 2006.

1 In February 2006 the Chairs of the Euro Regional Projects introduced the “EasyWay Programme” for the deployment of Pan European Traffic Information Services and Traffic Management Services based on an efficient ICT network, within the period of 2007- 2013, supported by a new tailored organisation and management approach 2 “Improving Safety and Mobility by Intelligent Network Operations and Traveller Services on the European Road Network - “EasyWay”; A policy proposal for the Member States and the European Commission for a Multi Annual Indicative Programme 2007-2013”, February 2006 3 Mid-term review of EC’s 2001 Transport White Paper, page 7


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Some actions out of the White Paper Mid Term Review clearly illustrate the importance of ITS facing the European road challenges:

o The need for “road infrastructure to become intelligent by sending and receiving traffic road information to optimise road operation”4, where MIP I DATEX achievements and the network of Traffic Information Centres will be playing an important role.

o To foster cooperation between the infrastructure and the in-vehicle technologies through coordination of relevant stakeholders.

o To launch a “major programme to bring intelligent road transport systems to market and to prepare infrastructure for Co-operative Systems” as a main “Innovation” action of 20085, which will benefit from the foundation work achieved within MIP I.

o Developing an open architecture for Galileo ensuring a flexible development of future applications for all transport modes, which will include traffic information and management services serving European travellers.

o To enable co-modal transport solutions and to connect peripheral regions and outermost regions with the mainland.

o The promotion of energy efficiency at EU level and strive to lower CO2 emissions (1.1% of GDP) and reducing EU import dependency on fossil fuels, working as well towards the Kyoto targets; ITS can significantly reduce traffics´6 environmental burden by offering smooth flow, fewer hours of congestion and fewer kilometres travelled.

In the present work plan the EasyWay CONNECT area, covering the period January 2007 - December 2009, is proposed and focuses on the following domains of activities:

o Traffic Information Services

o Traffic Management Services

o Freight and logistics services

o Efficiency of ICT Infrastructure

and on the main European Studies identified in the EasyWay work programme. When available a general overview of objectives and plans till the year 2013 is also added.

Basic criteria in carrying out the planned activities will be the involvement of authorities and road/transport operators, the co-operation among the partners and with the other EuroRegions, the guidelines for standardization and homogenisation of systems and procedures, the goal of effective and well-timed results.

The role of ITS

As economic performance grows and mobility management presents an increasingly difficult challenge, public authorities and private entities alike seek new solutions to the problems faced on today's Trans-European Transport Network. As major infrastructure investment is becoming increasingly difficult due to financial, spatial and environmental issues. ITS - Intelligent Transport Systems and Services – is recognized as a useful tool to make the movement of people and goods more efficient and economic for all transport modes, working together with the transport policies reducing congestion, accidents and environmental risk.

European cooperation

Due to the numerous European participants involved in the traffic management and information services, a European approach is absolutely necessary to offer the European citizen a set of consistent and seamless road network services. That is why the European Commission initiated the TEMPO programme (2001-2006), with 7 Euro-Regional Projects (ERP). These projects were designed on a European traffic corridors basis, and are ITS deployment based. After a first phase of study they have deployed efficient solutions to the current European mobility difficulties. The TEMPO programme has provided impressive results (reference to EasyWay Policy paper, Ecorys report and Evaluation database document, see footnotes 1-6) although much remains to be done. Member States budgets on ITS have increased greatly during the last period thanks to the TEMPO programme and will continue to increase in the coming period. ITS became a priority action on

4 Mid-term review of EC’s 2001 Transport White Paper, page 16 5 Mid-term review of EC’s 2001 Transport White Paper Annex 1, page 24 6 Mid-term review of EC’s 2001 Transport White Paper, page 8


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Member Sates political agenda and so will remain. However specific programme targets would be derived for ITS deployment based on individual Member States policy objectives for transport and environment.

The enlargement of the EU demand improved transport infrastructure performance. Proper European cooperation within the existing and the new participating countries will be needed to help and enforce learning from the experience of others. This will not only reduce the lead-time for implementation and operation, but will also reinforce territorial cohesion between Member States irrespective of the speed of their development.

In synthesis

o The present CONNECT Work Plan is part of the entire EasyWay Project, aiming at the objectives highlighted in the EasyWay work programme.

o Improving safety and mobility on the European road network is of critical importance to keep the European road network as a strong backbone for prosperous economic development of EU 27.

o Road has a share of 80% of transport in the European Union and forecasts indicate that this situation will not alter significantly in the mid-term future.

o The 2006 White Paper mid term review document (“Keep Europe moving”) states that Road Safety and congestion reduction, plus the promotion of energy efficiency at EU level, are key objectives. The concept of co-modality where each mode has to play its own role was introduced. In this paper the role of ITS was highlighted to mitigate the negative effect of road traffic in Europe.

o ITS is a tool to effectively monitor demand and thus optimise network services. In doing so, ITS aim to reduce congestion, decrease accidents or reduce environmental risk, and is a necessary complementary tool in order to reach the maximum efficiency and capacity of the infrastructures.


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2. OVERALL EUROREGION ORGANISATION

This chapter contains a description of the various functions, roles and routines applicable for the management, organisation, co-ordination and implementation of the EasyWay CONNECT EuroRegion activities. It provides also a short description of the main issues that are dealt and the persons responsible in the various EasyWay CONNECT teams as Steering Committee, Technical Forum, Activity Management as well as Project Management. At last an overview of the budget and of the partners’ engagement in the different Deployment Activities and European Studies is given, in the three different years of the Workplan.

2.1 Project organisation and partnership

The project organisation reported in the following is the result of the experience gained in the past years by EasyWay CONNECT, successfully tested and set up.

The EasyWay CONNECT project is structured, for the Deployments Activities, around four principal Domains, plus a Domain related to the Regional and International Management and the Dissemination and Cross-fertilisation operations. Separately but in strict link with the common Project objectives there are the European Studies, to be performed in accordance also with the other EuroRegions.

All the EasyWay CONNECT activities will be carried out at international level, in order to ensure the maximum exchange of knowledge, the efficiency in resources allocation using synergies, and the European dimension, assuring that each partner studies, develops and implements its activity at national level in a consistent way in the project area and with the other partners and the other Projects. These aspects will be particularly followed and addressed by the Expert Groups. The actors involved are Public Authorities, Public and Private Road Operators, Private Companies dealing with Telematics for Road Traffic and Transport.

The official responsibility for the project, with respect to the European Commission, is in charge of the Member States representatives:

o Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (Regional Coordinator AT, support to Euro-Regional Project Manager EasyWay CONNECT)

o Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic (Regional Coordinator CZ, Euro-Regional Manager EasyWay CONNECT)

o Senate Department for Urban Development (Regional Coordinator DE)

o Ministry of Economy and Transport, Department for Roads (Regional Coordinator HU)

o Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti (Regional Coordinator IT)

o Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications (Regional Coordinator SK)

o Ministry of Transport (Regional Coordinator SLO)

2.2 Organisational structure and responsibilities

The EasyWay CONNECT management is organised at different levels, as summarised in the following

schema:


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Figure 1: Organisational structure of the EasyWay EuroRegion CONNECT

Level 1 - Policy Level: Steering Committee

The Steering Committee (SC) is responsible for the policy and administration aspects of the EasyWay CONNECT area. This responsibility concerns the establishment of additional activities, definition of information and dissemination policies and the execution of high level liaison with national governments and authorities. During the Steering Committee, common agreements and formal applications can be also signed. The SC has an important role in the promotion of the activities in the EasyWay CONNECT area, and for the integration of the project actions into the national planning process.

Level 2 - Management Level: International and Regional Coordination

The Management Committee (MC) is responsible for the operative management of the project. It can be defined as the operative hand of the Steering Committee. This includes responsibility for the adequate liaison with other actions and organisations, and for the continuous reporting of achieved results to the EC (through the project manager). The Management Committee is also responsible for the planning of the project activities and for the preparation of the required applications for financial support.

Project Manager, as chairman, Regional Coordinators, Activity Leaders, Experts and European Studies representatives participate at the Management Committee meetings, which take place on occurrence.

Expert Groups

The aim of the Expert Groups is to consolidate the knowledge and know-how between all partners, further to contribute to the results assessment, concentrating in particular on the pan-European added value of the on-going deployment activities.

They should identify and help cross-fertilization of best practices between all EuroRegions, identify potentials for pan-European services, possibly draft recommendations to the EasyWay SC, contribute to the “post MIP strategy”, support the regional and the European studies when appropriate.

One representative for each technical Activity plus one for the Evaluation task participate at the European Expert Groups, related to:

o Expert Group related Traffic Information Services

Italy (Mr. Enrico Ferrante) supported by Austria (Mr. Wolfgang Kernstock)

o Expert Group related Traffic Management Services

Hungary (Ms. Agnes Lindenbach) supported by Austria (Mr. Khaled El-Araby and Mr. Martin Nemec)

o Expert Group related Freight and Logistics Services


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Czech Republic (Mr. Martin Pichl) supported by Czech Republic (Ms. Alexandra Holubova)

o Expert Group related ICT Infrastructure

Slovakia (Mr. Sveto Hegyi) supported by Austria (Mr. Thomas Scheider)

o Evaluation Expert Groups

Czech Republic (Mr. Paul Riley) supported by Austria (Mr. Martin Böhm)

European Studies

The six European Studies identified are leaded each one by a Study Leader, provided by the different EuroRegions.

In the EasyWay CONNECT framework the Regional Coordinators have the job to follow up and address the European Studies going on in each Region, delegating, if necessary and useful, this task to a Regional European Studies representative.

The Regional Coordinators and/or the European Studies representatives have to report about progress and problems of the Studies at the three management level of the Project, depending on needs.

Main actors

For each individual level of the project management different actors (e.g. Ministries, Project Manager, Activity Managers, and other project participants) are involved. A short description of the responsibilities and tasks of each role in the EasyWay CONNECT area is provided herewith.

EasyWay Steering Committee: represents all the Member States in interfacing the Commission. It is formed by the chairmen of all the involved EuroRegions, included EasyWay CONNECT. It is supported by a Secretariat, composed as well by representatives from all the EuroRegions.

EasyWay Secretariat: constituted to support the EasyWay Steering Committee with the preliminary discussion and preparation of all the management documents necessary for the project management.

EasyWay CONNECT Chairman: is identified as a formal spokesperson of EasyWay CONNECT. During the period 2007-2009 the chairman is Mr. Jindrich Fajka (Czech Republic).

EasyWay CONNECT Steering Committee: is set up by the EasyWay CONNECT Member State representative. The public authorities are directly involved in the voting process for agreements and formal applications. Moreover, all the strategic decisions, such as changes in the project work plan, and in all the actions that have to be taken in order to reach the project objectives are under responsibility of this group. Each member commits his/her country/region for the participation in the project and is responsible for the advancement of work within the project.

EasyWay CONNECT Coordinator: acts as secretary of the EasyWay CONNECT Steering Committee, chairman of the Management Committee and is furthermore responsible for the information flow between the Management Committee and the Steering Committee. During the period 2007-2009 the coordination is done by Mr. Martin Böhm and Mr. Wolfgang Kernstock (both AustriaTech).

Regional Coordinator: each Member State involved in EasyWay CONNECT has a Regional Coordinator. The Regional Coordinator is the interface between the national and international level inside the Euro-region. In particular, she/he:

o attends to the Management Committees

o takes part/initiate national meetings of coordination matters

o provides a continuous support to the national project partners (e.g. dissemination in native language, interpretation of international and technical documents) and to the ER Coordinator as reference point for his country.

o is responsible for the provision of national information to the EasyWay CONNECT level.

Activity Manager: The EasyWay CONNECT action is divided into four principal fields of interest (Activities). For each Activity an Activity Manager is identified, who has the responsibility to monitor the day-to-day area progress in order that all results in all countries for each activity included in the specific domain are in line among them and with the EC requirements. The Activity Manager is also responsible for the documentation concerning the area and informs about the area status the EasyWay CONNECT Coordinator directly. Moreover the Activity Manager usually takes part on behalf of the EasyWay CONNECT to the related Expert Group and reports during the various meetings the arguments dealt and the results achieved.


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Observers: Interested Member States (Poland, Croatia, Serbia) not directly involved (yet) in EasyWay CONNECT will be included in different Dissemination Activites (e.g. participation at conferences, dedicated thematic Workshops,…) in order to ensure a close cooperation of the actors on technical level. In addition representatives from Poland and Serbia will be invited to join EasyWay CONNECT Steering Committee Meetings to ensure cooperation on strategic level.

Project monitoring

With the aim to reach all the planned objectives the status of the EuroRegions’ activities will be monitored periodically in order to set up, if necessary, appropriate corrective actions.

Such monitoring action will be carried out, under the responsibility at different levels, of Activity Managers, Regional and EuroRegional Coordinators, in accordance with guidelines and requirements defined by the EasyWay Steering Committee.

2.3 Activities and Sub-Activities

Activities/Sub-Activities Objectives

Activity 1 – Traveller Information and warning services including co-modality interfaces

Sub-Activity 1.1 Traveller

Information and warning

Services

(including co-modality

interfaces)

Extend the existing and emerging on-trip traveller information services at

national and cross-border levels including multilingual and co-modal

information

Sub-Activity 1.2 Services for

pre-trip travel planning

Extend the existing and emerging pre-trip traveller information services at

national and cross-border levels including multilingual and co-modal

information. This will allow for good travel decisions to be made, taking into

account all relevant travel options.

Activity 2 – Traffic Control and Traffic Management

Sub-Activity 2.1 TMP

including cross-border

cooperation

Develop plans at national and cross-border levels for coordinate action in

response to specific events

Sub-Activity 2.2 Dynamic

traffic and network

management

Develop dynamic traffic management and control systems including urban

interfaces

Sub-Activity 2.3 Safety

Critical Road Segments

Deploy incident detection and management systems, enhance safety,

travel time and operating costs on sensitive and critical road segments

(including TERN and urban interfaces). Increase traveller comfort and

prevent dangerous situations.

Activity 3 – Freight and Logistic Services

Sub-Activity 3.1 Information

Services for Freight Transport Develop information services dedicated to freight transport

Sub-Activity 3.2 Freight

transport management

services

Cross border network management, proper monitoring, handling of

dangerous and oversized goods transport. Provision of relevant

information about national regulations and restrictions as well as

designated routes and administrational handling.


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Sub-Activity 3.3 Intermodal

freight

EasyWay projects will enhance access to modal and intermodal exchange

points for the European freight community.

Activity 4 – Connected ICT Infrastructure

Sub-Activity 4.1 Deployment

of monitoring infrastructure

Deploy monitoring devices including Galileo based systems and vehicle-

infrastructure communication

Sub-Activity 4.2 Upgrading

Traffic Control Centres Upgrade traffic control centres and systems

Sub-Activity 4.3 Establishing

information exchange

Development of operational networks at local and international levels,

establishment of procedures for information exchange

Activity 5 – European Studies

Sub-Activity 5.1 ES1: Europe-wide Traveller Information continuity and co-modality

Sub-Activity 5.2 ES2: Europe-wide Traffic and Network management and co-modality

Sub-Activity 5.3 ES3: Freight and Logistics services

Sub-Activity 5.4 ES4: VMS Harmonisation (Mare Nostrum)

Sub-Activity 5.5 ES5: DATEX II

Sub-Activity 5.6 ES6: European ITS Deployment Road Map

Project Management

Sub-Activity 6.1 Project Management

Sub-Activity 6.2 Expert Group, including Evaluation Expert Group

Sub-Activity 6.3 Dissemination and Communication Activities


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3. DEPLOYMENT ACTIVITIES

3.1 Activity 1: Traveller Information services

Contribution to the EasyWay Objectives

A large amount of information is stored by different stakeholders being available for short and medium range trip. Different form of providing the information for the road users and operators about the traffic condition above all in critical events increasing safety, efficiency and the environmental compatibility of the road transport and allow a better management along the different motorway stretch of the TERN.

The development of goods transport with increasing emphasis on safety and timeliness highlights security and congestion problems on the main European corridors and urban areas. To cope with these problems, more efficient support, management and monitoring methods will have to be used, such as driver assistance and driver information with the objective of improving road safety.

The implementation of the traveller information provision in real time also concern information regarding public transport as well as traffic and road status information for the driver. Traveller Information is provided with a co-modal perspective, and also includes cross-border and inter-modal links. Harmonisation and continuity of the services into neighbouring networks gives an added value to the information given by the traveller services. This requires large scale co-operation between a wide range of stakeholders.

Sub-

Activity PRN7 Project Country Page

Traveller information and warning Services (including co-modality)

PRN 1 Provision of high quality Traffic Information Services Austria 15

PRN 2 Application of cross border Traffic Information Best practises Austria 16

PRN 3 Innovative information services incl. co-modality Austria 17

PRN 4 Implementation of Traffic Control Unit in the area of Vienna/ Lower Austria

Austria 18

PRN 5 Public information portal for multi-modal long-distance and international passenger trips

Czech Republic 19

PRN 6 Establishment of a common data platform (“gate”) for operating of multimodal intelligent transport systems and services

Hungary 21

PRN 7 Supporting the pedestrian transport by navigation system/ supporting the transport of road users with restricted abilities/, connection of pedestrian and public transport

Hungary 22

PRN 8

Pilot to increase the national coverage of the RDS-TMC service. Preparation of RDS-TMC INTERROAD functions. Attempt regarding DAB data providing - as preparation of the TPEG and/or DAB-TMC service to be implement afterwards

Hungary

23

PRN 9 Traffic information broadcasting through digital radio and television Slovakia 25

PRN 10 GALILEO (national policy and applications in the road sector) Slovakia 26

PRN 11 Intelligent navigation system Slovakia 27

PRN 12 Infotraffic on A4 Italy 28

PRN 13 Mare Nostrum initiative Italy 29

PRN 14 RDS – TMC Deployment Slovenia 30

PRN 15 Traffic information system upgrades Slovenia 30

1.1

PRN 16 Road side traffic information and Information Exchange DE-PL Germany 31

1.2 Services for pre-trip travel planning

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PRN 17 Travel time and congestion prediction service for the road-users on the highway network based on the UTINFORM’s (Road Information Service) real-time database

Hungary 32

PRN 18 Travel time and congestion prediction service for the road-users on the highway network based on the UTINFORM’s (Road Information Service) real-time database

Hungary 33

PRN 19 Dynamic traffic models for the support of traffic control measures involving additional data sources (e.g. FCD)

Slovenia 33


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Sub-activity 1.1: Traveller Information and warning Services (including co-modality interfaces)

Services implemented with the objective of extending the existing and emerging on-trip traveller information services at national and cross-border levels, which includes multilingual and co-modal information. This includes real-time traveller information through media channels, and existing VMS, Radio, RDS-TMC and Internet services. Emerging technologies and related services can be mobile, Internet, DAB and Satellite.

PRN 1 Provision of high quality Traffic Information Services

x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

1

Participants

ORF – Austrian federal broadcaster

ASFINAG – Austrian motorway operator

Current Situation

Because of earlier projects in TEMPO Corvette 2001-2006 a broad range of telematic services was installed in Austria. The existing traffic-information, that was primary intended only for radio (spoken information), could, with the support of partners, also be provided as user oriented services over other distribution channels. At the moment traffic information is distributed e.g. via RDS-TMC, online on a map, via SMS and on different types of info screen solutions (partly pilot trials), etc. So, the Austrian Broadcaster ORF played a major role to reach the given objective to increase road safety. In the next year ORF will consequently go on improving the existing services and developing new one. As mobile TV will start in Austria in 2008, e.g. DVB-H will be a new distribution platform entailing new possibilities of provision for traffic information services.

Objectives for 2007 - 2009

o Roll-out of the infoscreen services, especially at significant places (e.g. sports grounds, shopping centres, venues for big events)

o Development of applications for DVB-H/ MHP (visualization of traffic information via well-known and broadly used/ accepted broadcasting media)

o Development of applications via mobile media – mobile TV/ DMB

o Extension of interactive services, location based services and text message services (SMS)

o Strong cooperation in the areas of navigation services

Work Description

Aim of this activity is to ensure and further improve the quality of provided information services. The Austrian Broadcaster Company ORF will work on extending the infoscreen services. In 2007 the roll-out of DVB-T started in Austria, in 2008, mobile TV will start. Therefore ORF will be focusing on the visualisation of traffic information and applications for DVB-MHP or DVB-H/ DMB. In this context it is necessary to evaluate the political, technical, economic and legal components and user needs. The next step is to define and start pilot-projects for these services. Furthermore ORF will extend interactive and location based services.

The needed concepts, negotiations and contracts will be executed in this domain as well as the definition of co-operations with other national and international stakeholders that are necessary to reach the above stated targets.

Milestones

o Broadcasting of traffic information via digital transmission channels (e.g. MHP) o Establishing concepts for new mobile traffic information services (e.g. DVB-H, DMB) o Conception and launch of interactive gadgets

Planned Costs (€)


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PRN 1 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 110.000,00 € 170.000,00 € 280.000,00Works € 0,00 € 37.000,00 € 75.000,00 € 112.000,00Total € 0,00 € 147.000,00 € 245.000,00 € 392.000,00

PRN 2 Application of cross border Traffic Information Best practises

x Regional Study/ Pilot ImplementationImplementationP

RN

2

Participants

ERTICO in close cooperation with EasyWay CONNECT countries

Current Situation

Traffic information broadcast using RDS-TMC offers a mechanism for providing important cross-border information to travellers. The special Inter-Road messages allow a service provider to send information to a traveller in a border area of their country or service region, about traffic events the other side of the border which may be relevant once they cross over.

Inter-road messages have been implemented for a number of markets with very good results, however many TMC services have not yet implemented them. There is potential to dramatically improve cross-border information delivery by introducing the mechanism more widely.

Inter-road messages are of course only useful where the service provider has good information, making the most of links between traffic information centres using technologies such as DATEX to share and receive the 'bigger picture'.


ERTICO will use the technical knowledge and industry contacts of the TISA Forum to coordinate and help promote Application of cross border Traffic Information Best practises in the CONNECT countries. The objective is to create TMC awareness in the region and create workshops that will discuss cross border best practises. These workshops will be attended by the main decisions makers in the region as well as companies with commercial interests so as to demonstrate how TMC can be easily implemented in CEEC countries.

ERTICO has the technical and commercial contacts and experience to:

o Improve understanding of the potential benefit of implementing TMC services

o Share implementation experiences and established best practices

o Ensure quality through proper use of standards and harmonized implementation

o ERTICO will be able to quickly disseminate lessons-learned by working in parallel with all these countries and their diverse situations. The desired outcome is to help the CONNECT countries all reach the highest, and most compatible (as far as possible within their objectives), final level of expertise/implementation in terms of data traffic information broadcast.

Work Description

ERTICO will organise dedicated workshops in the CONNECT countries.

Milestones

No milestones defined yet

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 2 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 25.000,00 € 25.000,00 € 50.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Total € 0,00 € 25.000,00 € 25.000,00 € 50.000,00


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PRN 3 Innovative information services incl. co-modality x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementation

ImplementationPR

N 3

Participants

ASFINAG

Current Situation

In the year 2006 ASFINAG developed a Master Plan with the aim of coordinated Content Engineering of Traffic Information Services. In a first step an analysis of existing Traffic Information Services in Austria and other European countries were performed. The next step comprised the analysis and evaluation of the gathered data. Based on these results the document recommends and defines concrete measures for providing content to the European Travellers. In addition supporting actions (technical and organisational nature) were defined. The Master Plan is the basis for the Austrian motorway operator ASFINAG to find appropriate channels and partnerships for the distribution of traffic information in the coming years. In 2006 the first services where already implemented. The services are available to the public on the website www.asfinag.at.

The deployment of these services will lead to an extension of information services as well as a better accessibility of traffic information services by the travellers. Furthermore it will lead to:

o less congestion on the network (decrease of environmental burden of the transport sector)

o increase of road transport infrastructure efficiency

o consistent results in terms of road safety

o easier travelling for the European drivers on the TERN (reliable information everywhere, at any time)

o better efficiency of the freight operators


The main objective is to provide the road users with all the necessary information to ensure a secure and comfortable journey on the Austrian part of the TERN. The information from the electronic tolling system can be used for pre- and on-trip information which is available at the existing ASFINAG web portal. This portal allows the customers to choose the level of service and the route which is relevant for the planned trip. Also information about obstacles located or occurred along the planned route is provided.

Work Description

Pre- and on-trip information for fleet management systems for customers of the electronic tolling system

ASFINAG will perform a feasibility study to analyse and evaluate the technical possibilities of realising the proposed system, using the existing EFC infrastructure and using existing or new interfaces in the central system of the EFC system.

The implementation within the EFC system is possible by either linking the data stored in the central system of the EFC system with the information about the type and quantity of the sensor data located at the gantries.

Location based value added information (traffic conditions etc.) for on-board equipment via DSRC communication

The information to establish this service is closely linked to the available information from public traffic information services. With the possibility to bring the information on the on-board-unit, the provided information will be focused on the route the service user currently takes. The key issue is to bring the information real-time to the on-board-unit into the vehicle. The cooperation between different traffic information service providers and ASFINAG will ensure the authenticy of the information provided to the service user.

If the studies show practicability, pilot projects within a limited number of information providing on-board-units will be implemented in a second step. The planned feasibility studies will identify the best solution for the road operator as well as for the users by considering economic aspects and an implementation concept.


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Milestones

No milestones were defined yet.

Planned Costs (€)



Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

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4

Participants

ASFINAG

Current Situation

In the year 2006 ASFINAG developed a Master Plan with the aim of coordinated Content Engineering of Traffic Information Services. In a first step an analysis of existing Traffic Information Services in Austria and other European countries were performed. The next step comprised the analysis and evaluation of the gathered data. Based on these results the document recommends and defines concrete measures for providing content to the European Travellers. In addition supporting actions (technical and organisational nature) were defined. The Master Plan is the basis for the Austrian motorway operator ASFINAG to find appropriate channels and partnerships for the distribution of traffic information in the coming years. In 2006 the first services where already implemented. The services are available to the public on the website www.asfinag.at.

The deployment of these services will lead to an extension of information services as well as a better accessibility of traffic information services by the travellers. Furthermore it will lead to:

o less congestion on the network (decrease of environmental burden of the transport sector)

o increase of road transport infrastructure efficiency

o consistent results in terms of road safety

o easier travelling for the European drivers on the TERN (reliable information everywhere, at any time)

o better efficiency of the freight operators


The ongoing implementation of the Lane Control System in Austria will be carried out according to the Austrian implementation roadmap as can be seen below:

In details the work comprises:

TCU Vienna Lower Austria Phase 1-3

o The trial operation on the motorway S1 and the junction Vösendorf will be finalised in the 1st quarter of 2007.


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o The implementation of the system on motorway A4 which was started in 3rd quarter of 2006 will be finalised by end of 2007. The subsequent trial operation will lead to the permanent operation fom 2nd quarter 2008.

o The planning for the motorway A2 stretch “südliches Gewerk” will be finished by 2nd quarter of 2007 and lead to the start of the implementation.

o The planning for area A23/ S2 will be finished in 3rd quarter of 2007 and lead to the start of the implementation.

o The planning for area A1/ A21 will be started in 3rd quarter of 2007 and last until end of 2008.

o The planning for the motorway A22 will be started in 3rd quarter of 2007 and last until 2nd quarter of 2009

TCU Vienna Lower Austria Phase 4

o The planning work for both concerned motorways S5 and S33 will be started in 2nd half of 2007 and will last until 2009.

WWW A2-S4-S31-A3

o The tendering process will start in 2nd quarter of 2007 and will lead to the implementation from 3rd quarter 2007 until the end of 2008 where a trial operation with 6 months duration is finalising the activities in this area.

TCU Wechsel/ Semmering

o The planning for this area was started late 2004. The work will be continued until 3rd quarter of 2008 leading to a 1,5 year implementation until 2010.

Work Description

The work in this section related to traveller information services will be realised together with the Traffic Management related implementations. Please refer to related project (PRN 22) on page 44.

Milestones

Please refer to related project (PRN 22) on page 44.

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 4 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Works € 0,00 € 124.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 224.000,00Total € 0,00 € 124.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 224.000,00

PRN 5 Public information portal for multi-modal long-distance and international passenger trips


RN

5

Participants

MD CR

Current Situation

There are currently no special public information services for multi-modal long-distance journeys from the Czech Republic. Nearly 20% of car vehicle-kms are long distance trips (> 100 km) and only very few drivers ever consider the possibility to use different modes for all or part of their trip even though it might pay off. Frequent car drivers are notoriously mono-modal in their thinking partly because there is no good comparative information source. Research and trial progress is being made in this area in other countries across Europe, it is a priority of Czech transport policy. The system is aimed at the long-distance traveller and by providing access to high quality comparative co-modal travel information; it will help to improve the personal and social efficiency of travel planning including many international travellers who would otherwise not have single source access to such information.


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We aim to conceptually prepare and pilot test a public multi/intermodal information internet application and database for multi-modal trip planning for long distance (>100 km) or cross border passenger trips either at international or national level.

The system will make maximum use of real-time information from the HGV tolling system and the JSDI (The unified system of traffic information) and should be easily accessible on basic public media including the internet and strategically located public terminals (at borders and major rest stations, major logistics centres, public transport stations). The underlying database will be made (freely or commercially viably) available to commercial third party information suppliers who wish to add value or provide the information on other media and will also serve for transport planning purposes. Purchase of ready data from existing commercial data sources will also be considered where relevant.

On the Czech side of planning, a detailed GIS based system with meta information access to national and local public transport and road options databases should be created to allow door-to-door national long-distance intermodal trip planning. Where major information is missing, effort will be made to fill the gaps if possible by financing the extension of existing systems (e.g. transfer information, P+R locations and capacities etc).

Work Description

Specify a workable, modular intermodal long-distance passenger travel information system for trips starting or ending in the Czech Republic with national and international characteristics.

In 2009, the system will be researched, conceived and consulted with experts and potential users and relations and common visions built with the numerous partners required for such a system which will then be proposed at a conceptual level and then specified. Activities in this period include:

o Connection to other initiatives (LINK, EU-SPIRIT, EasyWay ES) and mapping the state of the art

o Workshops with partners / EasyWay ES

o Interviews with potential users

Milestones

1/09 – 3/09 Review of literature, existing projects, systems, data availability etc.

4/09 – 5/09 Results form review - report

5/09 – 6/09 Workshop preparation, workshop with partners

7/09 – 12/09 Summary of results from workshop – report

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 5 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 120.000,00 € 120.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Total € 0,00 € 0,00 € 120.000,00 € 120.000,00


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PRN 6 Establishment of a common data platform (“gate”) for operating of multimodal intelligent transport systems and services


RN

6

Participants

Municipal Public Services Co. Ltd. - FKF

Hungarian Roads Company – MK

State Highway Management Company Ltd – ÁAK

Current Situation

Actually the individual ITS systems/ services on the Hungarian road network does not provide wide scale, real-time information.

The establishing of new real-time services on the Hungarian motorway network based on a comprehensive common data-base contribute to the wide-scale, cross-boarding information for a better traffic flow and a better road safety situation.


All mobility services need a high quality, comprehensive and reliable data base of traffic relevant data, using different technologies for data collection.

Actually there is no co-operation between the different national or international players in the field of information services. Most of the existing collective and individual services do not exploit the full potential of co-operation, there is little knowledge about the quality of the data sources - therefore the mobility information service providers can hardly guarantee the reliability of their services.

The main objective of the project is to gain availability of all necessary information for all road users, via interoperable service, based on a common, comprehensive database.

Work Description

A standardised access to a quality checked and reliable data base is the precondition for new market perspectives for mobility information services.

In the project not only the technical but also the institutional issues should be created, the framework for an effective „PPP” co-operation between the partners should be identified.

Milestones

No milestones were defined yet

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 6 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 4.000,00 € 36.000,00 € 40.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,00Total € 0,00 € 4.000,00 € 116.000,00 € 120.000,00


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PRN 7 Supporting the pedestrian transport by navigation system/ supporting the transport of road users with restricted abilities/, connection of pedestrian and public transport


RN

7

Participants

Municipal Public Services Co. Ltd - FKF


Current Situation

Actually the individual ITS systems/ services on the Hungarian road network does not provide wide scale, real-time information.


Objectives for 2007-2009

Transport users with restricted abilities (using wheel-chair, baby carriage, blind) need special routing and navigation systems. These transport users can be divided into two groups: in motion and in vision hampered people. The first group requires a clean access navigation network; the second group needs a step-by-step leading and keeping connection with public transport accession points.

Work Description

o Setting up a clean transportation network – cancelling or marking stairs, underpasses, overpasses

o Compiling continuous and coherent pedestrian routes and network by connecting sidewalks and pedestrian crossings to each other

o Routing software for the “clean” pedestrian network

o Speaking software for positioning and continuous navigation for blind

o Pedestrian routing software - harmonising the suggested route with the time table of the public transport system

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PRN 8 Pilot to increase the national coverage of the RDS-TMC service. Preparation of RDS-TMC INTERROAD functions. Attempt regarding DAB data providing - as preparation of the TPEG and/or DAB-TMC service to be implement afterwards


RN

8

Participants

Hungarian Radio (Magyar Radio PIc) – MR



Current Situation

Currently the individual ITS systems/ services on the Hungarian road network does not provide wide scale, real-time information.



o Launching pilot RDS-TMC service based on the presently available, but in various data format incoming information

o Coded (uniformed data format) incoming information, automatic data acquisition for the quicker and more effective data processing;

o TMC service including transborder and Europe wide traffic information: TMC Inter-Road function, data exchange in European Broadcasting Union TpegML format;

o Country-wide RDS-TMC service coverage (enhancing the pilot service in and around Budapest developed in framework of CONNECT project 2004-2009)

Work Description

Using new telematic protocols the scope of described traffic occurrences expands (more details and more exact positioning), and allows other transport modes (e.g. public transport) to be supported by encoded messages. For co-modality support the TMC message editor and encoder system should be updated for TPEG messages.

RDS reception measurements have confirmed previous experiments that the current nationwide RDS-TMC service does not provide perfect reception in every part of the country. One solution for widening the coverage can be to extend the current FM transmitter network with a 2nd network having differing transmitter locations. The new coverage should be assessed and also the behaviour of the navigation devices should be tested in this new situation, where moving on the roads devices should continuously tune to the available network.

In order to provide more relevant information to the drivers Magyar Radio intends to implement the TMC INTERROAD feature in the future. To this the technical and business aspects of the data exchange between the RDS-TMC providers of Hungary and the neighbouring countries should be prepared and negotiated.

As preparation for the more advanced coded traffic information services (DAB-TMC, TPEG), Magyar Radio is going to test the data service reception on the service area of the new regular DAB service to be launched by the co. Antenna Hungaria soon.

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Planned Costs (€)


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PRN 9 Traffic information broadcasting through digital radio and television x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

9

Participants

MDPT – SK, SRo – SK, Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Transport Research Institute, Inc.

Current Situation

This time, the system of distribution traffic information through RDS-TMC (analog radio) is prepared for introduction in the routine operation in Slovakia. A pilot project is concerned on testing system functionality, broadcasting test and real traffic information and preparation of receivers for end users.


The vision is to broadcast traffic information through RDS TMC including cross border cooperation:

Study and verification of new approaches for processing and coding traffic information (TPEG, GST SAFCHAN) follow in new introduced technologies digital radio and television, with related pilot projects and subsequent implementations in routine operation.

The objectives for 2007 - 2009 in details:

2008: Routine operation of RDS-TMC with full coverage of road networks in Slovakia, Studies of possibilities of the new coding procedures (TPEG, GST SAFCHAN ….) for traffic information distribution through digital technologies environment.

2009: An experimental verification of procedures and functional elements in pilot projects for available digital broadcasting technologies.

Work Description

Routine operation of RDS-TMC with full coverage of road networks in Slovakia, Studies of possibilities of the new coding procedures (TPEG, GST SAFCHAN ….) for traffic information distribution through digital technologies environment.

An experimental verification of procedures and functional elements in pilot projects for available digital broadcasting technologies.

Milestones


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PRN 10 GALILEO (national policy and applications in the road sector) x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

10

Participants

University of Zilina, Research Institute for Posts and Telecommunications,

Current Situation

Many studies and expert groups’ recommendations have underlined the necessity of solving current road traffic problems (congestions, accident frequency, traffic management, widespread transport and traffic monitoring and data collection and so on) by means of multifunction electronic vehicle OBE, operating on the base of GNSS signals. Though the signals of European system Galileo will be available probably not until the years 2010-2011, the coverage of Europe by relatively homogenous signals of current GNSS and by correction signals of reference geodetic networks allows all actual needs and requirements of the European road transport and traffic to be solved at the present time.

This mobile network of computers (consisting of multifunction in-vehicle integrated OBEs) will be an appropriate platform for serious preparation of the national background for full-featured GNSS services exploitation in the future, for instance (besides EFC and navigation in-car information): emergency services, fleet and livestock transport management, ADAS applications (lane departure/ collision warning systems, intelligent speed adaptation), passenger transport management, on-street parking, taxi services, car rental and pay-per-use pricing, legal speed enforcement, dynamic road lighting management, etc.

Objectives and Vision:

o Elaboration of the comprehensive national policy for integration of the GNSS services in road telematic - systems in Slovakia, with the aim of achieving a significant decrease in road accidents and deaths, improving the quality of the road haulage sector and technical interoperability of the trans-European road network,

o Issuing a set of national legislative documents (acts, orders etc.) in order to harmonize European Union laws in the field of the GNSS applications in road sector in Slovak Republic.

Work Description

o 2007-2008: Trends, related standards and Union legislation concerning GNSS (Galileo) monitoring, harmonization with relevant national legal framework, working-out and submitting attendant policy documents to Government discussions and sessions, establishing the Slovak Space Agency, joining ERTICO and ESA activities;

o 2008-2009: Trends analysis and assessment, OBE conceptual design and standardization measures, experimental verification of essential features, characteristics and interfaces of the OBE, test method design

o 2009: Preparatory activities related to national space policy, GNSS (Galileo) implementation and utilization in the road telematics in Slovak milieu, with regard to OBE multifunction use;

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PRN 11 Intelligent navigation system x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

11

Participants

University of Zilina

Current Situation

Within the CONNECT (2004-2009) and in the part of solution: Database communication and presentation server in IS centre monitoring centre for data collection and archiving was proposed. The important data is location and status of vehicle and cargo, sending information to the vehicle board units, monitoring of vehicles in graphic mode (at a map) and data sharing for other systems


o Information system for distributed navigation.

o The possibility of the system implementation in various kinds of transports. The system will enable of total navigation (navigation of the vehicle, navigation in public transport or in the buildings).

o Separation of maps from navigation systems.

o The terminals will be able to obtain navigation information on the basis of its current location and movement directly from the infrastructure.

o Infrastructure changes update will be realized in real time.

o Reception and processing transport information

Work Description

Standardization of ad hoc networks and protocols for communication system between: • Vehicle and transport infrastructure. • Vehicle and vehicle.

Outdoor and indoor (in the parking house, buildings, etc.) positioning by means of: • Galileo system. • Mobile telecommunication services providers. • Wireless networks.

Electronic signature for authenticity safety of provided services. Electronic fee collection systems for payments of access to the information services of infrastructure.

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PRN 12 Infotraffic on A4 x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

12

Participants

Autovie Venete

Current Situation

Well deployed VMSs network on the motorway, internet web services available for pre-trip info, phone and radio services available on the motorway managed by Autovie.


o Improve the use of VMSs and other media in order to reduce to time of journey, to optimize the route for international drivers and motorists using the motorway

o Offer a reliable service to the users, using data with an high level of quality

o Test and promote internet and other sources for obtain information on traffic, plan the trip and promote the intermodality and co-modality within the port of Trieste and Monfalcone (on the Adriatic Sea) and the rail nodes of Cervignano.

Work Description

The implementation of 18 VMSs on gantries and in the nearby of the entrance to the motorway

Implementation of services based on internet platform to inform and offer to trucks drivers the information of other mode of transport.

Studies on the possibility to use the new technologies offered by the launch of Galileo for international and pan-european journey

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 12 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 150.000,00 € 140.000,00 € 150.000,00 € 440.000,00Works € 450.000,00 € 300.000,00 € 250.000,00 € 1.000.000,00Total € 600.000,00 € 440.000,00 € 400.000,00 € 1.440.000,00


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PRN 13 Mare Nostrum initiative x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

13

Participants

Autovie Venete

Current Situation

Autovie was involved in the Mare Nostrum initiative since it’s started in 2003. The participation at the activities will continue during the EasyWay programme.


VMS harmonization and definition of the Guide Lines for the use at international and europan level of common procedures for the information to the users via VMSs and the use for Traffic Control Measures in a “standard” way on the TERN.

Work Description

Following the installation of VMSs the concessionarie defines a common strategies and models for the use of VMSs on the international corridor (Corridor n. 5) using the links promoted by the DATEX platform (DATEX I and II)

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 13 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 50.000,00 € 50.000,00 € 50.000,00 € 150.000,00Works € 20.000,00 € 20.000,00 € 10.000,00 € 50.000,00Total € 70.000,00 € 70.000,00 € 60.000,00 € 200.000,00


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PRN 14 RDS – TMC Deployment Regional Study/ Pilot Implementation

x ImplementationPR

N 1

4

Participants

Ministry of Transport Slovenia, DARS - Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia

Current Situation

In program CONNECT phases service initiation started with the nationalisation of the event table and in Phase II location table was delivered with the pilot setup of RDS-TMC service.


o Deployment of RDS-TMC service in 2009

Work Description

Activities toward deployment of RDS-TMC service are planned.

Milestones

o Deployment of RDS-TMC service by the end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 14 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,00Total € 0,00 € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,00

PRN 15 Traffic information system upgrades


RN

15

Participants

DARS - Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia

Current Situation

DARS background services and traffic information web portal are in constant upgrade to include covering of new sections and new or upgraded RMI ITS systems linked to TCC/TMC delivering new functionalities to end users.


o Traffic information portal and background service upgrade.

Work Description

Renewal of traffic control and traffic information background services (geospatial linkage of events, alerting, event archive, alternative input for events and services for data access). Data modelling, functional specifications, input of local events, advanced analyses and reports, SMS messaging. Web portal upgrades.

Milestones

o 2009

Planned Costs (€)


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PRN 16 Road side traffic information and Information Exchange DE-PL


RN

16

Participants

o Federal State of Brandenburg, (Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning); Furthermore the respective Polish Authorities are involved (whether connect partner or not)

o Federal State of Berlin (Senate Department of Urban Development)

Current Situation

Traffic and in particular HGV-Traffic has risen on the motorways connecting Germany and Poland considerably during the recent years. Thus at the German-Polish border often congestion (in particular HGV) occurs. Thus improved data and information exchange would be a suitable means to contribute to the improvement of the traffic situation. Considerations and first work for this information exchange has been started during the recent years and first contacts between the competent authorities in Poland and Brandenburg have been carried out.


o Improvement of the traffic information exchange between Germany and Poland in particular concerning the motorways at the border.

o Improvement of traffic information at the urban/interurban interfaces

Work Description

Exchange of Traffic Information DE-PL: Work deals with the exchange of traffic information relevant for motorway traffic and exchanging traffic information between Brandenburg and Poland. In cross-border traffic, the traffic flow is recurrently seriously disturbed on the Brandenburg motorways. The information exchange is expected to contribute in assessing opportunities of routing the traffic towards other border crossings more effective. The focus will be laid on the traffic control centres in Brandenburg and Poland, the traffic information to be exchanged and the possible methods of data transmission. After finalising the study work the necessary equipment will be installed (after 2009).

Road Information System Berlin: A complete data basis of current details and current status of traffic signs, traffic lights and variable message signs, information system for big events etc. will be developed for internal information exchange as well as for information of the road users. During EasyWay I the project will start and being carried on during further EasyWay stages.

Milestones

o Improvement of contacts and concept for the traffic information exchange

o Concepts for the road information system Berlin

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 16 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 20.000,00 € 0,00 € 20.000,00Works € 0,00 € 118.000,00 € 736.000,00 € 854.000,00Total € 0,00 € 138.000,00 € 736.000,00 € 874.000,00


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Sub-activity 1.2: Services for pre-trip travel planning

The goal is to extend the existing and emerging pre-trip traveller information services at national and cross-border levels including multilingual and co-modal information. This will allow for good travel decisions to be made while providing alternative choices for travel.

PRN 17 Travel time and congestion prediction service for the road-users on the highway network

based on the UTINFORM’s (Road Information Service) real-time database x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

17

Participants



Current Situation

Actually, there is no travel-time prediction for the road users, provided via different information systems.

The established new services using dynamic models and real-time information could be established as value added services. Main aim in the future is to enable travel-time prediction for the road users, provided via different information systems, and establish new services using dynamic models and real-time information for the value added services, like dynamic traffic management.


A reliable, real-time travel time and congestion prediction service should on the highway network support the road-users during his travel. The used database for this purpose will be based on the real-time information collected by the UTINFORM (Road Information Service) and AAK. This offered service to the road-users should be harmonised with the strategies as well as the monitoring developing plans elaborated in CONNECT I-II.

Work Description

The system to be introduced will give information about the expected travel time for all road-users The helping tool should calculate the travel-time considered the actual traffic/weather conditions. The tool should be available on the Internet.

The data sources of this service should be the existing monitoring systems and devices owned by the road operator companies. The database should have all type of data about actual traffic conditions, traffic flows, congestions, planned works and unexpected events.

The most critical places for the aspect of incident management:

o Loaded highway roads (access roads and roundabout),

o parallel (interurban and urban) roads with the highway roads,

o main bridges of the Hungarian road network. etc.

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PRN 18 Dynamic traffic models for the support of traffic control measures involving additional data sources (e.g. FCD)


RN

18

Participants




Current Situation

Actually, there is no travel-time prediction for the road users, provided via different information systems.

The established new services using dynamic models and real-time information could be established as value added services. Main aim in the future is to enable travel-time prediction for the road users, provided via different information systems, and establish new services using dynamic models and real-time information for the value added services, like dynamic traffic management.

Objectives for 2007-2009:

The project aims at improvement of the Traffic Control of Budapest and the surrounding area with a deployment of a real-time traffic model that supports the traffic control and operation and is based on real-time data. Second stage of this project is a preparation of a pilot operation that covers a predefined network area of Budapest (Hungária krt. – street Szentmihályi – M0 – M3 – and M11 – M2 – M3 roads) and supports operative decisions with the simulation of the impacts of potential interventions.

Work Description

As the theme of this project is closely connected to the work carried out in sub-activity 4.2 (PRN 79), the implementation regarding dynamic traffic models will be executed within there.

The study elaborated in the first stage will also look at the deployment of GPS data from vehicles. The feasibility of the proposed data collection is based on the range of onboard systems used, and it will take into account international practice on this field. The database created from the collected floating car and other data may serve as a platform of number of application and can also be the background of traffic management and control activity or transport information services (from the “simple” monitoring of the speed to the real-time navigation). The evaluation of the data sent by the On Board Units of vehicles will help manage traffic flows on the network by identifying predefined traffic situations such as rush hours. Strategies and cooperative scenarios can be elaborated based on the predicted traffic conditions, offering effective tools for network-wide traffic optimisation.

The output of the project is a reliable, up to date database of the traffic on the network, which can help the work of the road operators and might also be available for information providers, and international data exchange. The final aim is to cover the whole Hungarian road network, in the first stage the map of Budapest highway network should be elaborated.

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Planned Costs (€)


PRN 19 Multimodal travel information portal


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19


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Participants

MOT – Ministry of Transport Slovenia

Current Situation

Project is continuation of the Plan of multimodal traffic information portal in main EU languages from program CONNECT. Traffic information systems and services on corridors and other modes of transport.


o Functional multimodal pre-trip traveller information web portal

Work Description

Project is continuation of the Plan of multimodal traffic information portal in main EU languages from previous phase. Initial web portal software solution is planned. Main goal is to provide pre-trip traffic information and to inform user of public transport positives in comparison to use the car to reach specific destination. Site will also cover new and existing public transport solutions, possibilities and promotions. Deliverables:

Software delivery, presentation, activity report and project documentation

Milestones

o Functional multimodal pre-trip traveller information web portal by the end of 2009.

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3.2 Activity 2: Traffic Management Services

Summary of A2


An efficient connected infrastructure is a prerequisite for ITS deployment, providing the end user services with data from systems that monitor the road situation in real time. In addition to upgrading and improving the existing infrastructure, this activity will also enable cross-border interoperability and continuity of services through harmonised data provided by connected systems. In this way, the road operators in the EasyWay CONNECT regions are better able to confront the traffic management problems on long distance corridors and on the cross border areas.

National and international information services on road and traffic conditions including main cities are discontinuous and inconsistent causing unnecessary delays and costs. Moreover, it’s important to cover the most black spots possible to improve road safety and the efficiency of the information system and services.

Upgrade the functionalities of the integrated viability system in order to improve traffic management actions and to enhance the quality of traffic information delivered to the customers and to other cross border TCC with maximum respect to interoperability criteria.

These projects help to increase road safety on European major routes (faster reaction on problems, better data). The up-to-date-traffic-data will also be exchanged with foreign TICs. Furthermore, better traffic management will help the user save valuable time.

Sub-Activity PRN8 Project Country Page

TMP including cross-border cooperation

PRN 20 Traffic Control and Traffic Management Austria 37

PRN 21 Cross-border traffic management on the border area of the motorway network of Austria, Hungary and Slovakia

Hungary 38

PRN 22 Traffic Management plans in Slovak Trans European Road Network

Slovakia 39

PRN 23 Cross border traffic management services Italy 41

2.1

PRN 24 Pilot deployment of traffic management and control simulator

Slovenia 41

Dynamic traffic and network management

PRN 25 Safety Critical Road Segments Austria 43


Austria 44

PRN 27 Weather warning system and preparation for motorway lane management

Czech Republic

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PRN 28 DATEX – based dynamic traffic management: tactical co-operation, exchange of traffic situations/measures

Hungary 49

PRN 29 Traffic control and traffic management Italy 50

PRN 30 Traffic control and management system upgrades Slovenia 52

PRN 31 Project documentation of TMC system move from ABC Slovenske Konjice to TMC Maribor

Slovenia 52

2.2

PRN 32 Dynamic traffic and Network Management Eastern Germany

Germany 53

2.3 Safety Critical Road Segments



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PRN 34 e-Call workshops in the area of CONNECT Austria 57

PRN 35 Enhancing safety on critical road segments Austria 58

PRN 36 Enhancing safety in tunnels through telematics applications in the CONNECT region

Austria 60

PRN 37 Incident management on motorway sections (monitoring, automatic incident – management and prediction with data providing to the road-users)

Hungary 62

PRN 38 Application of GPS based warning system for dangerous road segments (rail-road crossings, dangerous intersection etc.) – navigation software supplement

Hungary 63

PRN 39 Modelling of the vehicle driver’s behaviour in non-standard situations

Slovakia 64

PRN 40 eCall - 112 in Slovak Republic Slovakia 65

PRN 41 Reducing of adverse impacts of black spots occurrence through intelligent transport systems

Slovakia 66

PRN 42 Dangerous cargo and transport security Slovakia 68

PRN 43 Traffic management with accidents detection and multi-media operation centres

Italy 69

PRN 44 Pilot project SCALAR – detection and tracing of thunderstorms

Slovenia 69

PRN 45 National guidelines for incident and emergency handling workgroup support

Slovenia 70

PRN 46 Tunnel Control and Safety Saxony Germany 71


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Sub-activity 2.1: TMP including cross-border cooperation

Implement and develop plans at national and cross-border levels to coordinate action in response to specific events. Improve procedures including urban interfaces at national level. Enhance local and operational contacts, develop communication tools and implement TMP after institutional validation.

PRN 20 Traffic Control and Traffic Management


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Participants

ORF – Austrian Federal Broadcaster

ASFINAG – Austrian Motorway Operator

Current Situation

In the previous years ORF emphasised on the upgrade of the TIC/TCC. One milestone was the connection to the TIC/TCC of ASFINAG. At the moment, ORF uses the traffic data from ASFINAG (highways) that is automatically generated via sensors, only for the spoken traffic announcement. In 2007 ASFINAG and ORF agreed in providing the data jointly also via new platforms.


o Development and launch of a highly improved RDS-TMC service

o Development of a TPEG-based service

o Traffic management for big events in the CONNECT area

Work Description

One target is to provide the incoming data from ASFINAG also via other distribution channels. Together with ASFINAG, ORF e.g. will improve the transfer rate and the amount of content in order to develop a highly improved RDS-TMC service or a TPEG-based service. The needed evaluation of technical (interfaces, systems, standards), strategic (workflow, user needs, marketing) political and economic components and the planning of pilot projects will be done in this activity.

Another important point is the traffic-management and traffic-safety for big events. As ORF gained a lot of experience in earlier projects, ORF will now work on a concept for managing international traffic flow (foreign visitors). The connect partners will get the results by best-practice exchanges.

The planning and realisations of all these activities can only be done by cooperating with national and international partners.

Milestones

Pilot trial for RDS-TMC service

Launch of highly improved RDS-TMC service

Development of a TPEG-based service

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PRN 21 Cross-border traffic management on the border area of the motorway network of Austria, Hungary and Slovakia


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Current Situation

Today some traffic management system is operating as “island” solution. Integrated traffic management services are foreseen for the motorway network as well as for the connecting road sections (rural and urban roads). European cross-border co-operation in the border area of Austria, Hungary and Slovakia contribute to a high level service on the European corridors.


The objective of this project is similar as one of the main goal of the EasyWay: realisation of Europe wide traffic management based on traffic data exchange on the TERN network providing information to the road-users in the CONNECT counties. The cross-border traffic management means common elaborated measures for a better traffic flow, without operational boarders (on connected motorway sections operated by different operators on the counties involved, common management of motorway network and connected rural road network).

Work Description

The co-operation will serve the operation of the bottlenecks on the networks, mainly on the border area of the motorway network of Austria, Hungary and Slovakia – according to the goals of the EU’s ‘White Book. This work foreseen will include the elaboration of common traffic management plans with strategies/measures of the areas accepted by each partner. The frame of this project covers processing and establishment of the traffic management plans/measures, and the implementation of the essential infrastructure and link to execute these plans.

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PRN 22 Traffic Management plans in Slovak Trans European Road Network x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

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National Highway Company, Slovak Road Admionistration, Transport Research Institute, Univwersity of Zilina

Current Situation

Slovakia started to solve the Traffic Management vision in 2007 under the former CONNECT project. During this period the basic identification of requirements, possibilities and tools for TMP SK are being solved. In details it means identification of the national requirements in regions bordering with Austria and Hungary concerning the Traffic Management Plans and searching for tools and methodical on how to fulfil the requirements.


Decision and approval of Traffic Management tools and scenarios usage in bordering regions

Needed ITS systems and traffic management information infrastructure identification

Agreement of the Slovak RDS – TMC system and roadside information system for bordering regions in Slovakia

Figure 2: Traffic Management plans in Slovak TERN

Work Description

During 2008 the following analysis will be provided within CONNECT frame: - TMP requirements in regions bordering with Austria and Hungary - National priorities at high level roads - Interconnection with Danube corridor

2009 Slovak– Austria cross-border cooperation

2009 Slovak – Czech R. cross-border cooperation

2009 Slovak – Hungary cross-border cooperation


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- Inputs for TMP – tools, strategies, scenarios - requirement for road network bordering Czech Republic and its traffic management will be

analyzed according national priorities and the tools and scenarios will be agreed with those countries.

During 2009 - Requirements for adequate ITS systems and traffic management information infrastructure will

be identified and planned for individual roads and border sections. the roadside information system for bordering regions will be designed and interconnection with RDS – TMC system in Slovakia will be organized and agreed. This provides the basics for development the system in 2010 and pilot implementation in 2011.

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PRN 23 Cross border traffic management services x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

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Participants

Autovie Venete

Current Situation

The participation of Autovie Venete in the draft of TMPs involving Austrian and Bavarian partners started in 2005, and duirng the year 2006 activities with Slovenian partners started in the project PROMET. These activities will continue in the period covered by the EasyWay programme after the closure of the PROMET initiative.


o Enhance safety, travel time and operating costs on critical TERN segments

o Improve interfaces with emergency services

o Make sure that information used for TM and TIS are consistent at all time

o Increase traveller comfort and prevent dangerous situations.

o Assist new Member States establishing appropriate traffic management strategies and systems

Work Description

Implement ITS solutions for automatic traffic control and management on the stretches of the motorway more congested and deploy strategies at international level to minimise the impact of congestion and accident on the major route. Cooperate with the Police and the institutional actors to set up a tool to be deployed at cross border level, using the data provided by the ICT infrastructure, with an appropriate mathematical model and GIS support, in order to offer solutions for the TMPs and for TIS. Cooperation with other concessionaries (ASPI, Autostrada del Brennero, DARS) and with University of Trieste and Udine has been planned during the period 2007-2009. In the period 2010-2013 the cooperation and the deployment of the tools will be exploited to other actors and institutions.

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Planned Costs (€)

PRN 23 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00Total € 0,00 € 0,00 € 200.000,00 € 200.000,00

PRN 24 Pilot deployment of Traffic management and control simulator


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Strategic partner DARS d.d. (Slovenian Motorway Company) and public procurement subcontractors

Current Situation

Activity is connected to activities in domain 1 RMI, domain 2 TCC/TMC and domain 4 Traveller Information Services.



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o Simulator setup for the operators of TCC/TMC training.

Work Description

Pilot use of Traffic management and control simulator will be used for presentations of traffic control and management simulations and for the training of operators in TCC/TMCs.

Deliverables:

Simulator setup and project documentation. Activity report.

Milestones

o Simulator setup by the end of 2009.

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Sub-activity 2.2: Dynamic traffic and network management

Develop dynamic traffic management and control systems including urban interfaces, focusing on rerouting, traffic management tools, dynamic speed control, ramp metering, tariff modulation, grid management and speed alert.

PRN 25 Safety Critical Road Segments


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ASFINAG – Austrian motorway operator

other partners (e.g. driving schools, driver associations, police departments)

Current Situation

The ORF worked already in former projects on traffic-safety relevant topics and started Pilot projects such as Ghost rider information system. Parallel, the ORF is publisher of a national and international accepted Ghost-rider statistic. The content management system that is used by the ORF, also provides historical data.

Forecasts usually rely on subjective observations and experience. ORF will use the gained know-how in combination with different kind of data in order to develop prognosis especially for critical road segments.


o Development of prognoses to improve the traffic-safety on critical road segments.

o Enhancement of forecast models (combining different content sources, e.g. weather data)

o Overview of critical road segments (points of accidents, how often they occur)

o Concepts for preventive projects

Work Description

In the next phases of EasyWay Connect, prognoses, especially for critical road segments, will be developed. In this project, the focus lies on combining different content sources, e.g. weather data with historic and current traffic information, big events or public holidays. With the resulting information new strategies for improving the traffic-safety can be planned, such as preventive projects and quicker traffic information in dangerous situation (to warn the drivers of impending traffic jams in real-time either over the radio or as customized on-trip information on a mobile device).

In addition, ORF will work on an overview of critical road segments that mentions the points, where a lot of accidents happen, how often and under which circumstanced they occur. With this information new pilot projects can be planned and executed and the existing projects can be adapted.

Furthermore the traffic department will concentrate on preventive projects: Together with e.g. driving schools, ORF will inform how to react in dangerous situations (concepts for preventive projects). To reach this target, ORF will also work out image campaigns.

Milestones

o Development of prognoses to improve traffic-safety on critical road segments.

o Forecast models (combining different content sources, e.g. weather data)

o Overview of critical road segments

o Concepts for preventive projects

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PRN 26 Implementation of Traffic Control Units in the area of Vienna/ Lower Austria


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ASFINAG

Current Situation

Through Austria’s participation both in CORVETTE and CONNECT in period 2001–2006 the Austrian motorway operator ASFINAG had been in close cooperation with international colleagues from both regions. After an overall consultation process the following approach will be taken in Austria: The implementation of the Traffic Control Units (TCU) in Austria will be done in 3 categories based on the expected accident rates and the average volume of traffic:

o TCU light (< 50000 Veh/24h; low accident rate)

o TCU medium (50000 - 80000 Veh/24h; average accident rate)

o TCU heavy (> 80000 Veh/24h; high accident rate)

Depending on the category different measures have been implemented: corridor management; alternative route guidance; variable message signs, traffic route control (monitoring of speed); optimised routing of tunnel traffic; intersection control; inflow regulation; emission control of noise and pollutants.

Figure 3: Areal presentation of Austrian TCU implementations

According to ASFINAGs implementation plan some key events from previous implementation phases were reached (mentioned areas are marked with red circles in the figure above):

o TCU (Phase I) in the area Tyrol was finalised and put in operation in 2005.

o TCU in the area of the intersection Vösendorf (located in south of Vienna) went into operation in 2005.

o TCU on motorway S1 was completed in 2005. The trial operation was last until 1st quarter of 2007.


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These stretches were chosen for the launch for two reasons: On one hand efficient traffic management in these sections has absolute priority, due to the high rate of international traffic. On the other environmental and residential protection are very important in these sensitive areas.

The systems in place have been subject of evaluation and were proved to be extremely efficient towards the vision and the overall objectives in the area of Traffic Management and Control (see chapter European Added Value).

The department Transport and Logistics Management of the Vienna’s University of Economics and Business Administration was contracted to examine the macroeconomic benefit of telematic applications in Austria. The TCU in the area of Tyrol which was co-financed by DG TREN in the course of the CORVETTE project has been put in operation in 2005. The system served as basis for this study and the first results from the evaluation of the Traffic Management and Information system in Austria.

According to the study positive effects are: the reduction of accident rates, the harmonisation and more stable traffic flows, the increase of capacity as well as the reduction of noise and pollution emission due to the active traffic management.

The significant reduction of accidents on the stretch where the TCU in use actively (motorway A12 & A13) is mainly caused by better informed European road users.

In determine the macroeconomic benefit the follow factors are relevant and have been considered: accident costs, loss/gain of time, vehicle operation costs, costs for consumed fuel and also costs caused by the emitted pollution:

Cost/ Benefit Costs [M€]

Reduction of costs via use of TCU Tyrol [M€] -11,03

Implementation and operation of TCU Tyrol 3,93

Benefit of TCU Tyrol -7,1

Already after the trial operation of 6 months in total the following impressive results are available:

-40% Accidents

-20% loss of time due to congestions

Return of Investment after 52 months


In this section the work concerning traffic management will be realised It is done in close cooperation with the work in the area of TIS (see 0, page 18ff).

The ongoing implementation of the Lane Control System in Austria will be carried out according to the Austrian implementation roadmap as can be seen below:

Figure 4: Timeline of Austrian TCU implementations

Work Description

During the project phase 2007- 2009 the following activities will be carried out:

TCU Vienna Lower Austria Phase 1-3

o The trial operation on the motorway S1 and the junction Vösendorf will be finalised in the 1st quarter of 2007.


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o The implementation of the system on motorway A4 which was started in 3rd quarter of 2006 will be finalised by end of 2007. The subsequent trial operation will lead to the permanent operation from 2nd quarter 2008.

o The planning for the motorway A2 stretch “südliches Gewerk” will be finished by 2nd quarter of 2007 and lead to the start of the implementation.

o The planning for area A23/ S2 will be finished in 3rd quarter of 2007 and lead to the start of the implementation.

o The planning for area A1/ A21 will be started in 3rd quarter of 2007 and last until end of 2008.

o The planning for the motorway A22 will be started in 3rd quarter of 2007 and last until 2nd quarter of 2009

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o The tendering process will start in 2nd quarter of 2007 and will lead to the implementation from 3rd quarter 2007 until the end of 2008 where a trial operation with 6 months duration is finalising the activities in this area.

TCU Vienna Lower Austria Phase 4

o The planning work for both concerned motorways S5 and S33 will be started in 2nd half of 2007 and will last until 2009.

TCU Wechsel/ Semmering

o The planning for this area was started late 2004. The work will be continued until 3rd quarter of 2008 leading to a 1,5 year implementation until 2010.

Milestones

See chapter work descriptions

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 26 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Works € 0,00 € 630.000,00 € 740.000,00 € 1.370.000,00Total € 0,00 € 630.000,00 € 740.000,00 € 1.370.000,00


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PRN 27 Weather warning system and preparation for motorway lane management


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RSD

Current Situation

Currently the motorways in the Czech Republic are equipped at most with the system of SOS emergency calls and some meteorological metering stations and traffic detectors. There are only a small number of modern elements of telematic systems (variable message signs, loap detectors, high speed weighing station – WIM and CCTV) which are mostly placed only on new motorways sections. There is only start of building information system, which is being tested within the CONNECT project (2004-2009). It is providing transport information to the drivers. Furthermore there is a development of a monitoring system based on CCTV.

On other roads only at selected sections are placed the meteorological stations with camera or loop detectors (uniquely VMS).

All the above mentioned systems are linked to local monitoring systems and also to the National traffic information centre in Ostrava (NTIC). Data are processed and then the distribution of information from NTIC to drivers is running through radio broadcasting, RDS-TMC, VMS or others.

The project results from European and national transport policy goals, which propose accident rate reduction and improvement of transport fluency. The Czech motorway network is part of the Trans-European network where there is a great deal of transit traffic. This project will help to develop and extend the telematic systems on the motorway network and provide improving of safety and fluency of strategic transit traffic. These systems are currently used in number of European countries with good results. Czech Republic will get by this close to its western neighbouring countries due to facilities of systems providing higher capacity on heavy loaded highways.


The aim of the project is to develop and extend the telematic system facilities which enables the following implementation of road lane management:

One part of the project is to create a concept of a lane control system in CR.

The objectives are:

o implementation and testing of local weather warning stations and associated detection and monitoring equipment

o definition of technical and economic requirements and design of motorway lane management system

Work Description

The main areas of systems implementation on the existing motorway and road network in Czech republic which are planned to be implemented within EASYWAY project up to 2009, are as follows:

1. The main element of motorway and road facilities is the design and implementation road

meteorological stations (SMS) including warning VMS signs and related CCTV systems. SMS must be proposed to fulfill the criteria of Road and motorway directorate (RSD) for data collection (information about conditions of safety in winter) will be used to provide local weather warning in connection with this monitoring system. Improvement of SOS call system is also included. European best practice will be integrated into the design.

2. As an independent project, a system connection of lane management will be conceptually prepared with a feasibility study and designed on the basis of

• prepared traffic scenarios which will rise from traffic models of drivers behaviour. • research of European best practice and coordination with the EasyWay European study

Milestones


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05/2009 – elaboration of feasibility study and design documentation 07/2009 – completion of tenders 12/2009 – implementation of individual actions

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 27 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 2.025.000,00 € 2.025.000,00Total € 0,00 € 0,00 € 2.025.000,00 € 2.025.000,00


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PRN 28 DATEX – based dynamic traffic management: tactical co-operation, exchange of traffic situations/measures


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Current Situation

Actually there is no co-operation in the field of tactical management between the TCC’s of City of Budapest and the State Motorway Co. Cooperation in the future contribute to a better traffic flow on the ring-road around Budapest, which contribute also to a better road-safety situation (MO >> southern bypass<< is the most crowded expressway section in Hungary).


The CONNECT pilot projects in 2007 has demonstrated the applicability of the DATEXII pre-standard, and its appropriateness for centre to centre communication.

Budapest Municipality and the Motorway Management Company started collaboration on the field of traffic management/control. The proposed project will enable full-scale, operational data exchange of selected data groups on road traffic. In the first phase the proposed data type, the data format, and location coding will be analysed.

Work Description

The project site is located on the main (inner and outside) roads of Budapest and the incoming sections of highway roads (which are operated by the ÁAK Ltd). The project covers the data from M0 motorway, and transmission of VMS control data with closures of bridges or planned events. Data transmission should use common, standardised applications (e.g. TCP/IP, XML or Alert C-coding) and/or DATEX coding. Systems developed in this work have to be harmonised and conformed to the existing software and applications, and the existing old systems should be migrated (communication connection, renewal of old devices, software).

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PRN 29 Traffic control and traffic management


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Participants

NewPass

Current Situation

The number of operational Traffic Management Centres (TMC) and Traffic Management Plans (TMP) on the Trans–European Road Network has increased in the last years, both concerning trans-European cross border sections and national road networks. These developments are not necessarily coherent to each other both from a methodological point of view and from a layout view.

TMC in some cases manage limited stretches of roads, in other cases are subject to different authorities and sometimes there are gaps in the covered networks.

TMPs mostly manage events on a limited part of the network (cross border section) but events can occur in any part of the motorway with important consequences on mobility. Some of these Plans encountered problems during the validation phases (some of them are even not been validated at all).

The increased and still increasing traffic on the road network is amplifying the negative impacts of events that occur (for example on road links or tunnel interruptions or bad weather conditions). The heavy vehicle traffic is increasing and expected to increase significantly in the next years.

TMC and TMP Plans would certainly help to ensure these very important traffic flows. Communication technologies and communication capacity improved significantly in the last years and allow fast and detailed data exchanges.

The real time traffic information is mainly available on the main road network but not always on the secondary roads that could provide an alternative itinerary in case of application of Traffic Management.


Traffic Management Centres:

o Provide information and action exchange mechanisms allowing TMC’s to be active on larger areas

o Insure coordination of actions between different bodies active in traffic management

o Support traffic forecasting systems to take anticipatory actions

o Provide coordinated actions in response to emergency events

Traffic Management Plans:

o ITS Implementation on the road networks (main and secondary) in order to increase the efficiency of TMP’s (VMS’s, traffic information services, parking areas, etc.).

o Improve the collaboration among motorway concessionaires and national road managers.

Work Description

o Target of the project is to improve efficiency and effectiveness of traffic management services in order to provide real time information about traffic conditions by a Service Oriented Application based on http technology.

o A technology independent platform will integrate different service-providers and mobility operators improving the collaboration among concessionaries and operators; as a result: increased efficiency and integrated service offer.

o ISO standard compliance will assure moreover the speeding up of the diffusion of traffic and mobility services information within Europe.

o A test-site will be realized on the national motorway network as a backbone, extended to the national routes, aiming to define and to test the improvement of road capacity and safety.

Milestones


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Planned Costs (€)

PRN 29 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 100.000,00 € 140.000,00 € 240.000,00Works € 0,00 € 400.000,00 € 450.000,00 € 850.000,00Total € 0,00 € 500.000,00 € 590.000,00 € 1.090.000,00


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PRN 30 Traffic control and management system upgrades


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Current Situation

Upgrade and clustering of regional and tunnel TCCs/TMCs into main/national TCC/TMC/TIC was performed during CONNECT phases and will continue. Comprehensive road monitoring infrastructure instalments are connected to modern TCC/TMC where traffic on corridors is monitored and managed dynamically according to current traffic situation. While regional TMCs provides roadside information on VMSs, centralisation of TIC functions provides several traffic information systems and services for traffic information.


o System and software upgrades of ITS monitoring and management systems.

Work Description

System and software upgrades of ITS monitoring and management systems

Milestones

o Deliverable by the end of 2009

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 31 Project documentation of TMC system move from ABC Slovenske Konjice to TMC Maribor


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Participants


Current Situation

Upgrade and clustering of regional and tunnel TCCs/TMCs into main/national TCC/TMC/TIC was performed during CONNECT phases and will continue. Comprehensive road monitoring infrastructure instalments are connected to modern TCC/TMC where traffic on corridors is monitored and managed dynamically according to current traffic situation. While regional TMCs provides roadside information on VMSs, centralisation of TIC functions provides several traffic information systems and services for traffic information.


o Plan for TC/TM system move from ABC Slovenske Konjice to regional TCC/TMC Maribor

Work Description

Plan for TC/TM system move from ABC Slovenske Konjice to regional TCC/TMC Maribor

Milestones


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o Deliverable by the end of 2009

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PRN 32 Dynamic traffic and Network Management Eastern Germany


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Participants

o Federal State of Brandenburg, (Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning) o Free State of Saxony (State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Motorway Authority of

Saxony) o Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt (Ministry of Construction and Transport, Saxony-Anhalt) o Federal State of Berlin (Senate Department of Urban Development)

Current Situation

In Eastern Germany several very important corridors (e.g. E30) are linking Eastern Europe with central and northern and Western Europe. These corridors are very important for the transport of persons and freight between these parts of Europe. Several stretches of these important motorways suffer from high traffic loads in particular in the vicinity of the conurbations. Furthermore HGV have a large share of the traffic. It is very important that the traffic flow as well as safety will be improved on these corridors. During the past, i.e on several critical road sections suitable ITS measures (motorway control systems, network control systems etc.) have been installed and contributed to an improved situation. However there are still a lot of sections where the situation can be improved considerably by the installation of suitable measures. These measures will form a considerable European added value by improving safety and traffic flow and thus contribute to safe mobility for the European citizens. Work has been carried out in the previous years for several motorway stretches, i.e. on A113 and on A12 (Incident warning system Border Germany Frankfurt (Oder) – Poland) in Brandenburg, Saxony (e.g. A17) as well as in the surroundings of Berlin including the interfaces to the urban road network.


o Studying and implementation of further critical motorway stretches with motorway control systems, road management systems and VMS in Saxony, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt.

o Installation of an incident management system in Saxony-Anhalt

o Improvement of the urban-interurban interfaces between Berlin and the surrounding motorways.

Work Description

During EasyWay Phase I motorway control systems, network control and the improvement of the urban-interurban interfaces will be carried out. Further work is planned for an incident management system in parts of the network in Eastern Germany. Motorway Control Systems and road management systems (including VMS) will be installed on the most critical motorway sections. The motorway control systems will be designed to carry out the full spectrum of modern traffic management techniques, including traffic dependent speed limits, congestion, incident and weather warnings, lane control at motorway links and ramp metering at access points with high traffic loads. In particular in Saxony a concept for road management system is will be elaborated for the region Zwickau. This road management system includes the motorways A4 and A72 as well as the surrounding road network including links to the urban road network. Furthermore systems will be installed on the motorways around Halle in Saxony-Anhalt . In Brandenburg a programme for future traffic management and control systems will be developed. Furthermore, re-routing possibilities for the motorway network will be studied and implemented. For Berlin/Brandenburg a common traffic management system will be studied and first measures will be implemented. In and around Berlin the interfaces to the urban road network will be improved by several measures. This includes VMS, the interfaces to the respective traffic centre and re-routing.


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Network Control is carried out in motorway networks, where different motorways can be used to one destination. Work is in particular planned for the Network Control A9/A14/A38 in Saxony. Incident Management System: Furthermore an incident management system will be planned and installed on parts of the east-German motorway network (i.e. Motorway A14). The transmission of information on incidents will be carried out.

Milestones

o Concept for a road management system A4/A72.

o Concept and implementation of first steps of the Traffic Management System Berlin/Brandenburg

o Concept for incident management system

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 32 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 1.700.000,00 € 1.700.000,00Works € 0,00 € 886.000,00 € 2.361.000,00 € 3.247.000,00Total € 0,00 € 886.000,00 € 4.061.000,00 € 4.947.000,00


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Sub-activity 2.3: Safety Critical Road Segments

Deploy incident detection and management systems and enhance safety, travel time and operating costs on sensitive and critical road segments (including TERN and urban interfaces). Increase traveller comfort and prevent dangerous situations. Automatic Incident Detection, e-call and interfaces with emergency services, warning services including speed alert, wrong way drivers detection, distance and weight control and HGV overtake control. Improve interfaces with emergency services, e-call and speed control etc. Make sure that information used for TM and TIS is consistent at all time.

PRN 33 Safety Critical Road Segements


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Current Situation

The experience of recent years, and the analysis of historical traffic data shows: There are road sections, where accidents frequently occur. One reason can be the general nature of the road segment, often combined with changing weather conditions. Another cause is the wrong behaviour of motorists in critical situations (e.g. tunnels, ice, traffic jams). Catalogues of measures to improve traffic safety on Austria's roads already exist.


Example:

� Statistical traffic analysis

� Evaluation of user needs

� Concept to expand the competencies of Ö3vers in dangerous situation

� Development of end-user-services

Work Description

2007-2009: Insert a short description (15-20 lines) of the planned study and work and the involved sites, with details for the activities planned.

In the field of safety-critical systems and services the ORF traffic department aims to focus tightly onto user requirements and partners along the traffic information value chain. The gained experience from national and international telematics projects will be adapted according the new services, targets, user needs and requirements. An increased integration based on standardised interfaces is aspired. Necessary measures and concepts will be developed in the next years. These are for example: ORF will start statistical traffic analysis (e.g. reasons for critical road segment). Based on this information, the ORF traffic department will work out several measures, that focus especially on improving the usability of telematics systems for the user. One result could be: For guaranteeing that the driver can fully concentrate on the road, the information about the dangerous road segment in front of him will be provided via spoken announcement by his navigation device or mobile phone.

Another target is to make a special training for Ö3vers in order to expand the competencies in dangerous situations (what to do in case of danger, how to deliver the information to the TIC, automatically or spoken). Moreover the community of Ö3vers is a very useful target audience for pilot trials.

All these experiences will be the base for developing end-user-services that provide security information such as speed limits or dangerous road sections before reaching the road segment.


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Vision on 2010-2013: a general description (5-10 lines) of the activities foreseen in the following years.

The challenge for the coming years will be to identify critical road segments near-real-time and to provide this information automatically to the user in an appropriate form and on the platform the user wants to get it. This requires close cooperation with partners and the development of concepts concerning the technological, legal and economic aspects.

Milestones

Not yet defined

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PRN 34 e-Call workshops in the area of CONNECT x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementation

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ERTICO

Current Situation

eCall is a high priority area within the European Commission.

The use of in-vehicle emergency call (eCall) to deploy emergency assistance will save lives and reduce the social burden of road accidents by improving the notification of such accidents, speeding up the emergency service response and lowering the subsequent effects on fatalities, severity of injuries and traffic flows.

eCall is an emergency call either generated manually by vehicle occupants or automatically via activation of in-vehicle sensors when an accident occurs. When activated, the in-vehicle eCall system establishes a 112-voice connection directly with the relevant PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point), which is a public authority or a private eCall centre that operates under the regulation and/or authorisation of a public body. At the same time, a minimum set of data (MSD) – including key information about the accident such as time, location and vehicle description – is sent to the PSAP operator receiving the voice call. The minimum set of data may also contain the link to a potential Service Provider by including its IP address and phone number. If the user is subscribed to a Service Provider, additional information can be sent from the service provider to the PSAP.

The eCall Driving Group released a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in August 2004 that calls for stakeholders to actively investigate feasible and sustainable eCall solutions and potential business cases. The MoU lists the necessary arrangements for implementation of the eCall action plan and sets out the measures to be taken by the European Commission, Member States, automotive industry, telecoms and insurance industries.

The MoU’s key message is that eCall should work in any EU Member State and that eCall should be based on the single pan-European emergency call number 112.


ERTICO will organise workshops in the different CONNECT countries to discuss and disseminate eCall, its advantages and benefits it can bring to citizens and government.

Work Description

ERTICO will conduct workshops in the CONNECT countries

Milestones

No milestones defined yet.

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PRN 35 Enhancing safety on critical road segments


RN

35

Participants

ASFINAG

Current Situation

ASFINAG is a modern customer oriented road operator with the main objective to increase traffic safety. The Austrian motorway and expressway operator develops new standards and applies innovative measures along its road network in order to reduce the rate of accidents and their consequences. To remain leader in terms of innovation, operation as well as safety and security ASFINAG is constantly improving its services.

The above mentioned project ideas increase the traffic safety as well as the traffic fluency along the Austrian high level road network. Accidents and incidents as well as their consequences can be reduced/ avoided. The service along the Austrian TERN will be improved to offer the road users a primary road network that corresponds to a maximum of safety and availability. The gained experience and knowledge can be spread among the Euro-regional projects.

Objectives and Work Description

In order to increase the safety along critical road segments ASFINAG is going to emphasis on the following topics:

Construction sites

In order to improve the safety as well as the traffic fluently in the area of construction sites ASFINAG has extended its Traffic Management and Information System (TMIS) by a construction site management system. The system is connected to the TMIS which helps the motorway maintenance agency to plan daytime and permanent construction sites. Due to this system the construction sites can be maintained and the work can be monitored. The trafficable consequences which occur from the construction sites can be estimated to due the prognosis of TMIS.

A management and information system is also very crucial for construction sites in road tunnels especially in case of a temporary two-way traffic operation in one-way directional tunnels. Due to the mentioned difficulties the objective is to provide proposals for measures in order to allow temporary two-way operation efficient and fully automatic. Based on a study a pilot implementation will be installed in the Plabutschtunnel on the motorway A9 where the system is already implemented which serves as basis for the proposed pilot installation.

Emergency calls

ASFINAG is going to implement a modern emergency call system for the high level road network especially for tunnels. The deployment and the enhancements as well as the roll-out of modern voice-over-ip capable emergency call centres are planned. The aim is to replace the old technology and to create a basis for a flexible cross linking of interrogation centres/ stations for emergency calls.

In case of tunnels a feasibility study on a signalling device for high level road users is going to be established. This study will formulate recommendations on the further implementation for a simple system which allows the motorist to alarm the tunnel control centre via vehicle.

Time and environment depending topics

At the moment the street lightening is not controllable in Austria. Therefore it is not possible to control the lightening depending on time, traffic and weather situation. ASFINAG is going to establish a system which:

o optimises the costs for energy

o connects the system to the TIC/ TCC

o controls the system depending on the actual weather situation

o controls the system depending on the actual traffic situation

o improves traffic safety

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PRN 36 Enhancing safety in tunnels through telematics applications in the CONNECT region


RN

36

Participants

ASFINAG

Current Situation

ASFINAG is a modern customer oriented road operator with the main objective to increase traffic safety. The Austrian motorway and expressway operator develops new standards and applies innovative measures along its road network in order to reduce the rate of accidents and their consequences. To remain leader in terms of innovation, operation as well as safety and security ASFINAG is constantly improving its services.

The above mentioned project ideas increase the traffic safety as well as the traffic fluency along the Austrian high level road network. Accidents and incidents as well as their consequences can be reduced/ avoided. The service along the Austrian TERN will be improved to offer the road users a primary road network that corresponds to a maximum of safety and availability. The gained experience and knowledge can be spread among the Euro-regional projects.

Objectives and Work Description:

Due to operating major tunnels on the Austrian part of the TERN, such as the Ofenauer and Hiefler tunnel, the tunnels Werfen (Brentenberg-, Zetzenberg-, Helbersberg- and Reittunnel) or major tunnels in the Vienna region (like the tunnel Kaisermühlen), with technology which is sometimes more than 20 years old, an overall reconstruction of especially safety related equipment is absolutely necessary. The focus lays on the update of the electrical equipment and the connection of the system and security technique to tunnel control centres, like the tunnel control centre Golling (connection to the future control centre St. Michael).

Proposed measures will upgrade the tunnels on the actual state of technique. They correspond to the security and technical relevant requirements of the Austrian tunnel security law which is based on safety regulations of the European Commission.

Innovative telematics applications should be used to ensure safety for persons and goods.

Based on evaluations concerning necessary upgrades the focus lies on following activities to ensure safety and security within critical tunnel sections:

o Installation of VMS in order to inform road users about speed, ban of passing and other safety related information

o Modernisation of the emergency system (e.g. emergency call, escape route)

o Modernisation of the monitoring system

o Adaptation of the fire alarm system/ automatic fire detection system

o Adaptation/ modernisation of the tunnel control system

o Adaptation of data transfer to the tunnel control centre

o Upgrade of traffic counting equipment

o Integration of “new” data (e.g. from upgraded traffic counting equipment) in the tunnel control centre

o Improvement/ modernisation of the lighting within the tunnels (e.g. emergency equipment)

In parallel systems to monitor dangerous goods transports through passing major Austrian tunnels, as such a system was elaborated and tested as a pilot within CONNECT in the years 2004 to 2007, shall be implemented in defined tunnels.

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PRN 36 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 220.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 0,00 € 320.000,00Works € 0,00 € 1.565.000,00 € 1.600.000,00 € 3.165.000,00Total € 220.000,00 € 1.665.000,00 € 1.600.000,00 € 3.485.000,00


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PRN 37 Incident management on motorway sections (monitoring, automatic incident – management and prediction with data providing to the road-users)


RN

37

Participants



Current Situation

The most dangerous section can be found on the main-road/motorway sections leading to Budapest. A speed/dangerous situation warning system offered to the road-users additionally to the route guidance, contribute to the improvement of the road safety.


The goal is reducing the numbers of fatal accidents with high level incident management mainly on the most dangerous main-road/motorway sections leading to Budapest. The incident management (monitoring system, automated incident management and preventing, publication of data) as well as services established of the incident management contribute to a better road-safety situation of this area.

Work Description

The task of the system is to monitor the traffic condition as well as the weather and road surface conditions on the selected section of the access road/motorway network, to detect sudden/dangerous changes and to generate automated congestion alert / congestion warning based on actual, real-time as well as historical data available. The planned migration and extension of the pilot system will provide platform for collaboration, data exchange and transmission to the traffic control systems of the motorway operators, to other systems, as well as to other external users/system providers.

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PRN 38 Application of GPS based warning system for dangerous road segments (rail-road crossings, dangerous intersection etc.) – navigation software supplement


RN

38

Participants



Current Situation

The most dangerous section can be found on the main-road/motorway sections leading to Budapest. A speed/dangerous situation warning system offered to the road-users additionally to the route guidance, contribute to the improvement of the road safety.


An alternative way for enhancing traffic safety is to attract the driver’s attention by pre-signing critical and sensitive road segments (rail-road crossing, dangerous junction or curve etc.). The objective of the work is to develop a warning system that upon the database of the road operator sends warning message for the driver of the vehicle before entering a – from traffic safety aspect - critical road section.

The vision is reducing the numbers of fatal accidents with high level incident management mainly on the most dangerous main-road/motorway sections leading to Budapest. The incident management as well as services established of the incident management contribute to a better road-safety situation of this area.

Work Description

The system can be connected to satellite navigation or can work as a self-supporting tool. The pre-requirement of an efficient system is a cheap, in quantity producible on-board-unit. The road operator maintains the critical road section database leaning on an up-to-date accident-data evaluation method.

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PRN 39 Modelling of the vehicle driver’s behaviour in non-standard situations


RN

39

Participants

University of Zilina, Transport Research Institute, Inc.

Current Situation

Slovakia covered dynamic human capabilities measurement in project VEGA 1/9274/02 „Modelling the human operator by human/vehicle interaction“. A laboratory for „eye-hand“ and „eye-foot“ channel dynamics measurement is built. Several papers were presented in international conferences and published in a international journal with citation index (Simulation, Modelling, Practice and Theory - SIMPRA). One of the authors is well known specialist in European recognition in modelling (SIMPRA editorial board, EUROSIM executive board).


Psychical capabilities can be understood as the capability to change dynamic parameters of a man in critical situation and their dependence on driver disposition in a particular traffic situation. Instant concentration, long term concentration, influence of weariness and distracting factors on driver dynamics can be considered. Intellectual capabilities of driver can be understood as the capability to solve difficult situations according to self models of traffic situations obtained with experiences and trainings. This relates with problem of the quality of internal models of outer world (traffic situation) ability to solve problems and make effective decisions based upon size and quality of memory for past situations, effective solving strategies found and ability to learn from past situations, in other words to consider how a drivers action influence the outer traffic situation (future activity planning). Basing on this project, it is possible to build a laboratory for training drivers for difficult traffic situations.

Work Description

2008 - Analysis of capability to change dynamic parameters of a man in critical situation and their dependence on driver disposition in a particular traffic situation (instant concentration, long term concentration, influence of weariness and distracting factors on driver dynamics..) 2008 – 2009 Analysis of the capability to solve difficult situations according to self models of traffic situations obtained with experience and training. (This relates with problematic of the quality of internal models of outer world - traffic situation, ability to solve problems and make effective decisions based upon size and quality of memory for past situations, effective solving strategies found and ability to learn from pas situations) 2009 – Proposal of pilot laboratory for training drivers for difficult traffic situations

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PRN 40 eCall – 112 in Slovak Republic


RN

40

Participants

University of Zilina, National Highway Company, Transport Research Institute, Inc.

Current Situation

In Slovak Republic there is introducing agenda of emergency call to number 112 by law No. 129/2002 Z.z. The issue of eCall implementation is only in study level and in acquaintance of European development steps and trends of policy.


Background for lounching theNational pilot project in 2010

Work Description

2008-2009 – Synergy with the e-Safety initiative; 2008 – 2009 Preparing infrastructure for the pilot project including road operators, police, firemen and health services; 2008 – 2009 Policy assessment and development 2009 –Preparation of National deployment at the level of pilot project in 2010

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PRN 41 Reducing of adverse impacts of black spots occurrence through intelligent transport systems


RN

41

Participants

Transport Research Institute Inc., National Highway Company

Current Situation

Black spots are characterised by higher accident rate than other road segments. There are a number of reasons which have adverse impacts on road safety, congestions prevalence and environmental damages resulting from these. Solution of this problem is possible to realize by various ways. In case of inadequate construction layout solution is the reconstruction of given road segment. However resources necessary for implementation of such measures are relatively high. However essential part of black spots has construction layout on consistent level. Reasons for their occurrence are usually inappropriate drivers´ behaviour, weather conditions as well as operational conditions of vehicle. Implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) as a solution of black spots should become effective way to reducing of adverse impacts, e.g. congestions. These impacts are results of caused reaction to accidents occurrence. There is strong influence of accidents on higher fuel consumption and its impacts on environment. From mobility point of view longer travel times have unexpected effects on road users.


Reduction of the black spots number by 40% throughout the whole Slovak part of the TEN-T road network. This implies considerable decreasing of the traffic accident frequency per kilometre. For this the ITS tool is planned for using - variable speed limits using VMS, remotely controlled from Traffic Information Centre. The other way is a state support for implementation and using new in-vehicle active safety tools - Collision Avoidance Systems, Intelligent Speed Adaptation, Nighttimes Vision Systems, Lane Keeping Systems and speed management.

Work Description

2007: the provision of the methodology for safety performance indicators (SPI) according to the results of EU project SafetyNET including the black spot areas:

o drivers’ behaviour (alcohol, speeding, seatbelts)

o post-accident care,

o vehicle safety rating (EuroNCAP),

o infrastructure rating (EuroRAP),

o action plan of speed management on safety critical road segments including driver support

2008:

o the Analysis of accident’s causation and prevalence of congestions on black spots will be provided for effectiveness and efficiency assessment of promised ITS modifications. Analysis will be prepared on basis of data specified accidents causation on relevant locations. Additional information source are data provided by Road Data Bank in responsibility of Slovak Road Administration (SSC). It is possible to define black spots that are suitable for reconstruction. On basis of findings will attention be paid to possibilities within ITS which are at this time object of solution in Slovak Republic (project CONNECT) as abroad.

o Objects of interests are black spots registered in number 146 in 2003. In addition repeated black spots will be assessed (31) for reasons of road safety and mobility improvement as well as reducing of negative impacts on environment. Particularly black spots at the TEN-T and complementary TEN-T road network will be analysed from possible ITS implementation point of view.

o Detailed analysis followed by selection of black spots has to precede implementation of proposals where using of ITS sounds as good choice. This process should be object of activities within research project by December 2008. Definition and filling of the Register of relevant black spots which are suitable for ITS solutions is target of the research work. Analyse of accident’s causation


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and prelevance of congestions on black spots will provide data for assessment of individual locations.

2009:

o Second phase of project will be aimed at selection of appropriate ITS technology which are described within project CONNECT or other coordinated projects.

o Design of ITS platforms shall be accompanied by pilot projects that will be detailed monitored. These activities will be performed until December 2009.

o Within declared target great effort will be dedicated to wide solution of given black spots. Time perspective for these aims is estimated by end of 2013

Milestones

No milestones defined

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 41 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 70.000,00 € 90.000,00 € 95.000,00 € 255.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00Total € 70.000,00 € 90.000,00 € 195.000,00 € 355.000,00


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PRN 42 Dangerous cargo and transport security


RN

42

Participants

Transport Research Institute, Inc.

Current Situation

Several problems of dangerous goods transport optimization, optimization of overload goods transport, optimization of transport in special condition planning and optimization of transport tasks in crisis situation are very complicated. Crisis situations need speed and correct organization order and also its using in practice. In the field of transport can crisis situations begin during transportation of dangerous or overload goods. There are sometimes as outcomes of natural and industrial disaster, terrorist attack or other reason.


Identification of the basic factors determining safety of transport by means of transport and dangerous or sensitive cargo.

Alternative scenarios when solving leakage of hazardous materials from the viewpoint of their optimality

Theoretical apparatus usable to define optimal routes for transport, i.e. the shortest routes, routes with the minimal level of maximum damage, routes having the lowest probability of accident occurrence, routes with minimal damage in case of accident.

Rescue service centres for solving natural environment hazards.

Work Description

2008: Identification of transport infrastructure objects connected with transfer of dangerous and sensitive cargo (thereinafter DSC) at national and multinational transport network,

2008: Spatial arrangement and transport flows of DSC in connection with existing and perspective road network,

2008: Conditions, methods and means of flows monitoring, storage, handling with DSC and their routing in transport flows,

2009: Verification and tracing transported DSC on road network and evaluation of critical positions and events on road network,

2009: Alternative scenarios for hazardous situations solutions – detours, protection of environment …

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PRN 43 Traffic management with accidents detection and multi-media operation centres


RN

43

Participants

Polizia della Strada

Current Situation

o During 2004 the study phase relative to the system’s base architecture was completed and the acquisition of hardware and software technologies started, which then ended in the 2005. In the year 2006 further studies were conducted, finalized both toward a complete and functional employment of the tools acquired and toward the possibility of enhancing their usability, basing on the system’s potential and ulterior devices.

o Participation for an active realisation of Traffic Management Plans.

o Project to be started.


o Implementation of Compartmental Traffic Control Centre realized in the 2004-2006 time span.

o Application of Management Traffic Plans.

o Exact and timely detection of accidents.

Work Description

o Study and implementation: Completion of the study, begun in 2006, directed towards the management of the information flow of dangerous goods; including the realization, at this time in the sole region of Veneto, of a radio localization system which will track these vehicles in real time, displaying their position on a digital map at the Multimedial Compartmental Traffic Control Centre. Moreover, there will be the implementation of the established equipment, researching for more advanced technological systems of data transmission, of database inquiries and of communication.

o Study: Research activity and national and international meeting participation in order to realize Traffic Control Plans in the CONNECT area.

o Study: Research on the available detection systems for accidents having features which fulfil the institutional requirements of the Polizia Stradale.

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 43 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 30.000,00 € 60.000,00 € 90.000,00Works € 30.000,00 € 120.000,00 € 210.000,00 € 360.000,00Total € 30.000,00 € 150.000,00 € 270.000,00 € 450.000,00

PRN 44 Pilot project SCALAR – detection and tracing of thunderstorms


RN

44

Participants


Current Situation


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Following the experience thunderstorms are harmful to ITS equipment and causes falling out of ITS systems.


o Detection and tracing of thunderstorms.

Work Description

Detection and tracing of thunderstorms for the best deployment of safety measures against falling out of ITS systems.

Milestones

o Pilot project SCALAR - detection and tracing of thunderstorms will end by end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 45 National guidelines for incident and emergency handling workgroup support


RN

45

Participants

MOT – Ministry of Transport Slovenia Strategic partner DARS d.d. and public procurement subcontractor

Current Situation

Activity is continuation work from previous and connected to activities in domain 1 RMI, domain 2 TCC/TMC/TIC, domain 3 Safety issues and domain 4 Traveller information services.


o „National guidelines for incident and emergency handling on corridors“ as output of workgroup activity of involved responsible actors.

Work Description

National guidelines for incident and emergency handling on corridors is continuation work from previous CONNECTphases when study of current situation was performed, scenarios and procedures among responsible actors will be defined in working group with the output „National guidelines for incident and emergency handling on corridors“. Deliverables:

Study „National guidelines for incident and emergency handling on corridors“, working group meeting minutes and project documentation. Activity report.

Milestones

o Deliverable „National guidelines for incident and emergency handling on corridors“ by the end of 2009

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PRN 46 Tunnel Control and Safety Saxony x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementation

ImplementationPR

N 4

6

Participants

Free State of Saxony (State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Motorway Authority of Saxony)

Current Situation

The implementation of the EC directive 2004/54/EG on minimum requirements to the safety of road tunnels on the trans-European road network into national law leads to the need to improve the safety of road tunnels. For this the German guideline “RABt” was adapted in order to fulfil the requirements of Directive 2004/54/EG. Consequently additional or new technical equipment for tunnel control and tunnel safety has to be installed in order to meet the requirements.

European added value can in particular be seen in improved safety for the important tunnels on the trans-European Road Network in Northern Germany.


o Installation of the necessary tunnel control and safety equipment

Work Description

Tunnel Control and Safety Saxony : During EasyWay I the preparing study work (i.e. detail planning) for the equipment and facilities for tunnel safety and tunnel control will be carried out.

Milestones

o Planning of tunnel equipment for safety and tunnel control.

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3.3 Activity 3: Freight and Logistics Services

Contribution to the EasyWay Objectives To be added


Information Services for Freight Transport

PRN 47 Public information portal for freight transport Czech Republic 73

PRN 48 Establishing of a static information service, providing information about parking possibilities/systems for the freight transport on the TEN-corridors of Hungary

Hungary 75

PRN 49 Services for Freight Transport along Slovak TEN roads Slovakia 76

PRN 50 Plan for road transport information web site (user needs) Slovenia 77

PRN 51 Survey of development possibilities for transport exchange service Slovenia 77

PRN 52 Development plan of truck parking service in Slovenia Slovenia 78

PRN 53 Safe parking pilot cooperation Slovenia 78

3.1

PRN 54 Parking Information System for HGV Germany 79

Freight transport management services

PRN 55 Establishing of a dynamic information service, providing additional information (route-guidance, occupancy of parking areas, etc.) for the freight transport on the TEN-corridors of Hungary

Hungary 80

PRN 56 Heavy goods vehicles and dangerous goods services Italy 81

PRN 57 Technical and organisational issues of Multimodal tracing of freight based on RFID

Slovenia 82

PRN 58 Multimodal tracing of freight based on RFID feasibility study Slovenia 82

PRN 59 Broadening of DARS concession with freight transport services Slovenia 83

PRN 60 Deployment of dangerous goods monitoring Slovenia 83

3.2

PRN 61 Information and Management System for Abnormal Loads/VEMAGS

Germany 84

Intermodal freight

PRN 62 Survey of technical and organisational issues of multimodal transport and hubs

Slovenia 85 3.3

PRN 63 Survey of regional multimodal hubs and networks with the projection of transport flows

Slovenia 85



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Sub-activity 3.1: Information Services for Freight Transport

Develop information services dedicated to freight transport. Freight portal, information about parking availability, guidance and information services.

PRN 47 Public information portal for freight transport


RN

47

Participants

MD CR

Current Situation

There are currently no special public information services for freight transport in the Czech Republic, which in a country with a high amount of freight transit and variable weather and road conditions causes problems over the whole network. Accidents involving HGVs cause a large number of serious incidents every year. Research and trial progress is being made in this area in other countries across Europe and this theme is a special focus of EasyWay. A Czech national research project has been commissioned in 2007 to define such a real-time freight information service with multi-modal coverage, with the specification completed in 2008 and the data model and implementation plan completed in 2009. Any system implementing the results of this research project would be made compatible and integrated with the National Road Information Centre in Ostrava and the National Traffic Information Database. Close cooperation with CESMAD and Czech Railways would be a must. The European added value is clear in that European drivers, shippers and hauliers will be provided high quality information to inform their multi-modal travel decisions at an international level given the long-distance nature of many freight trips. This should lead to travel decision efficiency at a European level. The potential contribution to the global objectives of safety, environment and congestion reduction is clear through better planning and readiness to face unusual or poor driving conditions.


We aim to conceptually prepare, pilot and then implement a public multi/intermodal information internet application and database for multi-modal trip planning for long distance (>100 km) trips either at international or national level. No such system currently exists and the benefits for modal shift could be significant.

The system will make maximum use of real-time information from the HGV tolling system and the JSDI (The unified system of traffic information) and should be easily accessible on basic public media including the internet and strategically located public terminals (at borders and major rest stations, major logistics centres, public transport stations). The underlying database will be made (freely or commercially viably) available to commercial third party information suppliers who wish to add value or provide the information on other media and will also serve for transport planning purposes. Purchase of ready data from existing commercial data sources will also be considered where relevant.

We would also be looking to integrate major international destinations into the system with meta-information access to road options, coach options, rail options, flight options and where possible with meta information access to other outward looking international travel information systems (for door-to-door planning). Comparative route costing will be a part of this process where possible. We should also provide meta information access for our national systems to the international EU-SPIRIT system or whatever system becomes the basis for the common European effort in EasyWay.

In the pilot period, the operational model will be tested including the potential for full or partial commercial independence of parts or all of the service and the business plan for implementation completed.

Eventually it should provide multi-modal information for drivers in real-time such as travel time across Europe but mainly costing and time table information for pre-planning decisions such as routing and modal combination / choice.

We would expect to work with the new LINK EU research project (forum for long-distance intermodal passenger transport) in this area and combine with similar projects in the Euroegional area, particularly for


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international trip modal choice. A strong link would be made with the EasyWay European study “Wide area Seamless Traffic and network Management including co-modality”.

Work Description

In 2009, the system will be researched, conceived and consulted with experts and potential users and relations and common visions built with the numerous partners required for such a system which will then be proposed at a conceptual level and then specified. Activities in this period include :

o Connection to other initiatives (LINK, EU-SPIRIT, EasyWay ES) and mapping the state of the art

o Workshops with partners / EasyWay ES

o Interviews with potential users

(In 2010, 2011 and 2012, the system concept, consultation of the concept and the specification will be completed and a pilot will be developed and evaluated and the business case and implementation plan finalised)

Milestones

7/09 – 9/09 review of literature, existing projects, systems, data availability etc

10/09 – 12/09 results form review - report

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PRN 48 Establishing of a static information service, providing information about parking possibilities/systems for the freight transport on the TEN-corridors of Hungary


RN

48

Participants



Current Situation

Actually there is no information system providing static (parking) information for the freight-transport. The established systems will contribute to a higher level of operation on the TEN-elements of the Hungarian road-network.


The purpose of the project is a creation of a parking data base with relevant static information about systems/facilities and publication of this database for freight transport.

Work Description

In the frame of the Traffic Safety Program published by EU the number of deaths caused by fatal accidents is planned to decrease by 50 %. The program included the enhanced regulation and control of driving time of drivers employed by freight transporters, and it covers also extra sanctioning for it.

The aim of the project is twofold. On one hand one of the road technical legislations numbered “ÚT 2-1.137” needs to complement with a paragraph about building and services of parking places near other elements of the interurban road network. On the other hand the existing parking places needs reconsidering taking account to those place (location), free places, and services and the catalogue of this has to be published in leaflets and on the internet for the users. The database needs to be updated continuously.

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PRN 49 Services for Freight Transport along Slovak TEN roads


RN

49

Participants

Transport Research Institute, Inc. National Highway Company, Slovak Road Administration

Current Situation

Professional HGV drivers entering Slovak Republic are informed neither regularly nor in real time about the situation ahead of their itineraries. RDS-TMC service is being prepared to start the operation but its kinds of information do not fulfil all necessary expectations of the professional long distance HGV drivers. Under such conditions many accidents caused by HGV drivers (foreign ones too) occur in Slovakia. From the main reasons the drivers’ fatigue and drive in strange or risky area can be identified. This is partly valid for bus drivers too. Therefore driving without sufficient breaks for rest, searching the parking areas for HGV or rambles in cities causing the chaos in roads must be mineralised by using the information technologies oriented directly to drivers’ needs.


Identification of Information needs of drivers, transporters and operators for journey

Design of the information system as a starting point for the pilot

Work Description

2008 - 2009: - Analysis of requirements of transporters, operators, drivers and fleet managements regarding the information supporting performance of transport services

- Comparison of the requirements with the services operated or available

- Definition of the steps for fulfilment requirements not supported by information services

2009: - System design together with data provision, data flows and information interfaces

- Development of the pilot organization

Milestones


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PRN 50 Plan for road transport information web site (user needs)


RN

50

Participants

Ministry of Transport Slovenia

Current Situation

There is no relevant and specialised information for road transport users especially for transit transport.


o Plan for road transport information web site portal with determination of user needs.

Work Description

Determination of user needs and plan for Plan for road transport information web site portal.

Milestones

o Deliverable “Plan for road transport information web site portal” by the end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 51 Survey of development possibilities for transport exchange service


RN

51

Participants


Current Situation

Only some of biggest logistic companies collect freight and optimise use of transport.


o Survey of development possibilities for transport exchange service.

Work Description

Foreseen is a transport exchange service where users of transport services and transport offering meet. That could lead to optimised multimodal use of transport and reduce empty runs. Survey should answer the question how to cover the interests of both parties for efficient use of transport and reach the benefits for end users, transport companies and efficient use of transport.

Milestones

o Survey of development possibilities for transport exchange service will be delivered by the end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)


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PRN 52 Development plan of truck parking service in Slovenia


RN

52

Participants


Current Situation

Truck parking on corridors is not organised and becomes problematic issue.


o Determination of the need for the organised truck parking service with costs/benefits survey.

Work Description

Survey of needs for truck parking service and related issues with costs/benefits analysis and link to the euro-regional truck parking services is planned. Survey will be the basis for future activities in the field.

Milestones

o Development plan of truck parking service in Slovenia by the end of 2009

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 53 Safe parking pilot cooperation


RN

53

Participants


Current Situation

In EU Study Freight and Logistics Safe parking pilot is planned.


o Cooperation in the euro-regional truck parking service pilot

Work Description

Cooperation in the euro-regional truck parking service pilot providing the specifics of Slovenian infrastructure.

Milestones

o 2008 to the end of 2009


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Planned Costs (€)


PRN 54 Parking Information System for HGV


RN

54

Participants

o Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt (Ministry of Construction and Transport, Saxony-Anhalt)

Current Situation

The capacity of the rest areas on motorways today is insufficient. The reasons are considerably risen HGV transport during the recent years, more efficient control of driving times and the driving bans on Sundays and bank holidays in several European countries. The consequences are overcrowded rest areas with negative impacts on safety. Furthermore the use of the rest areas is not equal. Some areas are overcrowded, while others, possibly in the vicinity, have free space.

Intelligent Information and Control System for Motorway Service Areas will improve the situation on the service areas, lead to a more equal use of the areas by the freight vehicles and thus improve safety considerably.


o Concept for an intelligent parking information system for HGV

Work Description

An intelligent parking information system for HGV for the motorway service areas would contribute to a more balanced and more efficient use of the areas reducing overcrowding and the negative consequences for safety. During EasyWay I a concept for such an intelligent parking management system will be developed in Saxony-Anhalt. This concept addresses particularly motorway A9.

Milestones

o Concept for an intelligent parking information system for HGV

Planned Costs (€)



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Sub-activity 3.2: Freight Transport Management Services

Cross border network management, proper monitoring and handling of dangerous and oversized goods transport. Provision of relevant information regarding national regulations and restrictions as well as designated routes and administrational handling. Addressing specific needs in cross-border traffic management plans. Reduction of non-infrastructure bottlenecks for the freight and logistics sector by providing an extension of the current services. Provision of tracking services for sensitive cargo for the road operators, the public authorities and the fleet managers. Pilots for dangerous goods tracking and tracing device using e.g. satellite navigation.

PRN 55 Establishing of a dynamic information service, providing additional information (route-

guidance, occupancy of parking areas, etc.) for the freight transport on the TEN-corridors of Hungary


RN

55

Participants



Current Situation

Actually there is no information system providing static or/and dynamic information for the freight-transport. The established systems will contribute to a higher level of operation on the TEN-elements of the Hungarian road-network.


The goal is to provide real-time information about the actual situation of the parking facilities of the main traffic corridors. The feasibility of the system has to be evaluated on the highways and on other elements of the interurban road network, like selected sections of freight transportation. The pilot project should be planned, and implemented herein after in one of the parking place of the selected sections of the national highway network that has enough capacity, services, and where every needed facility is given (e.g. energy, communication with wide bandwidth, monitoring/controlling system on the line).

Work Description

Controlling/monitoring of available parking places, providing dynamic information about parking facilities (on road side and/or Internet sites)

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)



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PRN 56 Heavy goods vehicles and dangerous goods services


RN

56

Participants

Autovie Venete

Current Situation

The influence of heavy good vehicles and dangerous goods on the stretches of motorways managed by Autovie causes several problems and could be indicated as one of the factor of congestion, risks of accident and the consequences for the normal traffic and for the environment are really dangerous. Autovie has started in the year 2006 the studies of solutions for the tracking and tracing of the veichles coming and driving from interlogistics platforms connected to the motorways under concession.


o Enhance safety on critical TERN segments

o Improve interfaces with emergency services

o Prevent dangerous situations.

o Assist new Member States establishing appropriate traffic management strategies and systems

Work Description

With the deployment of the network of sensors aimed to traffic measurment, monitoring and control, in parallel the concessionarie in collaboration with the government of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, with the Port Authorities of Trieste and Monfalcone, with the University of Trieste and Udine and with the operators of Freight and Fleet transport that usually uses the interlogistics platforms of Fernetti, Gorizia Sant’Andrea and Cervignano Interporto, will study and implement the technical and logistic support to the drivers of Dangerous Goods transportation using the most advanced technologies on the market, (e.g. RFID, GNSS system, WiFi and other means), in order to communicate with the drivers and to control where the trucks were moving. The trace and tracking of Abnormal Heavy Goods vehicles were deployed on the network during the MIP phase and the connection with other concessionaries will contiunue during the EasyWay phase. The integration of Dangerous Goods Vehicle Trace and Tracking system (in terms of HW and SW on the road side and in the TCC) will be the completion of the activities aimed to reduce the risks of accidents and the consequences caused by the accident when happens. A network of sensors and the appropiate SW to monitoring and check the current situation on the road, for the enviromental paremeters (Co2 pollution, noise control, other pollutant or contaminant substance) will be implemented on the new stretches of motroways under construction (the plans foreseen at least 50 kms of new section to be realized during the period 2007-2013) and the reduction of the pollution and risks for the environment caused by Heavy and Dangerous goods transport.

Milestones


Planned Costs (K€)

PRN 56 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 300.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Total € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 300.000,00


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PRN 57 Technical and organisational issues of Multimodal tracing of freight based on RFID


RN

57

Participants


Current Situation

Need for efficient and cheap multimodal tracing of vehicles and freight was determined. In 2008 program CONNECT idea of service for multimodal tracking of vehicles and freight was developed and communicated.


o Survey of Technical and organisational issues of Multimodal tracing of vehicles and freight.

Work Description

Determination of technical and organisational issues of Multimodal tracing of vehicles and freight based on RFID with the pilot setup.

Milestones

o Activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 58 Multimodal tracing of freight based on RFID feasibility study


RN

58

Participants


Current Situation

Need for efficient and cheap multimodal tracing of vehicles and freight was determined. In 2008 program CONNECT idea of service for multimodal tracking of vehicles and freight was developed and communicated.


o Feasibility survey of Multimodal tracing of vehicles and freight

Work Description

Multimodal tracing of freight based on RFID feasibility study is a detailed cost/benefits study based on DG Regional Policy COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS methodology of possible EU-regional service connected to transport infrastructure.

Milestones

o Feasibility survey of Multimodal tracing of vehicles and freight by the end of 2009

Planned Costs (€)


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PRN 59 Broadening of DARS concession with freight transport services


RN

59

Participants


Current Situation

DARS - Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia is limited to the concession for road infrastructure.


o Widening of concession to include transport and logistic services and support.

Work Description

Determination of current situation and activities toward the widening of concession are planned. Reasons are safe parking services on corridors and road transport information services.

Milestones

o Activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 60 Deployment of dangerous goods monitoring


RN

60

Participants


DARS - Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia with subcontractors

Current Situation

Preparatory studies were delivered during the CONNECT


o Deployment of dangerous goods monitoring

Work Description

Initial deployment of the sophisticated dangerous goods monitoring based on recommendation of EASYWAY expert group.

Milestones

o Initial deployment by the end of 2009


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Planned Costs (€)


PRN 61 Information and Management System for Abnormal Loads/VEMAGS


RN

61

Participants

o Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt (Ministry of Construction and Transport, Saxony-Anhalt) o Federal State of Brandenburg, (Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning) o Federal State of Berlin (Senate Department of Urban Development)

Current Situation

For abnormal transports generally specific approval processes are necessary including the selection of the roads to be used and checking of bridges, tunnels etc. This process is being carried out in various ways in different countries including different regulations, legislation and definitions. Furthermore, different authorities have to be contacted and also for national transports today the approval process is rather complicated and time-consuming.


o Improve the transport of abnormal loads by carrying on the work on the information and management system for abnormal loads (VEMAGS)

Work Description

Information and Management Service for abnormal loads/VEMAGS. For standardisation and increase of efficiency of the approval procedure for abnormal transports a national German system “VEMAGS” is being developed by the German authorities responsible for abnormal transports. This includes also the checking of bridges and the selection of roads to be used. This programme will facilitate abnormal transports in or cross Germany considerably, improve efficiency and reduces costs for both, the authorities and the hauliers. VEMAGS is one of the biggest e-Government projects in Germany. During EasyWay I the interfaces between the system in Eastern Germany and the new system VEMAGS will be developed.

Milestones

o VEMAGS Interface in Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and Berlin

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Sub-activity 3.3: Intermodal Freight

EasyWay projects will enhance access to modal and intermodal exchange points for the European freight community. Enhance access to and extend dedicated intermodal cross border truck-information. Development of tools for facilitated access to intermodal points like ports.

PRN 62 Survey of technical and organisational issues of multimodal transport and hubs x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementation

ImplementationPR

N 6

2

Participants


Current Situation

Better utilisation of multimodal transport is needed.


o Survey of technical and organisational issues of multimodal transport

Work Description

Survey of technical and organisational issues of multimodal transport is an overview of best practices and initiatives in multimodal transport with the regional specific proposed measures for more multimodality. Special focus will be the analysis of multimodal consolidation point as information exchange point and where are the opportunities to overcome the weak points in multimodality.

Milestones

o Survey of technical and organisational issues of multimodal transport and hubs by the end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 63 Survey of regional multimodal hubs and networks with the projection of transport flows


RN

63

Participants


Current Situation

Survey of regional transport flows was performed during the CONNECT.


o Survey of regional multimodal hubs and networks with the projection of transport flows

Work Description

Survey of regional multimodal hubs and networks with the projection of transport flows is the continuation of the study “Freight transport flows in Slovenia” where modality, quantity and types of transport were determined among Slovenian regions based on statistics. Continuation will provide the main actors of these


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transport flows, networks of actors and the role of logistic centres and the projection of transport flows in the near future. Results will be used for transport policy use.

Milestones

o Survey of regional multimodal hubs and networks with the projection of transport flows in 2009.

Planned Costs (€)



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3.4 Activity 4: Efficient ICT Infrastructure


It is well known and firmly established that an efficient and reliable network of monitoring devices is one of the essential requirements to implement traffic information services and effective traffic management/data exchange policies, all relying on the data collected by the monitoring network itself.


Deployment of monitoring infrastructure

PRN 64 Communication infrastructure Austria 88

PRN 65 Heavy Vehicle Traffic monitoring Network concept in CR Czech

Republic 89

PRN 66 Updating/establishing of a comprehensive monitoring system on the TERN network and on the connecting rural roads/urban roads

Hungary 91

PRN 67 Laboratory Testing & Calibrations of In vehicle information and Communication systems

Slovakia 92

PRN 68 In vehicle information and Communication systems with enhanced functions

Slovakia 93

PRN 69 Traffic Monitoring System on the critical TERN road elements Slovakia 94

PRN 70 Traffic Monitoring System on the TERN road boarders Slovakia 95

PRN 71 Full Area Dangerous Goods Transport Monitoring and Information System in Slovakia

Slovakia 96

PRN 72 Full Area Sensitive Cargo Transport Monitoring and Information System in Slovakia

Slovakia 97

PRN 73 Traffic data collection Italy 98

PRN 74 Traffic control and management system Slovenia 99

4.1

PRN 75 Traffic Monitoring in Easter Germany Germany 103

Upgrading Traffic Control Centres

PRN 76 Road weather Information System Austria 104

PRN 77 Updating/development of the Motorway TCC, involving new sections in the traffic control system in operation

Hungary 106

PRN 78

Updating/development of the Motorway and Budapest TCC’s for a better tactical co-operation between both centres/ Dynamic traffic models for the support of traffic control measures involving additional data sources (e.g. FCD)

Hungary

107

PRN 79 Integration of traffic control systems in the area of Bratislava Slovakia 108

PRN 80 EFC infrastructure Italy 109

PRN 81 Development of unified application platform for TMC support on desktop technologies

Slovenia 110

PRN 82 Guidelines for operators in Traffic control and management centres Slovenia 110

4.2

PRN 83 Upgrading TCC for Motorways and urban/interurban areas Germany 111

Establishing information exchange

PRN 84 Information Exchange Austria 112

PRN 85

DATEX-based cross-border co-operation on the road-network (co-operation between the different motorway-operators, between the motorway/urban centres as well as between the TCC of the CONNECT countries)

Hungary

113

PRN 86 DATEX II Slovakia 114

4.3

PRN 87 Cross border connectivity of Traffic Information Centres Slovakia 115



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Sub-activity 4.1: Deployment of monitoring infrastructure

Deploy monitoring devices including Galileo based systems and vehicle-infrastructure communication. Traffic counting stations including alternative sensors, video cameras (CCTV), webcams, weather stations and deployment of mobile monitoring including Galileo and floating car based systems.

PRN 64 Communication infrastructure


RN

64

Participants

ASFINAG

Current Situation

CN.as is the basic infrastructure for this intelligent network which is used by all companies of ASFINAG. Besides communication applications it is also responsible for other applications like tunnel and route control, emergency systems, control centres as well as the data transfer for the LCS.

To fulfil the above mentioned vision ASFINAG keeps establishing the latest information, communication and transfer technology. This modern system ensures safe, comfortable and high-capacity transport ways along the Austrian motor- and expressways. The gained experience and knowledge can be used for similar activities in Europe.


The main objective is to provide a modern wide-banded communication network for applications on the high level road network.

Work Description

Due to higher data volume in the long distance traffic the requirements on the communication infrastructure and transfer technology is steadily increasing. Therefore ASFINAG is going to enhance its service portfolio by implementing internet-connectivity as well as WLAN applications. The planned implementation is based on studies performed in the Euro-regional projects CORVETTE and CONNECT. The new technologies can be used to replace analogue radio communication along the high level road network.

Milestones


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PRN 65 Heavy Vehicle Traffic monitoring Network concept in CR


RN

65

Participants

RSD

Current Situation

There are currently only a small number of devices for weigh in motion (WIM) in the Czech Republic so we can say this is a green-field activity which fits in with the national transport policy and the (in-preparation) national transport plan in terms of managing road quality efficiently, protecting the environment and promoting safety and the promotion of technology in solving these problems. It is suspected that the volume of overweight vehicle traffic is high in the Czech Republic although no statistics are available.

The system will be non-discriminatory and thus will test a large volume of international freight traffic passing through or originating in the Czech Republic. Eg. the D1 forms part of the 4th pan-European corridor strategic corridor which connects Western Europe with Eastern and South Eastern Europe and the East and thus the weigh in motion device at this location (but not the only one) is of strategic importance to detect overweight vehicles transiting from the East to the West and thus protect a large part of the European Transport Network.


The impact objectives of project in the Czech Republic are to

o reduce the volume of over-weight freight traffic

o improve safety of freight traffic

o reduce emissions of freight traffic

o reduce maintenance costs (including social costs of infrastructure unavailability) by protecting the quality of the infrastructure against over-weight loads

o Enforce a fairer application of the user pays principle

The technical objectives of the project are:

o to technically develop, evaluate and prove the system concept of weigh in motion system on Czech motorways

Work Description

The project will consist of the building of a high speed WIM system with sensors in one or more lanes capable of accommodating highway vehicles moving at speeds of 30 to 130 km/h. The project will be developed along with the national police and customs. The measurement of dynamic loading on pavement has been intensively studied for the last 30 years and has been the subject of various international collaborations like project DIVINE and COST 323.

In 2009 the study will solve complex elaboration of methodical approach of weighing on highways in CR also with suggestion of locations for weighing (It is calculated with probably 20 locations). It includes also preparation of engineering and preparatory studies and documentations. The project will also prepare the time schedule for installation and financing of the proposed WIM network.

This will be followed by implementation of circa 20 locations

Milestones

05/2009 – elaboration of feasibility study and project documentation 06/2009 – completion of tenders 12/2009 – implementation of individual actions

Planned Costs (€)


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PRN 66 Updating/establishing of a comprehensive monitoring system on the TERN network and on the connecting rural roads/urban roads


RN

66

Participants




Current Situation

The base of all ITS systems/services is a reliable database, using different sources of information. To contribute to a better service the actually operating monitoring system need an upgrading. The established traffic control and information services improve the quality of the traffic flow as well as the level of the road safety situation.


One of the main objectives is the elaboration of final construction drawing of monitoring system for critical intersections of M2 – M3 – M0 (section north) highway roads and access roads of M2, M3 incoming Budapest and for the area of the Hungarian boulevard inside of Budapest. These plans have to include all main parameters of planned cameras, sensors and other monitoring devices, the data transmission possibilities as well as the data processing. Technical specification for the realisation of the monitoring system should be elaborated, as a base for the tendering process.

Work Description

Establishing of a comprehensive, integrated monitoring system, based on the monitoring system plans of the M2-M3 motorways in the area around of Budapest as well as in the area of the boulevard Hungarian inside of Budapest.

The connection between Traffic Control Centre of ÁAK and TCC of Budapest has to be implemented. The project should be realised in two stages.

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)



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PRN 67 Laboratory Testing & Calibrations of In vehicle information and Communication systems x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

67

Participants

Transport Research Institute, Inc. University of Zilina, Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications

Current Situation

o An absence of both specialized testing and calibration laboratory oriented to vehicle systems, RSU components and eCall system elements.

o Perspective demand for testing the above mentioned components from horizontal EU legislation point of view (e. g. LVD, EMC, R&TTE Directives), but also from the aspects concerning functionality, function safeguard and interoperability.

o Free premises and personal capabilities within the existing testing and calibration laboratories, currently oriented to the related topics (e.g. telecommunications, radio communications, EMC, electric safeguard).

o The range of testing and measurement equipment partially covers requirements to provide appropriate component tests and calibrations.

o A potential of the high-qualified experts and specialists in the testing and calibration area.

o A well-established quality management system ISO 9001:2006 (certificate-holder) and the accredited testing and calibration laboratories in compliance with STN EN 1702 standard.

o The hands-on experiences from the CONNECT project tasks solved in previous.


Provision of complete services connected with the test performance for certification purposes, with the check measurements for the state supervision purpose, and with the appropriate component calibrations.

Work Description

o 2008: Purchase of technology for testing laboratories and accessories for calibration laboratory

o 2008: Training the staff and accreditation to carry out corresponding tests and calibrations

o 2008-2009: Worked-out groundwork (investment plan) of technological accessories for testing and calibration laboratories

o 2009: Test and calibration performances - within the pilot project (a field trial)

o 2009: Services provision as a commissioned work

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)



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PRN 68 In vehicle information and Communication systems with enhanced functions x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

RN

68

Participants

Transport Research Institute, Inc. University of Zilina, Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications

Current Situation

Within the CONNECT project (2004-2009) the basic parameters of an dedicated in vehicle communication system were specified, and board units of other producers were analyzed too. The own solution of the board unit was proposed in the project. From the viewpoint of implementation of future services, the proposed board unit is open solution. There were analyzed common principles and technical solutions of board units, because just minimum of the existing units are designed for the support of dangerous goods transportation purposes. Transmission protocols were analyzed in term of usability for information transmission in a local vehicle network and through the radio interface between board unit and monitoring centre. The vehicle positioning, direction and velocity was realized by means of GPS.

Authors made analysis of vehicle internal bus lines, which producers use for transmission of control information between technological vehicle subsystems. At the end of this part communication protocol for CAN bus was chosen.


Implementation of existing individual services (e.g. electronic tachograph, e-toll units…). Development of new services utilizing OBU technical environment for the proposal of universal multifunction intelligent communication terminal (We assume interaction between WEB services, e-call systems, functions of VMS terminal …).

Work Description

The management of dangerous goods transportation is a complex problem, which needs cooperation of international teams in the following areas:

o Standardization of vehicle technical environment assigned for specific transport in term of unification of sensor network solution, their parameters and interfaces (vehicle – OBU, sensor network – vehicle control network, vehicle – roadway infrastructure).

o Implementation of Galileo system to OBU.

o The European harmonization of communication protocol between vehicle OBU and monitoring centre in terms of trouble free handover of vehicle among different monitoring centres, signal degradation of primary monitoring centre, frontier crossing …

o proposal of the in vehicle system for driver support

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)



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PRN 69 Traffic Monitoring System on the critical TERN road elements


RN

69

Participants

National Highway Company, Transport Research Institute, Inc.

Current Situation

The critical road elements of TERN D3 in Zilina – Hricovske Podhradie and D2 in area of Bratislava represent a typical black spot in mountains area with a high average traffic volume of both light and heavy goods vehicles. The main type of traffic is heavy goods vehicles on the corridor Poland – Slovakia – Hungary. On the south the road E11 enters the regional capital Zilina and the junction with the west – east highway D1.

In the present time there is no implemented technology for traffic monitoring either for Traffic Management System.

Due to the traffic volume and the meteo situation of the mountain type the safety and the road efficiency is very low.


The overall vision is to build a Traffic Management System in the area at Zilina -Hricovske Podhradie and Sitina Tunnel – Stare Grunty with the strong connection to the regional Traffic Control systems.

Work Description

June 2007 Beginning of work

July 2007 Agreement with partner (NDS), for which monitoring information is provided

Aug 2007 Development of Monitoring deployment plan based on user requirements

Mar 2008 Final of service quality requirements

Aug 2008 Implementation of Monitoring technology

Monitoring technology will be based on Automatic Road Meteo Stations, Automatic Fix Traffic Counters and VMS. All traffic and meteo-data will be collected in real time in Control Centre. The output for Traffic Information Centre will be provided.

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 69 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 425.000,00 € 230.000,00 € 80.000,00 € 735.000,00Works € 1.700.000,00 € 1.670.000,00 € 500.000,00 € 3.870.000,00Total € 2.125.000,00 € 1.900.000,00 € 580.000,00 € 4.605.000,00


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PRN 70 Traffic Monitoring System on the TERN road boarders


RN

70

Participants

Slovak Road Admistration, Transport Research Institute, Inc., National Highway Company

Current Situation

This functionality is not implemented today in Slovak border regions. As road traffic increases (especially the heavy goods traffic) the road authorities need to be informed about the actual traffic situation on the boarders and to have possibility to collect traffic data for next traffic management activities. The data after being used for inland traffic management should be sent to bordering CONNECT partners (Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Czech Republic) to inform them about HGV volumes entering their road network. Moreover, on-line measurement will bring an opportunity to control traffic on traffic corridors on all area.


System should provide:

o Supplying the traffic information from the boarders to the users through Traffic Information Centre in real time

o Sharing this type of information with bordering CONNECT partners

o An overview about the movement of oversized and overweight vehicles

o Real time traffic analysis will be used for control of the heavy goods traffic in traffic corridors.

Work Description

July 2007 Agreement with partners (NDS and SSC), for which monitoring information is provided

Aug 2007 Development of monitoring deployment plan based on user requirements

Sep 2007-Dec 2007 Final of service quality requirements

Jan 2008- Dec 2008 Implementation of Monitoring technology

Jan 2009- Oct 2009 Implementation of SW modules for Traffic Data Acquisition and Analysis

Implementation of SW modules for Information Transfer to Traffic Information Center and to CONNECT Partners

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 70 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 30.000,00 € 20.000,00 € 0,00 € 50.000,00Works € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 115.000,00 € 195.000,00Total € 30.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 115.000,00 € 245.000,00


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PRN 71 Full Area Dangerous Goods Transport Monitoring and Information System in Slovakia x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementation

ImplementationPR

N 7

1

Participants


Current Situation

Pilot project of such information system is solved in Slovakia within the CONNECT project and it should be finished till the end of year 2007. Results and know-how of pilot project will give details for the study.


On the ground of cooperation of developers’ teams, study will set the recommendations for unified procedures, data flows and communication protocols between on-board unit and monitoring centres. It also will define the procedures needed for full area implementation of information system.

Work Description

2007: Study in process under CONNECT – after finishing the pilot project

2008 - 2009: Cooperation with developer teams in Austria and Czech Republic - set the principles for the unifications works, finishing the study.

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 71 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 50.000,00 € 0,00 € 50.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Total € 0,00 € 50.000,00 € 0,00 € 50.000,00


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PRN 72 Full Area Sensitive Cargo Transport Monitoring and Information System in Slovakia


RN

72

Participants


Current Situation

Pilot project of the system shall be finished till the end of year 2007 within the CONNECT project. Results and know-how of pilot project will be the source for full-area monitoring and information system design in next years.


The goal is monitoring and information system of sensitive cargo transportations in Slovakia, interoperable with similar systems in neighbouring countries (or Pan European monitoring and information system). The vision is the status, when universal goods vehicles’ on-board unit will be able to cooperate with all national monitoring centres of European countries.

Work Description

2008: Recommendations for the process of full area monitoring and information system design

Job schedule for all participants of project for the years 2008 and 2009

Cooperation with developers teams in European countries to set the unified procedures, data flows and communication protocols and to provide interoperability.

OBU and centre HW and SW design

2009: Prototypes of new OBU unit and monitoring centre.

Testing the behaviour of system in real condition with monitoring centre and several on-board units

Proposal for legislative regulations for full area monitoring and information system operation

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 72 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00Works € 0,00 € 49.500,00 € 60.000,00 € 109.500,00Total € 0,00 € 49.500,00 € 60.000,00 € 109.500,00


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PRN 73 Traffic data collection


RN

73

Participants

Autovie Venete

Current Situation

Project not started yet.


Improve the ICT infrastructure aimed to the traffic, weather and environmental data collection, transmission and processing

Increase the quality of the data collected

Increase the reliability of the data collection and data processing

Improve the studies on the impact of traffic and the event related to the traffic on the TERN

Work Description

2007: starting the study for the project of the new data and telecommunication system based on the most advanced technologies (Fibber optic, wireless and UMTS) available on the market. The study will be integrated with the project of the upgrading from 2 up to 3 lanes of the motorway A4 Venezia-Trieste, expected to start during the year 2008.

Deployment of TVCC system and AID system for automatic traffic detection on the new section of motorway under construction (A28) and scheduled for the operation in the year 2009.

Implementation of weather and environmental (pollution, noise and water monitoring) system on the new section of motorway as above mentioned.

The use of DATEX (I or II) for the dissemination and the cooperative traffic management and for inter-operator exchanges for traffic management needs (such as video data exchanges).

Milestones


Planned Costs (€)

PRN 73 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 300.000,00Works € 500.000,00 € 1.000.000,00 € 1.000.000,00 € 2.500.000,00Total € 600.000,00 € 1.100.000,00 € 1.100.000,00 € 2.800.000,00

Kommentar: Not started


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PRN 74 Traffic control and management system


RN

74

Participants


Current Situation

Maribor Area:

Highway system is, in the wider area of Maribor, intersected by fast road and regional roads – mostly exit roads. The highway is in the section between the channel of Drava and road split Pesnica, from construction point of view, very demanding object as almost the entire section is built on objects ( tunnel, covered channel, many viaducts and bridges ).

Above mentioned highway sections are going to be very loaded, specially with cargo traffic, therefore it's important to anticipate corresponding scenarios of traffic re-routing in case of exceptional conditions on the road ( separation in winter conditions, closure of the tunnel or highway section, ... ) in order to ensure optimal traffic flow on the entire highway system in the wider area of Maribor.

LJ ring North:

Northern bypass road of Ljubljana is, according to the categorisation, fast road. This section of road connection has the identification H3 and it's spread between intersections Koseze on west and Zadobrova on east. Between both intersections, there are many junctions, mostly diamond shaped and roundabouts. In the intersection Koseze it connects to the Western bypass road of Ljubljana and in the intersection Zadobrova it connects to the Eastern bypass road of Ljubljana.

Above mentioned highway section is very loaded, specially with cargo traffic, therefore it's important to anticipate corresponding scenarios of traffic re-routing in case of exceptional conditions on the road ( separation in winter conditions, closure of the tunnel or highway section, ... ) in order to ensure optimal traffic flow on the entire highway system in the wider area of Northern bypass road of Ljubljana.

Because of the high traffic loads, which are including transit as well as city traffic and because of dense placed junctions, the Northern bypass road of Ljubljana belongs among potentially dangerous road sections on which, in order to assure traffic safety in potentially dangerous situations, traffic management system ( TMS ) needs to be installed.

Karavanke:

Section in front of cross-border tunnel Karavanke is not covered by the system for traffic management and control.

Koper-Izola:

Construction of the coast corridor section Koper-Izola.

Postojna-Kozina:

Existing corridor section Postojna-Kozina and the new built section Razdrto-Vipava.


Maribor Area:

2009

In order to ensure optimal traffic flow on the entire system of highways, fast roads, connection and regional roads during normal and exceptional traffic conditions ( weather conditions, exceptional events – accidents,


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congestions, ... ), it is necessary to introduce TMS for establishing optimal traffic conditions and ensuring adequate traffic safety. In case of potentially dangerous situation on the road, the possibility to partially or entirely re-route the traffic on the parallel road network, has to be assured.

TMS on the Northern bypass road of Ljubljana will, during it's operation period, ensure:

• higher traffic safety in potentially dangerous situations

• harmonization of traffic flow in case of big traffic loads and, as a consequence, better use of road capacity and less traffic jams

• satisfaction of drivers needs for information and the increase of driving comfort

• less burdening of the natural environment

LJ ring North:

2009:

In order to ensure optimal traffic flow on the entire system of highways, fast roads, connection and regional roads during normal and exceptional traffic conditions ( weather conditions, exceptional events – accidents, congestions, ... ), it is necessary to introduce TMS for establishing optimal traffic conditions and ensuring adequate traffic safety. In case of potentially dangerous situation on the road, the possibility to partially or entirely re-route the traffic on the parallel road network, has to be assured.

TMS on the Northern bypass road of Ljubljana will, during it's operation period, ensure:

• higher traffic safety in potentially dangerous situations

• harmonization of traffic flow in case of big traffic loads and, as a consequence, better use of road capacity and less traffic jams

• satisfaction of drivers needs for information and the increase of driving comfort

• less burdening of the natural environment

Karavanke:

o Covering of the section in front of tunnel Karavanke with the .TC/TM system.

Koper-Izola:

o Traffic control and management system on the new built section Koper-Izola.

Postojna-Kozina:

o Traffic control and management system on the section Postojna-Kozina.

Work Description

Maribor Area:

TMS in the area of Maribor's highway network will be composed of many inter-connected components, which will enable operation of basic system functions:

• collecting of traffic and weather data and data regarding exceptional events on the roads along the discussed road section

• data processing and storing

• control over the current situation on the highway network

• control over functioning of individual system components

• executing the measures of traffic management on the highway network

Effective execution of traffic management and control of the highway network will be enabled through the data exchange between the system for management and control on the highway network and other


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organizations and systems, which will participate in managing and controlling of traffic on this highway section.

The structure of the system on Maribor's highway network will have to enable upgrading of system in the sense of extending the size and introducing new technologies.

Components of the system:

• Regional centre for traffic management and control ( 1 X )

• Local control stations ( 21 X )

• External sub-systems:

o microwave detectors ( 12 X )

o video detection ( 12 X )

o video control ( 30 X )

o VMS portal ( 23 X )

o VMS semi-portal ( 9 X )

o VMS variable signpost signalization ( 16 X )

o VMS display above the line ( 10 X )

• Telecommunication network

LJ ring North:

TMS in the area of Northern bypass road of Ljubljana will be composed of many inter-connected components, which will enable operation of basic system functions:

• collecting of traffic and weather data and data regarding exceptional events on the roads along the discussed road section

• data processing and storing

• control over the current situation on the Northern bypass road of Ljubljana

• control over functioning of individual system components

• executing the measures of traffic management on the Northern bypass road of Ljubljana

Uniform informing of drivers and traffic management along the mentioned road section will be enabled by connecting it with existing TMS on Western bypass road of Ljubljana. Both systems will have to work synchronised, meaning, that the mutual communication will have to be established.

Effective execution of traffic management and control of the highway network will be enabled through the data exchange between the system for management and control on the highway network and other organizations and systems, which will participate in managing and controlling of traffic on this highway section.

The structure of the system on the Northern bypass road of Ljubljana will have to enable upgrading of system in the sense of extending the size and introducing new technologies.

Components of the system:

• Regional centre for traffic management and control ( 1 X )

• Local control stations ( 12 X )

• External sub-systems:

o microwave detectors ( 31 X )

o video detection ( 32 X )

o video control ( 18 X )

o road-weather stations ( 2 X )


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o VMS portal ( 11 X )

o VMS semi-portal ( 11 X )

o VMS variable signpost signalization ( 2 X )

o VMS display above the line ( 10 X )

• Telecommunication network

Karavanke:

Deployment of the TC/TM system on the section in front of the one tube two lane tunnel Karavanke is planned to assure level of traffic safety with informing and directing vehicles in special conditions.

Installed will be VMS portal, VMS half-portals, VMS traffic signs, semaphores, ramps, video monitoring and communication infrastructure connected to the local tunnel control centre Hrušica, from where traffic will be monitored and managed.

Koper-Izola:

Deployment of the TC/TM ITS system on the new built section Koper-Izola is planned to assure level of traffic control and safety with informing and directing vehicles in special conditions.

RMI infrastructure with traffic counters and video detection, tunnel safety and warning infrastructure and VMS portals will be deployed.

Postojna-Kozina:

Deployment of the TC/TM ITS system infrastructure on the section Postojna-Kozina is planned to assure level of traffic control and safety with informing and directing vehicles in special conditions.

RMI infrastructure with traffic counters and video detection and VMS portals will be deployed and connected to regional traffic centre in Kozina.

Milestones

Maribor Area: o Implementation activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

LJ ring North: o Implementation activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

Karavanke: o Implementation activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

Koper-Izola: o Implementation activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

Postojna-Kozina: o Implementation activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

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PRN 75 Traffic Monitoring in Easter Germany


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Participants

o Free State of Saxony (State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Motorway Authority of Saxony)

o Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt (Ministry of Construction and Transport, Saxony-Anhalt)

Current Situation

The coverage of the TERN in Eastern Germany with monitoring stations is quite advanced. However, some gaps are to be filled and improvements are necessary in order to achieve high quality monitoring. In particular issues like improved monitoring by video cameras will be carried out in the coming years.

The additional infrastructure is generally implemented in form of fixed monitoring stations (loops). Additional and complementing to this infrastructure innovative camera system are being studied and will be implemented afterwards on some motorway stretches in Saxony.

The European added value can be seen in improved road monitoring on the important motorways in eastern Germany, which form part of large European Corridors (e.g. E30) linking Eastern Europe to Central and Western Europe. Improved monitoring will lead to improved traffic management, traffic information and safety on these important motorways. Furthermore, the monitoring of environmental data will contribute to the goals of reducing negative effects for the environment.


o Enhancement of the monitoring network

o Use of advanced monitoring equipment (i.e. Cameras)

Work Description

VESUV: The Motorway Authority of Saxony improves the road monitoring with camera systems. Work includes study work additional to the installations which have been carried out. This study work includes adaptations and optimisation.

Monitoring Saxony-Anhalt: In Saxony Anhalt the road weather information system SWIS will be enhanced, the monitoring of the long-distance Traffic will be improved and data capture systems will be enhanced.

Milestones

o Study for VESUV

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Sub-activity 4.2: Upgrading Traffic Control Centres

Upgrade traffic control centres and systems. Traffic control centres (automatic collect, processing and distribution of information) and core traffic management system.

PRN 76 Road weather Information System


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Participants

ASFINAG

Current Situation

The traffic flow along the high level road network depends not only on infrastructure, road users and operators or other interferences like accidents and incidents. One of the most important factors influencing traffic is the environment especially the weather. Therefore ASFINAG started its work on road weather information systems in the previous phases of the Euro-regional projects CORVETTE and CONNECT. The first studies and pilots were already established. In EasyWay, ASFINAG is going to provide these important services along the Austrian motorway- and expressway network especially along weather critical stretches (e.g. alpine area).

These efforts should increase the safety on the European high-level road network. Due to the better and faster information concerning road condition and weather situation the European traveller can be informed earlier but also the motorway operator can react faster.


Only a high quality and quantity of traffic and environmental data ensures a high level of safety along Austrian high level road network. Besides traffic flow and events the Austrian motorway- and expressway operator is also gathering weather data to provide more information to road users and operators as well as road maintenance staff. In order to meet the requirements of the mentioned groups ASFINAG is going to develop different types of road weather information systems.

Work Description

It is necessary to install an area-wide road condition and weather monitoring system to guarantee a fast response time e.g. in case of removing snow from the Austrian motorway and expressway network.

These road condition and monitoring stations are equipped with sensors to detect wind, fog, (glazed) frost, etc. To ensure a simple maintenance the system is installed on masts.

Besides this information ASFINAG receives information from Austro Control. Austro Control is the Austrian aviation agency which is highly experienced in the field of collecting and analysing weather data. Due to this cooperation precise illustration of short-term and long-term weather developments are provided to the Austrian motorway operator. This information can be used to predict weather related impacts on the traffic. In a next step proactive counter-measures will be derived in order to warn European travellers about possible hesitations ahead. In more details the planned work for the next years is:

o Optimisation of data integration

o Consolidation of the central system technology and the Road Weather Information System

o Integration of new traffic control units into the system

For the modern service oriented operation of motor- and expressways traffic safety, high quality of road network and a low number of interferences is very important. In addition the road operators are claimed to ensure efficient and environmental friendly management. Particularly for the winter service the requirements are very crucial. Besides an efficient structure of the management also the effective use of resources has to be planned exactly. Therefore adequate measures are necessary for:

o resource planning

o in time estimation of weather and stretch related road conditions/ development of road situation


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o support of quick decisions concerning the measures defined in a operation procedure

o effective management and control of interventions

o quick and direct communication, direct information paths as well as securing high quality and resilient database

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PRN 77 Updating/development of the Motorway TCC, involving new sections in the traffic control system in operation


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77

Participants


Current Situation

The upgrading of the operating/existing TCC’s contribute to a higher level of traffic management on the motorway network as well as on the connecting sections of the urban roads leading to Budapest. The benefits are a better, safer traffic flow.


Traffic control system (intersection-, line-, section-, network controlling) has to be implemented on the motorway network to improve traffic flow quality as well as the traffic safety. The implementation should consider the traffic density and accident rates.

Work Description

At the safety black spots local control has to be built up, and line control have to be introduced on the critical, most loaded sections. Both roadside equipments and central units should be installed. The base of the realisation will be the studies delivered in the CONNECT project Phase II and III.

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PRN 78 Updating/development of the Motorway and Budapest TCC’s for a better tactical co-operation between both centres/ Dynamic traffic models for the support of traffic control measures involving additional data sources (e.g. FCD)


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78

Participants



Current Situation

The upgrading of the operating/existing TCC’s contribute to a higher level of traffic management on the motorway network as well as on the connecting sections of the urban roads leading to Budapest. The benefits are a better, safer traffic flow.


The traffic control of the roads of Budapest and the connected motorways needs technical and institutional connections. High level of cooperation of relevant organisations needs appropriate information exchange. The M0 and other motorways in the around of Budapest are the most loaded and accident-sensitive sections due to the radial structure of the national road network.

The collaboration that will be realised on these sections will enable common traffic management and information provision for the traveller. The appropriate level of service presumes building of reliable information, good coverage and a good working connection between the two organisations.

Work Description

As the theme of the project in sub-activity 1.2 (PRN 19) is closely connected to the work carried out in this project, the implementation regarding dynamic traffic models will be executed within this project.

Common, harmonised development and the establishment of good operational relationship in the day-by-day operative work needs several technical, legal, economical, and organisational reconciliations. That relationship will be the bases of the coordinated traffic control on the network of Budapest and its neighbourhood. The harmonised control can be introduced on the common section of M1-M7 motorways and the connected road (Budaörsi Street), as well as on the main roads/motorways leading to Budapest in the next stages of realisation.

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Planned Costs (€)

PRN 78 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 20.000,00 € 180.000,00 € 200.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 1.000.000,00 € 1.000.000,00Total € 0,00 € 20.000,00 € 1.180.000,00 € 1.200.000,00


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PRN 79 Integration of traffic control systems in the area of Bratislava


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79

Participants

National Highway Company, Slovak Road Administration

Current Situation

In the area of Bratislava highways D1 and D2 are crossing.

D1 and D2 are equipped with monitoring infrastructure here. The infrastructure on D1 and partially on D2 (excluding VRS and VMS devices) is monitored and controlled by Highway Information and Control System. On D2 tunnel Sitina is planned to be put into operation in June 2007. Technological infrastructure and traffic control infrastructure is monitored and controlled by a separate system in the city Traffic Control Centre is controlling traffic lights on all intersections on main city routes including those connected to D1 and D2 highways. Currently, there’s no interconnection between those systems, except of limited exchange of camera picture signals


The main objectives of building an intelligent integrated traffic control system are improvement of traffic flows, increasing level of road safety and optimal redirection of vehicles to less loaded and quickest route to their destination by providing accurate and relevant data to vehicle drivers. Improvement of traffic flows and reduction of travel time will result in reduction of noise emissions, fuel consumption and engine exhaust emission.

Work Description

7/2007-4/2008: Design and implementation of interface for mutual exchange of measured data commands between the systems.

10/2007-6/2008: Exchange of traffic and traffic-related information with other traffic centres in Bratislava city and adjacent areas

12/2007-9/ 2008: Provisioning of relevant real-time traffic information to travellers on this critical TERN network section

12/2007-12/2008: Provisioning of quick and relevant warning through the Traffic Information Centre Preparation of next steps for 2009 - 2011

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Planned Costs (€)

PRN 79 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 30.000,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 30.000,00Works € 110.000,00 € 40.000,00 € 0,00 € 150.000,00Total € 140.000,00 € 40.000,00 € 0,00 € 180.000,00


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PRN 80 EFC infrastructure x Regional Study/ Pilot Implementationx ImplementationP

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80

Participants

Autovie Venete

Current Situation

The EFC system already in use on the motorway managed by Autovie needs to be deployed as well as new section of the motorway will be completed and opened to traffic. The system based on the most advanced automated and electronic technologies adopted in Italy will be integrated with free-flow gantries and with interoperable systems deployed within the neighbour countries (Austria and Slovenia). In the MIP phase studies and pilot implementation of fully automated EFC and interoperable system (based on the technologies adopted in Austria deployed by Europass-Asfinag) were implemented and tested on the field on the network of motorway managed by Autovie Venete.


Complete the EFC system on the new stretches of motorway (A28-A4) under construction.

Integrate the system with the existing one.

Test and validate the interoperability with the EFC system in use in other countries.

Reduce the time of operation for the road users and reduce the congestion on the most congested section of the TERN.

Improve the reliability of the data collected for the management of the traffic.

Work Description

The programme for the period 2007-2008 include the feasibility studies and the development of the new tolling station on the motorway A28 (connecting the A4 Venezia-Trieste and the A27 Venezia-Belluno), at current situation without EFC system. It will be included the new toll plaza on the section of the A4 between San Donà and Mestre when the by-pass of Mestre will be completed and put into operation.

The project include all electronic, telecommunication, data collection and processing hw and sw structures dedicated to the management of the EFC system, the integration with the system already in use and the integration with the system in use by the neighboured concessionaries (ASPI, Autostrada VE-PD, DARS).

The monitoring system and the Centralised Control Center for the maintenance and support to the users, implemented during the MIP phase, have to be complete renewed and upgraded to the new dimension of the EFC system, as the toll stations will increase from 12 up to 15 (three new complete toll plaza-station) and with the renewal of five toll plazas (Trieste-lisert, Villesse, Portogruaro, Ronchis and Venezia Est).

Public tender for the commitment and for the contract to suppliers will be published during the period.

The project will be deployed in collaboration with ASPI and DARS.

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Planned Costs (€)

PRN 80 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 300.000,00Works € 500.000,00 € 1.000.000,00 € 1.500.000,00 € 3.000.000,00Total € 600.000,00 € 1.100.000,00 € 1.600.000,00 € 3.300.000,00


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PRN 81 Development of unified application platform for TMC support on desktop technologies


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81

Participants


Current Situation

Web technologies developed as Unified spatial application platform are accepted for usual daily tasks but not sufficient for complex viewing and analysis of traffic situation.


o Development of unified application platform for TMC support on desktop technologies

Work Description

Development of unified application platform for TMC support on desktop technologies is a further development step for complex spatial viewing and analysis of traffic situations combining remote database access and local processing power.

Milestones

o Implementation activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

Planned Costs (€)


PRN 82 Guidelines for operators in traffic control and management centres


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82

Participants


Current Situation

During deployment of ITS systems several different systems and versions of equipment were installed.


o Guidelines for operators in Traffic control and management Centres

Work Description

New guidelines for operators in Traffic control and management Centres are needed to cover all installed ITS technologies, control software and procedures as a reference for experienced and novice operators.

Milestones

o Implementation activity will be finished by the end of 2009.

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PRN 83 Upgrading TCC for Motorways and urban/interurban areas


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83

Participants

o Federal State of Brandenburg, (Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning) o Free State of Saxony (State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Motorway Authority of

Saxony) o Federal State of Berlin (Senate Department of Urban Development) o Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt (Ministry of Construction and Transport, Saxony-Anhalt)

Current Situation

Centres even within one country may rely on individual software and hardware solutions and the cooperation between the centres is not satisfactory due to this. In Germany every Federal States has a specific traffic control centre for controlling and managing the motorway control systems on motorways on its area. Theses centres use partly different software which may hamper cooperation, data exchange and upgrading. In order to improve and to facilitate upgrading and data exchange between the systems unique and improved software on national level is being developed. Traffic Management centres address several issues of traffic control and traffic information and thus contribute to improved information of the road user as well as efficient management and control of the road network. However several Traffic Management Centres have to be upgraded to operate with sufficient quality concerning traffic management and data exchange.


o Improve function and possibilities for Data Exchange of the Traffic Control Centres

Work Description

For implementing the unique software and for exchanging data in an adequate way the existing motorway control systems have to be upgraded and several adaptations are necessary in particular for the interfaces to the new software. Furthermore work will be carried out to develop unique operating interfaces for all systems connected to the specific motorway TCCs, which up to now sometimes are being separated. This work will be carried out for the TCC Saxony . Some final work, adaptations and optimization for the TCC Berlin/Brandenburg will be carried out. In Saxony the traffic control centre will be enhanced and upgraded. This includes also facilities for the road traffic monitoring and the data exchange as well as the equipment for the traffic control. The Traffic Control Centre Berlin addresses the urban and interurban network as well as the interfaces between them. The Centre will be further upgraded. In Saxony-Anhalt work will be carried out for upgrading traffic centres for traffic information, the development of a network of traffic centres as well as for implementing an traffic light maintenance system in the traffic management centre.

Milestones

o Saxony: Upgrading of the TCC Saxony

o Brandenburg: Finalisation of the TCC Berlin/Brandenburg

Planned Costs (€)

PRN 83 2007 2008 2009 TotalStudy € 0,00 € 572.000,00 € 598.000,00 € 1.170.000,00Works € 0,00 € 0,00 € 2.390.000,00 € 2.390.000,00Total € 0,00 € 572.000,00 € 2.988.000,00 € 3.560.000,00


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Sub-activity 4.3: Establishing Information Exchange

Development of operational networks at local and international levels and establishment of procedures for information exchange. Consolidation of the DATEX 1 network (till 2008). Deployment of DATEX 2 nodes (low and full profile). Development of harmonised network databases and procedures for seamless / cross-border information exchange.

PRN 84 Information Exchange


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Participants


Current Situation

Due to cooperation with national and international partners, the installation of telematic systems in Austria and the neighbour countries comes along and the experiences could be provided for the new Connect partner, which entered the EU in 2004. The aim of EasyWay is to optimize this cooperation, eliminate compatibility problems and realise further data exchange with other traffic information centres.


o Upgrade of the TIC – special focus on the CONNECT region

o Coordination of potential partners in the traffic information (contracts)

o Extension of information exchange

o Adaptation in the field of standards (e.g. DATEX I/ DATEX II/ Alert-C)

Work Description

In the past the data exchange between national and international partners was not that easy, because of compatibility problems.

Therefore it is planned to harmonise the standards of data exchange so that the automatic transmission and converting of incoming traffic information could be realised. Not only the cooperation with existing, but also with new TICS will be planned. Technical, legal and economic aspects have to be considered. Furthermore, data exchange has to be realised and the necessary hard- and software has to be upgraded or implemented.

Milestones

o Upgrade of the TIC – special focus on the CONNECT region

o Extension of information exchange

o Adaptation in the field of standards

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PRN 85 DATEX-based cross-border co-operation on the road-network (co-operation between the different motorway-operators, between the motorway/urban centres as well as between the TCC of the CONNECT countries)


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85

Participants

Municipal Publis Services Co. Ltd. - FKF



Current Situation

The actual Hungarian traffic control and information systems are working as “island” solutions. The cross-border co-operation on the different levels contribute to the possibility of better services, contributing to a better traffic flow as well as to a better road safety situation.


One of the European Union goals is to allocate seamless international traveller information and supporting systems. The main aim is to reach common, high service level on the TEN-T network. The appropriate information is network-wide, reliable, and based similar, common information-collection. For this reason the DATEX II should apply in the first stage as a pilot and in the second stage as a final solution for the cross –border traffic information exchange.

Work Description

The main task is the realisation of harmonised, high quality and reliable data bases of traffic relevant data, using DATEX based communication. The existing data bases should prepared for processing the new type of input, and a new methodology and/or software also should be elaborated. Additional software will be needed in the existing systems to receive and process the new information.

In the first stage the DATEX based communication should be realised on the corridors between Budapest and Vienna and in the next stages a solution for the communication will be foreseen with other participants as follows:

o co-operation between the different motorway-operators,

o between the motorway/urban centres,

o between other TCC-s of the CONNECT countries.

The result of the project should be high-level traffic-related communication lines between countries, traffic centres, as well as operators.

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PRN 86 DATEX II


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Participants

Current Situation

The implemented data exchange system DATEX (pre-standards ENV 13106 and ENV 13777) has not satisfied present technologies for data exchange yet. Therefore the new way for traffic information exchange, DATEX 2 based on IP network, XML and HTTP, SOAP and web services is being prepared. This protocol is necessary to implement and test in pilot projects and subsequently to set as the standard for unified traffic information exchange in European area.

Within the CONNECT project, phase III, it is expected that the analysis of DATEX 2 from the view of future implementation in Slovakia will be done.


Agreements about data exchange with selected countries SW tools for pilot tests and international traffic information exchange pilot start

Work Description

2008 Analysis, creation and implementation of the test application software for pilot traffic message exchange through DATEX 2 protocol, the start of the pilot project.

2009 MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) about the cross border cooperation at the DATEX 2 data connectivity with selected European countries. DATEX 2 pilot project for the international traffic information exchange

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PRN 87 Cross border connectivity of Traffic Information Centres


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Participants

Current Situation

Works will use results of CONNECT project, Domain 2.

Existing study works contained proposals of architecture, technical and institutional solutions for national and regional traffic information centers. The pilot project was concerned on tests of basic functionalities of regional traffic information centre and the distribution of traffic information through RDS-TMC and Internet.


Support documents for legislative needed for traffic information exchange, DATEX II interfaces with selected countries, agreements on traffic data provisions

Work Description

2008 – 2009 Methodical and legislative processes and preparation of support documents for national government, ministry and regional governments, Realization of Realization of DATEX II interfaces between SK and CONNECT countries Agreements with CONNECT countries Further improvement of collection traffic information, distribution channels towards traffic information services

providers in mobile networks and Internet, with related pilot projects

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5. EUROPEAN STUDIES

Developing and implementing a collaborative approach that includes all EU Countries are fundamental in supporting an integrated road safety strategy. In order to guarantee European cohesion and co-ordination in ITS, considerable efforts have to be made to establish common frameworks for ITS deployment. The necessity to collect and evaluate research results on a European scale is the basis for defining precise answers to road safety problems. For this reason, EasyWay will launch dedicated European Studies in seven different fields. These will support pilots, develop frameworks and deployment guidelines to improve the availability of accurate, relevant and timely data/information to support policy decisions.

The following figure gives an overview about the participation of the EasyWay Euro-Region CONNECT to the different European Studies in the period 2007 – 2009.

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6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT (ACTIVITY 6) 6.1 Euro-regional and Regional Project Management

The Euro-Regional project management in EasyWay within the CONNECT region for the period 2007-2009 will be performed by the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic strongly supported by the company AustriaTech – Federal Agency for Technological Measures Ltd. (being a 100% subsidiary for the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology).

In addition each Region has the responsibility of the coordination of its planned activities, in connection both with the EasyWay Euro-region CONNECT Coordinator and with the corresponding Member State Representative within EasyWay.

In the following paragraph a detailed description is reported for the activities related to the EasyWay Euro-region and region project management carried out by Czech Republic/AustriaTech. At Regional level the similar activities are carried out by the regional representatives supported by their region coordinators.

Objectives

The main objective of the project management body within the Euro-region CONNECT is to assure that all involved partners respect milestones, deadlines and contents of works according to the proposed work plan and to the European Commission directions, in connection with the EasyWay Steering Committee. In the same way the management has to address and follow the regional activities to guarantee correct and timely targets and to verify similarly also the international activities.

Description of work

For the international and national project management the activity of AustriaTech consists in summary of:

o Preparation and editing of the Austrian part of the EasyWay CONNECT Work Plan

o Preparation and editing of the entire EasyWay CONNECT Work Plan

o Organization and management of the agenda, presentations and logistic for EasyWay CONNECT Management Group and Steering Committee meetings, as International Project Management support.

o Coordination and follow-up of the national and international partners activities through the Annual Status Reports

o Organization of any necessary corrective action for the planned work

o Preparation and editing of the EasyWay CONNECT Final Report (national and international)

o Control and assembly of the final national partner Cost Statements

o Meetings and contacts with the European Commission, acting as representative of all the Euro-Regional project partners

o Meetings and contacts with the Activities Leaders end Expert Groups

o Management of the administrative matters

o Definition of actions and proposal of decisions to the EW CORVETTE Steering Committee

o Contribution to organisation of workshops and Conferences

o Participation to the EasyWay Chairmen meetings.

o Participation to the EasyWay Secretariat meetings

o Technical, organisational and administrative support to the national and international Partners

o Organization and Management of the national and international meetings and workshops.

o Being active member of the EasyWay communication group


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6.2 Expert Groups: cross fertilisation

The Expert Groups activity is mainly aimed at diffusing the knowledge about the ongoing studies and implementations among all the EasyWay partners, both inside the EasyWay CONNECT Euro-Region and inside the other Euro-Regions. To such scope they meet regularly to know in common and to discuss the ongoing processes and they promote and organise proper workshops and meetings with all the EasyWay partners, where the exchange of experiences can be facilitated.

Furthermore the Experts support the EasyWay Secretariat and in particular the EasyWay Steering Committee in highlighting important or critical situations and in suggesting choices and decisions.

In addition other important actions to be carried out by the Expert Groups regard their contribution to the European Studies objectives and to the validation and assessment of the results both of European Studies and Deployment Activities.

Five different Expert Groups were established by the EasyWay Steering Committee, where each EasyWay Euro-Region should participate, with the coordination of a nominated Expert Group Leader:

The representatives for EasyWay CONNECT are:

o Expert Group related Traffic Information Services

Italy (Mr. Enrico Ferrante) supported by Austria (Mr. Wolfgang Kernstock)

o Expert Group related Traffic Management Services

Hungary (Ms. Agnes Lindenbach) supported by Austria (Mr. Khaled El-Araby and Mr. Martin Nemec)

o Expert Group related Freight and Logistics Services

Czech Republic (Mr. Martin Pichl) supported by Czech Republic (Ms. Alexandra Holubova)

o Expert Group related ICT Infrastructure

Slovakia (Mr. Sveto Hegyi) supported by Austria (Mr. Thomas Scheider)

o Evaluation Expert Groups

Czech Republic (Mr. Paul Riley) supported by Austria (Mr. Martin Nemec)

The costs for the Expert Groups activity are considered part of the general Project Management and therefore included in the related budget table.

6.3 Dissemination

The dissemination activity has an important role in the Project Management, being necessary to make all different levels of stakeholders aware of the results achieved, the technologies and systems implemented and of new procedures and features available in order to reduce congestion, to increase safety, to safeguard environment.

The main tools for the Dissemination are in summary:

o The yearly EasyWay Conference

o Thematic Workshops

o Technical and political articles on specialised magazines

o The ITS Congresses

o Brochures, CD and Web sites

For EasyWay CORVETTE this activity is carried out both at Euro-region level and integrating in the general EasyWay dissemination initiatives.

The Dissemination costs as well are included in the Project Management budget table.


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1.4 Overview of Budget

2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 670.000,00 € 1.253.000,00 € 3.292.000,00 € 5.215.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 13.000,00 € 247.000,00 € 260.000,002.1 € 0,00 € 136.000,00 € 1.090.000,00 € 1.226.000,002.2 € 0,00 € 2.056.000,00 € 8.177.000,00 € 10.233.000,002.3 € 320.000,00 € 2.730.000,00 € 4.325.000,00 € 7.375.000,003.1 € 0,00 € 63.000,00 € 437.000,00 € 500.000,003.2 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 1.090.000,00 € 1.290.000,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,004.1 € 2.755.000,00 € 4.094.500,00 € 19.091.500,00 € 25.941.000,004.1 € 740.000,00 € 2.532.000,00 € 8.278.000,00 € 11.550.000,004.3 € 0,00 € 245.000,00 € 951.000,00 € 1.196.000,00ES1 € 0,00 € 46.300,00 € 184.700,00 € 231.000,00ES2 € 0,00 € 75.800,00 € 126.200,00 € 202.000,00ES3 € 40.000,00 € 203.300,00 € 634.700,00 € 878.000,00ES4 € 0,00 € 52.800,00 € 94.200,00 € 147.000,00ES5 € 0,00 € 3.300,00 € 34.700,00 € 38.000,00ES6 € 10.000,00 € 213.500,00 € 336.500,00 € 560.000,00PM € 140.000,00 € 444.000,00 € 1.080.000,00 € 1.664.000,00EG € 0,00 € 74.000,00 € 404.000,00 € 478.000,00D&E € 20.000,00 € 70.000,00 € 688.000,00 € 778.000,00

€ 4.795.000,00 € 14.405.500,00 € 50.641.500,00 € 69.842.000,00

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Figure 6: Indicative Budget 07-09, EasyWay CONNECT

2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 0,00 € 396.000,00 € 620.000,00 € 1.016.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.1 € 0,00 € 86.000,00 € 160.000,00 € 246.000,002.2 € 0,00 € 670.000,00 € 881.000,00 € 1.551.000,002.3 € 220.000,00 € 2.285.000,00 € 2.320.000,00 € 4.825.000,003.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,003.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,004.1 € 0,00 € 650.000,00 € 650.000,00 € 1.300.000,004.2 € 0,00 € 800.000,00 € 400.000,00 € 1.200.000,004.3 € 0,00 € 70.000,00 € 116.000,00 € 186.000,00ES1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES2 € 0,00 € 49.500,00 € 49.500,00 € 99.000,00ES3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES4 € 0,00 € 49.500,00 € 49.500,00 € 99.000,00ES5 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES6 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00PM € 60.000,00 € 175.000,00 € 175.000,00 € 410.000,00EG € 0,00 € 44.000,00 € 44.000,00 € 88.000,00D&E € 0,00 € 15.000,00 € 15.000,00 € 30.000,00

€ 280.000,00 € 5.290.000,00 € 5.480.000,00 € 11.050.000,00

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Figure 7: Indicative Budget 07-09, Austria within EasyWay CONNECT


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2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 120.000,00 € 120.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 2.025.000,00 € 2.025.000,002.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,003.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 30.000,00 € 30.000,003.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,004.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 2.200.500,00 € 2.200.500,004.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,004.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 20.000,00 € 20.000,00ES2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 10.000,00 € 10.000,00ES3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 45.000,00 € 45.000,00ES4 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 15.000,00 € 15.000,00ES5 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 5.000,00 € 5.000,00ES6 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 15.000,00 € 15.000,00PM € 0,00 € 0,00 € 130.000,00 € 130.000,00EG € 0,00 € 0,00 € 110.000,00 € 110.000,00D&E € 0,00 € 0,00 € 70.000,00 € 70.000,00

€ 0,00 € 0,00 € 4.795.500,00 € 4.795.500,00

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2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 0,00 € 138.000,00 € 736.000,00 € 874.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.2 € 0,00 € 886.000,00 € 4.061.000,00 € 4.947.000,002.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,003.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 20.000,00 € 20.000,003.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 50.000,00 € 50.000,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,004.1 € 0,00 € 170.000,00 € 711.000,00 € 881.000,004.2 € 0,00 € 572.000,00 € 2.988.000,00 € 3.560.000,004.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES1ES2ES3ES4ES5ES6PM € 0,00 € 155.000,00 € 389.000,00 € 544.000,00EG € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00D&E € 0,00 € 1.000,00 € 7.000,00 € 8.000,00

€ 0,00 € 1.942.000,00 € 9.160.000,00 € 11.102.000,00

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Figure 9: Indicative Budget 07-09, Germany within EasyWay CONNECT


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2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 450.000,00 € 450.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 220.000,00 € 220.000,002.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 540.000,00 € 540.000,002.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 430.000,00 € 430.000,002.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 940.000,00 € 940.000,003.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 110.000,00 € 110.000,003.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 470.000,00 € 470.000,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,004.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 1.500.000,00 € 1.500.000,004.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 4.725.000,00 € 4.725.000,004.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 600.000,00 € 600.000,00ES1 € 0,00 € 3.300,00 € 29.700,00 € 33.000,00ES2 € 0,00 € 3.300,00 € 29.700,00 € 33.000,00ES3 € 0,00 € 3.300,00 € 29.700,00 € 33.000,00ES4 € 0,00 € 3.300,00 € 29.700,00 € 33.000,00ES5 € 0,00 € 3.300,00 € 29.700,00 € 33.000,00ES6 € 0,00 € 3.500,00 € 31.500,00 € 35.000,00PM € 0,00 € 9.000,00 € 81.000,00 € 90.000,00EG € 0,00 € 15.000,00 € 135.000,00 € 150.000,00D&E € 0,00 € 24.000,00 € 216.000,00 € 240.000,00

€ 0,00 € 68.000,00 € 10.597.000,00 € 10.665.000,00

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Figure 10: Indicative Budget 07-09, Hungary within EasyWay CONNECT

2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 670.000,00 € 510.000,00 € 460.000,00 € 1.640.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 200.000,00 € 200.000,002.2 € 0,00 € 500.000,00 € 590.000,00 € 1.090.000,002.3 € 30.000,00 € 150.000,00 € 270.000,00 € 450.000,003.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,003.2 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00 € 300.000,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,004.1 € 600.000,00 € 1.100.000,00 € 1.100.000,00 € 2.800.000,004.2 € 600.000,00 € 1.100.000,00 € 1.600.000,00 € 3.300.000,004.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES3 € 40.000,00 € 200.000,00 € 260.000,00 € 500.000,00ES4 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES5 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES6 € 10.000,00 € 190.000,00 € 270.000,00 € 470.000,00PM € 80.000,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,00 € 240.000,00EG € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00D&E € 20.000,00 € 20.000,00 € 20.000,00 € 60.000,00

€ 2.150.000,00 € 3.950.000,00 € 4.950.000,00 € 11.050.000,00

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Figure 11: Indicative Budget 07-09, Italy within EasyWay CONNECT


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2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 0,00 € 195.000,00 € 510.000,00 € 705.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.1 € 0,00 € 50.000,00 € 110.000,00 € 160.000,002.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,002.3 € 70.000,00 € 285.000,00 € 625.000,00 € 980.000,003.1 € 0,00 € 60.000,00 € 80.000,00 € 140.000,003.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,004.1 € 2.155.000,00 € 2.174.500,00 € 915.000,00 € 5.244.500,004.2 € 140.000,00 € 40.000,00 € 0,00 € 180.000,004.3 € 0,00 € 165.000,00 € 245.000,00 € 410.000,00ES1 € 0,00 € 23.000,00 € 37.000,00 € 60.000,00ES2 € 0,00 € 23.000,00 € 37.000,00 € 60.000,00ES3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES4 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES5 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES6 € 0,00 € 20.000,00 € 20.000,00 € 40.000,00PM € 0,00 € 25.000,00 € 25.000,00 € 50.000,00EG € 0,00 € 15.000,00 € 15.000,00 € 30.000,00D&E € 0,00 € 10.000,00 € 10.000,00 € 20.000,00

€ 2.365.000,00 € 3.085.500,00 € 2.629.000,00 € 8.079.500,00

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Figure 12: Indicative Budget 07-09, Slovakia within EasyWay CONNECT

2007 2008 2009 Total1.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 410.000,00 € 410.000,001.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 40.000,00 € 40.000,002.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,002.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 190.000,00 € 190.000,002.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,003.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 200.000,00 € 200.000,003.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 470.000,00 € 470.000,003.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 80.000,00 € 80.000,004.1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 10.560.000,00 € 10.560.000,004.2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 40.000,00 € 40.000,004.3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES1 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES2 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES3 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 300.000,00 € 300.000,00ES4 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES5 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00ES6 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00PM € 0,00 € 0,00 € 200.000,00 € 200.000,00EG € 0,00 € 0,00 € 100.000,00 € 100.000,00D&E € 0,00 € 0,00 € 350.000,00 € 350.000,00

€ 0,00 € 0,00 € 13.100.000,00 € 13.100.000,00

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Figure 13: Indicative Budget 07-09, Slovenia within EasyWay CONNECT

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