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REAL CORP 2014: PLAN IT SMART!
2014-05-20 22:00 - 2014-05-23 21:59 (Europe/Brussels)
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

10th ITS European Congress, Helsinki
2014-06-15 22:00 - 2014-06-19 21:59 | 70, 70
16-19 June 2014
www.itsineurope.com
The 10th European Congress and Exhibition will be held from 16 to 19 June 2014 at the Convention Centre Helsinki. The 2014 European Congress is organised by ERTICO – ITS Europe and the European Commission, and hosted by ITS Finland, the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the City of Helsinki.
The motto of the ITS European Congress 2014 is “ITS in your pocket – proven solutions driving user services”. The event will focus on 6 themes:
1. New mobility apps for consumers and businesses – making use of Open Data
2. Smart transactions (ticketing, infrastructure, insurance, travel, parking)
3. Multimodal network operation on city, region, national and international level
4. Productivity for transport systems, including logistics and public transport
5. Towards zero emissions
6. From connected to automated vehicles
The programme of the congress is extraordinarily rich; an opening ceremony followed by a Welcome Reception, a 2000sqm exhibition, world-class conferences, business sessions, interactive sessions, interactive workshops, social and networking events, technical tours, live demonstrations and a closing ceremony.
Watch the promotional video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU__Vct62xY

Amitran final conference
2014-06-16 07:00 - 12:45
The Amitran project draws to a close this summer and will host its Final Conference on 16 June. It will be a side event to the 10th ITS European Congress at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre (Messukeskus) in Finland.
We cordially invite you to come and learn about the project’s outputs, to check out and discuss our online tools and to see and discuss the benefits of using the Amitran methodology for assessing the CO2 impacts of Intelligent Transport Systems. The event is targeted towards transport planners, modellers and evaluators participating in research projects, feasibility studies and deployment projects, as well as representatives from pubic authorities, transport/infrastructure operators and industry who deploy or fund ITS service or who are involved in climate change or transport policy issues.
It is free to attend but registration is required. The timings are from 09:00 to 14:45 and lunch will be provided. The ITS Congress Opening Ceremony will follow at 15:00.
Register here

WS ITS for Urban Mobility: new business architecture and deployment strategies
2014-06-16 07:30 - 12:45
Workshop ITS for Urban Mobility: new business architecture and deployment strategies
Date and time: 16 June 2014 from 9:00 to 14:45Venue: Messukeskus (Room 216), Helsinki (Finland)
During this workshop ERTICO Partners and guests will present relevant examples of how Cities and Industry could work together in an open and transparent cooperation. A new EC co-funded research project for collaborative urban mobility will be introduced to the ITS Community, followed by demonstrations of cooperative systems implemented by the pre-deployment activities: Compass4D and CO-GISTICS.
To download the agenda, please click here.
Do not miss this opportunity and register for the workshop here.

ecoDriver Stakeholder Workshop (Helsinki)
2014-06-16 10:45 - 12:45
ecoDriver cordially invites you to its 3 hour workshop entitled “In-vehicle applications to help drivers save fuel and reduce emissions” on Monday 16 June, prior to the Opening Ceremony of the ITS in Europe Congress in Helsinki, Finland.
This event, which takes place during the crucial Field Operational Test (FOT) phase of ecoDriver, is geared both to technical and non-technical stakeholders. You can learn about the different ecoDriver applications, how fleet operators can benefit from back office analysis tools, look at and give feedback on the different HMI solutions, hear about the ongoing field trials, and discuss the opportunities and limitations of eco-driving solutions and strategies to improve acceptance and to promote common standards in an open marketplace.
It is free to attend but registration is required. Dessert and coffee will be provided.

Registration at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecodriver-stakeholder-workshop-registration-11356873715

iMobility Support Special Session "Future roadmpas and EU's research and innovation programming"
2014-06-17 09:00 - 10:30
10th ITS EUROPEAN CONGRESS, Helsinki, 16-19 June 2014
On the occasion of the ITS Congress in Helsinki, iMobility Support will organise a Special Session SIS01 “Future Roadmaps and EU’s research and innovation programming“. This Special Session will take place at Messukeskus, Expo and Convention Centre Helsinki on Tuesday 17 June 2014, 11:00 – 12:30.
To register for the Special Session: http://www.itsineurope.com/its10/

Europe-wide service platforms – towards an “Internet of mobility”
2014-06-17 09:00 - 10:30 | 69, 69
A Special Interest Session Europe-wide service platforms – towards an “Internet of mobility” is organised on Tuesday 17 June 2014, 11:00 – 12:30 at the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre Helsinki (SIS04, Room 205).
The panel includes experts from MOBiNET, Simpli-City, SuperHub, Green eMotion and TEAM European projects, and from the German Mobility Data Marketplace as well as the Dutch Data Warehouse for Traffic Information*. This session is aimed at policy makers, ITS data and service providers, users’ representatives, transport, IT and telecom operators and suppliers.

FOT-Net Data Stakeholder Workshop during Helsinki Congress
2014-06-17 12:00 - 13:00
The 10th European ITS Congress will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from 16 to 19 June 2014. During the Helsinki Congress, the FOT-Net Data project will organise a Stakeholder Workshop. The title of workshop no. SW02 will be “Do not let large datasets go to waste!” It will take place at Messukeskus, Expo and Convention Centre Helsinki on Tuesday 17 June 2014 from 14:00 to 15:30.
In Field Operational Tests (FOTs), huge amounts of data are gathered about the interaction between ITS and drivers, vehicles and infrastructure. Not all data are analysed in the projects that have collected it. Re-using the data for further analyses or to answer new research questions or as test data for apps would be ideal.
The Workshop will take a closer look at the data available from large European FOTs and address the question how can we benefit from the data. We will look at the euroFOT (ADAS FOT) and DRIVE C2X (cooperative-systems FOT) projects, giving an overview of types of data collected and their deployment. Also SHRP2 (US Naturalistic Driving study) data will be discussed; these are being analysed by third parties. UDRIVE, the European NDS, still has to start data-collection but is already preparing for data-use by others. FOT-Net Data, the European support action dedicated to data sharing, will explain its role in facilitating data sharing in Europe. Next to short presentations from these projects, the workshop will include an interactive session between the panel and the audience to find ideas on how some example datasets can be used to answer impact questions on safe, efficient and sustainable transport.
Moderator: Yvonne Barnard (ERTICO)
Speakers:
– Trent Victor (Volvo)
– Satu Innamaa (VTT)
– Jonas Bärgman (SAFER)
– Clement Val (CEESAR)
– Sami Koskinen (VTT)

More information on the Helsinki congress, please click here.

Connected Cars event
2014-06-24 06:00 - 2014-06-25 21:59
Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands

UDRIVE at SHRP 2 Safety Symposium
2014-07-10 06:30 - 15:00
UDRIVE will present a project update at the 9th SHRP 2 Safety Symposium in Washington DC, 10 July 2014
More info, click here

79GHz Final event
2014-07-10 07:00 - 11:00
European Commission BU25 / S09, Avenue de Beaulieu 25, 1160 Auderghem, Brussels
10 July 201409:00 – 13:00
The 79 GHz Final Workshop will present an overview of the achievements of the 79 GHz Project over the past years at global level. The 79 GHz project aims to establish and speed up the worldwide harmonised frequency allocation for vehicular radars in the frequency range 77 GHz to 81 GHz (79 GHz).The speakers at the Workshop will illustrate the current worldwide status of 79 GHz frequency allocation and the activities in preparation to the World Radio Conference 2015 relevant for the 79GHz allocation.Finally, a technology roadmap for Short Range Radar (SSR) will be discussed focusing on the requirements for future automotive radar based safety and comfort functions.These functions include pedestrian protection, narrow pass assistance, and proximity warning up to fully autonomous driving.
A detailed agenda for the event is available on the 79GHz project website: click here
TO REGISTER:Click Here
Contact
Davide BrizzolaraProject Support Manager – ERTICO – ITS Europed.brizzolara@mail.ertico.comTel. +32(0)24000734
Frank Ernst (79 GHz project coordinator)Robert Bosch GmbHChassis Systems Control, Customer Interface und Mechanic System (CC-DA/ECR4)Frank.Ernst@de.bosch.comTel. +49(711)811-37855

DRIVE C2X final event
2014-07-16 07:00 - 2014-07-17 15:00
DRIXE C2X final event “DRIVE C2X on the road to deployment”
EUREF Campus, Torgauer Strasse 12-15, Berlin, Germany
July 16-17, 2014
Please click here to read the invitation letter to this event by the DRIVE C2X Coordinator Matthias Schulze.
Join DRIVE C2X on the road to deployment and register here for the event. A detailed agenda, invitation, information on directions and accommodations are available online.

eCall futures
2014-09-01 22:00 - 2014-09-02 21:59
eCall futures
Brussels (Belgium), Tuesday 2 September 2014
