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Atlantic Briefing on the European Union Project John Miles & Lesley Atkinson. 6 March 2002. EU Project – Briefing topics. Project objectives Structure & status of the EU project ATLANTIC web site and ITS Forum WG Activities. Objectives - 1. Trans-Atlantic ITS Information Exchange
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Atlantic Briefing on the European Union ProjectJohn Miles & Lesley Atkinson 6 March 2002
EU Project – Briefing topics • Project objectives • Structure & status of the EU project • ATLANTIC web site and ITS Forum • WG Activities
Objectives - 1 • Trans-Atlantic ITS Information Exchange • Identifythe state of knowledge and current R&D in North America and the EU • Deliverables • Relevant findings from the EU and Canada • Documentation of useful R&D approaches • Benchmarking reports
Objectives - 2 • Cooperative R&D Program Development • Identify joint R&D projects that could lead to results of significant value for deployment and policy making • Deliverable • Proposals to the EC and national DOTs (Canada, USA) for parallel funding of activities where the value of the activities are increased due to multinational collaboration
Objectives - 3 • Sustaining Institutional Framework • Migration of the ATLANTIC project into a long-term sustainable network using web-based methods • Deliverable • An institutional framework for multinational teamwork and strategic information exchange (An “incubator” for ITS policy and deployment research?)
ATLANTIC ITS FORUMWP4 Technical Coordination & International Events WP1 Integrated Multimodal Transport WP3 Assessment &Evaluation WP2 Technologies &Services WP5 TTI State of the Art & Best Practice WP6 TTI Policy & dissemination
Working Groups 1.1 Telematics-based Traffic and Travel Information (TTI) Services 1.2 Network Monitoring Traffic Management and Control 1.3 Intermodal Collective Transport Information 2.1 Intermodal Freight Information, Pre-clearance and Logistics (Transport Chains) 2.2 Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems 2.3 Electronic Road User Charging and Integration with Other Payment Systems 3.1 ITS User Acceptance and Impact Assessment 3.2 Human Machine Interface / User friendly ITS
ATLANTIC Convenors Baher Abduhlhai Theodor Crainic David Kamnitzer Ian Catling Ken Perrett Mike McDonald Hartmut Keller Kostas Zografos Dick Bishop Kan Chen Steve Morello Alan Stevens Chip White
Target Audiences - web site & ITS Forum • ITS Forum • Expert groups (by invitation) • Active members for specialist topics • Others inactive but keeping close track • Web site • Guests & casual users seeking information www.atlan-tic.net
EU Project – remaining topics • Working methods • Recruitment – brochures, etc • Links to US and Canadian projects • Timetables and key dates