Highlights

On 16 July 2018 the first 8 intelligent roadside units (RSU) were installed on the A9 motorway near Alkmaar, The Netherlands. Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch national road authority, uses the RSUs to monitor and manage the traffic on the Dutch motorways. New technologies allow for smarter traffic management. Therefore, Rijkswaterstaat develops and tests a new generation of RSU, called iRSU. This work is carried out as one of the pilots in the URSA MAJOR neo project.

On June 19^th, URSA MAJOR neo and URSA Czech Republic held a workshop to elaborate on the topic of Intelligent Truck Parking.

Verkehrsminister von Rheinland-Pfalz Dr. Wissing im Interview mit dem SWR

Mainz, 18.06.2018

Minsiter Dr. Wissing: "Rheinland-Pfalz leistet Pionierarbeit"

The Minister of Transport Rheinland-Pfalz Dr. Wissing in an interview with German television

Mainz, 18.06.2018

Minister Dr. Wissing: “Rheinland-Pfalz is carrying out pioneering work”

Tyre pressure measuring system installed on A16 motorway

Introducing the first joint Intelligent Truck Parking workshop between URSA MAJOR neo & URSA CZ. The workshop will be held June 19th, in Praque at the "Bio Ponrepo", Bartolomějská 291/11. It addresses the challenges and opportunities of ITP with a focus on today´s ever-changing environment. The workshop is a unique event that emphasises the importance of collaboration and networking within the same area of deployment. The freight traffic on roads is steadily increasing.

Nowadays, nodes of transport are less and less isolated and more and more interconnected with the external environment. The creation of smart, integrated, trusted, and secure logistics chains is the challenge to be faced. This discussion was in focus of the TRA 2018 strategic session “Transport and Data Security in a Digital Era”.

The European ITS Platform organized a two days meeting in Frankfurt (28^th February - March 1^st 2018) to monitor and coordinate the corridor’s activities. The main topics discussed in the meeting were:

• the overall status of the Best Practice collection,
• the update of the Deployment Guidelines,
• the format and the next steps of the Best Practice report,
• next steps towards the Reference Handbook,
• the liaison with external stakeholders and the upcoming workshops.

URSA MAJOR neo & URSA CZ invite you to

Intelligent Truck Parking Workshop

19^th June 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

The URSA MAJOR 2 Capitalisation Workshop, which was hosted on December 14th by the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority of Venice and Chioggia, was designed as an instrument to activate benefits from regional projects for the whole URSA MAJOR corridor.

The signature event was held during the December 14th Capitalisation Workshop in Venice and was opened with a speech from Iolanda De Luca.

She expressed her thankfulness to the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority of Venice and Chioggia for their engagement in hosting this important event, SINA for the support in the organisation and the audience. She also highlighted some important moments regarding the URSA MAJOR neo project, especially about the benefits and advantages expected from this project.

The first URSA MAJOR neo meeting was held on December 15^th in Italy, hosted by the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority of Venice. During the meeting, a number of key issues that need to be taken into account during a project’s starting phase were addressed.

On the 26^th and 27^th of September 2017 an Ursa Major 2 workshop was held at the World Port Center of Rotterdam (NL). The workshop was called ‘from Systems to Services’ and focused on the shift in approach regarding how the Dutch handle traffic problems in urban areas.

A successful and effective URSA MAJOR 2 Stakeholder meeting was held on October 10th 2017 in Munich.

Stakeholders from the UM2 Memberstates (NL, IT, DE) and further European countries (i.a. AT, CH, SL) came together to discuss DATEX II interfaces and to exchange their experiences with the European Delegated Regulations, especially on (EU) 2015/962 on the provision of EU-wide real-time traffic information services.

The Netherlands as UM2 partner

URSA MAJOR 2 is based upon an established, well-working cooperation of the involved road operators and road authorities. 

A special situation needs to be considered for the Netherlands. The Netherlands traditionally has a very high traffic density and has consequently started early and swiftly to deploy ITS. In the Netherlands, not only the potential to expand the road network but also the deployment of traditional ITS are nowadays saturated.

Starting in 2015, the Landesbetrieb Mobilität (LBM) Rheinland-Pfalz has been establishing a traffic management system on 16km of the highly frequented motorway A61.

On 30^th June 2017, this system was put into service by Dr Volker Wissing, Minister for Economy, Traffic, Agriculture and Viniculture, Mainz and Christian Weibrecht head of the subdivision “Straßenbau, Straßenbaupolitik, Straßenplanung, Straßenrecht“ of the Ministry for Traffic and digital Infrastructure, Bonn, right in time for the beginning of the holiday season.

At the 12^th ITS European Congress in Strasbourg, the European ITS Platform’s Activity “Monitoring and Dissemination” led by Stephanie Kleine organised a session titled “the future of road operation and traffic management”.

The congress’ visitors were given the chance to hear some top-class professionals’ view of the future. For further information, please download the flyer below.

ITS Strasbourg Highlight

On the 10th of April 2017, the second EWmap webinar was held. Attendees from 5 member states participated in the web conference and were informed about the following topics:

UM2 Invitation: 2^nd EWmap Webinar

After the success of the first EWmap webinar in 2016, UM2 would like to invite you, as road operator, road authority representative and/or partner in the context of the ITS deployment corridors and EU ITS Platform activities, to the second webinar which is scheduled for the 10^th of April 2017 at 2:00 PM CEST. The webinar will last at most 90 minutes.

URSA MAJOR 2 ITS Corridor coordinator Stephanie Kleine was invited to attend the ninth meeting of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Core Network Corridor Forum, 06 December in Brussels to present the UM2 project to the audience. URSA MAJOR 2 was selected for presentation as new project of the ScanMed Corridor, besides 5 others.