Newswire 20/12/2006
Welcome to the Christmas Special Edition of the Highways Agency's monthly Newswire service. The ITS Radar & EU Watch teams would like to wish you all Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year.
This is an additional Newswire and we would like to use it to:
- remind you of some of the activities undertaken by ITS Radar and EU Watch for subscribers; and
- obtain your thoughts on what topics we should look closely at in 2007.
2006 has been a very busy and successful year for ITS Radar, with over 220 subscribers. In addition to the monthly newswire, we produce ad-hoc reports, intelligence reports and helpdesk query responses. Some examples are shown below (these can all be accessed via the website, if you need a reminder of your username and password click here!).
Ad-hoc Reports
Ad-hoc reports are produced as and when required and usually provide a summary of conference papers of relevance to the Highways Agency.
- TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C - 22/01/06
- 11th IFAC symposium on Control in Transportation Systems - 29/08/06
- ITS World Congress, London - 09/10/06.
Intelligence Reports
Intelligence reports are produced on a quarterly basis on topics of interest to subscribers.
- Developments in Automatic Enforcement Technologies
- Environmental Issues Relating to ITS
- Tempo Project Results in the Field of Variable Speed Limits.
Helpdesk Query Responses
Helpdesk Responses are produced based on subscribers' requests for information. Previous responses have been on diverse topics such as:
- HOV Detection;
- Environmental Impacts of Ramp Metering;
- Harmonisation of VMS;
- Gantry Maintenance;
- International experiences of Integrated Demand Management.
Shape ITS Radar's Future!
ITS Radar would like to take this opportunity to ask you what topics you would like us to look at in more detail in 2007?
Some options are provided below, submit your suggestions via a helpdesk query or by email at itsradar@fabermaunsell.com.
- Developments and trial results of Intelligent Speed Adaption;
- Review of Highway Advisory Radio services;
- International practice for low cost ITS interventions on more lightly used strategic roads;
- International use of VMS on approaches to Strategic Highway Networks;
- International use of mobile VMS;
- International practice in summer holiday traffic management;
- Innovative use of remote/mobile communications for traffic management and maintenance.
Thank you all for using the ITS Radar service!
The ITS Radar Team
Contact Details
For further information about the ITS Radar Project, visit http://www.itsradar.co.uk, phone 0121 262 6066, or email itsradar@fabermaunsell.com. You can now change your preferences to alter the topics of the articles you receive from the newswire. If you wish to unsubscribe to the newswire, please click here and send the email.
The HA EU Watch website is now into its second year.
Over the last year EU Watch has reported the latest developments in Galileo, ITS Standards, European ITS Research and EC Policy. The topics that the EU Watch team has monitored were diverse and included areas such as tracking cyclists in the Tour de France, 3G mobile communications, vehicle emissions standards and EPOSS R&D Initiative.
EU Watch has attended several conferences on behalf of the HA, starting with
the Nav ’05 conference on 1st November 2005. This conference focussed
on satellite positioning technology issues with particular interest being paid
to the developments in Galileo. The full set of conferences reported in the
past year is:
- Nav ’05 – November 2005
- European Roundtable on Intelligent Roads – January 2006
- eSafety Forum 5th Plenary meeting – May 2006
- ITS – European and UK initiatives – July 2006
- CVIS – October 2006
- eSafety Forum 6th Plenary meeting – November 2006
During the year the EU Watch website has seen the average number of visitors per day rise from under 10 in December 2005 and January 2006 to a peak of over 50 during the summer of 2006. Current visitor numbers are currently stabilising in the region of 40 visits per day.
During 2006 the HA EU Watch Project prepared Fact Sheets providing a few pages of more detailed information on specific ITS topics identified by the HA. To date these have included eCall, Standards and Datex II. In the New Year we will be publishing further Fact Sheets on topical issues, so watch this space.
Thank you all for continuing to support the website and the HA EU Watch project.
The EU Watch team
