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INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
FEDERATION ROUTIERE INTERNATIONALE

IRF Policy Committee on ITS
Josef A. Czako, Chairman

Summit in Cape Town, 8 March 2012
«ITS as THE Driver of
Economic Growth and Development «

Better roads, better world.


Worldwide Challenges in Road Transport

1. Environment Protection
2. Congestion Reduction
3. Road Safety
4. Financing of Infrastructure



The Role of
Intelligent
Transportation
Systems (ITS)
for Sustainable
Mobility
in Road Transport



What is Sustainable Mobility?
1. Sustainable Mobility for People and Goods =
 Safe (Accidents, Fatalities)
 Environmental Friendly (CO2 neutral)
 Efficient (Cost Effective, Lowest Congestion)
 User Friendly, Accessible
2. Sustainable Mobility is a Human Right ?
3. Sustainable Mobility is a prec for economic growth!



What are (ITS) Policies?

A policy is typically described as a set of
principles or rules to guide decisions and
achieve described objectives.

Better roads, better world


Why Policy is important for ITS Deployment
To achieve the required cooperation towards solving
mobility challenges, ITS deployment involves;

• Exchange of knowledge
• Sharing of best practices
• Simplification of legislation
• Standard setting and facilitating interoperability
• Guidance and raising awareness
• New legislation, if necessary; and
• Coordination to make better use for the available funding.


ITS deployment is being influenced by many policy areas
• Mobility policies: acknowledging the role and importance of transport and
mobility for social and economic integration and development of regions, states and
nations
• Environment policies: aiming to protect the environment (air, noise, water,
soil, natural habitat), to mitigate current environment impacts of transport and to adapt
transport infrastructure to changing conditions due to climate change
• Transport funding and investment policies: determining the funding
sources, revenues and priorities for transport infrastructure investment, maintenance
and operation
• Spatial planning policies: determining the physical grid and spacing of
different functions such as living, studying, working, relaxing and hence impacting on
mobility needs.
• Social policies: shaping the social context in which people use transport such as
accessibility, affordability, connectivity (of modes), timing due to working and related
activities



ITS Policy Objectives to address the challenges

Optimising
Financing
traffic
road
flow, reduce
infrastructure
congestion

Protecting
Improving
the
road safety
environment



ITS for financing of road infrastructure

Role of ITS
 Apply the “User pays
principle” to finance road
Government budgets infrastructure (ear-marked
are insufficient to funding) and to internalize
external costs
fund widening and
 Finance general budget, to
maintenance of road cross-finance other modes of
infrastructure transport and to make road
transport directly
comparable (in prices) to
other modes of transport



ITS to optimize traffic flow & reduce congestion
Role of ITS :
Urban Congestion in the US:  Create a traffic management
 4,2 billion hours wasted tool or “steering mechanism”
in traffic jams, to make better use of existing
infrastructure, to optimize
 = US $ 87 billion capacity of the network and to
congestion costs (2007) better distribute traffic
 Apply pricing strategies to set
Congestion in the European incentives to users to choose
Union: different routes, different
departure times or different
 1,9 % of GDP “eaten” by modes of transport
congestion,  Assure high level of service to
 = € 233 billion congestion travellers (provision of real
costs time information, smooth
traffic, ..)



ITS for protecting the environment
Role of ITS:
 Reduce emissions through
smoothed traffic
 Adapt drivers behavior to
WHO - World Health real time situation (e.g. high
Organization: particulate concentration,
slippery lanes, ..)
 Assure seamless linkages
Urban air pollution kills between different modes of
~ 1.2 million people transport to offer the
annually! “greenest” routing
 Show one’s carbon footprint
and valorize ecological
behavior (e.g. mobility
card/points, ..)



ITS to improve road safety
Role of ITS
 Provide real time
United Nations:
information to users (
 1,3 million “road conditions of road,
deaths” a year ! weather, traffic flow, ..)
 50 million people  Smoothen traffic flow and
injured ! prevent speed variations
 Costing society  Enforce speeding
100 billion US$  Detect incidents, shorten
annually reaction times for
appropriate rescue
measures



Structure & Activities of ITS Policy Committee



IRF Committee Structure & Environment



Activities Phase 1 - Development

• Development & production of:
Phase 1 • ITS Advocacy Document
Development • ITS Strategy Portal
• Development of regional focus:
(2009-2011) Scandinavia, Mexico, India
• Increase of stakeholder cooperation



Activities 2010 & 2011
• Overview ITS contributions to policy objectives (2010)
• Global survey (2010)
• Urban case study ITS and reducing carbon emissions (2010)
• Case studies on legal framework (2010)
• Generic model ITS strategy (2010)
• Delft/NL: Workshop Mobility in 2030 (2011)
• Regional focus: Scandinavia (2011), Mexico (2011)
• ITS strategy library & portal (ongoing)
• ITS Advocacy Document (ongoing)



Regional focus 2011
Scandinavia Mexico
• ITS strategy update from • Initiate dialogue and putting
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, ITS on agenda
Finland • All stakeholders involved
• Visit to Stockholm congestion • Manifest (under development)
charging scheme



Other important events in 2011
• Establishment of working relations with • MoU with EasyWay = Association of
IRF Washington ITS Committee European Road Authorities and
• Establishment ITS India Subcommittee Operators



2012 -2014 Phase 2 = Outreach

• Finalize ITS Policies Advocacy Document:
• IRF Charta on ITS
Phase 2
for Sustainable Mobility
Outreach ITS Policies • Deployment of ITS Advocacy Document
• ITS Knowledge data base on IRF website
• Intensify stakeholder cooperation
(e.g. EasyWay)
• Increase regional focus worldwide



Upcoming IRF ITS PC Meetings in 2012
Date & Location Event Occasion

8-9 March 2012 ITS Policy Committee Meeting, in IBTTA Transportation Summit of
Cape Town, South Africa collaboration with ITS South Africa South Africa, 11-13 March 2012
March 2012 Joint Strategy Workshop EasyWay & Intertraffic, 27-30 March 2012
Amsterdam, Netherlands IRF ITS PC
May 2012 Launch Event ITS advocacy International Transport Forum,
Leipzig, Germany publication 2-4 May 2012
September 2012 Joint Meeting TTS Italia & IRF ITS PC --
Rome, Italy
October 2012 Stakeholders and Information 19th ITS World Congress, 22-26
Vienna, Austria meetings on IRF Policy Committee October 2012
on ITS

Follow Up Meetings India, Mexico, etc.



Alignment with other IRF Working Groups



Thank you very much for your attention!
Questions?

For more information:
www.irfnet.ch
Josef A. Czako, Kapsch TrafficCom
Chairman, Policy Committee on ITS
josef.czako@kapsch.net

Caroline Visser, IRF Geneva
Coordinator ITS Programmes
cvisser@irfnet.org


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