ITS Congress Lisbon – the Game Changer

During the ITS European Congress from 22-24 May, TISA will be presenting two sessions at Lisbon’s Congress Centre. The first is Emergency Alerts & Warnings for Drivers, Automated Vehicles and beyond on Monday 22 May from 11.45-12.45 in Auditorium 3. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015) aims to “substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems to people by 2030”. Substantial progress has been made with the global adoption of the CAP protocol. Large-scale emergencies are already a challenge to drivers, for example due to the lack of knowledge of the local environment, language barriers. This SIS will present ready-to-use solutions targeted to drivers as well as work-in-progress addressing ADV and situations where the availability of communication is an issue.

Danny Woolard (GEWI) sets the scene with experiences from Australia (floodings, bush fires and how to manage traffic in case of such events), Teun Hendriks, TISA (inventor of TPEG2 EAW) speaks on technical topics, logical data models, efficient data encoding schemes and EAW for automated driving vehicles. Thomas Kusche-Knezevic (TISA President) presents on TPEG2 EAW live public services in Germany. Eliot Christian (Alert-Hub.org), presents on the status of global CAP deployment. Katarzyna Porzuc (EUSPA), dives into the development of a new satellite-based warning system and finally Daniel Tuttenuj (BBK-German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance) relates the experiences from the German TPEG2-EAW field trials: large-scale catastrophes or emergencies. TISA and the BBK have developed TPEG2 Emergency Alert & Warning (EAW) an application to disseminate Alerts to travellers/public at large and warn about emergencies. The session will present the field trials results conducted in Germany and the benefits of Public and Private Cooperation.

The second session is Standardisation requirements for Active Mobility, taking place on Tuesday 23 May from 11.45 to 12.45 in Session Room 1.8. Sustainable mobility means that new mobility modes need to be integrated into data ecosystems that rely on existing standards such as DATEX, TMC/TPEG, NeTEx, SIRI – the goal of this session is to address potential overlaps and to ensure harmonization.  Speakers include Samuel Pierce of (Cycling Industries Europe, CIE), Stephanie Chaufton, (TISA) on why standards for active mobility are needed; Ronald Jorna (MOVECO) on experiences of the BITS, Danny Woolard (GEWI) and Jörg Freudenstein (AlbrechtConsult GmbH) on embedding cycling data in DATEX II.

The ITS European Congress 2023 brings together companies and organisations from the ITS ecosystem to discuss the latest developments in smart mobility. TISA will be presenting these sessions in the context of the larger discussions related to intelligent transport solutions.