Ingenia live!
2015-03-10 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Brussels)
The inaugural Ingenia live! event will introduce a new series of an early evening discussions bringing to life the stories featured within the pages of Ingenia magazine – published quarterly by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Ingenia live! aims to introduce as many new people as possible to engineering as a subject. Discussions will evolve around exciting, cutting-edge topics where technology and society meet.
The first Ingenia live! event will look at the future of driverless road travel, which promises to be safer, greener and more relaxing. Professor Paul Newman FREng from the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group and Neil Fulton from the Transport System Catapult will discuss the engineering behind autonomous vehicles and how they will transform the way we travel.
For more information, click here

VDA Technischer Kongress
2015-03-14 23:00 - 2015-03-20 22:59
Vorankündigung, 19./20. März 2015FILharmonie Filderstadt
Technical event and exhibition focused on Vehicle Safety, Electronics, Environment, Energy and Electric Mobility.
For more information, click here

ITS Forum UAE
2015-03-21 23:00 - 2015-03-25 22:59
Implementing world class ITS strategies for high-quality transport services, road safety and environmental sustainability
22 – 25 March, 2015Park Rotana Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates http://www.itsroadsafetyuae.com/
Today, the gulf region and particularly the UAE are on the cusp of a transformation, where ITS technologies offer realistic solutions to transportation mobility, safety, and environmental challenges.
In light of this, the ITS Forum UAE will be held in Abu Dhabi from the 22 – 25 March 2015. This event will bring together government officials, national and international stakeholders and solution providers to share their expertise and discuss the latest state of the art ITS technologies and their major contribution.

ITS for Autonomous and Cooperative Transport
2015-03-22 23:00 - 2015-03-24 22:59
23rd International Symposium on Electronics in Transport – ISEP 2015, organised by the Electrotechnical Association of Slovenia and Slovenian ITS Association. T
ISEP 2015 will take place on the 23rd and 24th of March 2015 at Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
To learn more about the event, click here
DEADLINES
· 12 January 2015 Registration of abstracts
· 30 January 2015 Notification of acceptance
· 27 February 2015 Submission of draft paper
· 09 March 2015 Submission of final paper
SPONSORS ARE WELCOMED

Net Futures 2015
2015-03-25 08:00 - 2015-03-26 15:00
Net Futures 2015 replaces the former annual Future Internet Assembly (FIA) after 11 successful editions. The event is organised and supported by the European Commission.
This year as a new feature, the conference will be a single event bringing together all of Net Futures’ interest groups around cross-cutting topics: Internet of Things, open source, cloud, smart cities, and start-ups. It will also include consultation meetings that cover all Net Futures’ topics:

Network Technologies
Software & Services
Cloud
Net Innovation
Experimental Platforms

The conference programme is available here
To register, click here

Opening Symposium Automotive Week
2015-03-25 09:00 - 11:00
Are you dealing with smart mobility developments as a professional, employer or road user? Then Connecting Mobility and DITCM Innovations would like to invite you to the opening symposium on Wednesday, March 25th, 2015. In the Netherlands we invested these last years in pilots and innovations in smart mobility. In cooperation with government, market parties and knowledge institutes we paved the way for the future of mobility, in which we can use a broad spectrum of developments, knowledge and experience. We want to make a step forward: from research and testing, now to start doing! And we are going to involve the roaduser even more.
In the symposium, held in Helmond (The Netherlands), three speakers (Justus Verkerk, FCCE, Marianne Dwarshuis, ANWB and Vincent Everts) will inspire the participants to think different. And together with the moderator, Maarten Bouwhuis (Business News Radio BNR) we would like to seduce them considering new roads en make a next step with innovations. We want to raise the point of the dynamics that smart mobility developments bring about: working together, co-creation, crowdsourcing. In short, bundeling skills and know-how to keep innovating. And share experiences in order to claim a position as frontrunner in smart mobility for The Netherlands. Our ambition is that participants are challenged to be frontrunners themselves.
Read more here

Social Media and Transport Seminar
2015-03-25 12:15 - 16:00
Organised by: Transport Systems Catapult
Adress: Ground Floor, The Pinnacle, 170 Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 1BP
Programme
Social Networking is an important feature of many people’s lives, both personally and professionally.
It is also having an impact on transport. People may learn about a road traffic accident through Twitter before they hear about it from their traffic information service. Car-sharing is more acceptable with “Facebook Friends” than it is with strangers.
The seminar will address “Social Media in Transport”, including its use for the National Roads Authority in Dublin, and how technology & gamification can be used to encourage travel behaviour change. (According to Wikipedia “gamification” is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems and increase users’ self-contributions)
Seminar Chair – Dr John Walker, TRG, Southampton University
1. Welcome & Introduction by: Dr John Walker
2. How ‘Gamification’ Delivered through Technology can create Longterm Modal Shift – Crispin Moller, Yomp
Using Social Media for the National Roads Authority (eFlow) in Dublin – Simon McBeth, Sanef Tolling LtdPerception as Data – technology to help gather and understand information about user needs in transport – Mike Saunders, CommonplaceUsing Social Media during travel disruption – Ian Wright, Passenger FocusSocial Media, Disruption Information and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games – Paul Everson, Trapeze Group (UK) Ltd(Title- tbc) – Charlie Sundt, Transport for London
8. Closing Remarks – Dr John Walker
Attendance is free. Places must be pre-booked with Rachael Louis, rlouis@its-uk.org.uk.

ITS America 2015 Symposia Series
2015-03-25 23:00 - 2015-03-27 22:59
More information and the registration form are available here

Improving Cycling Safety using ITS
2015-03-26 08:00 - 13:30
The VRUITS project, which is sponsored by the European Commission (DG MOVE), aims at providing recommendations regarding ITS applications for the improvement of the safety and mobility for Vulnerable Road Users. VRUITS assesses the societal impact of selected ITS applications and demonstrates the use of innovative ITS applications for VRUs.
In Helmond, the VRUITS project will demonstrate how vehicles and cyclists can communicate with each other. For example, vehicle drivers can receive warnings of possible collisions with cyclists and the vehicle brakes automatically to avoid the collision or cyclists are personally warned for collisions.
In the seminar the VRUITS partners will discuss how ITS can be used to improve cycling safety. The use of Cooperative ITS for cyclists will receive specific stress. At the end of the seminar, participants will be able to visit the VRUITS Helmond test site.
Seminar Programme
09:00 Participants Arrival and Registration
09:30 Keynote speech (Rob Methorst, Rijkswaterstaat)
09:50 VRUITS project and assessment results (Johan Scholliers, VTT)
10:10 Improving safety of elderly cyclists (Stefanie de Hair, TNO)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Helmond and C-ITS (Daniel de Klein, City of Helmond)
11:20 Mobility data of cyclists (NN, TNO)
11:40 Industrial perspective for C-ITS (Kees Moerman, NXP)
12:00 The Helmond VRUITS demonstration (Esra van Dam, TNO)
12:20 Lunch and transportation to the demonstration site
13:30 Visit to the demonstration site
14:30 Seminar closure
For more information and to register, click here

CityMobil2 workshop: Socio-economic impact of road vehicle automation
2015-03-29 22:00 - 2015-03-31 21:59
Road vehicle automation will have an impact as big as the internal combustion engine had during the 20th century. Do you know how is mobility going to change? And how your business, your industry and society at large are going to be affected?
To discuss this, the workshop on Socio-economic impact of road vehicle automation has been organized by CityMobil2* in the framework of the Automated Road Transport System demonstration in La Rochelle, France, on March 30 and 31, 2015. Free registration, limited number of attendees.
More information will be available here

* CityMobil2 is an EC-funded FP7 research project aiming at eliminating the barriers to the deployment of fully automated road transport systems and automated mobility

Smart Mobility on the Road Symposium
2015-03-30 07:00 - 15:00
DITCM Innovations and Connecting Mobility proudly present the Symposium on Smart Mobility on the road – key enablers for implementation on Monday 30 March 2015. Please have a look at our program with well-known national and international speakers.
Smart Mobility on the road
In the morning two parallel sessions Human Factors towards Smart Mobility Systems and Security & Privacy for Smart Mobility Systems will take place.
Both national and international perspectives will be presented. In the afternoon two other sessions will be on the agenda: Effect studies on Smart Mobility Systems and Architecture for Smart Mobility Systems.
This DITCM Innovations – Connecting Mobility Symposium is the best way for professionals and executives to come together to meet the challenges facing the Smart Mobility on the road.
For more information and to register, click here

Symposium on Smart Mobility on the road
2015-03-30 07:00 - 15:00
DITCM Innovations and Connecting Mobility proudly present the Symposium on Smart Mobility on the road – key enablers for implementation on Monday 30 March 2015. Please have a look at our program with well-known national and international speakers.
In the morning two parallel sessions Human Factors towards Smart Mobility Systems and Security & Privacy for Smart Mobility Systems will take place.
Both national and international perspectives will be presented. In the afternoon two other sessions will be on the agenda: Effect studies on Smart Mobility Systems and Architecture for Smart Mobility Systems.
This DITCM Innovations – Connecting Mobility Symposium is the best way for professionals and executives to come together to meet the challenges facing the Smart Mobility on the road.

For more information, visit ditcm.eu

Workshop on the socio-economic impact of road vehicle automation
2015-03-30 12:15 - 2015-03-31 10:00
CityMobil2 workshop – Socio-economic impact of road vehicle automation – March 30 and 31, 2015, La Rochelle, France.
LAST DAYS TO REGISTER!
The CityMobil2 project aims at eliminating the barriers to the deployment of fully automated road transport systems and automated mobility. One of these barriers is the little knowledge of the large-scale socio-economic impact of road vehicle automation, which could be as big as that of the internal combustion engine during the 20th century. How is your business, your industry and society at large going to be affected? Do you know how is mobility going to change?
CityMobil2 invites you to discuss about it with other experts and stakeholders at the workshop on Socio-economic impact of road vehicle automation. The workshop is organized in the framework of the Automated Road Transport System pilot that is being conducted by CityMobil2 in La Rochelle, France. Experts, officials and stakeholders from Europe, US and Japan have already confirmed their attendance.
Date: March 30 and 31, 2015. Free registration, limited number of attendees. Registration closes on February 27th 2015.
Further information and registration here.

ICT-Emissions project Final event, 31st March, Brussels
2015-03-31 07:00 - 13:00
ICT-Emissions project is coming to an end this March and we are hosting our Final Conference “ICT-Emissions: Environmental and climate assessment in the transport area” in Brussels on 31st March.
For more information on the event and location, please have a look at the invitation attached to this message. The conference agenda will be circulated closer to the event. An online registration form is available on the event webpage.
The event will focus on: Results from specific real-world application cases in selected cities where ITS measures are deployed;How to develop synergies and common standards for local traffic management;ITS products development and market penetration.
Target Audience: The workshop is free of charge and open to local authorities, automotive manufactures, system suppliers, software companies, and academia.
Travel expenses reimbursement is available. For more information please contact: FBoschetti@polisnetwork.eu.
Venue: c/o Polis, rue due Trone 98, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Time: Tuesday, 31 March 2015, from 10:00 to 15:00.
Contact: Florinda Boschetti at Polis, email FBoschetti@polisnetwork.eu or phone +32-2-500 56 74

ICT Emissions final conference
2015-03-31 08:00 - 13:00
The ICT Emissions project (assessing the impact of ICT on road transport emissions) holds its final conference at Polis’ offices in Brussels pn 31/03/2015.
See link below for details and registration.
www.ict-emissions.eu/ict-emissions-final-conference

Workshop: Cooperative ITS and self-driving vehicles for road authorities
2015-04-01 07:00 - 13:00
Location: Automotive Campus, Helmond, The Netherlands
Beter Bereikbaar Zuidoost-Brabant (BBZOB) is one of the partners of the Automotive Week. April 1 has been pronounced to Day of the Road Authorities. In cooperation with partners, Compass4D, CROW, ViM, MAPtm, Connecting Mobility, Connekt, Province of Noord-Brabant and Rijkswaterstaat, BBZOB organizes one of the three workshops: Beter Benutten (Optimising use) Cooperative-ITS. Workshop 2 is about practical aspects of introducing ITS applications (Compass4D). And workshop 3 is about testing with self-driving vehicles (CROW, Connekt, Rijkswaterstaat). This day is dedicated to smart vehicles on smart infrastructure. What kind of problems can we solve with which innovative & smart solutions?
Berry de Jong, projectmanager BBZOB says: “It surprises me that people focus on others traffic behavior. Those comments are on top of the top 10 of worst traffic annoyances. As a traffic specialist, I think it’s frustrating if I have to wait for a traffic light while there is no other traffic. Can we do you better than that? And which role do you have to take as a road authority?
“In theory, it seems easy to organize our traffic and transport more efficiently, less traffic jams, safer traffic and more comfortable driving for road users. The technology is now available. What do we need for deployment? It’s time to identify potential opportunities and put those into practice. If we can unite road authorities and the automotive industry and if we come up with practical solutions to our mobility problems, the Automotive Week has been very successful to me. “
If you are not fully aware of Cooperative ITS, but curious anyway? You are warmly welcomed to attend! This is the ultimate opportunity to learn more, ask questions and participate in the workshops! Register here. For more information click here.
Language: Dutch

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WEBINAR: ITS business opportunities in Europe
2015-04-09 15:00 - 21:59
ITS America, ERTICO – ITS Europe and the US Commercial Service would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Webinar on “The 22nd ITS World Congress and ITS business opportunities in Europe” on April 9, 2015 at 11:00am EST. Come explore new market opportunities and learn effective strategies for the European market and identify proper networking opportunities that the ITS World Congress in Bordeaux has to offer.
At this Webinar you will have the opportunity to:
1) Learn about ITS America and the 22nd ITS World Congress opportunities and services– Tom Kern, Interim CEO and President, ITS America– Didier Gorteman, Chief Financial Officer & Director Congresses, ERTICO – ITS Europe
2) Learn about the ITS Market in Europe– Rasmus Lindholm, Director Partnership and Communications, ERTICO – ITS Europe
3) Hear from US Companies investing in Europe on ITS– Asdrúbal Pichardo. Managing Director International, STREETLINE, INC.– Martin Howell, Director, Worldwide Communications, CUBIC
4) Learn on how the US Commercial Service can assist you in Europe– Lesa Forbes & Felix Happe/Stephanie Pencole, US Commercial Service
And special programmes and events happening during the ITS World Congress in Bordeaux– Didier Gorteman, Chief Financial Officer & Director Congresses, ERTICO – ITS Europe
The ITS World Congress and Exhibition is the world’s largest event in intelligent transport systems and services. Through the main theme “Towards Intelligent Mobility – Better Use of Space”, the Bordeaux Congress, 5-9 October 2015, will focus not only on how achieving intelligent mobility will change our lives but also on the benefits space can bring to ITS applications. ITS America, ERTICO– ITS Europe and the US Commercial Service will be present at this event and can provide you with support prior, during and after the event to expand your business in Europe.
To join the webinar, please register at: http://www.itsa.org/events/webinarseries

FOTsis Club 3rd Workshop
2015-04-13 07:00 - 15:00
Brussels13 April 2015
More info: http://www.fotsis.com/

iMobility Forum Steering Group Chairs meeting
2015-04-20 12:00 - 15:00
More information on http://www.imobilitysupport.eu/

International public transport conference
2015-04-20 22:00 - 2015-04-22 21:59
The 3rd Czech conference on smart and healthy public transport will be held under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of Transport, ITS&S and UITP in Pilsen, the Czech Republic on 21 – 22 April 2015. Conference languages are English, Czech and German with simultaneous translation.
The key topics for this edition will be:

Sustainable municipal transportation for the 21st century
Technology inside vehicles and on municipal public transport lines
Public transport customer

More information about the event organised by the Pilsen City Public Transport company is here

Speakers:
Martin Howell, Director of Cubic, UK
Catherine Kargas, Vice President, Marcon, Montreal, Canada
Alain Flausch, Secretary General, UITP, Belgium
Prof. Gerd-Axel Ahrens of Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
and others

FEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting 2015
2015-04-21 22:00 - 2015-04-23 21:59
Click here to register for FIRM15, which features the theme of “Innovative maintenance of Transport Infrastructure. Faster, cheaper, more reliable, safer, greener”. This key event will be held in English and cost 150 Euros per person (for two days conference, exhibition entrance and cocktail).
It will gather some 120 transport infrastructure innovation and research experts, including European and national policy makers, leading industry, standardisation agencies, SME’s and the media. FIRM15 will feature multiple information sessions on the following themes.
1) Infrastructure level: Engineering and technical solutions2) System level: Maintenance operations including monitoring inspections3) Governance level: management and financial issues
See more details on the draft programme here.

iMobility Forum Steering Group
2015-04-22 11:00 - 15:30

ITS Conference: "A Digital Strategy for Mobility: from capacity to connectivity"
2015-04-24 07:00 - 15:00
The European Commission is organising its 5th Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems. The objective is to provide an overview of the state-of-play with regard to a number of key actions and major initiatives in the context of the ITS Action Plan and the ITS Directive 2010/40/EU .
Main topics to be discussed
During the ITS Conference 2015 topics such as Data for digitising transport, Mobility as a Service and Connectivity and automation will be discussed.
Who is expected to participate?
The ITS Conference 2015 will bring together high-level representatives from the European institutions and representatives of public and private stakeholders from the ITS community.
The Conference will be opened by Mrs Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner for Transport, together with representatives of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the EU and the European Parliament.
The participation is open to all members of the ITS Community interested in exchanging views on various actions and initiatives in the field of ITS.

Conference Programme
On-line registration tool

Venue: Charlemagne Building, Brussels Organiser: DG MOVE, European Commission.

Transportation Finance & Road Usage Charging Conference
2015-04-25 22:00 - 2015-04-28 21:59
Conference to explore innovative ways to fix the US transportation system. As Congress struggles to restore the solvency of the federal Highway Trust Fund, states and localities are blazing new paths to generate sustainable funding for their vital transportation infrastructure. 35 states now use toll financing to build and operate limited access road infrastructure. Over a dozen US states are exploring road usage charging (RUC), a policy of assessing fees for the use of roadway infrastructure across an entire roadway network.
Location: The Nines Hotel 525 SW Morrison Portland, OR 97204, USA Registration required and fee payable.

14th ITS Asia Pacific Forum 2015 Nanjing China
2015-04-27 06:00 - 2015-04-29 15:00
The Organizing Committee has extended the deadline of the Final Paper submission to 28 February. Don’t miss out – submit your paper today!
ITS Australia will have a stand in the exhibition – contact admin@its-australia.com.au today if you would like to participate as a co-exhibitor.
The ITS Asia-Pacific Forum is one of the most important annual events and exchange activities in the international community of ITS. On the occasions of forum, the people from intelligent transportation industry and academic circles around the world gather at ITS Asia-Pacific Forum for jointly exploring the development concept and direction of modernized transportation. The forum has been a platform with the highest level and largest size for showing the results and conducting technical exchange in intelligent transportation circles of the Asia-Pacific region.
27 – 29 April 2015Jinling Convention Center, Nanjing China
Official Website: http://www.summitemarketing.com.au

FOTsis Final Event
2015-04-27 07:00 - 2015-04-28 15:00
Madrid, Spain
27-28 April 2015
More info: http://www.fotsis.com/

Smart Urban Freight Conference 2015
2015-04-29 06:00 - 15:00
The Smart Urban Freight Conference 2015 will disseminate the results of the Smartfusion project – including the Smart Urban Freight Designer tool – to an expert audience of city and regional authorities, logistics operators, fleet managers, industry representatives and academics
A poster session will explore and present state-of-the-art solutions to urban freight problems in European cities.
Interactive sessions and micro-lectures will stimulate knowledge transfer among peers across Europe and, building on the success of last year’s event, Smartfusion will launch a Call for City-based posters, to gather new insights into policy, technology, social and economic interventions.
This event is free to attend and open to all.
For more information and to register, click here

Telematics Berlin 2015
2015-05-10 22:00 - 2015-05-12 21:59
Using the ‘Silicon Valley of Europe’ as its innovative hub, Telematics Berlin brings together key industry innovators, leading OEMs and other important players to discuss the current and future effects of data to the car.
For more information, visit www.tu-auto.com/berlin

2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2015-Spring
2015-05-10 22:00 - 2015-05-14 21:59
The 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 11–14 May 2015 at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland. This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideals in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as application sessions.
For more information, click here

Global Conference on Global Warming 2015
2015-05-11 06:00 - 15:00
CERTH along with the Academy of Athens are co-organising the 2015 Global Conference on Global Warming (GCGW-15) in Athens on May 24-27, 2015.
The GCGW-15 is a multi–disciplinary international conference on global warming and climate change issues and potential solutions. The primary themes of the conference relate to Energy, Transport, and the Green House effect.
More information are available at the Conference website: www.gcgw.org
