Detailed description (English): Future of road mobility and motorways
ITS systems and services enhance the performance of transport network infrastructures, such as roads. They can contribute to: safety, mobility, environment and climate change and they provide the data and services for the digitalization of the CNC, including urban areas. Mobility is changing in terms of volume and demand and new needs. Systems and strategies need to be made consistent with the evolving users’ needs by providing new mobility options.
Corona as catalyst of change
We have experienced more than a year of individual and social suffering due to this disease. For centuries, geographic distance has been a driving cost function for where cities grew, where businesses had to produce/sell, and where families could choose to settle. The presence of road infrastructures has contributed to modulate this cost and consequently shaped the land-use. These cost functions, today, have reduced because of technologies, with a process further accelerated by the coronavirus crisis. The consequences for the organization of the territory and also for mobility are enormous.
Other challenges and opportunities
European roads have the possibility to improve with a “safe system approach”. New solutions and technologies are being explored to develop low-cost, large scale and easily deployable systems that could contribute to the monitoring of the large number of civil structures that, at present, are missing a continuous dedicated supervision. This is an additional opportunity to have a data driven management of infrastructure and traffic.
Target group(s): Member States, Road Authorities, Road Operators and Stakeholders
Objectives: Europe needs a new growth strategy that transforms the Union into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy. Digitalization has potential to contribute in significant way to objectives of common European interest including a smarter and sustainable mobility. European and National Authorities encourage the development of an integrated transport system and a better use of the existing infrastructures, increasing in this way the efficiency of the TEN-T Road Network and relevant traffic Corridors.
The aim is to cooperate in establishing an open "forum“ and provides a joint contribution to future strategy and contributes to the policy recommendations for the improved development and deployment of ITS services along European Road Corridors.
Authorities and operators are working together towards a smarter and more efficient mobility, a goal which will be achieved through large-scale technology deployments.
Partner: CEDR
ASECAP
European ITS Platform through Project Management SINA – (ASTM Group Italy)