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i-Transport and UATP Conference and Exhibition
2017-02-14 - 2017-02-17 | Sandton Convention Centre, 61 Maude St, Sandton, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa
Hosted every second year since 2001 by the Intelligent Transport Society of South Africa, the i-Transport Conference and Exhibition has become an established and well-supported event on the transport calendar as a platform for knowledge sharing to promote the sustainable deployment of ITS projects.
i-Transport 2017 will be co-hosted by ITS South Africa, the African Chapter of the International Public Transport Association (UATP) and ITS Africa on 14-17 February 2017 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. This paves the way for significantly greater continent-wide and international participation.
The theme “Go Green – Go Smart” reflects the need to improve transport efficiencies, to reduce the carbon footprint of the transport sector and to encourage modal shifts. The theme specifically reflects the strong synergy between Public Transport and Intelligent Transport Systems.
Find out more at: http://www.i-transportafrica.com/

SPICE: Delivering Transport Projects through Cooperation: the Alliance Model
2017-02-23 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Brussels) | Webinar
On Thursday 23 February 2017 at 14:00 – 15:00 CET, the Smart Procurement for Better Transport project will be hosting a webinar entitled “Delivering Transport Projects through Cooperation: the Alliance Model”.
Objectives

To introduce the Alliance Model as an effective contract model for delivering transport projects
To discuss the benefits of the Alliance model in comparison to traditional frameworks in innovative transport projects and how to adopt this model for other types of transport project

Who should attend

Public procurers such as national, regional and city administrators, road operators;
Transport engineers and system suppliers;
Universities and researchers

Description
Tampere is a growing city driven by innovation and high-tech industry. Tampere’s innovation has also been applied to the contract of a major transport project in the city. The Rantatunneli tunnel in Tampere is under construction using the ‘Alliance Model’ of public procurement. This means the traditional customer-service provider model has been eliminated, allowing involved parties to cooperate in the planning and implementing of the project. The alliance members are the City of Tampere, the Finnish Transport Agency, Lemminkäinen, A-Insinöörit, and Saanio & Riekkola. As a result of this cooperation, the alliance members have been able to reduce disruptions caused by the worksite while cutting costs and speeding up processes. This webinar invites Mr Mauri Mäkiaho, Deputy Director of the Rantatunneli project in Tampere, to present the Alliance Model in public procurement, in order to inspire public procurers to use the model for implementing other transport projects.
Speakers

Dr. Bahar Namaki Araghi, City of Copenhagen

What can other cities learn from Tampere’s experience

Mauri Mäkiaho Finnish Transport Agency, Project Manager

Approaches to innovation procurement

Organisers
This webinar is organised by the SPICE project. SPICE is a Horizon 2020 supported Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project with a focus on sharing knowledge and experiences on innovation procurement in the transport sector.
To register, please click here.
Contact
For any questions, please contact Yanying Li at y.li@mail.ertico.com

European Battery, Hybrid & Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Congress
2017-03-14 - 2017-03-16 | Geneva International Motor Show, Geneva, Switzerland

5th International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI2017)
2017-03-20 - 2017-03-22 | Unnamed Venue, Paris, France
The 5th International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI2017) will be held in Paris, France, on March 20-22, 2017, and follows the four highly successful DDI Conferences held previously in Gothenburg, Sweden (2009, 2011, 2013), and Sydney, Australia (2015).
The International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention aims to bring participants up-to-date on recent developments and trends in the field of inattention and distraction in driving, and to bring together researchers and practitioners. Participants will be invited to present and discuss current work covering basic and applied research, mitigation challenges, the latest policy developments, and priorities for research and countermeasures development.
http://ddi2017.sciencesconf.org/

10th International Conference on Managing Fatigue
2017-03-20 - 2017-03-23 | Unnamed Venue, San Diego, CA, United States
The theme of this event is “Managing Fatigue to Improve Safety, Wellness, and Effectiveness” and we are seeking abstract and panel proposal submissions on related topics. Example topics that would fit within the conference scope include:

Measuring fatigue and fatigue risk
Scheduling systems and policies
Training and education
Fatigue risk management programs
Sleep health
Fatigue detection and management technologies
Operator workload, including distraction and drowsiness

http://www.fatigueconference2017.com

MaaS Market - Concept to delivery
2017-03-22 - 2017-03-23 | Inmarsat Conference Centre, 99 City Road, London , EC1Y 1AX, United Kingdom
Mobility as a Service – THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT

BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY
MaaS Market is a two-day, international conference for all organisations committed to developing new ways of getting people to their destination and new ways for them to pay for transport services.

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
Aimed at executives and senior managers in the transport and ITS sectors, MaaS Market will focus on key policy, operational, technological and business-critical issues.
You will hear about the very latest thinking and innovations from international project leaders and have the opportunity to network with government agencies, service providers and suppliers, financiers and senior transport planners.
THE PROGRAMME WILL COVER

Why MaaS will revolutionise transport
Roles of central and local governments
Trends from car to public transport
What MaaS means for transport companies
Technology and common standards
The role of autonomous vehicles in MaaS
MaaS and the environment

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Sampo Hietanen, CEO, MaaS Global
Anne Berner, Minister of Transport, Government of Finland
Rasmus Lindholm, Director, Ertico
Michael Hurwitz, Director of Transport Innovation, Transport for London
Andy Taylor, Director of Global Strategy, Cubic Transportation Systems
Miller Crockart, Vice President, PTV Group
Richard Harris, Director of Communications and Marketing, Xerox
Martyn Briggs, Head of the Mobility Team, Frost & Sullivan
Mika Rytkönen, Head of Business Development, Here
Lucy Yu, Head of Innovation, Department for Transport, UK
Daniel Peterson, Director of Transportation Planning, Dewberry
Margaret Bell, Professor of Transport and Environment, Newcastle University

BOOK YOUR PLACE
Delegate bookings are now available at the early bird price of just £245 plus VAT. Tickets include both conference days, buffet lunch, tea and coffee and entrance to the networking drinks and canapés reception on the evening of March 22.
To book your place, go to www.MaaS-Market.com and click on “Book your place”, or contact us by calling Kelly Thompson on +44 1322 612055 or emailing officemanager@ropl.com

www.MaaS-Market.com

Motorways of the Sea - the Maritime Dimension of TEN-T Network
2017-03-28 | Stazione Marittima, Trieste, Italy
The MediTelegraph, within its proposal of Events and Forum focused on shipping and intermodal transport industries, presents the new event realized in partnership with On the MoS Way.
An opportunity of discussion among institutions and players of the transport, shipping and infrastructure industries, about Motorways of the Sea European Policies within the TEN-T Network. An important occasion for sharing the point of view of the players of the door-to-door logistic chain.
For more information, please click here.

1st European Conference on 'Connected and Automated Driving'
2017-04-03 - 2017-04-04 | Brussels, Belgium
The European Commission, with the support of the EC-funded projects CARTRE and SCOUT, is pleased to announce its First European Conference on connected and automated driving: ‘Connected and Automated Driving – Together, shaping the future‘.
The high-level conference will be held in Brussels on the 3rd and 4th April 2017. Major road transport stakeholders – automotive and telecom industry, users, road operators, public transport operators, regulators, research centres, universities and representatives of both EC and EU Member States – are invited to attend.
The event will be a unique opportunity for all participants to network and to discuss on how to boost the development and deployment of connected and automated driving technologies from a fourfold perspective: transport policy issues; technological challenges; legal and regulatory frame, and digital transformation.
For two days, EU leaders, CEOs and representatives from major road transport stakeholders will discuss interactively on:

Role of R&I and policy making to accelerate roll out in Europe;
What’s going on in the Member States;
Role of connectivity between vehicles, road infrastructure and other road users to enhance performance;
Progress of C-ITS deployment and how it supports automated driving throughout Europe’s main corridors;
Latest findings of European-funded projects;
The importance of international cooperation

Participants will enjoy a blend of plenaries, thematic breakout sessions and exhibition of funded projects.
A series of thematic side-events will take place on the 5th and 6th April 2017 upon invitation only.
Registration to the conference is free and will open at the end of January 2017.
STAY TUNED and follow us at www.ec-cad-2017.eu

EENA Conference and Exhibition
2017-04-05 08:00 - 2017-04-07 17:00 | Budapest Congress Centre, Alkotas Utca 63-67, Budapest, 1123, Hungary
The 2017 edition of the EENA Conference & Exhibition will take place in Budapest, Hungary. Over 600 participants are expected to join from around 50 countries from Europe but also from Africa, Asia, Middle-East, and North and South America.
The EENA Conference brings together emergency services, public authorities, researchers and industry representatives to foster the sharing of best practices and debate current issues in the field of emergency services.
Full programme is available here

BUS2BUS – political congress, exhibition, marketplace and Future Forum – maps opportunities for the bus and coach industry
2017-04-25 - 2017-04-26 | Berlin Messe, Messedamm 22, Berlin, Berlin, 14055, Germany
BUS2BUS 25-26 April 2017 – the Berlin based trade fair for bus and coach – this year addresses key opportunities for Europe’s bus and coach industry, bringing together business, technology and policy in a unique forum to set the agenda for change.
Policymakers and bus and coach transport companies will jointly define the guiding principles that shape the mobility of the future and together explore digital transformation strategies. With Europe’s bus and coach industry in flux and the forthcoming Federal Elections in Germany, BUS2BUS is a strategic platform for the sector to debate a plan of action.
Supported by IRU – the global road transport organisation – and with backing from conceptual sponsor, German Bus and Coach Operators Association (bdo), the BUS2BUS congress, Future Forum and exhibition takes place on 25-26 April 2017 and is organised by Messe Berlin. In addition to being present at the trade fair, IRU will run two workshops at the Future Forum, focused on long distance coaches and coach tourism.
Oleg Kamberski, IRU Head of Passenger Transport, said, “IRU is very pleased to be supporting BUS2BUS and to be playing an active part in the event’s Future Forum. BUS2BUS will provide an excellent opportunity for the various actors from the bus and coach industry to come together and debate the future of our business. The discussions will certainly provide valuable input into IRU’s current work on a 2030 vision.”
As a combined trade fair, congress and Future Forum, BUS2BUS provides national and international visitors with a platform to discuss new business approaches and the building of cross-industry partnerships, while showcasing new bus innovations in static displays as well as in action.
Christiane Leonard, Vice-President of IRU Passenger Transport Council (CTP) and General Secretary of bdo emphasises, “IRU’s engagement highlights the relevance of BUS2BUS as the new leading trade fair for the bus and coach industry. We are looking forward to this unique high-level event in Berlin, where the most relevant political stakeholders will discuss the current challenges but also envision the future with representatives from the bus and coach industry.”
BUS2BUS offers small and medium sized companies, in particular, valuable leadership in the light of recent challenges. These include reductions in the scope of private operators to enter public transport markets, bureaucracy caused by the Package Travel Directive and the Posting of Workers Directive and demands for introducing road user charges for coaches.
For more information, please click here.
Contact
Stuart Colley
Manager – Communications & Events
+32-2-743 25 84 (direct)
+32-476-04 92 23 (mobile)
stuart.colley@iru.org
Maria Dinis
Communications & Events Officer
+32-2-743 26 01 (direct)
+32-492-58 72 67 (mobile)
maria.dinis@iru.org
Notes to editors
About IRU
IRU is the global industry association for road transport, driving the sustainable mobility of people and goods across the planet. Founded in 1948 to help rebuild trade across a war-torn Europe, IRU is today an independent international organisation active in more than 100 countries on every continent. www.iru.org
About bdo
The German Bus and Coach Operators Association (bdo) is the leading association of the German bus sector and represents the interests of private and medium-sized companies in the area of local transport, bus and long-distance buses, both politically and publicly. www.bdo.org

Joint Workshop IRU - Mobility as a Service
2017-05-03 09:30 - 17:00 | The Hotel, 38 Boulevard de Waterloo, Brussels, 1050, Belgium
Implementing New Mobility Schemes: Impact on Business, Operations and Regulation
A new wave of projects, promoted by private and public investment, is creating proof of concept to accelerate the deployment of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) across Europe. A number of barriers still exist and regulatory and business frameworks are very different across European countries.
The MaaS Alliance is currently working on guidelines to define a common approach to MaaS in Europe and beyond, focusing on issues relating to users, legal framework and incentives, technologies and standardisation, and communications.
The workshop will address these issues and provide an opportunity for passenger transport operators, policy makers and other involved stakeholders to exchange views on this disruptive, yet key trend for the future of mobility.
AGENDA & REGISTRATION

Strasbourg Congress: Free Webinar on 11 May 2017
2017-05-11 13:00 - 14:00
If you are still wondering about the highlights of the Congress and trying to make up your mind about which sessions to join, then the upcoming webinar is an absolute must! With over 100 sessions, tours, demos and events taking place over just 4 days you will be spoilt for choice on where to spend your time.
Join us for a free webinar on Thursday 11 May 2017 from 13:00 to 14:00. During the webinar, Senior Advisor to the Congress Programme – Eric Sampson, will take you through the programme and point out interesting sessions and events that you can look forward to at the Congress. Register now to ensure that you get a spot – the webinar has limited capacity.

Jubilee 10th Polish ITS Congress
2017-05-16 - 2017-05-17 | Warsaw, Poland
For 10 years, the ITS POLSKA Association, along with the dynamically developing industry, have been forming the ITS market in Poland, i.e. almost from its very beginning. The year 2017 will find a special place in the industry’s calendar because of two jubilees: the tenth anniversary of ITS POLSKA and the tenth edition of the POLISH ITS CONGRESS for Intelligent Transport Systems, which will take place on 16-17 May 2017 at Sofitel Victoria in Warsaw.
This double jubilee takes place during a particularly significant moment of ITS’ development in Poland. First, we are entering a new era of EU programming in Horizon 2020, which will fund both new projects, as well as expansions of existing systems. Second, we are entering the period of better understanding of the necessity to build internal, domestic technology and competence solutions for intelligent transport. The EU 2020 perspective gives us, therefore, a great opportunity to increase Poland’s economic potential, in particular – for ITS to become our national specialty.
Programme proposal of the jubilee POLISH ITS CONGRESS covers a wide variety of ITS applications. Topics will include both popular issues concerning investment projects in Poland, such as traffic management systems and toll systems for domestic roads, as well as still interesting issues, such as technologies used in public transport. We will continue discussions on railways, as well as new ITS market issues, such as managing transport demand in cities.
Speeches will concern the following topics: Road traffic management systems (implementation assessment, traffic detection, information on traffic conditions, priorities for public transport, guidance to free, publicly available parking spaces, including pavement spaces), integration of municipal and domestic systems, balancing mobility, public transport (dispatch management of public transport, information systems for passengers, sharing systems [car sharing, ridesharing], ITS and competitiveness of public transport), collecting fees for using public roads and transport (collecting fees for using motorways, Polish expressways, bridges and tunnels, collecting fees for entering city centres, joint railway & municipal public transport ticket, smart ticketing – modern ticket systems, Mobility as a Service [MaaS]), autonomous vehicles and V2X systems, railway telematics, law and finances (public procurement law in ITS, new sources of funding the implementation of innovative ITS solutions, Public-Private Partnership, ITS standards).
Over 300 people participated in the last, 9th edition of the POLISH ITS CONGRESS: representatives of companies related to Intelligent Transport Systems, government and self-government authorities, universities of technology, and industry press from Poland. Self-government representatives constituted over 40% of congress participants.
POLISH ITS CONGRESS is a permanent event in the transport industry calendar in Poland and in Europe. Each year, many domestic and international speakers and experts participate in this event. We believe that the coming jubilee edition will pique the interest and gather an even larger number of business, science and self-government representatives, which will enhance the entire transport industry in Poland.
Additional information is available at www.pkits.pl

The UDRIVE Final Event - The UDRIVE Experience
2017-06-07 | The Hague, Netherlands
June 2017 is the final month for EU Project UDRIVE – the first large-scale European Naturalistic Driving Study on cars, trucks and powered-two wheelers. The UDRIVE Experience on June 7th is an interactive event to let you experience hands-on what UDRIVE has to offer now that it will come to an end.

What data is collected?
What are the main results and what are their implications?
What can you do with UDRIVE results?
What questions can UDRIVE potentially answer?
What do different stakeholders need?

This event entices you to dive in and find out how the UDRIVE data and results can be of use to you.

What to expect?
Morning: Interactive introduction to UDRIVE
What is there to know about UDRIVE? Let us show you, ask you and tell you!
Afternoon: UDRIVE Experience à la carte
Select the most relevant workshops and discover what UDRIVE has to offer. These rotating workshops will be tailored to the needs of different types of stakeholders, such as policy makers, industry and researchers.
Networking
Following the UDRIVE Experience, you are provided with an additional networking opportunity: the Dutch Pancake Experience. Not only will you be served unlimited Dutch pancakes while overlooking the sea, you also get the chance to further discuss al that is naturalistic with attendees of the UDRIVE Experience ánd researchers attending the 6th Naturalistic Driving Research Symposium (NDRS2017) that will be held June 8 & 9.
Can’t get enough of naturalistic driving research? You are most welcome to stick around for another two days to attend NDRS2017!

6th International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research
2017-06-07 - 2017-06-09 | The Hague, Netherlands
The 6th International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research will provide you an overview of international Naturalistic Driving studies around the globe and insight into the latest scientific results. The symposium has been successfully organised in Blacksburg for 5 years with a growing audience.
More information on the final event will follow soon.

SPICE Webinar: Intelligent Street Light Procurement
2017-06-08 14:30 - 15:30
Webinar Invitation
“Intelligent Street Light Procurement: the story from Copenhagen”
14:30 – 15:30 CET
Thursday 8 June 2017
Objectives

To share good practice of using innovation procurement procedure (e.g. Competitive Dialogue) to procure Intelligent street lights in Copenhagen;
To discuss the benefits and lessons learnt of using innovation procurement for delivering sustainable projects.

Who should attend

Public procurers such as national, regional and city administrators, road operators;
Transport engineers and system suppliers;
Universities and researchers

Description
City of Copenhagen has the ambition to be the first carbon-neutral capital city in the world. To reach this ambitious goal, the city council has adopted a comprehensive and targeted carbon reduction plan. The intelligent street lighting project is a part of the carbon reduction plan to make street lights in Copenhagen more energy efficient, aiming at reducing the energy consumption by 50%. The project can be considered as a complex infrastructure investment. This is due to the fact that the city had a plan for renewing a part of the lighting system across city to help reaching the goals for optimising the energy consumption and infrastructure renovation. Moreover, the LED world is a fast developing technology and how to ensure what you buy is not quickly out of market.
The tender process of the project used innovation procurement procedures in order to ensure appropriate products and system being purchased and a long term success of the project. A 250 million Danish Krone (about 33 million euro) contract was awarded for installing the new street lighting system in the city and 12 year maintenance. Louise Rathleff, the program manager and Stine Ellermann, the contract manager, will give detailed description of the procurement of the intelligent street lighting and share their knowledge and lessons learnt from the procurement.
Moderator (invited)

Anja De Cunto, EUROCITIES

Speakers

Louse Rathleff, Program manager, City of Copenhagen
Stine Ellermann, Contract manager, City of Copenhagen

Organisers
This webinar is organised by the SPICE project (www.spice-project.eu). SPICE is a Horizon 2020 supported Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project with a focus on sharing knowledge and experiences on innovation procurement in the transport sector.
This webinar is organised in cooperation with EUROCITIES (www.eurocities.eu) and the EIP-SCC initiative (https://eu-smartcities.eu/about).
Contact
For any questions, please contact Yanying Li at y.li@mail.ertico.com

BigDataEurope Hangout: Empowering Mobility Management with Big Data
2017-06-14 11:30 - 12:30 | Online
On June 14, BigDataEurope’s Smart, Green, and Integrated Transport Societal Challenge (SC4) will hold its first hangout for 2017!
The launch of BigDataEurope’s open-source Integrator Platform in early May was the culmination of over two years’ development and testing.
The Big Data Europe Integrator Platform (BDI) allows a unified view of heterogeneous data for more efficient processing, analysis and integration without having to worry about native installations of a variety of tools for data processing at scale. BDI has exciting implications for application in the transport and mobility sector.
In a webinar entitled ‘Empowering Mobility Management with Big Data’ we will demonstrate the value of the Platform in the domain of Smart, Green, and Integrated Transport by showcasing the progress during the last few months of BigDataEurope’s Thessaloniki-based SC4 pilot. The webinar will combine a presentation of algorithms and a live demo of the pilot to provide a status update of the latest developments.
Agenda: Empowering Mobility Management with Big Data

Simon Scerri – Fraunhofer IAIS (10 mins)

Introduction to the BigDataEurope project and an overview of the Big Data Integrator Platform

Josep Maria Salanova – CERTH (15 mins)

The mobility use case in Thessaloniki

Luigi Selmi – Fraunhofer IAIS (20 mins)

Technologies and applications – Live Demo of Pilot

Conclusions and Q&A (15 mins)

We look forward to your participation!

WHAT: Webinar: Empowering Mobility Management with Big Data
WHEN: June 14, 11.30 am – 12.30 pm
WHO: Luigi Selmi (Fraunhofer IAIS), Simon Scerri (Fraunhofer IAIS), Josep Maria Salanova (CERTH)
HOW: Register here
WHY: Find out about BigDataEurope’s Integrator Platform with a status update of the Transport Challenge’s pilot work on streaming sensor network and geospatial data integration using the BDI. See a live demo of our latest work at the pilot site in Thessaloniki.

Sign up to the BigDataEurope newsletter to find out more on how you can get involved.
Register for the webinar.

5G enabled Connected Vehicle – powered by Satcom’ Workshop - 21 June 2017 - Save the date
2017-06-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Place de Bordeaux, Strasbourg Convention Center, Place de Bordeaux, 67082, France
On the occasion of the next ITS Congress in Strasbourg, ESOA and ERTICO are pleased to invite you to participate in a workshop: ‘5G enabled Connected Vehicles – powered by Satcoms’.

5G will create infinite opportunities for the fast development of the connected market and will eventually become indispensable to it. In this regard, satellites bring unique capabilities and will play a key role in achieving the expected goals.
This workshop will bring together relevant actors from different sectors to discuss the limitations of a single network to meet the requirements of an evolving connected car market and how only cross-sector collaboration will ensure success.
The program will be divided in to two sessions focusing on business models and product development.
A complete agenda and other relevant information will follow soon.
The workshop will take place Wednesday 21 June at 14.00 in the Leicester room.

Driving Automation: AdaptIVe Final Event
2017-06-28 - 2017-06-29 | Hotel Pullman Aachen Quellenhof, Monheimsallee 52, Aachen, 52062, Germany
European research project AdaptIVe will be holding its Final Event in Aachen, Germany, on June 28 and 29, 2017.
The event will provide guests with first-hand experience of automated driving on motorways, in urban scenarios and in a multi level parking garage. Nine AdaptIVe demonstrators, including passenger cars of various classes and one truck, have been developed and tested for three and a half years. Now, the AdaptIVe partners will showcase automated driving functions on public roads and in a simulated urban environment.
The AdaptIVe functions will also be the focus of presentations during a dedicated conference. The conference will answer questions regarding legal aspects related to automated driving, how a smooth human-machine interaction is designed, and how automated driving and the systems are evaluated.
An exhibition will showcase key results and feature break-out sessions, enabling a closer dialogue with the presenting partners, and providing network opportunities with high-level representatives and experts from policy, industry and research.
Click here to register. The event is free of charge.
For the Draft Agenda, please click here.
Details for preparation including the agenda, directions and recommendations for accommodation, are available online here.

Transport Efficiency Day 2017
2017-08-24 09:30 - 17:00 | Lindholmen Conference Center, Gothenburg, Gothenberg, Sweden
On August 24, it’s time for Transport Efficiency Today’s Sixth Edition at Lindholmen in Gothenburg. We welcome you to attend this conference, which this year will affect transport efficiency on several levels. How should freight be effective in the future of urban areas and how can digitalisation affect the flow of goods, planning and business models? What viable alternatives are already available and what is the future development of energy efficiency on the transport side? This and much more will be presented and discussed, both on and off the stage, at this year’s Treff conference.
As in previous years, the conference will be marked by exciting lectures by scientists and other experts, visionary framtidsutblickar, innovative technical solutions and not least of networking.
Welcome to Göteborg and Lindholmen August 24!
preliminary program
09.00 Registration, coffee & sandwich
9:30 to 9:40
Welcome to the Transportation Efficiency Day
9:40 to 10:00
The government dialogue meetings and freight strategy, what happens now?
Mattias Landgren, Secretary to the Minister Anna Johansson
10:00 to 11:20
SESSION 1: Digitization

Digitization as enabling future manorialism rail – good practices and strategic initiatives – Jan Bergstrand, Transport Administration
AEOLIX – the future European Logistics Information Exchange Federative platform for logistics services – towards the block chain technology – Eusebiu Catana, ERTICO
How can automation and digitization efficiency of logistics chains? Lina Olsson CLOSER
Discussion

11:20 to 11:35 Leg
11:35 to 12:30
SESSION 2: Urbanization

Can dynamic control of ring roads streamline freight in and out of our cities? Helene Giaina, Schenker Consulting
Why it gets crowded on the roads as we build and how we handle this? Anna Fredriksson, Linköping University and Kajsa Hulthén, Chalmers University of Technology
City mold needs to be part of the transport system – Lars Marcus, Chalmers University of Technology
Neighborhood Watch meets transport: the foundation for a circular economy? Corentin de Trégomain, pool.farm
Discussion

12:30 to 13:30 LUNCH AND MINGLE
13:30 to 14:50
Session 3: Roads to vision

Around the world non-stop in a solar-powered airships – Fredrik Sträng, ACEQ
Towards the Physical Internet – challenges from Procter & Gamble perspective – Sergio Barbarino, Procter & Gamble and chairman of ALICE
The path towards a sustainable logistics system – Henrik Lae, Scania
Discussion

14:50 to 15:15 HANKER
15:15 to 16:20
SESSION 4: Energy Efficiency

Energy efficient supply chains – where the plane meets profit – Arni Halldorsson, Chalmers University of Technology
Shipping – part of the solution for an energy-efficient transport – Björn Garberg, Maritime Administration
Challenges and opportunities with electric freight vehicles in urban areas – Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, FREVUE-ordinator, Cross River Partnership, London
Energy supply projections in the UK: the potential impact on vehicle designs and logistics operations – Dr. Philip Greening, Heriot-Watt University
Discussion

16:20 to 16:30 Closing of the year
With reservation for changes.
The presentations will be in Swedish and English.
The program is updated regularly on this page.
Application deadline: August 11 – the number of places is limited and notifications processed in the order they are received.

BigDataEurope and the Societal Challenge on Transport
2017-09-14 10:00 - 16:30
BigDataEurope is a project within the EU’s Horizon 2020 framework programme aiming to build a knowledge- and innovation-based society and to strengthen the competitiveness of Europe’s economy. The project started in 2015 and will culminate at the end of 2017.
BigDataEurope has developed and provides an integrated stack of tools to manipulate, publish and use large-scale data resources. These tools are freely accessible to all, including those with minimal knowledge of the technologies involved, and have already been installed in customised data processing chains. The Big Data Integrator Platform is a key outcome of the Big Data Europe project. It is an ecosystem of specifications and reference implementations that are attractive to both current players and newcomers from all parts of the data value chain.
At the core of the BigDataEurope project are seven societal challenges or focus areas – health, food, energy, transport, climate, social sciences, and security. Transport is societal challenge 4 (SC4) and contributes to smarter, safer, and cleaner transport, using beyond-state-of-the-art data solutions and giving rise to a European leadership for new mobility services.
The workshop will demonstrate the value of the recently launched Platform by showcasing the pilot, and aim to collect feedback from stakeholders requiring transport solutions on how the platform can be extended to increase its value and facilitate further applications. The workshop will also feature a panel debate discussing the transformation that big data is bringing to the transport industry and presenting some of the current EU funded projects working with transport and big data.

The Draft Agenda is available on the website.
Registration is on Eventbrite here.

8th International Congress on Transportation Research
2017-09-27 - 2017-09-29
The Hellenic Institute of Transport of the Center for Research and Technology Hellas (HIT/CERTH) and the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) are co-organising the 8th International Congress on Transportation Research (ICTR 17), which will take place at the CERTH Congress Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 27-29 September 2017, under the theme: ‘The Future of Transportation: A Vision for 2030’.
This event will showcase innovative research and development work in the field of transport systems, operations and infrastructures, in Greece and abroad. Key objectives encompass to showcase recent top-notch research activities in transportation, merge research findings and policy making tasks, facilitate the exchange of knowledge in the local and international level and draw conclusions and shape recommendations on the future of transportation.
The draft Congress Programme, as well as detailed information on ICTR 2017, is available through the Congress website.

CARTRE/ERTRAC Joint Stakeholder Meeting
2017-09-28
The next CARTRE/ERTRAC joint stakeholder meeting will take place at ERTICO’s Brussels Office on 28 September. It will be a joint workshop organised with ERTRAC, to work further on the R&D challenges for CAD. Following the publication of the joint roadmap at the ITS European Congress in Strasbourg, the meeting in September will cover Deployment, research agenda; key players and network; harmonisation across EU member states; positions on thematic statements; alignment of 2040 visions.

Conference: High Quality Positioning: A Key to Success for Autonomous Driving
2017-10-04 | BluePoint Brussels, Blvd Auguste Reyers 80, Brussels, 1030, Belgium
Date: 4th of October 2017
Location: BluePoint Brussels, 80 Bd. A. Reyers https://goo.gl/maps/dX7RERxy6TC2
Joint organisation with ERTICO
Organisers: F. Peyret, P.-Y. Gilliéron: chair of SaPPART; F. Fischer: ERTICO

Conference abstract
The deployment of autonomous vehicles is becoming a reality on the European road network and will significantly affect the future liability of different actors in the road and transport sectors. Liability is strongly linked with the trust that you can have in a system, like a vehicle with advanced driver assistance or automatic driving capabilities. In these applications vehicle positioning is one of the most critical components because most of the decisions are based on the location of the vehicle itself and of other vehicles and objects in its vicinity.
This conference is the final event of the EU COST Action” Satellite Positioning Performance Assessment for Road Transport” (SaPPART). At this conference, the main outcomes of the Action will be presented within the context of very demanding applications such as autonomous driving.
www.sappart.net
If you have any questions then please contact Francois Fischer f.fischer@mail.ertico.com

eCall Workshop
2017-10-11 09:00 - 17:00
The eCall workshop event, organised by ERTICO-ITS Europe on Wednesday 11th October in Kranj, Slovenia.

The workshop builds up on the eCall TESTFEST event, held aims at presenting the status of the eCall deployment including the situation with the type approval, the conformity assessment and eCall over Satellite Communication. The workshop is an opportunity for stakeholders from the safety and transport sectors, as well as for students, to understand the principles of eCall from the technological and deployment point of view. eCall and testing experts will also present how interoperability ids handled as well as the role of the TESTFEST event. Finally, the evolutions of eCall towards Next Generation eCall in the future will be presented.
The workshop will be concluded by a visit of the TESTFEST event providing the opportunity to meet eCall system developers and testing experts.
The Workshop will be presented in different sessions:

Opening session: Welcome, Keynote
Session 1: Pan EU eCall deployment “status”
Session 2: NG112 – eCall
Session 3: Interoperability
Visit of the TESTFEST room

Venue
Sintesio, Interoperability test lab
Ljubljanska 24a
4000 Kranj, Slovenia
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Contact
For any questions regarding the event or interest to participate, please contact:
François Fischer: f.fischer@mail.ertico.com
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Workshop Smart & Green Mobility Solutions @BrabantStad – Now and in the future
2017-10-11 11:00 - 14:00
A European Week of Regions and Cities side event: 11.10.2017 in Brussels
On Wednesday October 11th 2017 from 11.00h -14.00h BrabantStad organises, with POLIS support, an energetic workshop which focuses on Smart & Green Mobility Solutions. Brabant wants cleaner, economical and better possibilities of transport, both in the field of passenger and freight transport. Innovative, smart mobility solutions are therefore very crucial. Due to developments in the field of ICT, social innovation with its multi helix collaboration, Brabant has become a leader in smart mobility concepts.

With a 90-minute dynamic and interactive program, we intend to outline a number of moonshots in the field of automated & connected driving, cycle innovations, smart logistics, zero emission buses and ‘Mobility as a Service’. Where do we stand in Brabant in these areas in about 10 years? Are we driving by a self-driving car across the A58 from Breda to Helmond? How many zero emission vehicles are driving on the Brabant motorways? Does your bike decide which route is the most convenient? Has Brabant introduced a ‘killer-app’ for Mobility as a Service (MaaS)? How many new smart mobility companies are booming? Will empty trucks be still on the road? Is Brabant known in Europe as ‘Region of Smart Mobility’? How do we realise these moonshots? Why do other European regions want to collaborate with Brabant in projects, business development and partnerships?

NeMo Stakeholder Forum Conference
2017-10-12
Registrations are now open for the NeMo Stakeholder Forum Conference.
This event will take place on Thursday 12 October 2017 at IBM premises in Ehningen near Stuttgart.
The Conference follows the International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (EVS30) to be held in the nearby Stuttgart-Messe the over the preceding three days (9 to 11 October). We invite experts and stakeholders in the area of Electromobility to learn more about the developments in the first year of this 3-year project, and specifically the:

Steps taken in building an Electromobility Hyper-Network with the basic aim to increase interoperability of services for electric vehicles across Europe
Solutions proposed for an Open European Inter-Roaming Protocol, which will allow Electromobility Roaming Platforms to connect to each other.

Participants will have the opportunity to liaise with project partners and other Electromobility experts, to actively contribute to the discussions and provide valuable feedback in order for NeMo developments to meet the needs of all stakeholders, i.e. users, service providers, industry, infrastructure operators and public authorities.
A developer session will be held in parallel to the Stakeholder Forum Conference. This aims to familiarize interested IT developers and other stakeholders with the tools being planned for developing B2B and B2C applications in the ecosystem of Electromobility. The participants will also have the chance to learn more about the NeMo Service development environments and Hyper-Network and provide their valuable feedback. Further information is available here.
The NeMo conference is free to attend but registration is required.
Before registering, please see here for the full agenda and travel details.
Please register here for either the Stakeholder Conference or the Developer session (not both). Participants of both events will attend a common introductory session at the start of the event, which will present a general overview of the NeMo project.

NeMo developer session on Interoperable Electromobility Services
2017-10-12
The NeMo project is pleased to announce the organisation of a developer session focusing on tools for the development of B2B and B2C applications in the ecosystem of Electromobility. The session will be held in conjunction with the NeMo Stakeholder Forum Conference, on Thursday 12 October 2017 at IBM premises in Ehningen, near Stuttgart.
NeMo developer session targets to attract IT Developers and other stakeholders with basic aim to familiarise participants with the NeMo Service development environments and Hyper-Network. The developer session is the first of a series of NeMo events that are expected to provide interested participants with the necessary information and tools for their potential participation at the NeMo Hackathon, which is planned towards end of the NeMo project in 2019.
The NeMo developer session is free to attend but registration is required.
Before registering, please see here for the full agenda (Conference and Developer Session) and travel details.
As developer session and Stakeholder Forum Conference are planned to be held in parallel, please register here for either the Developer session or the Stakeholder Conference (not both).

ECG Conference 2017
2017-10-20 - 2017-10-21
ECG – The Association of European Vehicle Logistics is organising its annual conference on Digital revolutions in political turmoil. Established as a non-profit making organisation to promote the interests of the car carrier operators, ECG is now the established platform for the automotive logistics sector bringing together logistics service providers, manufacturer logistics managers and suppliers to the sector.
The conference will host speakers from the logistics sector and the European Commission. The agenda of the event is available via this link.

24th World Congress - Montreal Canada
2017-10-29 - 2017-11-02
Save the Date:
• 29 October – 2 November 2017
• Palais des congrès de Montréal, Canada
• Updates will be available soon
