TISA and TPEG, presented in Taiwan

Teun Hendriks (co-chair of the TISA Technical and Standardisation committee) presented TISA and TPEG in January 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. The presentation gave an insight into the evolution of the organisation and the TPEG standard, as well as its worldwide implementation and its relation to Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS).

This meeting, targeted at Asia-Pacific companies, was also followed by TISA members: Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan Telematics Industry Association, Tapei Computer Association and TMS Technologies.

 

 

 

András Csepinszky: new role, new opportunity

András Csepinszky is the new chair of the TISA’s Business Analysis Working Group. He works as Project Management Office lead at NNG, in Hungary. Previously, András worked as Project Manager at ERTICO ITS-Europe and as Partnership Manager, External Affairs and Standardisation Manager at Ygomi Europe Kft.

“I am the new chair of TISA’s Business Analysis Working Group (BAWG) supported by NNG. Between 2009 and 2014 I was actively contributing to the work of TISA EO as standardisation expert while working at ERTICO-ITS Europe. During these years I built up fruitful relationship with TISA members working in the various working groups.

I tried to consider the ITS arena as a whole and put TISA and its interests in a holistic way understanding the needs of both and initiate synchronization between the different stakeholders and technologies.

I have learnt a lot from many TISA people such as Bev Marks, James Burgess about the organisation. The most important lesson was that traveller information technology cannot be a stand-alone solution while intelligent transport technologies are moving forward extremely quickly.
New we are facing challenges of multimodal travel and autonomous driving both having huge impact on TISA members’ core business. In order to take appropriate decisions TISA will need to build a business roadmap considering these emerging needs. I am well motivated to manage this process and provide TISA with its result.

As a former business analyst and project manager I am more than happy to take this challenge and I will rely on the experience of our excellent colleague, the previous chair of the BAWG, M. Jacques Naves who kindly offered his support until I become familiar with the task and of course all actual BAWG members in order to make TISA and its results to key success factor in the ITS industry.”

Alessandro Taddei: “The ITS world is dramatically changing and this opens the door to a host of challenges and opportunities for TISA”

Alessandro Taddei is the new Content & Service Provision Committee chair. He works at Infoblu since 2001 and is Platform Manager since 2010. In this position he leads the internal technical development deptament. He also worked for the mother company (Autostrade, a motorway operator) as ICT manager.

“I joined TISA four years ago. At the time it would have been hard to imagine that I would become a chair of one of the committees. When Jacques Naves (Michelin Travel Partner) announced he would step out, I was encouraged to apply for the position. This way, a completely different phase started for me.

I must say I really appreciate the work done by Jacques Naves and I hope I will be able to be at the height of this endeavour. These are exciting times to take up such position. The ITS world is dramatically changing. In the past, it was seen as a very technical field that would only catch the interests of expert. Nowadays, everyone is talking about autonomous driving, cooperative systems and a whole new range of technologies that will shake the foundations of the whole transport sector. This opens the door to a host of challenges and opportunities for TISA.

During the last Committees Meeting in Budapest Matthias Unbehaun (TISA Executive Director) and Andreas Schmid (Swarco) presented a number of challenges for TISA. This came as a proof that different people had the same things in mind. With all of us rowing in the same direction, I cannot but expect the best for the TISA project in the coming years.”

TomTom selected by Dutch National Road Authority at Innovation Centre for Traffic Management

TomTom has been chosen by the Dutch National Road Authority (Rijkswaterstaat) for collaboration with the newly developed national Traffic Innovation Centre, in partnership with the Dutch-based company Simacan.

The Traffic Innovation Centre, an experiment and development area for traffic management, was founded by among others Rijkswaterstaat to facilitate development of smarter mobility. TomTom has enhanced the award-winning TomTom Traffic product for traffic management centers, enabling traffic managers to capture and act on every minor change in flow. Simacan, a traffic and logistics IT specialist, merges various road authority datasets such as motorway matrix signs with the TomTom Traffic product. The Traffic Innovation Centre, TomTom and Simacan will work together going forward to develop more joint applications, improving traffic flow in the network by smarter use of infrastructure and technology.

“We’re excited about this collaboration. It enables us to take the next step in improving traffic flow for everyone” said Ralf-Peter Schäfer, Head of Traffic at TomTom. “TomTom and Simacan are innovating traffic management in ways that will ultimately serve the needs of connected and self-driving cars.”

“Significant benefits for road authorities arise”, said Rob Schuurbiers, CEO of Simacan, “when bringing together different information sources into a full, operational overview.”

“We see great potential for road authorities in this new business arrangement with TomTom” said Laurens Schrijnen, Director at the Traffic Innovation Centre. “This initiative paves the way for new and innovative use cases that will improve overall traffic management.”

Original source: TomTom

The lastest TISA Committee Meetings were hosted by NNG

The latest TISA Committee Meetings took place on 1-2 December 2015 at the NNG premises in Budapest.

Péter Szombathelyi (NNG acting CEO and COO) was in charge of the opening speech.

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