Timetable

Recently, the integration of transportation and Smartphone is accelerated rapidly, and also, new telematics services are expected to come out by networking vehicles to cloud computing. In this session, we would like to explain the progress of a Japanese government’s project, “Next-generation Vehicle Cloud Project“, as well as a model of vehicle-society architecture that every vehicle can join. Furthermore, we would like to discuss the issue of “vehicle information security“ which has appeared with networking vehicles, and how “Next-generation vehicle information platform”, which is an open platform, should be with consideration of information security.

Co-operation between private and public sectors in the field of intelligent transport systems and services as a prerequisite to contribute to fulfill the climate, safety, mobility, growth and sustainability goals set by governments and politicians. Modern administrations, collaboration and cooperation between enterprises and public sector, efficient and robust transport systems are all a prerequisite for welfare and continued growth. ITS will play a much greater role in this context than it does today. It involves, not least, better utilization of the existing resources and capacity in the transport system, offering new and attractive solutions for both passenger and goods multimodal transport and employing a variety of regulatory measures and incentives. Modern public administration will therefore plane for and deploy these ITS solutions and services for the benefit of the citizens.

The deployment of ITS in the perspective of sustainable mobility policies creates new opportunities to inform the end users about the consequences of their choices. ITS systems will “speak” about mobility and sustainability. In an extremely diversified context, a difficult question is to find the right organisation to assure that the content of the many speeches will be meaningful and consistent. Taking the example of CO2 emissions linked with transport operation, the panellists will discuss about the expected new needs of information at different territorial levels and in different circumstances.

We have expected that ITS radio communication would play an important role in safety driving and sustainable development. In addition to the projects “5.8/5.9 GHz band DSRC/WAVE” and “79GHz band high-resolution radar”, Japan also started the project “700 MHz ITS systems for vehicle-to-vehicle communications”. In this session experts at ITS radio communications, who come from the United States, Europe and Japan as well as the automobile manufacturer, will report the recent status of policies, technologies and standards development. Afterward, we will figure out and dissect current issues regarding our international harmonisation of related projects and discuss solutions to each.

With the growing emphasis on cybersecurity, system vulnerability and denial of service, this session will share some recent experiences and discuss the risk to a modern transportation system. Participants will also discuss the severity of the risk and how agencies may protect themselves against these threats.

This session considers the industry and public sector view on how to accelerate ITS deployment. It is based on a recently published strategy paper produced by members of the ERTICO Traffic and Transport Industry sector platform. The platform comprises twelve leading organisations that influence the development and deployment of ITS enabled services. The paper addresses how to overcome barriers to deployment, the importance and the role of political leadership (including expectations associated with the ITS Directive) and how industry and the authorities can best cooperate to ensure sustained operational acceleration.

Running connected ITS applications requires actually 100% reliable communication services between vehicles, roadside systems and backend infrastructure. Using certification is a good policy to give OEMs, vendors and users confidence about the liability of systems for connected vehicles and infrastructure. The availability of suitable conformance and interoperability tests enables the application of appropriate certification procedures for the cooperative systems. This session aims to present concrete use cases to show the benefit of testing and certification.

Between cities and their surroundings there is strong interaction, especially in transport and mobility affairs. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) provide impressive possibilities in that respect, if we manage to use and coordinate them efficiently and cooperatively. This Special Session will cover a few outstanding examples of concepts, deployment strategies, solutions and applications taking precisely that approach in various regions with their specific situations. All of our contributors are experts who have held leading positions in the projects presented.

The challenge of reducing energy use and emissions is reaching a critical stage in light of climate change. Several relatively recent ITS strategies – such as Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) and Managed Motorways – provide dynamic management of recurrent and non-recurrent congestion through the use of integrated systems with new technology and automation. This session explores how these emerging ITS strategies can also help reduce levels of transport-related energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, in addition to providing mobility and safety benefits.

Significant global investments are being made to equip travellers, private or commercial, with the necessary tools to save lives and increase throughput. The prolonged economic downturn has made solutions more urgent as governments decrease their investments while remaining internationally competitive. In order for the connected vehicle concept to succeed, there must be consensus on standardisation, organisation, and governance. This session brings together thought leaders and government policy makers to clarify objectives, propose solutions, begin urgent dialogue. Silos must be prevented if the Connected Vehicle concept is to reach full fruition.

The challenge of improving road safety is just as important now as it was 18 months ago when the United Nations launched its Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020). A key benefit of ITS deployment is improved information, management, and incident awareness response and road safety. Speakers will illustrate the contribution of ITS to achieving policy objectives and how through education and enforcement can result in more compliance resulting in community wide benefits.

Multimodal traveller information services have been implemented in many cities to facilitate multimodal journeys. The recent fast growing deployment of smart phone and wireless communication offers a great opportunity for collecting and delivering real-time information throughout an entire trip. Many transport operators, cities and information providers cooperate in development and implementation of information services for multimodal journeys for pre-trip planning and en-route support. This session invites cities and information providers to present their achievements in multimodal information provision in various cities and their views on future opportunities of sustainable motilities.

Many countries have established the system of Electric Toll Collection (ETC) by the application of the technology of Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC). However, except the ETC system, the latest tendency shows that the infrastructure could be more intelligent with the extended applications of DSRC technology.

Road transport has become the main source of carbon emission and air pollution, particularly in urban areas. Carbon emission and air pollution from road transport sector have significant impact on the global climate change and human health. To monitor the emission and pollution, to understand the relations between emission, air pollution and road transport, thus to mitigate the negative impacts are one of key challenges transport professionals face. Great efforts have been invested into monitoring carbon footprint and air pollution. Such monitoring data has been analysed together with traffic data in order to develop a sound understanding of the impact of road transport on air quality and emission. Other data, such as personal travel behaviour, has also been collected and analysed in order to form a mitigation strategy to promote low carbon mobility. This session will present innovative technologies of environmental monitoring, road traffic and air pollution modelling, and introduce low carbon transport policies and mobility practice in Asian countries, e.g. China and Vietnam. This session aims at dissemination of the innovative technologies in this field, and best practice. This session will also promote more sustainable mobility and raise awareness among transport professionals.

European wide real time traffic services mainly based on probe data are available today. These services offer a competitive solution for many potential public and private customers, but also challenges regarding ensuring the quality. European wide real time traffic services are changing the division of work. Representatives of public organisations and automotive industry will present their needs and quality requirements and compare probe data with other sources. They will both present their quality assurance methods for procuring probe data. Suppliers will present products and their quality assurance methods, data sources used and handling of fusion of data.

EasyWay is the unique European Project aiming at harmonized implementation of Intelligent Transports Systems (ITS) and Services across the TEN - T Road Network gathering 27 Member States and 3 other European countries. It is funded by the European Commission (DG MOVE) to address the major EU transport objectives and harmonise the deployment of Intelligent Transport Services (ITS). EasyWay project has produced 19 deployment guidelines (DG). EasyWay’s objectives are fully consistent with both the national policies of the 27 EU Member States and with the priorities defined in the ITS Directive (2010/40/EC).. Why did the EasyWay community elaborate this DG ? What are the link between DGs and ITS Directive ? What will be next step? All this questions will be raised with both partners involved in the project, representative of the EC and other stakeholders on ITS deployment project.

Free-flow road charging is an established trend and nation-wide schemes based on Satellite Navigation are now operational in Germany and Slovakia and under implementation in France, offering innovative flexibility for large and modern toll domains. In US, distance based systems using Satellite Navigation are under trial, proposing also the use of Smartphone instead of dedicated on board unit, differently from Europe. The aim of this section is to analyse the future perspectives of road charging based on Satellite Navigation, discussing business opportunities, innovations and how to increase user acceptance.

Experts from London’s Traffic Directorate will report and demonstrate how they deployed ITS tools during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The key measures for success were that no athlete or official arrived late for any event nor any event was delayed due to delays on the road network; and the rest of London was kept moving during Games time. This posed a major challenge to the already highly saturated strategic road network in London. To ensure success TfL defined an Olympic and Paralympic Route Network (ORN and PRN) to cater for athletes’ and officials’ journeys, making extensive use of state-of-the-art ITS. The session will also look into the planned deployment of ITS in future large events with the presentations of Korea and Russia.

Intelligent cities use technology and smart planning to coordinate resources for more effective transportation, policy, and business. This leads to more attractive markets, better living and working environments, policy that fosters innovation, and improved resource efficiency. Strengthening these economic health pillars revitalises cities and invigorates economic growth. But what does it mean to be an intelligent city? How do cities become intelligent? Technology and municipality experts discuss case studies and their vision for the future of intelligent cities, and what it means for businesses, governments, jobs, and economic growth.

In the study of the Intelligent Transportation Society “ITS”, a vehicle is considered as a part of the surface transportation systems in conjunction with urban city development. When developing an electric vehicle, a total energy management modelling among vehicles, home and offices has become an important and increasing task. The energy modelling approach is based on actual energy demand from each household which vary with changes of time and day, weather and seasons, as well as daily vehicle operation. Such energy modelling is used to reach an understanding of a quite complex individual performance which requires horizontal view of connectivity among household energy demand in time, day and season with changes of driving and weather patterns. Wide knowledge concerning urban developing, transportations systems, energy simulation, and telecommunication are essential when studying energy management in aspect of vehicle and urban development.

Environmentally friendly driving is becoming an increasingly important topic among the ITS community in part because of its potential role in helping to mitigate climate change. Eco-driving tackles driving inefficiencies in order to maximise energy efficiency, avoid unnecessary emissions and improve traffic flows without compromising safety. This special session depicts practical examples of human machine interfaces (HMI) that encourage such eco driving behaviour. The session encompasses passenger cars and heavy vehicles, and explores the links between different HMI options and the desired behavioural change. Speakers present the latest results as obtained by different projects from Europe, United States and Japan.

Many countries are researching Vehicle-Infrastructure (V-I) Cooperation Systems. In Japan, National Police Agency (NPA) has developed V-I Cooperative Driving Safety Support Systems (DSSS) in cooperation with UTMS Society of Japan (UTMS Japan). Central controlled DSSS has been already deployed in Japan. Considering the recent financial crisis, the NPA and the UTMS Japan need to pursue to develop standalone DSSS which consists of only roadside equipment. Standalone DSSS is expected to adopt for improving traffic situation in emerging countries from the point of price.

Vehicles of the future will sense and communicate and so create an ecosystem of advanced connectivity that will revolutionise transportation. Vehicles will no longer travel in isolation, but connect with other vehicles, the roadway, pedestrians, businesses, and other digital networks. This connectivity will transform the driving experience by opening the door to multiple degrees of autonomous transportation, from assisted to robotic and to monumental improvements in safety, mobility, environmental and productivity. The question is not so much will this happen, but when? This session will address milestones and roadmaps to autonomy with topics including milestone forecasts for achieving semi-autonomy and full autonomy, the actions that can be taken by governments to bolster consumer acceptance of autonomous vehicles onto roadways, component failure scenarios, critical sensors and other components, core research areas and required breakthroughs for autonomous vehicles, road environments, autonomous vehicle functions or behaviours that require improvement, and actions to ensure a future market for civilian autonomous vehicles.

New generation of driver assistance systems use predictive data based on map data and vehicle position. This session reports new development made by the automotive industry on the implementation of the ADAS Interface Specifications (ADASIS) for safety, fuel economy and energy efficiency applications, with plans for market introduction. The enabling technology linking map data, vehicle position and ADAS was developed by the ADASIS Forum created in 2002 releasing its specifications in April 2010. In 10 years this industry driven forum has developed specifications used in today’s new Driver Assistance systems.

Research indicates that Europeans now spend more time online than they do reading newspapers or magazines. It has also been estimated that almost a quarter of this time is spent on social networking sites and a number of industry sectors have recognised its potential as a cost-effective, popular and relatively sophisticated form of communication. This session will explore the impact and potential of social networking, and the factors that could enhance its use in supporting more sustainable travel choices. We shall also discuss the relatively unexplored issue of how the impact of social media can be evaluated.

The benefits of C2X communication are widely recognised, but it is still controversially discussed, if C2X communication is economically viable. The investment needed for a functioning system is high. Nevertheless, studies done in projects such as DRIVE C2X, simTD or EasyWay have shown that there is potential for reimbursing these costs at least partially if not to the full. The session will present possible revenue sources and the related potential for cost saving and new businesses for the major stakeholder groups such as automotive industry, public authorities and road operators.

Globally harmonized ITS standards offer opportunities to accelerate and reduce the costs and complexity of deployment of cooperative ITS technologies while expanding competitive markets for industry. The European Commission and United States governments have entered into cooperation agreements to further standards harmonization. This session will provide an update on these activities and describe plans for the future. Accomplishments and lessons learned in the execution of joint harmonization activities will be described along with ITS and auto industry perspective on the value of harmonization and international governmental cooperation.

This important session will feature well-informed international speakers who will debate how best to leverage evaluation results to aid ITS deployment. They will explore and demonstrate the importance of evidence based ITS investment as we strive to widen and accelerate intelligent sustainable transport deployment. They will consider why the ITS message is still not getting the message across, why ITS business case development is so challenging and why we need to identify how ITS supports the economy.

The public sector data are the basis for a great number of mobility-related apps helping develop urban mobility into Smart Urban Mobility, provided they comply with user requirements and allow for e-inclusiveness. Good practice showcases will highlight the role smart cities could play in setting a frame for developing quality standards in both usability and technical fitness; whether coexistence between Open Data concept and setting of rules is an option for both developers and cities, and above all, end-users; whether factual quality and usability standards are developing already for urban mobility apps.

Social Media is revolutionising our world, both figuratively, as shown by Facebook’s ubiquitous-ness, and literally, as shown by social media’s role in the Arab Spring uprisings. The transport sector is no exception. This session describes how social media is being used to intelligence to transport systems and ideas for improving the integration of social media into transport systems will be presented. Session topics include: crowd sourcing, education, real-time reporting, online games and public participation, as well as problems such as the digital divide and security.

Energy saving as well as CO2 emission reduction are important and challenging subjects for the road transport sector to achieve sustainable mobility. In FY2008, Japanese government kicked off “Development of Energy-saving ITS Technologies” project, in which an automated platoon coupled electrically by more 3 heavy trucks is to be built by FY2012. It is required for automated platoon to establish new technologies for keeping closely the gap distance between trucks and compensating the controllability for the failure of control devices or several weather conditions. Energy-saving ITS project has reached its final term milestone, presenting and showcasing important findings. During this session, the results achieved within the project will be presented, starting with a speech about outline of the automated platoon system. Then presentations will follow by energy-saving ITS project members. The aspects covered include the vehicle control technologies, computer vision technologies and the high speed V2V communication technologies.

This session demonstrates the contribution that demand responsive traffic control systems can provide, to the management of environmental factors that are generated from road vehicle activity. The broad panel of experts will share and discuss their novel but practical works. Discussion will pivot around the critical challenge of producing rigorous and therefore defensible results when assessing relevant cause and environmental effects. The session will arm the audience with a comprehensive picture of leading edge research and evidence of the contribution that traffic control can provide to the environment.

This special interest session will focus on the development and ecosystem of connected vehicles as part of the overall M2M (machine to machine) market. It will cover some of the latest important steps taken by players in the connected vehicle space, their latest research and challenges and priority settings going forward. The session will also highlight how players from different sectors, such as public authorities, vehicle manufacturers, Telco operators and system integrators, now are coming together to jointly cooperate around development and deployment of value added services to end user.

The fully networked car utilising vehicle-information technology (VIT) convergence has been applied in worldwide, which provides all the transportation modes and users with the vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle to nomadic device (V2N) communications. This session will review the service requirements for providing the fully networked car transportation systems in terms of the variety types of communication technologies with respect to the vehicles, infrastructure, and the media of traffic users.

Pedestrian protection is one of the key issues for safety as accidents involving pedestrians are still high in each region. Approach to detect pedestrians varies in several categories. Detecting by image processing, active sensing such as RADAR and P2V communication with position information are the candidates. It can be done by on board unit or road side unit. Among these options, suitable measurement to detect pedestrian might differ according to situations.

The advent and gradual introduction of advanced vehicle safety systems have made a significant impact on the levels of casualties in terms of numbers and severity that are caused through collisions involving motor vehicles throughout the world. Currently eCall deployments are poised to take effect in four defined geographic areas, America’s, Pacific Rim, Europe and Russia. What are the significant differences in approach to eCall deployment across the four sectors, and what can be learnt from each sector in terms of Policy and Strategy, Services and Functions, Governance, Cooperation and Organisational structure.

Corridors are the lifeblood of international competitiveness. Smart corridors are a hot topic. What are they and how can they markedly improve safety, sustainability and effectiveness? In the Commercial Vehicle world this includes freight tracking electronic filing; automated inspection and authentication, seamless open source electronic transactions, terminal reservations, hazardous goods tracking. The Americas, Europe, and Asia all have major corridors. All have major new routes planned. This session will bring together planners, policy-makers and implementers to discuss the ideal smart corridor and its optimisation to bring together a true multi-modal architecture.

Cities and regional authorities are facing the challenge of a sustainable urban development that both strengthens competitiveness and meets stringent emission limits. Pioneer cities deeply involved in the deployment of ITS will share their experience, namely in the context of EC Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) and associated projects piloting ITS services for clean, efficient and electro-mobility. Vienna, Helsinki, Tampere, Bordeaux, Trondheim and Barcelona are all ITS forerunner cities implementing innovative solutions expected to smooth traffic flow, increase travel convenience and reduce fuel dependency. These cities also play a role in assessing the environmental, business and societal impacts of the solutions deployed.

This special session will give the attendees an overview of the many challenges to make a good and sustainable solution for a common technical communication platform in cars. The OEMs has a lifetime of the vehicle which is around 10-12 years. And the challenge is that the lifetime for communication equipment today is 1-3 years. The aftermarket can deliver good products, but are hindered by mediocre connection to the vehicles. There will be focus on physical deployment in aftermarket, data communication, security related features and value adding functionality e.g. eCall and digital tachograph.

ITS can play an important role in freight logistics – and that is NOT only true for road or rail freight, but also for co-modal approaches as they happen day by day in every port of the world. One of the main tasks is to share actual information of all transport modes active around the port region to use them during all kind of incidents (i. e. new disposition of trucks when a ship´s dock changes up to change of the mode for the further internal or external transport). Representatives of some of the largest ports in the world and ITS experts will discuss active as well as reactive incident management approaches, proactive safety/security monitoring (flooding, terror, dangerous good management etc.)and the service optimisation for all transport modes by the cooperation of all the different authorities and private companies involved around such a port.

Many emerging countries in the Asia-Pacific region are tackling traffic problems of safety, congestion, environment as they face with the rapid growth of economy, concentration of population and increase of traffic demand in metropolis. In this session, experts from Asia-Pacific countries with a step-ahead of ITS implementation will share the experiences and lessons learned from the various ITS policies and technologies such as traffic information system, signal control system, BRT, ERP, ETC and so on. And they will also discuss what contributes most to improve the current situation.

In what aspects is China Telematics market most different from other countries? What are the innovative opportunities? In OEM Telematics market, how should OEMs work with various suppliers to provide the best services for users? What values can aftermarket Telematics provide for users? Who is most likely to become the leader of the industry chain? How to promote evolution in China traffic information industry by using innovative technologies like Probe Car?

We will explore ITS technologies and business models that have been deployed to assist the commercial vehicle market meet and verify that certain safety standards have been met and revenue due collected. These applications include preclearance, screening, wireless inspections, on-board recorders, DSRC and roadway pricing. The application of ITS Technology in the commercial vehicle and freight space is unique in that the truckers can be incentivised to apply new technology assuming there is a measurable ROI. The market also offers the opportunity to develop new models and partnerships to meet both safety and revenue (VMT/ Tolls) needs allowing the private sector to invest and share the risk.

Around the world there are bits and pieces of training programmes and educational curricula related to ITS, and there have been some efforts to coordinate these on national and international scales. But we need to raise the bar on attracting and retaining the best professionals to the ITS field and part of this task will include changing the way we think about ITS education and training. We need to institutionalise the idea that training and education are not luxuries but rather are necessities. Join this session for an update on what is happening in ITS training and education and help formulate an international strategy for moving forward.

ITS objectives can be summarised at the highest level as improving safety, efficiency and customer service. This session will focus on the customer service effects of ITS. It will address: customer needs being addressed by ITS, the most effective ways to communicate with the customer, how are customer expectations being set by other service industries (FedEx, Southwest Airlines and others), and what are the customer service effects of ITS and how can we measure them. An international panel that cuts across all modes of transportation and service industries will be asked to present answers to these questions and support an interactive dialogue with the audience.

The “cloud“ is proliferating, and travel data, whether personal or commercial, is everywhere. The existence of data, however, does not make it useful. This session will bring together policy and technical experts from around the globe to discuss the concept of an open “Data Commons“ to create a much faster critical mass of useful information. It would not be heavily architected, and would require fewer resources to succeed. Collaboration would be necessary and it would still leave ample room for specific profitoriented end user applications.

ITS can improve measurement of corridor and sub-regional ambient air quality levels and as a result impact current policies and traffic management through corridors. Many policies focus mainly on air quality measurements and enforcement at the regional level. Traffic data and ITS infrastructure could facilitate air quality measurements at the sub-regional/corridor level. Speakers will address both the policy and technical aspects of using better routing, transit and ITS/traffic data including travel time, acceleration/vehicle profile etc., to facilitate performance measurement/ better management of traffic congestion and air pollution along major corridors.

Lean and Green is an international programme in which companies are challenged to rise to a higher level of sustainability by taking measures that not only reduce company costs, but reduce carbon emission as well. Currently, Lean and Green supports 250 front runners to help them increase profits, while reducing carbon emission by at least 20% in five years time. By combining the Lean and Green concept to the developments in the field of ITS, deployment and use ITS in road transport can accelerate and can thereby contribute to the goals of the ITS Action Plan.

Smart Highway project is a large-scale research project underway in Korea to realise the world class fast, convenient and intelligent Green Road by converging IT technologies. Many kinds of services have been developed based on WAVE communication (V2I, V2V) using 802.11p and the state-of-the-art IT technologies including radar technology and ETC. “Experience Road” with the length of 6km was already established to demonstrate as well as to verify and evaluate these services. In this session, we will focus on Smart Highway 2nd stage Demonstration from methodology and to results.

In the last decade, various research and development activities in car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication have reached a mature technological level. Field operational tests and pilots have been initiated in order to assess the technology and its impact on road safety and traffic efficiency. Standardisation development organisations (CEN, ETSI, IEEE, ISO, ITU) are creating standards. Stakeholders are getting serious about the introduction and sustainable deployment. This special session gives a technical overview on the world-wide deployment of Car-2-X communication technologies and analyses commonalities and similarities.

Based upon an image-recording type drive recorder (“DR”) technical result on a micro – individual vehicle level, macro – organisational/public traffic safety level including education and training as well, the concerned sectors expect to share the collected DR data to facilitate safer, more ecological and comfortable driving in the automobile society. Sharing DR data of accidents/near accidents happened to other drivers are also beneficial as good references among each other. It is the appropriate timing to discuss internationally about DR technology as a transient phase from “data collection” to “data management”.

This special session will present the results obtained through two large-scale European Field Operational Tests, one on the impact of 8 distinct Active Safety Systems that assist the driver in detecting hazards, preventing accidents and making driving more efficient (euroFOT) and another on the impact of aftermarket nomadic devices (TeleFOT) on safety, mobility and the environment. Additionally, lessons learned from US efforts in this field will be presented through an overview of several US-FOTs conducted during the past 4 years.

Adaptive Real Time (ART) traffic control systems usually have detectors at each junction, which allows real time adaptation to traffic conditions by an on-line model. Such systems have been described as possibly offering the best yet Benefit/Cost ratio of any Intelligent Transport system devised. Even compared with typical fixed time systems such as TRANSYT, ART systems typically provide a 20% reduction in delay in urban networks. This session will hear from practitioners about technology and policy developments and will explore the extent to which the benefits can be measured and realised.

The World Road Association (PIARC) and the international society of automobile engineers (FISITA) Joint Task Force on intelligent cooperative vehicles published an initial report on CVHS for road operators and motor manufacturers. The JTF is continuing to work on overcoming barriers to deployment. This session will feature updates on the collaboration, consider the current the state of the art and provide foresight on future developments in cooperative systems around the world. The session will also invite interested parties to join the JTF to help accelerate the deployment of CVHS.

To engage more women in the field of ITS is a key challenge, we need to address, if we want to move smarter in the future. The transport-sector at large and especially the ITS-sector is worldwide male dominated. Gender is highly relevant to the transport field: not only are there clear and persistent gender differences in the use of the transport system, it is also characterised by masculine values and practises. Men constistenly travel further than women and are more likely to travel by car. Women, on the other hand, make journeys disproportionately more frequently on foot, by bicycle and public transport, and more often combine different transport modes. ITS has clear implications for moving smarter and these implications are related to both - male and female traffic participants. ITS deals with information technologies and mobility of people, therefore it is fundamental that technical solutions are accepted by all traffic participants. For this reason female expertise needs to be integrated at earliest point oft he development process. There is a strong need to encourage women to choose ITS as a subject for education and study to become ITS experts. Another great challenge is to improve the visibility of female experts in this field. As a first step we need to establish female networks to foster and to exchange ideas, and increase the participation of women professionals at conferences like the ITS world 2012 in Vienna. We need more women as authors/speakers, as moderators, but also more women on the boards and committees. If the goal is to foster genuine interest in the field of transport and ITS and encourage young women to enter these courses of study, presenting fields of occupation and career opportunities authentically through international female role models is essential. To have more women participating in ITS benefits society as a whole and the competitiveness of this innovative sector. Five studies conducted by Mckinsey Germany in cooperation with „Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society“ have reviewed the connection between Gender Diversity and the success of companies.

Intelligent Transport Systems can successfully contribute to achieving politicians’ key transport policy objectives. This session will address the advantages of international cooperation in getting ITS on the political agenda. It will look into the key political arguments for investing in ITS and how these can be, and have been, used in a number of countries to get the political debate going. The session will bring together experience and good practice in kicking off stakeholder dialogue on the political relevance and benefits of ITS, with examples from national, state/regional and local levels.

Transportation infrastructure has to fulfil high standards of requirements like reliability, availability, maintainability and safety. Ensuring these aspects is very cost and time intensive. New technologies which allow data to be collected and processed help the infrastructure operators to schedule maintenance proactive, while the lifespan of the vehicles and infrastructure can be prolonged, life cycle costs can be reduced and accidents can be prevented. ITS offers a lot of dynamic maintenance solutions for all modes of transportation. This session should give an overview on new methods for preventive maintenance strategies.

Innovative solutions to transport opportunities drive the continuous flow of fresh products and services that characterise ITS. This international session will bring together ITS product and technical leaders from around the world to discuss innovation processes to improve understanding of what is successful (and what is not).

While insufficient consideration of human factors in the past often led to suboptimal results end-user needs now tend to play a more significant role in development and deployment of ITS based applications. This session will explore recent user involvement approaches in personal mobility framed by the Austrian “ways2go” RTI funding programme (www.ways2go.at). Experiences and Lessons learned will be presented in ITS application fields, which are expected to significantly serve societal needs but are particularly challenging in regards of deriving commercial products (sustainable mobility patterns, barrier-free transportation, etc.).

Considering the number of initiatives taken worldwide by governments, EC, vehicle & component manufactures and also by energy suppliers to strive for a sustainable, clean and energy efficient mobility, this session is focusing on the provision of a holistic view on how ITS can support the transformation from today’s “conventional-car-market” towards the Fully Electric Vehicle (FEV). The session will highlight “ITS for FEV” from a political point of view, funded research (ELVIRE project and OpEneR project) and deployment issues are covered as well.

Goods transport is accountable for 30% to 40% of road sector emissions. Various factors affect the specific energy consumption of freight transport and operation: vehicle/driver performance, delivery planning & routing, load sharing, etc. The potential of ICT applications targeting a more energy-efficient mobility of goods is high. Several initiatives in Europe (eCoMove, CITYLOG, Instant Mobility and FREILOT), as well as two US based projects, CVII and Trusted Truck(R), have developed and deployed cooperative ITS solutions for green logistics scenarios; they will present their experience and findings in this session.

Field Operational Tests (FOTs) are large-scale testing programmes aiming at a comprehensive assessment of the efficiency, quality, robustness and acceptance of ICT solutions used for smarter, safer, cleaner, and more comfortable transport solutions, such as navigation and traffic information, and advanced driver assistance. The last few years, a series of European countries has greatly invested in assessment with several FOTs on Cooperative ITS involving public and private stakeholders. This session brings together national FOT activities in five European member states. The aim is to present their achievements as well as their underlying deployment and exploitation plans. FOT-Net will chair the session as they are representing the strategic networking platform dedicated to the promotion of FOTs.

Cooperative systems in the field of road vehicles have been a subject for research and development for many years. Applications have been proposed for implementation as results of research and collaboration projects. When it comes to increasing the interest among the road operators and road authorities there is a need to show good examples. This session will demonstrate some vehicle to infrastructure applications where the road authorities/road operators have shown a clear interest in solving real problems that they have faced. The session gives examples from all three regions mainly in rural environment.

The number of traffic accidents caused by aged drivers is increasing year by year due to the aging society. The report from NEXCO WEST says that the number of the fatal accidents caused by wrong direction driving on the expressway during 2002 to 2006 recorded 76 cases, and 34 of them were by the aged drivers who were over 65 years old. In Japan, 4,863 peoples died in traffic accidents in 2010, and 2,450 of them were aged peoples. The traffic accidents involving the aged people are the most important subject in Japan. In this session, we will discuss the status about traffic accidents, and the driving behaviours by the aged drivers as well as the safety countermeasures using ITS.

Evacuation of urban cores as the result of weather, human actions or conclusion of special events is enhanced through the utilisation of ITS tools and coordination. The movement of vehicles, pedestrians and non motorised transport is the most significant challenge. This session will focus on techniques for coordination, tools that are effective, and challenges for local and regional partners. Panellists will discuss what is the current state of ITS applications, tools, and processes in the planning, implementation and post event assessments.

Today, TPEG is available in several countries around the globe and it is gradually reaching end-users cars. This session proposes to have a deeper look into the development and the standardisation of the TPEG protocol, from the early days of the TPEG forum until the recent effective deployment. The session will especially focus on the aspects of TPEG and on the different factors which have enabled the deployment of both connected and broadcast services worldwide. About TPEG: TPEG (Transport Protocol Experts Group) is a standardised protocol developed to deliver digital traffic and travel information independently from the bearer. TPEG refers to a whole set or toolkit of specifications offering a wide range of services to a wide range of users and devices. TPEG is standardised through ISO. The development and maintenance is being hosted at TISA (Traveller Information Services Association).

Every car, truck or bus ever built requires parking from its first day to its last. ITS saves time, lives and money but unfortunately, it doesn’t often save a parking space. This session explores parking challenges and opportunities accompanied by emerging parking related ITS technologies and strategies that are long overdue. ITS should play a key role in parking – after all, every vehicular trip ever taken (anywhere on earth) begins and ends with parking. In addition to intelligent parking deployments saving time, lives and money, they are also one of the greenest solutions we have due to significant reductions in emissions and congestion.

The 9th ITS European Congress in Dublin 2013 will primarily focus on ITS solutions that are driven by policy as opposed to being technology led, while addressing real mobility issues that regions/cities/town /authorities face on a day to day basis. Dublin is the European head office for some of the biggest global technology brands such as Google, Facebook, IBM Smarter Cities, eBay, Intel and DELL to name a few. Come to Dublin to see where ITS is making a difference, from the Dublin bike scheme, to Integrated Ticketing, from Variable Price Tolling to Variable Messaging, From Smarter Traffic Controls to Real Time Traveller Information.

As the technology and other conditions makes it possible, commuters’ real time passenger information requirements have evolved rapidly. Far from the days of needing to visit the nearest bus stop with on-street electronic information displays, receiving useful contextual information about journeys on the move via mobile apps is now becoming popular in some cities. This session will see industry experts and governments transport agencies’ project sponsors from across the world share their perspectives and responses to the threats and opportunities presented by the ever evolving passenger information requirements.

The digital map with assigned the permanent ID to each road enhances the quality of the information infrastructure. This enables all map users, from road administrator to general public, to exchange the mutual information relevant to the road networks each other even if they use the different maps and tools. In Japan, the assignment of ID has been completed for more than 200,000km of major roads. In this session, the principle of this idea will be introduced and the related activities will be shared.

As R&D of ITS cooperative systems have been promoted, the possibility of utilisation for the probe system is increasing with IT technology and Communication technology. Regarding policy of road traffic, more efficient and intelligent O&M for road and measures for traffic jam and taraffic safety are needed for declining managing cost. In this session, case studies and study findings of road traffic policy using probe system, which includes collaboration research between Japan and US, will be presented by the delegates from public and private sector of trilateral countries as well as possibility of international cooperation in the future.

This Special Session will review the current implementation status of the European Electronic Toll Service (EETS), due to be operational at the time of the Vienna Congress. The session will highlight the progress made over recent months and draw out and explore any issues or barriers that remain to a fully operational system. The speakers represent key stakeholders responsible for specifying, delivering, operating and overseeing the EETS. The session will briefly explore their perspectives followed by a round table discussion that will additionally seek insights and observations from the audience.

The cloud-computing not only allows transportation agencies to minimise resources required for recurring operation and maintenance, but also greatly expedites the ability to implement new applications and services. In this special session, how cloud computing could help to achieve the Intelligent Transportation System more seamless with less resources will be discussed indepth with the honourable speakers from all over the world sharing about how they perceive the future trends of transportation cloud computing respectively in terms of legal framework, technical and commercial aspects.

The global perspective sessions all have input from the three regions (EU, Japan and US), and focus on the assessment of CO2 impacts of ITS. The sessions are in consecutive order following the line of designing applications, modelling the impacts and validating the results. The evaluation methods of CO2 reduction by ITS applications are developed with different approaches. Therefore this special session is focusing on each evaluation method of Japanese, European and American projects. The Japanese team presents the draft of the Joint Technical Report as a common evaluation standard.

Speakers will be discussing the experiences of Cooperative ITS systems from real world and field operational testing and how these ITS systems contribute society from traffic safety or the other point of view. The other discussion point is performance study like Real performances of Cooperative ITS systems vs. expected performance. As the summary of the session, the attendees will discuss the subjects to be resolved for further Cooperative ITS system Deployment.

Too often major investments in infrastructure are made without a holistic view on society development. To create a sustainable society politicians and decision makers need to share a common vision concerning a region´s development to be able to act and tackle the challenges involved in creating improvements for daily commuting. This session will share best practices of cross organisational cooperation to create sustainable commuting, boosting investments in multimodal infrastructure with enhanced traffic management, a wide range of ITS services and applications, as well as marketing and communication.

The 20th ITS World Congress will be held in Tokyo with the theme of “Open ITS to the Next”. Towards next mobility and society, from the point of four phrases of “OPEN“ mentioned below will be discussed: Open Platform & Interface (Safety, and congestion elimination), Open Connectivity (Environmentally friendly transport and energy management), Open Opportunities (Service orientated efficient transport modes), and Open Collaboration (Resilient Society against disaster). The organising committee is working to prepare the congress in regard with programme highlights, showcase & technical visit, exhibition, and ceremonies.

This session will share joint developments occurring or planned between governments and industry for border crossings, security,commercial vehicle regulations and traffic information. Participants will include states, provinces, countries, trucking manufactures, fleet operators and could cover both land and water efforts.

An increasing number of ITS applications rely on the availability of accurate digital maps including traffic related attributes such as traffic regulations. A key pillar of Europe’s ITS Action Plan is the definition of the necessary requirements to make such data that is owned by public authorities available to European citizens via improved Traveller Information Services. This session deals with national and regional approaches to provide accurate public data for digital maps in a “standardised” way with a focus on the potential to merge different approaches to serve the European traveller.

The potential of in-vehicle and traffic management applications to cut down fuel consumption and emission has been widely acknowledged. Especially if they act in collaboration and interaction-effects create synergies both within and between domains. Cooperative technology plays a central role. This session offers an overview of results from pilots and validation activities, successful applications and deployment aspects. On the basis of empirical findings speakers will address interaction-effects cross domains and indicate whether re-bound effects and/or synergies exist. The session converges to a global research agenda for ongoing and future activities.

The US DOT is moving quickly to implement the Connected Vehicle Research Program. At the centre of the program is the NHTSA Agency Decision in 2013 about the role of DSRC on light vehicles to improve safety. The USDOT will provide updates on the Safety Pilot, V2I Enabling technologies, Policy and Decision Milestones. USDOT is working closely with the European Commission and Japan regarding our research and deployment efforts, and they will provide observations and comparisons of the US programme to the related programme in the European Commission and at MLIT.

This special session will outline innovative developments within the interactIVe, Minifaros and 2WIDE-SENSE research projects. The results of the work within InteractIVe relevant to the perception of the environment in the vicinity of the subject vehicle, the Information Warning and Intervention (IWI) strategies and the relevant applications (i.e. continuous driver support, collision avoidance, and collision mitigation) will be presented. The innovative low-cost low power, miniature laser scanner developed within Minifaros and the cost effective multi-spectral, multifunctional, wide dynamic range camera, which is applicationindependent, developed within 2WIDE-SENSE will be also presented.

The USDOT is engaged in assessing applications that realise the full potential of connected vehicles, travellers and infrastructure to enhance current operational practices and transform future surface transportation systems management. One foundational element of this effort is the Dynamic Mobility Applications Program, which includes a bundle of applications identified as Integrated Dynamic Transit Operations. The applications in the IDTO bundle, Connection Protection, Dynamic Transit Operations and Dynamic Ridesharing, ultimately will enable transit systems to provide better information to travellers and increase the quality of service. This session will explore current IDTO applications around the world.

Cognitive load imposed by in-vehicle technology such as traffic information and entertainment systems is one of the key risk factors for driving safety. Even if eyes are on the road and hands on the steering wheel, phenomena like ‘inattention blindness’ or reduced decision capacities can lead to hazardous situations. Discussing, investigating and understanding the drivers’ interaction is critically important in limiting unsafe use and in developing countermeasures. This session seeks to provide its attendees with a compressed update on achievements in cognitive load research. Experts from the US, Europe and Japan will report on recent results from standardization and guideline development, including: US/EU attention and distraction cooperative group ITU-T Focus Group on Driver Distraction Guidelines sponsored by NHTSA The EC co-funded project Interaction Workshop series on Cognitive Load and In-Vehicle HMI

This session will highlight innovative transportation planning processes that incorporate system management and operational including regional cooperative arrangements and coalitions and highlight the progress in mainstreaming of ITS solutions.