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EasyWay proposal submitted

July 2007

CORVETTE and the other EuroRegional projects plus the new ITHAKA EuroRegion (consisting of Greece, Romania, Italy and as project observer Bulgaria) submitted together the EasyWay project proposal addressing an EC DG TREN call for proposals. This call for proposals offers a framework to proceed with the successful cross-border  ITS projects. The structure and organisation of the EuroRegional projects had been evolved over several years and proved their effectiveness by carrying out important ITS projects.

The EC currently evaluates the proposal. It is expected to receive first evaluation results by the end of November 2007.

June 2007

VIKING was hosting the annual conference of the EuroRegional Projects in Europe. The conference with the title “I2TERN”, the abbreviation of “Intelligence to the Trans European Road Network”, was being held on the 20th to 22nd of June 2007 in Aalborg, Denmark.

June 2006

SERTI was hosting the annual conference of the EuroRegional Projects in Europe. The conference with the title “I2TERN”, the abbreviation of “Intelligence to the Trans European Road Network”, was being held on 26th to 28th June 2006 in Bacelona, Spain.

I2TERN Conference hosted by Streetwise in 2005

September 2005

Streetwise was hosting the annual conference of the EuroRegional Projects in Europe. The conference with the title “I2TERN”, the abbreviation of “Intelligence to the Trans European Road Network”, was being held on 21st to 23rd September 2005 in Dublin, Ireland.

September 2004

CORVETTE was hosting the annual conference of the EuroRegional Projects in Europe. The conference with the title “I2TERN”, the abbreviation of “Intelligence to the Trans European Road Network”, was being held on 20th to 22nd of September 2004 in Vienna, Austria.

November 2003

The CORVETTE project was displaying its achievements on the ITS World Congress 2003 in Madrid (16th to 20th of November 2003).

Among others the Italian Minister for Infrastructure and transportation, Mr. Pietro Lunardi, and the vice-president of the European Commission DG TREN, Mrs. Loyola de Palacio, visited the CORVETTE booth in order to inform themselves on the newest developments in the Alpine region. The picture on the right shows Mrs. de Palacio (second from the left in the foreground) and Mr. Lunardi (behind Mrs. de Palacio).

CORVETTE is presenting its results regularly on the ITS World Congress events in Europe, last seen before in Turin in 2000. From this time the project achieved major progress in the areas of international data exchange, traffic management, freight and fleet management, toll systems etc.

June 2002

The Data Exchange User Forum, hosted by CORVETTE, was held on June 6-7 2002 in Rome, Italy. Building an information exchange platform for data exchange experts almost 100 participants met to get latest information on traffic information and data exchange activities in Europe.

Workshops and discussions were offered in three thematic clusters:

• Organisational and strategic aspects focussed on improving access and availability  of information owned by public authorities for private services,
• operational experiences and new requirements were shared and discussed,
• impacts of new technologies for traffic information exchange, developed in recent R&D initiatives were discussed. Convergence of the different approaches has been identified as an important target.

The forum gave the opportunity to

• find out about the usage of TRIDENT, XML, TPEG, CORBA, TIH in traffic information exchange,
• have a look on the present development of the European Network of traffic centres,
• follow the current initiatives supporting access to traffic information,
• get in contact with the community of traffic information and data exchange.

March 2002

For his commitment in the optimisation of logistical systems Mr. Karl Fischer, forwarding agent and managing director of the Logistik-Kompetenz-Zentrums (LKZ) Prien, was awarded the Mobility Award 2001 by the Bavarian ADAC. The LKZ, financially supported by the Marktgemeinde Prien (district of Prien), the administrative district of Rosenheim and the IHK (chamber of commerce and industry) Oberbayern, is mainly concerned with the collection of basic data to reduce the traffic on the road network and to sustain the environment without negative impact on the competitiveness. The best known project of the LKZ is the envisaged bisection of the transport time of railbound goods between Munich (Germany, Bavaria) and Verona (Northern-Italy).