TISA Members take a birds-eye view of traffic information at Vlaams Verkeerscentrum

From 12-13 September, TISA and its members gained a bird’s eye view of Flanders roads and their safety management on a visit to Vlaams Verkeerscentrum (Flanders Road Traffic Centre)  in  Antwerp, Belgium. Peter Bruyninckx, Spokesman, offered a tour of the centre, revealing the close collaboration that takes place between the Centre and the Federal Police as well the innovative technology used to monitor the roads, highways, and tunnels across Flanders.

During the Committee meetings, a variety of topics came under discussion that included updates from TISA’s newly created Task Force focusing on discussing cross-border data sharing and related licensing topics. Members discussed the potential use of  TPEG technology for cycling as well as other modes of active mobility. Peter Lubrich of the Department for Connected Mobility at the Federal Highway Research Institute in Germany (BASt) offered valuable insights and outlined progress on the creation of NAPCORE‘s new Data Dictionary and the introduction of its quality framework. Finally, TISA members discussed the way forward and planning for closer collaboration with SENSORIS that includes a forthcoming workshop on exploiting synergies between both standards. SENSORIS (Sensor Interface Specification) is a member platform that offers a global standardised interface to upload information from in-vehicle sensors to a dedicate cloud.

Thanks to Dominique Sterckx of Vlaams Verkeerscentrum for organising.