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ITS-eCall and Road Safety Day
2014-04-25 06:30 - 15:45 (Europe/Brussels)
In celebration of the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the HeERO Greek pilot site under the support of the Greek Ministry of Transport and ERTICO-ITS EUROPE, will organise an ITS-eCall and Road Safety day on the 25th April 2014 in Athens, where both an eCall demonstration and a conference at the Ministry’s premises will be hosted.
Location:
Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and NetworksAnastasseos & Tsigante StreetsAthens15561
For the agenda, please click here
For more information, please contact Lina Konstantinoupoulou, Senior Project Manager, ERTICO, l.konstantinopoulou@mail.ertico.com

"ITS, eCall and Road Safety", Athens, Greece
2014-04-25 07:00 - 15:00
The Greek Ministry of Infrastructure, Transports and Networks is organizing in cooperation with the European Commission and ERTICO-ITS Europe the International Conference on “ITS, eCall and Road Safety”.
The event will take place on April 25th 2014, at the main auditorium of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, located on 2 Anastaseos Str., Papagos, in Athens Greece.

13th ITS Asia Pacific Forum
2014-04-28 06:00 - 2014-04-30 15:00 | 81, 81
World Leaders Set to Reveal Their ITS SCORE at the 13th ITS Asia-Pacific Forum
ITS New Zealand is pleased to announce prestigious keynote speakers representing ITS organisations from around the world. Taking place from 28 to 30 April ITS New Zealand and ITS Asia Pacific have prepared an exceptional three days of expert presentations and activity addressing developments, opportunities and trends in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
New Zealand’s largest city is a popular tourism destination and Auckland will host a truly global and world class forum featuring speakers representing companies, universities and organisations from 15 different nations. The Forum features 80 presentations by transport and technology specialists, a three day exhibition and a choice of technical tours. The event coincides with a 10 year anniversary for ITS New Zealand.
The Forum features three Plenary Sessions featuring local and international leaders from the ITS and transport industry. During Plenary Session One, leaders representing international ITS organisations will update us on ITS trends and developments in their region focusing on Safety, Choices, Opportunities, Results, Efficiencies (S.C.O.R.E) the overall theme of the conference.

Dr Hiroyuki Watanabe, Chairman of ITS Japan and Senior Technical Executive at Toyota Motor Corporation
Scott Belcher, President and CEO of ITS America
Stuart Ballingall, Project Director, Cooperative ITS, Ausroads – ITS Australia

Looking to the future, Plenary Session Two will be discussing case studies and experience in relation to transparency in ITS projects.

Randy Iwasaki, Executive Director of the Contra Costa Transportation Authority (USA)
Paul Rose, Technical Director of Highways ITS Consulting (UK)

On 30 April, a final Plenary Session will include a panel of transport agency leaders, both local and international. International leaders include:

Dr Bambang Susantono, Vice President of the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation
Chew Hock Yong, CEO of Singapore’s Land Transport Authority
Martin Matthews, CEO of the Ministry of Transport
Geoff Dangerfield, CEO of the New Zealand Transport Agency
Dr David Warburton, CEO of Auckland Transport
Superintendent Carey Griffiths, Nation Manager, Road Policing, NZ Police

Special rates are available for groups and for students to attend the forum. Partners and others are welcome to attend social functions and extra tickets are available for those events. Registration for the Forum can be completed online through the website: www.ITSAsiaPacificForum2014.co.nz.

2nd ERTICO Partnership meeting on Interoperability
2014-04-28 10:00 - 16:00 | 2, 2
Monday 28 April 2014
Open to ERTICO Partners

The Interoperability Interest Group is an ERTICO Partnership initiative aiming at addressing efficiently the needs for interoperability of ITS systems and services. The group deals mainly with standardisation and testing issues, aiming to define appropriate concepts or use existing methodologies for ensuring cost efficient testing of ITS devices and applications.
The ERTICO Partners having complementary expertise either on ITS systems, or on testing and compliancy issues, cooperate together in the development of cost efficient processes to ensure Interoperability of future ITS solutions.
We are pleased to invite ERTICO Partners to join the group and attend its 2nd meeting on 28 April 2014 from 12:00 to 18:00 at the ERTICO Office in Brussels.
Please visit the event page to read the agenda and register to the meeting:please click here
For more information about ERTICO Partnership activities on Interoperability, please contact François Fischer – Senior Project Manager, ERTICO – ITS Europe, f.fischer@mail.ertico.com

4th iMobility Forum Plenary Meeting
2014-04-29 07:00 - 15:00
Diamant Centre BoulevardAuguste Reyers 80 1030 Brussels Belgium
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 from 09:00am to 05:00pm
On 29 April, the meeting will commence by presenting the latest achievements of each of the Forum’s Working Groups, covering all the major topics within ICT for safe, smart and clean road mobility fields. The second part of the session will introduce the European eCall Implementation Platform (EeIP), status of Standardisation and Pre commercial procurement in Europe, the ITS Europe Congresses in Helsinki & ITS World Congress, Detroit, as well as the iMobility Challenge project and the collaboration with the iMo.
For the agenda: please click here.
To register for the event: please click here

Smart to Future Cities 2014, London
2014-04-29 07:00 - 2014-04-30 15:00
Smart to Future Cities 2014 will take place at:
Grand Connaught Rooms,61-65 Great Queen St,London WC2B 5DA
http://smarttofuture.com/

ERTICO Supervisory Board meeting
2014-04-30 07:30 - 13:00 | 2, 2
ERTICO Supervisory Board meets in Brussels
Contact Anna Limbrey

International Conference Connected Vehicles
2014-05-09 06:00 - 15:00

Gothenburg City Show Case
2014-05-12 07:00 - 2014-05-14 15:00
Innovative Transport Solutions – City Showcase, Gothenburg

The City Showcase is a part of Viajeo Plus activities.

Smart City event, Amsterdam
2014-05-13 07:00 - 2014-05-14 15:00
The Smart City Event has the mission to bring together the diversity of stakeholders from all over the world concerning the development of smarter cities.

Location:
Amsterdam ArenaArena Boulevard 11101 AX Amsterdam

http://www.smartcityevent.com/

eCall testing and test pass certificate meeting
2014-05-15 07:00 - 14:00
DATE: 15 May 2014, 9h00 – 16h00
ERTICO Office, Brussels
Objectives
ERTICO Partners have met in a workshop on 19 November 2013 to discuss the way to implement cost efficient eCall testing. During this workshop some ERTICO partners agreed to create a group to support eCall testing and test pass certificate.
ERTICO Partners will therefore join and use their complementary skills and experiences to define a cost-efficient testing framework for eCall components, leading to the delivery of “Test pass” certificates. The framework is intended to be aligned with current and future requirements applying to the vehicles (Vehicle type approval). Furthermore developing a PSAP certification framework, which could support the regulatory conformity assessment procedures is part of the objectives.
The activities matching the objectives will consist of:
· Identifying the existing test specification and the corresponding test implementations
· Studying additional requirements
· Finding matches with regulatory requirements
· Finding out the specific profiles applying on 2G/3G device certification (GCF scheme)
· Documenting the results as part of a Test pass certificate framework
· Contributing to the organisation of the next ERTICO eCall TESTFEST events (27-31 October 2014, Vigo, Spain)
· Following the eCall standardisation activities (CEN – ETSI)
· Taking any useful actions to ensure tools and services will be appropriate, match needs and are cost efficient:
o Organising an eCall test tool workshop
o Liaise with Testing labs and test tool providers
Looking at the evolution of eCall towards LTE is also appropriate, as preparatory work is currently carried out at ETSI.

DATEX User Forum, Prague
2014-05-19 07:00 - 2014-05-20 15:00
The 3rd DATEX User Forum will be organized on the 19th and 20th May, 2014 in Prague.
The event will be a perfect opportunity to develop and update your DATEX II expertise and to link with the growing community, also influencing the way ahead. The forum is meant to bring together a broad audience from technical to Management level, from new to experienced users.
The registration fee is €150 and covers catering at the conference and access to the get-together. For your registration please go to http://prague.datex2.eu where you will also find a first outline program.

REAL CORP 2014: PLAN IT SMART!
2014-05-20 22:00 - 2014-05-23 21:59
19th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society
Clever Solutions for Smart Citieswill take place21-23 May 2014, Vienna, Austria
Call for papers is open until December 23rd 2013.www.corp.at
“Smart Cities” has become a widely used term for the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the processes of cities and the built environment, aiming to improve the integration of the physical assets as well as social and environmental capital.Fired by several rankings there seems to be a competition for the title of the “Smartest City”. This kind of hype raises a lot of questions that REAL CORP 2014 will deal with.
• What does “Smart City” mean in terms of quality of life?• How does it influence the economic perspectives? • Are the concepts of sustainability and resilience part of “Smart Cities”?• What about politics and administration, policies and governance?• How do “Smart Solutions” influence the “hardware” of a city, the urban fabric?• Last but not least: what is the role of Urban/Spatial Planning in and for “Smart Cities”?
Can we “PLAN IT SMART!” and findCLEVER SOLUTIONS FOR SMART CITIES & REGIONS?
The Annual REAL CORP conferences take place annually since 1996 and are well established and renowned.
REAL CORP conferences are highly interdisciplinary and actively aim to bring together hundreds of experts from around the world. Participants come as well from public and private sector as from research.All info is online at our website www.corp.at, where also the proceedings from all the past REAL CORP conferences are freely available.

Electrified Public Transport Conference
2014-05-21 07:00 - 2014-05-22 15:00
Welcome to the international conference Electrified Public Transport in Gothenburg, Sweden
The purpose of the conference is to bring together representatives from public transport authorities (PTAs), traffic operators, manufacturers and the academia for a networking event.
When: 21-22 May 2014
Where: Lindholmen Science Park, Gothenburg, Sweden
Link to website with more information and registration: http://www.testsitesweden.com/en/events/electrified-public-transport

PTV - Shaping Transportation 2014
2014-05-26 06:00 - 2014-05-28 15:00 | 71, 71
Today we have technologies and data that can drive us to intelligent and ecologically in real time optimize the flow of people and goods on what in most countries is a finite transport network. So rather than building our way out of congestion should we not be “sweating our transport infrastructure assets” in this more enlightened fashion?
At this year’s Shaping Transportation conference, taking place from 26 to 28 May in Berlin, foremost transport policy thinkers, sharpers and decision makers as well as our software users will discuss about “Join up Thinking – Create Intelligent Movements”.
For more information please visit the PTV event website

National Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems for Highways
2014-05-26 06:00 - 2014-05-28 21:59 | 79, 79
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), basically defined as the application of information, control and communication technologies to transport sector, has become widespread in the recent years. ITS, by nature, requires and interdisciplinary approach. To produce successful outcomes in this field, institutions in charge of applications have to collaborate with those of technology and science. For successful implementation of ITS for highways in Turkey, representatives from Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, municipalities, TÜBİTAK, universities, private sector of different fields have to communicate and collaborate successfully with each other.
In light of latest developments, the Ministry of Transport Maritime Affairs and Communications, Strategy Development Directorate has been vigorously preparing an action plan for Turkey. Correspondingly, the General Directorate of Highways (GDH) aims to extend the ITS applications on its road network. Parallel to its vision of “becoming a driving force in bringing related stakeholders in every field of road transport in Turkey and in seeking solutions in the light of scientific developments”, the Turkish Road Association (TRA) is organising the First National Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems for Highways (ITS-Highways) in İstanbul on 26-28 May 2014, in collaboration with General Directorate of Highways.
For more information, visit the website.

Shaping Transportation
2014-05-26 07:00 - 2014-05-28 21:59
Berlin, 26-28 May 2014
Be there when the transportation sector meets! Register now for Shaping Transportation!
From 26 – 28 May 2014, transport policy thinkers, shapers and decision makers will discuss with you in Berlin how new concepts can create more integration for existing modes of transport. Currently, we are experiencing a changing mobility behaviour: more and more people are using public transport or cycling instead of taking the car. This strengthening of integrated environmental-friendly transport is a positive development. However, are our cities and municipalities truly ready for the further development of existing transport modes?
Under the theme Join up thinking – create intelligent movements you will be involved in lectures of:

Mary Crass, Head of Policy and Summit Preparation at the OECD
Dr Peter Ramsauer, former Transport Minister of Germany and Member of the German Bundestag
Prof. Luis Antonio Lindau, President and Director of EMBARQ Brazil and others.

On day two, speakers will provide insight into current projects. The wide range of issues covers strategic transportation planning, real-time simulation and traffic forecasts as part of traffic management. A highlight every year: What’s new in PTV Visum and PTV Vissim? Be the first to get your hands on!
Enhance your knowledge on day three by participating in our workshops. Learn in technical workshops how you are getting your transport model ready for real-time simulation or how you are how to develop an accident prediction model. Moreover we will offer a range of non-technical workshops such as developing Bus Rapid Transit, women in transport issues or communicating transport.
Register now for Shaping Transportation! Registration details and a programme preview are available now online at www.ptvgroup.com/shapingtransportation. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact my team via trafficevents@ptvgroup.com or via phone +49 721 9651-7244.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin,
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schwerdtfeger
Management Board, PTV Group

ITS Conference on Modern Urban Transport Moscow
2014-05-27 07:00 - 15:00
CONFERENCE “PRACTICAL FEATURES OF THE INTRODUCTION OF NAVIGATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INTO MODERN URBAN TRANSPORT”, Moscow, 27th May.
Conference Goal: to discuss important issues and latest developments in the field of creating, intruding and using municipal transportation monitoring and management systems. The conference will put a special focus on the use of satellite (primarily domestic) navigation technologies and equipment.
Topic Directions of the Conference:• Major Directions of Enhancing the Municipal Public Transport Efficiency and Improving Passenger Services in Moscow• City Passenger Transportation Management Systems• Passenger Information Service Systems• Navigation and Information Technologies for Taxicab Fleets
For more information, click here.

International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment
2014-05-28 07:00 - 2014-05-30 14:00
The research goal to which the conference contributes is to devise and implement transportation systems that contribute to a sustainable urban environment through minimising the negative environmental impacts whilst improving the socioeconomic and cultural development of the urban environment.
Location: Pestana Alvor Praia Praia dos Três Irmãos 8501-904 Alvor Algarve, Portugal

Urban Transport 2014
2014-05-28 07:00 - 2014-05-30 15:00
The 20th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment is taking place in The Algarve, Portugal from 28-30 May 2014.

To register click here.

International Symposium of Transport Simulation in conjunction with Workshop on Transport Data Collection & Standardisation
2014-06-01 16:30 - 2014-06-04 21:59 | 78, 78
Following the success of the previous editions of both the International Symposia of Transport Simulation (ISTS) and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardisation (IWTDCS), ISTS’14 and IWTCDS’14 aim to gather the world’s transportation and traffic academics and practitioners, as well as people who are interested in contributing to or gaining a deeper understanding of the transport simulation field.
During the three-day conference plenary sessions featuring high level speakers and interactive breakout sessions will take place at the Conference Centre of Ajaccio (Corsica, France), where participants will have the opportunity to mingle with those at the forefront of data collection and standardisation, Transport simulation thought, practice, and implementation as well as exchange experience and best practices. This event will focus on scientific challenges and issues raised by new theoretical development in the ttransport fields as well as new advances in Mobility Data collection and smart processing tools.

Congress website: http://ists14.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7
Topics are divided into 4 pillars likely to be covered in this joint events. The 4 pillars are the following: 1. Data Collection & Smart Proccessing 2. Transport Modelling, Simulation and Management 3. Multimodal Transportation Systems 4. ITS/C-ITS Systems for Transport System Efficiency & Assessments methodologies

ITS for Freight Transport & Logistics workshop
2014-06-05 08:00 - 15:00 | 2, 2
The ERTICO Supervisory Board decided on 30th April for the ERTICO Partnership to implement a Task Force on ITS for Freight Transport & Logistics. The Task Force will be implemented for half a year and involves 3 workshop meetings.
The 1st workshop ” ITS for Freight Transport & Logistics ” is organised on 5th June 2014 at the ERTICO premises, from 10:00 – 17:00.
The objectives of the Meeting are:
· Agree on ITS priorities for freight transport and logistics
· Define ERTICO TF in ITS for freight transport and logistics (scope, work plan, contributions, timeline)
· Define ERTICO partnership contribution to ALICE ETP WGs
· Prepare the ERTICO partnership workshop on Horizon 2020 on logistics

For more information, please contact Lina Konstantinopoulou.

ERTICO Project Development Workshop
2014-06-06 08:00 - 14:00 | 2, 2
ERTICO – ITS EUROPE will now start preparations for project developments concerning the next H2020 2015 calls. For this purpose an ERTICO project development workshop is organised on the 6th of June 2014, (10:00 – 16:00), ERTICO office in Brussels.
We suggest to use this workshop for the ERTICO Partners interested in project developments:
· to report on status of current proposals
· to agree on new project proposal ideas
· to agree on project and consortium development process
For more information please contact Anna Limbrey and Maxime Flament.

Transport Publics 2014
2014-06-09 23:00 - 2014-06-12 22:59 | 12, 12
The major European professional exhibition for all key players in public transport and sustainable transport solutions.
Transports Publics is a showcase of the most innovative products, services and policies relating to sustainable mobility, bringing together all the key players from across Europe and from every aspect of every mode of transport: organising authorities, operators, industries, manufacturers, sub-contractors and others.

Transport Public 2014
2014-06-10 06:00 - 2014-06-12 15:00
A major European event for all key players in sustainable mobility, organised from 10th to 12th June 2014, Paris.
http://www.transportspublics-expo.com/en/the-exhibition-transport-publics

Workshop "Study on safety-related aspects on tyre use"
2014-06-10 08:00 - 15:00 | 3, 3
This workshop is organized as part of the study on safety improvements that can be achieved by properly using the most adequate tyres for the driving conditions. The goal is to present and discuss with stakeholders the preliminary findings of the study and finalize the stakeholder’s consultation, which was announced to you recently.
The workshop will take place in the Conference Centre Albert Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, B-1040 Brussels from 10:00 am till 17:00 pm.
Please confirm your attendance by sending a reply mail to Tyre.study@tno.nl, before 4th of June 2014.

10th ITS European Congress, Helsinki
2014-06-15 22:00 - 2014-06-19 21:59
ERTICO is organising the 10th ITS European Congress in Helsinki.

Contact: Didier Gorteman
