Italian Solutions for ITS Edition 2005

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ransport in Italy plays a key role in the national economy and in the quality of life of Italian citizens. We are aware that a deep economic development, creating business opportunities and wealth, derives from an efficient transport system allowing the full exploitation of market potentialities and the possibilities that the globalisation of commercial exchanges can offer. However, in the last decades, the increase in traffic volumes has caused a rise in congestion with consequent destructive effects on the environment, quality of life and transport safety. The cost citizens pay every day in terms of wasted time, pollution and safety is enormous. The risk, therefore, is that the ever-increasing transport demand which characterises the Italian transport system will make this cost unsustainable. Ensuring all citizens the freedom of moving safely, efficiently and compliantly with the environment is, therefore, a national priority. Trials carried out in the last few years have shown that this goal can be reached only through direct intervention on transport demand, by distributing traffic flows among the different modes in a more balanced way. The result will be the optimisation of infrastructure use so allowing safer, faster and cheaper journeys and the promotion of sea and rail transport in the modal balance context. ITS are the key tool to achieve such a goal and make the Italian transport system more effective and competitive, ensuring greater convenience and safety, and a better environment for all. In Italy, Public Authorities, private companies, research centres and universities have been working together for more than twenty years to develop new ITS systems and services aimed at allowing people and goods to travel smoothly and safely to any destinations in Italy, at the same time safeguarding our environment and protecting our artistic heritage from pollution. ITS for traffic and transport management are operating in many Italian cities like Rome, Turin, Milan, Florence, Naples, and almost 80% of local public transport Companies use location and fleet management systems. As far as motorways are concerned, electronic tolling is widespread on the whole National territory and it is being used in diverse European Countries. Advanced systems for mobility control and management, realized by Italian Companies, are adopted in many European and Extra-European Countries. Car manufacturers have made important investments in the field of on board systems to increase vehicle (heavy vehicles included) safety level and numerous projects for encouraging the deployment of innovative telematic systems for logistics and intermodality and their integration have started. As National ITS Association, our challenge is to create the enabling conditions to foster the full deployment and diffusion of ITS in Italy in the most effective manner for users. The release of the Italian ITS Architecture ARTIST represents an essential milestone towards this direction. The purpose of this booklet is to provide the outline of some relevant ITS solutions available in Italy. The booklet is necessarily not exhaustive but we hope it can help to inform the global ITS community of the Italian expertises on ITS.

TTS Italia - Italian ITS Association

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The Key for Successful ITS: ARTIST - Italian ITS Architecture ARTIST is the Italian ITS Architecture issued by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in 2003. ARTIST main objective is to provide public authorities, standardisation bodies, transport operators, infrastructure managers and private companies with general guidelines for steering ITS projects towards interoperable solutions compliant with National and European policies. ARTIST aims at establishing the conditions for facilitating and harmonising the development of ITS market in Italy.

On the basis of the stated User Needs, ARTIST is a strategic tool defining:
The necessary services for users
The functional, logical and physical relationships among systems
Information flows
The organisational links among the different users (Public and Private Institutions) involved in the development and management of ITS

ARTIST is an open Architecture, as the systems and services derived from ARTIST can easily integrate new functions and /or update the existing ones, bringing benefits in terms of cost reduction and efficiency improvement. The interoperability of components stimulates investments and creates the conditions for an open and competitive market, offering lower cost solutions.

Elements of ARTIST are:
List of user needs: The set of user requirements for which ARTIST provides a solution
Logical Architecture: defines data flows necessary for supplying the services identified in the List of User Needs
Physical Architecture: the step towards system realisations providing the methodology for designing the physical aspects of ITS
Organisational Architecture: identifies the organisational and business aspects which make possible the services to be delivered to users
Navigation Tool: a software enabling users to navigate interactively in ARTIST The Organisational Architecture is an innovative element of ARTIST and represents a real “added-value” of the Italian ITS Architecture.

The Navigation Tool is available on-line at:

www.its-artist.rupa.it

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Innovation at User Service: ITS Solutions for Mobility Management and Control Italy offers a lot of ITS solutions for mobility management and control. Huge efforts have been made to design and implement advanced ITS solutions for facing the negative effects of the chaotic traffic jams affecting the Italian cities and the motorway network. Such ITS solutions are fully compliant with ARTIST and many of them have also been adopted in several European and non European Countries.

In urban areas
5T System in Turin The 5T system is one of the most advanced mobility management system in Europe. The system is able to control all the mobility issues in the Turin area and has been measured to increase Public Transport commercial speed (+ 17%) and to reduce Turin citizen travel time (-21%) improving traffic fluidity and providing real time information. It is composed of 7 subsystems: • The Town Supervisor which guarantees integration of the subsystems in order to provide the best service for mobility while protecting the environment. It monitors traffic conditions every 5 minutes and every hour it forecasts mobility, checks on the effects of pollution and elaborates a general strategy for environment protection; • The “Public Transport Management” ensuring public transport regularity and commercial speed by means of the vehicle monitoring and user information at bus stops; • The “Urban Traffic Control (UTC)” subsystem managing the traffic lights by a traffic-responsive regulation according to on-line local measurements; • The Parking Control and Management subsystem, connected with 16 automated car parks; • The Environment Monitoring and Control subsystem using weather forecasts together with data from 11 pollution detection stations and traffic data for the prediction of the environmental conditions over the short term; • The Collective Route Guidance subsystem providing dynamic route guidance by means of Variable Direction Signs (VDS). It also provides real-time information on available parking spaces in the automated car parks; • The TITOS User Information subsystem for the real-time information on public transport, traffic, parking and the environment by Internet , and SMS, GPRS and UMTS. www.5t.torino.it
EMBEDDED-Automotive Platform The Embedded platform studied specifically by Akhela for the automotive sector is a flexible and multi-functional plaform particularly suitable for public and private transport systems in an urban setting. Being based on the Samsung SMDK2440 development board (Linux and Windows CE operating systems) and using a 400 MHz processor, it can be enlarged with a broad number of peripheral units, whether integrated into the processor (IrDa interface and codec audio) or external (GPS module, GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth and WiFi); certain peripheral units conferring an ulterior range of capabilities particularly useful in this sector. The modularity of the platform allows it to interface with videocameras for videosurveillance, variable message panels rather than display specifics for user communication, digital ticket machines and various ticketing systems. The architecture/design also includes a QVGA TFT display. To be able to support other serial ports, hard disk and output video two further expansion boards have been planned. Furthermore, a codec video is available on the

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platform for the complete management of images. www.akhela.com
HYPERPLAN HYPERPLAN is a planning model for transport networks developed by Maior. HYPERPLAN can also be used for private transport planning or, in general, for the development of urban traffic plans and as support of the urban mobility master plan. The implementation of the simulation model for bimodal travels, a real innovation introduced into the planning system, allows the prediction of transport demand in large urban areas and in the presence of exchanging car parks (“park and ride”). The model allows, moreover, the assessment and optimisation of the present organisation of a network through mathematical models and appropriate algorithms which, combined with effective research and artificial intelligence, make possible an excellent management of the resources available in different business environments. www.maior.it
ITS in Rome The Integrated ITS System realised in Rome manages mobility in the City area. The core of the Integrated System is the Traffic Control Centre, installed at STA (the Company for the Mobility Services of the City of Rome) headquarters. The Control Centre has the main functions of monitoring, managing and controlling urban traffic through several dedicated subsystems, each one playing a specific role: • The Urban Traffic Control system for the regulation of traffic lights based on SPOT/UTOPIA, a software for the dynamic regulation of traffic lights cycles. The system controls about 400 traffic light systems; • The system for monitoring traffic flows, made up of more than 2500 loops on the road and 65 traffic detection stations; • The system IRIDE for the Automatic Access Control to the Limited Traffic Zone (ZTL); • The system VMSS (Variable Message Signs System) providing user information through variable message signs installed on the main road routes; • The CCTV traffic surveillance system, with TV colour cameras located in the main intersections of the network and connected to the Centre via an optic fibres proprietary network; • The PARK system for parking monitoring; • The TIC (Traffic Information Centre) for the diffusion of information on traffic conditions, works in progress, scheduled and special events. Information is provided to users through e.mail, web site, teletext and SMS messaging. www.sta.roma.it
ITS for Traffic and Atmospheric Pollution Monitoring This system is able to monitor at the same time traffic flows and pollution. The system communicates with the Management Control Centre through the pollution-measuring equipment , in order to ensure the simultaneous transmission of traffic and pollution-related data. The information in the centre is suitably archived and filtered by means of appropriate applied software. The system has been designed and developed by Elasis for the management of one of the main intersections of the City of Catania in Sicily. www.elasis.com
MatriX (Model plAtform and TRaffic Information data eXchange) Supervisor MatriX is a software tool developed by Mizar Automazione and CSST for real time monitoring, forecasting, managing and controlling urban or motorway traffic networks. The Supervisor offers as main services traffic observation, data collection, control strategies, geo-referenced user interface and user information platform. MatriX is in operation in Turin, Naples, in Stockholm, on the Venice beltway and on the Venice-Padua motorway. www.miz.it - wwww.csst.it

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MERLINO An Innovative System for Real-Time Traffic Analysis and Prediction MERLINO is a software tool conceived by ENEA -the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment- for real-time traffic analysis and prediction, estimation of the current state of a transport network and prediction of the traffic state evolution by combining real-time traffic data with historical data collected and processed every day, early detection of traffic flows anomalies and short-term predictions of traffic congestion situations on the transport network. MERLINO is also able to evaluate long term air quality on the network and to assess the impacts of different traffic control strategies. www.enea.it
Pguide 2000 Pguide 2000 is a parking guidance solution developed by FAMAS SYSTEM. FAMAS SYSTEM projected an open hardware and software architecture that ensures modularity and reliability with the possibility of future integration and development. For this reason Pguide 2000 is conceived as set of integrated subsystems: • parking entry/exit control system • display system • communication system • managing and supervision system Components of the system are a set of variable message signs (VMS) and static information signs groups placed at key points of the city, a number of data loggers placed at parking lots, and a main station. The system acquires in real time the number of available places in every parking; transmits these data to the main station which correlates them with the actual traffic conditions to obtain the expected free places when the car will arrive to parking; transmit these results to display groups. The system is predisposed to be connected to the internet from which users can download informations. www.famassystem.it
The Integrated Mobility Management System for Milan City The ITS realised in the City of Milan, developed by Project Automation with OTE SpA, is an Integrated System able to make ITS systems of diverse natures and functions cooperate: centralised traffic-light control systems, violation revelation systems, video-surveillance systems, information systems through variable message panels, traffic data gathering systems, air-pollution data monitoring systems, fleet radio-localisation systems, etc. The Architecture of the integrated system is organised on three levels: • Monitoring and control technology level for maintenance of existing systems; • IT integrating platform vel for the collection of data/information of different type and origin, according to a common model which unites the informative base on which high level applications are implemented; • Mobility management application system level for the co-ordination of monitoring functions and mobility regulation, and a Traffic Information Centre (TIC), which realizes information services to the use. www.projectautomation.it
Telepass for LTZ The Telepass System, based on radio communication, is being used with great success by Autostrade per Italia in urban settings to aid mobility management in Limited Traffic Zones and, in general, in areas and situations which require the control of vehicle access: car parks, industrial areas, ports, interports and transport terminals, where it can be used to significantly reduce access times, control and electronic parking payment. It’s also possible to make the Telepass for LTZ service interoperable with the motorway tolling, with the advantage for the citizen of using only one apparatus for both. At the moment, the technology is present in the principal Italian cities, among them: Rome, Milan, Florence, Siena, Turin, Perugia, Livorno, Como, Cagliari, Bari, Bologna and Padua. www.autostrade.it

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URBIS® Urban Mobility Intelligent System URBIS® is a VR (virtual reality) representation system for traffic control centres. Conceived and developed by t&t, it enables urban mobility operators to receive real time information on the traffic situation, road conditions and pollution levels through an enhanced “virtual representation of the city”. www.t-t.it
Utopi@ Urban Traffic OPtimisation by Integrated Automation Utopi@ is a dynamically adaptative traffic signal control system designed by Mizar Automazione to optimise traffic flows in urban areas through a sophisticated control strategy. The system is able to operate on highly complex network providing real time forecasting of traffic flows, selective priority to public transport at traffic lights and dynamic traffic routing. Utopi@ is adopted in Rome, Turin, Milan, and in more then thirty European Cities (Stockholm, Bergen, Trondheim, Eindhoven). Also the WEB based version is available and it is already operating in the city of Bologna. www.miz.it

On motorways
Autovelox 105 SE Digital technology to capture speed limit violations Autovelox 105 SE, developed by Sodi Scientifica; is a multifunctional system capable of capturing violations relating to failure to observe speed limits and safety distances between vehicles on roads with one or multiple lanes. By positioning the device between the two carriageways it can operate on both sides of the road. The system has been studied for extra-urban applications but can be usefully employed also in an urban environment to monitor violations in lanes reserved for local public transport and in areas in which heavy goods vehicle are prohibited. www.sodi.com
IMQ laboratory for Safety, EMC and Radio testing The Laboratory managed by IMQ is able to perform all the tests for Automotive Directives ( 97/24/CE, 93/33/CE, 95/54/CE, 95/56/CE, 2000/2/CE..), the compulsory Type Approval for electronic equipment intended to be fitted into the different type of motor vehicles for "E" and "e". The Laboratory can also test and certificate different type of apparatus used for Road Transport and Traffic Telematic (RTTT) application like infomobility, electronic tolling fee, radiolocalization, safety. www.imq.it
ITS Integrated System for the management of the Mestre-Venice beltway The Mestre-Venice beltway is one of the most critical stretch of the overall Italian motorway network. It has the double role of serving mobility on long distance trips connecting north Italian Regions through the East-West corridor, and the local mobility gravitating around Venice area. Società delle Autostrade Venezia e Padova, which is in charge of the beltway management, has implemented an ITS integrated system made up of: • Traffic Monitoring System with 31 motorway and beltway sections equipped with IR & radar sensors, 33 sections on ramps equipped with loop sensors and 147 sections coming from UTC system of Mestre for monitoring traffic on alternative routes, in urban areas; • Automatic Incident detection system which ensures a full coverage of carriageways. Incidents are managed through a “multiagency” approach providing the integration of different Centres: Police, Carabinieri, Hospital, etc; • 61 VMS; • 37 digital video cameras;

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• 8 ramps equipped with traffic lights for Ramp metering. User information is provided through an internet web site containing data and pictures real-time updated. www.autovepd.it - www.csst.it
Telepass® 3G The Evolution of Tolling Systems Autostrade per l’Italia SpA – the largest operator of toll motorways in Europe - has been studying a new concept On Board Unit, named Telepass® 3G, which is based on satellite technologies, GSM, Intranet/Internet. The system allows also to monitor hazardous material vehicles and oversized/overloaded vehicles, to control the Operator's patrol cars or corporate and operation vehicles, to support the Traffic Information Centres and first aid vehicles during emergency operations, to manage fleet localisation and to provide traffic information. www.autostrade.it
The New Traffic Control Centre of Palmanova, north-east of Italy The New Traffic Control Centre of Palmanova (Udine) started its operations in 2003. The Centre, operated by Autovie Venete, manages about 200 Kilometers of motorways in the north-east of Italy near the border with Slovenia and Austria and is linked with other centres in the Veneto region. The Centre presents innovative features responding to the user requirements of ITS solutions, as the Automatic Incident Detection system based on CCTV aimed at improving safety, and Radar – Infrared – Laser technologies used for traffic detection. www.autovie.it

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Tools for Efficiency and Competitiveness: ITS Solutions for Fleet Management An optimised fleet management is essential to improve the efficiency of transport services. Local Administrations can make public transport more accessible and attracting for users, so attaining the objectives of the sustainable mobility policies. Commercial fleet operators can enhance their competitiveness on the market. In Italy many advanced ITS solutions for fleet management have been studied and developed and they are now extensivly diffused, bringing benefits in terms of overall quality of the transport services and cost savings.

For Public Transport
EXBUS® EXecutive BUs System: AVM System for Public Transport EXBUS is an AVM (Automatic Vehicle Monitoring) system, produced by t&t, that integrates onboard components with communication and positioning systems connected to a Control Centre based on a LAN of PCs, managed by the “Exbus Manager”. The Exbus Manager© is a software package complying with the TRANSMODEL data model standard, that manages the system at the control centre working with a Client-Server architecture and in compliance with ARTIST ITS architecture. www.t-t.it

Air Airquality monitoring

Traffic monitoring

Central processing EPB

Bus dispatching BPTC

Central processing BTMTB


ITS-TAP an intelligent system for the reduction of pollution in the Beijing City The ITS-TAP (Intelligent Transport System-Traffic Air Pollution monitoring system) is a highly innovative integrated project that the municipality of Beijing has entrusted to a consortium of Italian companies, lead by THETIS of Venice and also comprised of ATAC (the Rome Public Transport Agency), FATA DTS (Finmeccanica Group) and Ecotema. The consortium acts in partnership with the Environment Protection Bureau and the Beijing Public Transport Corp. of Beijing city within the Sino-Italian Cooperation Project managed by the Italian Ministry of the Environment. The objective of the project is the development of an integrated system which, foreseeing pollution levels above those allowed, can undertake dynamic actions to restrict traffic entering the city centre and optimise public transport. The system is composed of a control centre, an air-quality monitoring network, a fleet management system managing 200 buses, a traffic counting and classification system and license-plate reading for the 22 streets entering the centre of Beijing in the “second ring” area. The fleet planning and management system for public transport developed by Thetis optimises the service of an initial fleet of 200 buses and includes the dissemination of information to the passengers in 20 stops, based on real-time analysis of the earliness/lateness of the transport. The buses will be equipped with an innovative on-board computer endowed with GPS and GPRS wireless communication and WiFi. The buses will connect the Olympic village with the city centre. www.thetis.it
Mistral a new innovation for Local Public Transport Mistral is a software developed by Italsime to meet the required efficiency of service, in terms of environment and economy, in Local Public Transport management.Mistral is a modular technological solution, flexible and capable of being integrated to support every requirement of the companies. It is available by purchasing the software license or in ASP by accessing a service centre capable of rapid and timely evaluation of performance in relation to various company activities. Mistral can be defined as a company instrument panel , a real control area through which data, properly processed, supplies a set of indicators

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subdivided by sector (quality, technical, management-economic), visualised in either graphic or numeric form. www.italsime.it
Octoplus The Octoplus, system developed by ATAC SpA - the Public transport company of the city of Rome, is an AVM System, composed of 3 main subsystems: • On-board system; • Control Centre; • Communication Interface. • The on-board system involves all Jumbo vehicles, which are operating each day on the line 8, connecting Monteverde area with the heart of the Historical Centre of Rome. The on-board system allows to know each moment the geographic coordinates of the tram and to analyse route scheduled regularity. The AVM Centre monitors the vehicle and provides regulation, coordination and information operations, also through other systems connected with the control Centre. The Control Centre is also linked to the traffic control system (UTC – Urban Traffic Control). The communication interface allows the information exchange between the vehicle and the Control Centre and the user, through internet, mobiles and electronic stop displays www.atac.roma.it
Position System An Innovative Solution for Car Localisation or Fleet Management Position is an innovative and small localisation system realised by Soft-In and composed by an on-board device without any connections to the vehicle, and a service centre software with a country map. The vehicle device is able to communicate the position via SMS or Data link on the GSM net and the user can set the type of communication. The main goal of this system is the easiness with which it can be installed because no power supply or external connection for antennas are required. www.soft-in.com
The SAE System operating in Naples ANM, the Public Transport Company of the Municipality of Naples, has developed a SAE (Sistema di Ausilio all’Esercizio – Fleet management support) System, aimed at improving the public transport management and the quality of the service. The system allows to: • Manage dynamically the fleet, by service monitoring and regulation through GPS; • Communicate with line buses, through telephony and specific pre-coded messages which the driver receives and sends to the Control Centre; • Provide real-time indications to on-board drivers and users; • Provide customers waiting at bus stops with indications on scheduled transit times and publicly useful information www.anm.it
TSpm Transport Scheduling planning and management The TSpm (Transport Scheduling planning and management) system is a Transit Information System developed by Trieste Trasporti, the Public Transport Company of the City of Trieste. TSpm is a multi-level ERP system conceived and realised with object technology, characterised by the separation of the presentation functionality. The system adopts the European standard Trasmodel (ENV 12896), developed on a physical platform Oracle©. TSpm covers all the functional problems concerning transit network management, from the construction of the network to timetable definition, blocking and driver rostering and absence management, and depots management (refuelling, parking and service preparation). TSpm is an “open system” with external and programmable interfaces for GIS bus stop management, for maintenance, payroll, Certified Quality System, local transit Agency. Other interfaces are available for IVR

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(interactive voice response) system and AVM (Automatic Vehicle Monitoring). www.triestetrasporti.it
Video surveillance system for Public Transpor security The new digital video surveillance and digital video-recording system developed by Digitek is characterised by added services and high reliability. The system is composed of an integrated video acquisition and digital recording device capable of receiving films simultaneously from 4 to 8 cameras with the possibility of recording to a local disk, Compact Flash, on a remote network connected server. The system is equipped with network ports, serial ports, audio admission, PCCard/CardBus slot and is capable of interface with xDSL, GSM or WiFi modules. The recording of the films is programmed for motion detection, external signals, network messages or calendar; in all conditions a pre-trigger period is definable for the recording of films which precede the event of the alarm. The reduced electrical consumption and wide range of environmental functions allows installation also in difficult conditions. The control software and decoder can be transferred to a Personal Computer with an integrated software module in a standard web browser. The functions include complete control of the cameras , live viewing of images, reproduction of the recording and download of the films. www.digitek.it

For Freight Transport
Cartographic data to support fleet management NAVTEQ is the preferred supplier of cartographic data on a global level for Minorplanet, the leading company in the VMI (Vehicle Management information) systems market for fleet management. The Minorplanet VMI system allows companies to monitor the activities of their fleet, to plan itineraries and travel schedules efficiently, hours worked, etc.. The broad cartographic capacities of the Minorplanet system, based on NAVTEQ data, allow not only better planning of all routes but predict the classic “trip” (for example, collection and distribution) with various stops, not just a simple A to B journey. Also Siemens VDO uses NAVTEQ as a map supplier for their navigation computers, VDO Dayton PC 5510 pro (DVD version) and PC 5400 pro (CD-Rom version), for the professional use of their fleet of vehicles thanks to the speed with which they are capable of calculating itineraries. The VDO Dayton on-board computers are based on the C-IQ concept, which allows fleet managers to access at any time the added cartographic data for navigation all over Europe. The user pays only for access to the maps actually used and the period of use. www.navteq-connections.com
Fleet Guard and Truck Guard Fleet Guard and Truck Guard are two products developed by CSST to check the economy and technical correctness of vehicle management (Trucks and Buses). Fleet Guard and Truck Guard have been specifically studied for: Rent and Maintenance contract distribution bodies, service fleets, and large transporters already equipped with other telematic systems. In particular: • Fleet Guard is a new software for: planning and management activities for offices and storehouses ; checking of all technical and bureaucratic deadlines for vehicles and drivers; analysis of all fleet management costs, subdivided into different cost areas; production of statistics on repairs and maintenance carried out; checking of wheels and maintenance systems. • Truck Guard, an eye on board which monitors both vehicle and driver: Reveals daily and at a reasonable cost fuel consumption, speed, route performed, brakes, parking, engine temperatures an angular speeds, etc.; marks the alarm status; allows the detailed analysis of each single vehicle and period parameter; allows comparisons between vehicles or different periods. www.csst.it

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Fleetrunner An Effective Tool for Supporting the Management of Commercial Fleets and Public Transport Services Fleetrunner is the telematic platform developed by Mizar to host WEB based applications for goods or passengers transport. Fleetrunner exploits the potential of the modern telecommunication technologies (GPRS, xDSL) and avoids the need to install and maintain proprietary control centres and is offered on a service contract basis. The WEB based applications hosted by Fleetrunner are: • FLAG, that provides the actors of the supply chain with integrated and addedvalue services, such as transport fleet monitoring, service summary, service planning and reporting. • FLASH, which is dedicated to public transport operators and agencies and is conceived to operate in both mono and multi-operator environments. FLASH provides for public transport fleet monitoring, service regulation, service summary, maintenance support, user information services. www.miz.it
HT ITS system for Fleet Monitoring and Management HT 3.0 / 2005 o Info-telematic System for Fleet Monitoring and Management HT 3.0 is a hardware tool developed by Hello Truck aimed at performing three main functions necessary for fleet operations: security, logistics and maintenance. HT 3.0 allows the localization of the trucks on the transport network, to ensure the security of the vehicle through vocal automatic alarm messages and data transmission to the Fleet Control Centre via GSM, SMS, GPRS, W-LAN and UHF. HT 3.0 incorporates an expandable and modular Main Unity, installed on-board, with a microprocessor GEODE SC1200 at 266Mhz, proprietary boards, a GPS receiver, a GSM/GPRS module, a Wireless module, CAN BUS, a memory unit containing vector mapping, a microphone, speaker, a back up battery, and Operating System Windows CE 4.2-5.0 integrated with Text To Speech software. HT 3.0 system can be also applied to manage public transport fleets. [email protected]
Logistixs The capacity of mobile devices to reveal vehicle positions and transmit relevant data for vehicle control creates the opportunity for a new system of services, developed by FATA DTS inside an integrated system of solutions aimed at the optimisation of vehicle management along routes through vehicle monitoring, localisation and management. LOGISTIXS is a set of devices developed by FATA DTS which supplies integrated solutions to optimise planning of integrated transport activities directly in the vehicles and trailers. The set of products allows route optimisation, resource allocation and real-time transport and georeferencing for fleet managers. www.fatadts.it
Service Centre for Transport Sector The Service Centre for Transport by Telespazio, a Finmeccanica Company, is a leading centre in space systems and satellite applications for business and institutions worldwide. The Service Centre provides various lines of locationbased services for transport and mobility applications, oriented to different market sectors: freight and fleet management, info-mobility, safety and security, emergency assistance, public transport. Thanks to its integrated and open architecture, the Telespazio Service Centre capabilities can be exploited towards the delivery of a wide class of value added positioning services targeting the transport sector and the whole mobility domain. www.telespazio.it
SIMROAD SIMROAD is a system developed by SeT (Sistemi e Telematica) which allows the users (transport companies, fleet managers, port operators) an exchange of

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information in real-time for the management and control of transport flows towards port areas. www.set-network.com

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INFOTREN On board Real Time Information System for Trains Infotren is a web based system developed by TSF that gathers “real time” information and data about train journey and provides related accurate “on board” information to customers (i.e.: travel data, convoy location, train delay, estimated arrival time, special cases, etc.). Installed on more than 400 Trenitalia S.p.A. trains (the Italian Railways operator), Infotren has been realised using the most advanced mobile communication technologies (such GPS and GSM). www.tsf.it
SIR@NET AND SIRMOBILE Advanced Tools for Rail Freight Operations SIR@NET and SIRMOBILE are integrated web-applications developed and provided by TSF for management of Trenitalia Cargo S.p.a. (the freight division of Trenitalia) activities. These applications allow operators of Trenitalia Cargo S.p.a. to manage their own activities through simplified web interfaces and PDA Devices with GPRS or Wi-Fi connections. The main activities that can be managed by SIR@NET and SIRMOBILE are: station activity planning, rolling stock location, trail occupancy rate, train composition/modification management, technical documentation management, trains & wagons monitoring, intra station real time information exchange. www.tsf.it

Optimising Freight Transport: Solutions for Enhancing Intermodality ITS are essential to promote integration among transport modes. This is a particularly crucial issue for freight transport and logistics. ITS can contribute significantly to optimise the whole logistic process, from starting point to that of goods delivery by intervening in the managementof the various transport steps, so reducing costs.
SYLOG Integrated Decision Support System for Intermodal Freight Transport SYLOG is an integrated software system developed by TRAIN Research Consortium. The system allows functional, economic and environmental assessment of strategic intervention on regional freight transport systems. Actually such interventions take shape as structural and/or functional changes in freight transport inter-modal network. The tool is based on mathematical models, data base and GIS applications for the simulation and multi-criteria evaluation of technological and infrastructural scenarios of freight intermodal transport systems. In SYLOG three computational models have been integrated: a scenario simulation module (MTCO-TECH) for estimation of traffic flows on the intermodal network, a module for estimation of energy consumption and pollutant emissions (GoTrEIN), and a software for cost-benefit analysis (CBA). www.consorziotrain.com

Italian Solutions for ITS

Safety for all as first priority: Innovative ITS Solutions for Safer Vehicles In Italy road safety is a crucial issue. In 2003, road accidents have caused more than 6.500 deaths and the injuring of about 400.000 people. The National Plan for Road Safety states that ITS can bring significant benefits for road safety improvement, in particular as far as vehicles are concerned. Italian car manufacturers are aware that ITS can play a key role in the development of safer vehicles. Many Research and Development projects are going on and huge investments have been made in the field of innovative on board systems and vehicle-infrastructure systems for enhancing the safety level of both driver and vehicle.
Advanced R&D projects for enhancing vehicle safety from Fiat Research Centre Fiat Research Centre is engaged in diverse R&D projects aimed at designing and realizing innovative ITS solutions to improve driving safety. Among them: • AIDER is a European project aiming at developing an efficient Rescue Management System in order to improve rescue operations by reducing the time of intervention and optimising the use of rescue means. • AIDER is an on-board system which, in case of an emergency, is enabled to make an Automatic SOS Call to a Control Centre, to provide automatic accident location and identification making an off-line accident reconstruction, to establish a voice, data and video link between the vehicle and the Control Centre, and to transmit to the Centre the biomedical data of passengers. www.crfproject-eu.org • CHAMELEON is a European Project with the purpose of developing and validating an advanced sensorial platform, able to detect an imminent crash and provide relevant data to passive safety systems, thus increasing overall safety. Situations of unavoidable collision are recognised by sensors and a suitable crash prediction algorithm, so that information is provided to smart restraints before the impact. www.crfproject-eu.org • EDEL, “Enhanced Driver’s pErception in poor visibiLity”, is a European research project aiming at designing and developing a night vision enhancement system based on near infrared sensor and semiconductor illumination. The main outputs of the project will be: an automotive CMOS camera with non-linear response to reduce glaring; a pulsed semiconductor near infrared illuminator synchronised with the camera; image processing algorithms for single and stereo camera system and a Human Machine Interface based on direct-view display. www.edel-eu.org • EUCLIDE, “Enhanced human machine interface”, is a European project for on vehicle integrated driving support system. The aim is the development of an integrated driver support system to detect the presence of potential obstacles in case of poor visibility and driver’s distraction. Far infrared camera images are processed together with radar data to inform the driver about the potential obstacles on vehicle trajectory in good and in poor visibility conditions like fog and darkness. The information is given to the driver in a head up display located in the driver’s peripheral view. www.euclide-eu.org • GALLANT is a European Project whose object is to develop an innovative Predictive Cruise Control system based on GALILEO and integrated with advanced driver assistance systems. Vehicles are enabled to automatically adapt

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the cruise speed while approaching to critical curves, using the GNSS I - EGNOS positioning (in the future GNSS II - GALILEO), associated with the ahead vehicle scenario retried by advanced digital road maps available on board. www.crfproject-eu.org • ROAD SAFETY IN FOG is a project carried out jointly by Fiat Research Centre and ANAS, the National Road Company, aiming at creating an integrated system that guarantees driving safety in conditions of poor visibility. The infrastructure is equipped to monitor road visibility and traffic conditions and to warn the drivers via Variable Message Panels, Intelligent Light Guides and on-board devices. The safety cars, equipped with anti-collision systems and a variable message bar based on the innovative Chip LED technology, guide platoons of vehicles through the fog. www.infonebbia.it • PROTECTOR, “Preventive Safety for Vulnerable Road Users”, is a European project aimed at developing and validating sensors for detection and classification of vulnerable road users (pedestrian, cyclists,…) in order to reduce accidents involving pedestrians and allow smart passive safety devices. www.crfproject-eu.org • SAFETUNNEL is a European project for the reduction of accidents inside road tunnels through preventive safety measures. This goal can be achieved by increasing awareness of vehicle status in order to avoid tunnel access to vehicles with detected or imminent on-board anomalies, monitoring vehicle speed and safety distance inside the tunnel, diffusing information to drivers in case of emergency, setting up two equipped trucks and a control centre for demonstration and validation. www.crfproject-eu.org
ITS Solutions for Heavy Vehicles from Iveco Iveco, company leader in heavy vehicles manufacturing, considers ITS as a main priority and makes a lot of efforts in developing innovative solutions for enhancing safety of both driver and vehicle. Among them: • Pre-crash system integrated with seat belt pretensioner A long range radar that alerts the driver of possible frontal collision through a force applied on the seat belts. New electrical driven pretensioners improve the coupling effect of the seat belts already in pre-crash events by working in jointly with the radar system. The pre-crash forces slightly correct occupant position in case of upcoming frontal impacts and rollover, thus leading to accident avoiding effects. • Haptical Lane Warning A highly sophisticated system that prevents from driving off-road by alerting the driver through a torque applied on the steering wheel. The capability of this system is that it can be integrated with collision warning system and extended to control the vehicle in order to automatically maintain an acceptable lane trajectory through interaction with the steering system. www.iveco.com

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