Updates with TISA team in Brussels

TISA’s Committee meetings are an opportunity to catch up on changes in standardisation and discuss the direction for TISA’s policy, but also an opportunity to hear from external actors in the industry. This was exactly the case when members met up in earlier in the year in Brussels from 14-15 March 2023. Guest speakers included Stephanie Leonard, Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at TomTom who gave fellow Members an appraisal of the French Environmental decree that went into force last summer and the future EU RTTI regulation and encouraged TISA to set up an information session for members.  Anastasia Founta joined the Committee meeting and presented the project Data4PT.

Anastasia Founta from DATA4PT pointed out to members that accurate, quality, and standardised data is currently ‘not in the place it needs to be.’ She went on to present the DATA4PT project that aims to advance data-sharing practices in the public transport sector by supporting the development of data exchange standards and models, so fulfilling the needs of multimodal travel information service providers. By supporting EU Member States in deploying a set of harmonised European public data standards (Transmodel, NeTEx and SIRI), DATA4PT wants to deliver union-wide multimodal travel information services and contribute to a seamless door-to-door travel ecosystem across Europe that covers all mobility services. The project does so by providing capacity building through a series of webinars and offering customised training through National Access Points.

TISA discussed a variety of topics including the hazard of potholes, trucks on minor roads as well as the latest on up-coming EU regulations in the sphere such as the ITS Directive. The next Committee meetings will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 20-21 June 2023. Contact: s.chaufton@tisa.org for registration.