eNews 04 February 2010
eNews: February 2010
Welcome to the February 2010 edition of the ITS Radar International eNews. Click on the titles below to take you to the full article on the web site.
European Policy
Intelligent Transport? Debating the future of ITS in Europe event to be held on 22 February 2010
Road User Charging 2010 event to be held over 22 to 23 February
EC call for proposals issued on cooperative transport management systems and eCall pilot
EU may recommend black box recorders for cars
The European Council makes significant progress on adopting the proposed Directive on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Results of the Stakeholders’ conference on a sustainable future for transport
Progress with the European Electronic Toll Service
‘At the helm’ - article on the future of traffic management and cooperative systems
European Research
Co-operative mobility conference 23 - 26 March 2010
EC call for proposals issued on cooperative transport management systems and eCall pilot
ARENA project to hold RUC trials in Sweden
iCar Support project launched
SARTRE project update. Autonomous vehicles breaking the rules?
CVIS project - to the next level and beyond
Pilots
High Definition cameras for traffic monitoring in California
Wireless magnetometer vehicle detection
Radar for incident and event detection in tunnels
innovITS Advance test track to open in April 2010
RedSpeed gains Type Approval for an average speed enforcement system
Technologies
3rd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications 2010 (IEEE WiVeC) 16 – 17 May 2010
‘Wireless Communications to Enable the Internet of Things’ Conference 11 March 2010
24th ARRB Conference on road and transport research October 2010
The HA Technology Guide - Sharing knowledge for mutual benefit
SARTRE project update. Autonomous vehicles breaking the rules?
Mexico City gets first RDS-TMC service
Highways Agency Traffic Cameras Service
Hard shoulder running now active on the M6 near Birmingham
US to use hard shoulder running with automatic video incident detection
Joint task force formed to deliver Cooperative Highways
Developments in Variable Message Signs
‘At the helm’ - article on the future of traffic management and cooperative systems
AA online Route Optimiser helps HGVs avoid height and weight restrictions
Exploiting advances in ANPR technology
Standards
First User Forum for DATEX II 16 - 17 March 2010
Final GeoNet Workshop held in Paris, January 2010
INSPIRE Conference 23-25 June 2010
INSPIRE Update – Documents approved, Forum up and running
Traveller Information Services Association elects new officers
Traveller Information Services Association publishes two TPEG specifications
DATEX II summary document published
Article: “Intellidrive Update” – US co-operative systems initiative reports on communication standard SAE J2735
Article: “Creating consistency in the European telematics market” – Next Generation Telematics Protocol
Location Positioning
GPS Jamming and Interference conference on 23 February 2010
Galileo Application Days event on 3 March 2010
The EC awards major Galileo contracts
New Galileo management structure agreed
Galileo's most comprehensive ground station is complete
U.S. Coast Guard publishes Loran-C Termination while UK and Europe launch trial eLoran service
New civil capabilities for GPS
Further delays to the launch of the first GPS IIF satellites
Three more GLONASS satellites launched
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eNews Format
Last month we changed the format of the eNews. We condensed it down by providing self-explanatory headlines and removing summary text. The full articles can still be found by clicking on the title hyperlink to take you to the ITS Radar International web site. We asked you what you thought of the 'compact' eNews and the majority of you favour this new format, so we propose to continue with this layout for the time being. If you have any further comments or suggestions, please email ITSRadarInternational@trl.co.uk.
ITS Radar International Fact Sheet on Managed Motorways published
The project has completed a Fact Sheet on Managed Motorways. This summarises international experience of managed motorways, including evaluation evidence on the impacts of the various schemes, as well as providing a brief overview of UK schemes and future developments. This is available on the Fact Sheets page of the web site.
ITS Radar International Web Site Visits – report published
We have analysed the number of visits to the web site, visits to various pages and downloadable documents as part of a review of the project. A report showing the number of visits from the Highways Agency and elsewhere, most popular documents, and most popular pages can be found on the ITS Radar International Deliverables page of the web site.
ITS Radar International Review and Forward Plan
We have prepared a report reviewing the performance of the project against its objectives and setting out recommendations for continuing the service under a future project. This is available on the ITS Radar International Deliverables page of the web site.
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