ITS Directive: published on the Official Journal of the European Union
On the last 6th of July 2010, the ITS Directive has been published on the Official Journal of the European Union. The Directive entered into force after 20 days from its publication. The Directive supports the ITS Action Plan and aims to establish a framework to accelerate and coordinate the deployment and use of ITS for road transport, including the interfaces with other transport modes. The first priorities will be traffic and travel information, the eCall emergency system, and intelligent truck parking. Under this Directive the Commission has to adopt within the next seven years specifications (such as functional, technical, organizational, or services provisions) to address the compatibility, interoperability, and continuity of ITS solutions across Europe. The Commission will also establish an European ITS Advisory Group, which will bring together representatives of relevant ITS stakeholders and advise the Commission on business and technical aspects of the implementation and deployment of ITS in the Union. The Member States have 18 months from the Directive publication on the Official Journal for its acknowledgement.

TTS in action

Working Groups meetings in September at TTS Italia
On the 16th and 23rd of September 2010, the Working Groups within the Technical Scientific Committee of TTS Italia will meet to discuss their work so far. On the last 6th of July 2010, the European Parliament approved the ITS Directive which supports the ITS Action Plan and aims to establish a framework to accelerate and coordinate the deployment and use of ITS for road transport in Europe. The Technical Scientific Committee of TTS Italia highlighted this subject: Member States have 18 months to acknowledge the ITS Directive therefore specific Working Groups have been created. The Working Groups activities have been organized and developed between coordinators and Universities in order to achieve a harmonized result.
Source: TTS Italia

Training day on "AVM systems for collective transport: from acquisition to management"
TTS Italia is organizing in collaboration with ANM (Naples) and Tiemme (Siena) - TTS Italia ordinary members - and MemEx (Livorno) a training day on "AVM systems for collective transport: from acquisition to management". The following agencies for transport are giving their support: ATAF (Florence), ATL (Livorno), ATR (Forlì), SITA (Florence) and SRM (Bologna).
The aim of the course is to offer a realistic and detailed vision of the process leading to feasibility, purchase, implementation and management of AVM systems for the monitoring and regulation of public transport fleets, support to exercise, information to users and final balance of the supplied service.
The training day will be held in Florence on the 10th of November 2010 and it will be divided in four sessions:
- Why should an agency for public transport invest in AVM systems and feasibility
- Tender specifications to acquire an AVM System
- Italian best practices (Naples, Livorno, Siena, Florence, Forlì)
- Questions & Discussion
Source: TTS Italia

News of the month

Elsag Datamat wins tender for the production of a speed control system
Elsag Datamat, TTS Italia ordinary member has won, in temporary association with Selex Service Management SpA, the tender bid by the Municipality of Genoa for the production of an average speed control system. The total value of the tender is 650.000 Euro.
Source: TTS Italia

Famas System at the "Local Police Days"
Famas System, TTS Italia ordinary member, will partecipate at the 29° edition of "Local Police Days" from 15th to 18th of September 2010 in Riccione (Italy). The event is sponsored by the Ministry for Internal Affairs, Region Emilia Romagna, Province of Rimini, Municipality of Riccione, UPI (Union Provinces Italy) and promoted by ANCI (National Association Italian Municipalities). It is manily addressed to municipal police officers and to Local Entities directors, administrators and officials. Famas System will present its products: Mobiltraf, mobile traffic counter and classifier; Psv, for reducing road speed; and PoliScan Speed, for speed control. Source: Famas System

Octo Telematics at the Insurance Telematics Conference
Octo Telematics, TTS Italia ordinary member, participated in Insurance Telematics Conference organized by Telematics Update on the 13rd and 14th of September 2010 in Chicago, Usa. The scope was to illustrate how telematics systems can be combined with insurance systems.
To listen the intervention of Harald Trautsch, Corporate Development and Marketing responsible in Octo Telematics, on Telematics Update click here
Source: Telematics Update

Project Automation wins tender for mobility management and air pollution control systems
Project Automation, TTS Italia ordinary member, has won three different tenders for mobility management and air pollution control systems. It has won the tender bid by Its Area Vasta Societa’ Consortile for the supply, production, start and maintenance of a telematics platform for mobility management in the Southern Italy. The tender has a value of 5 641 000 Euro. Moreover, it has won the tender bid by the Municipality of Pioltello (Milan), for a control system of limited traffic zones. The tender includes the production, the supply and the start of all hardware and software components for permissions release, automatic recognition of authorized vehicles and management of fines. The tender has a value of 187 194,14 Euro. Finally, it has won the tender bid by ARPA Lazio (Regional Agency for Environment Protection), for the supply and installation of fine particulate analyzers. The tender has a final value of 641.000 Euro.
Source: TTS Italia

Product of the month

Mobiltraf 300 – Mobile traffic counter and classifier
MOBILTRAF 300 is a device for traffic counting, classification and monitoring that can be used in both mobile and fixed applications. MOBILTRAF 300 has the most recent available technologies in the fields of microwave and signal analysis, offering at the same time extreme application flexibility, low energy demand and high measurement precision. The data collected in vehicle-by-vehicle format includes the date and time of transit, number, direction of travel, distance and interval with respect to the preceding vehicle, and vehicle speed and lenght.

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For contacts: www.famassystem.it     info@famassystem.it

Save the date

Local Police Days
15-18 September 2010, Riccione, Palazzo dei Congressi
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International seminar on "Safer parking areas for road transport"
28-29 September 2010, Brescia
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Final convention of Wi-move Project
29 September 2010, Rome
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The 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
19-22 September 2010, Madeira, Portugal
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Growing Galileo 2010
22 September 2010, Brussels
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ICT 2010
27-29 September 2010, Brussels, Belgium
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P3ITS Workshop
28 September 2010, Brussels, at ERTICO, Av. Louise 326
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The Second International Summit on the State of the Connected Vehicle
29-30 September 2010, Michigan, Usa
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ITS relevant tenders in Italy

I-Assago: Systems maintenance
I-Calvi Risorta: Video cameras
I-Livorno: Telecommunication services
I-Messina: Tollpay systems
I-Pula: Videosurveillance systems
I-Torrevecchia: Speed control equipments

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