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29 December 2008 You will be responsible for the management of projects developed with ERTICO Partners and co-funded by the European Commission with the objective to lead the research and implementation of innovative ITS in Europe. |
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29 December 2008 Papers for the 16th ITS World Congress in stockholm can be submitted until 12 January 2009. |
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19 December 2008 Workshop brings more than 50 international FOT stakeholders together to discuss a wide range of topics such as data handling and sharing, methods and deployment issues. |
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19 December 2008 CVIS project presents Europe's first universal platform for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and services in Berlin. |
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19 December 2008 Rising to the challenge of more efficient mobility - TNO presents prestigious competition for the most effective cooperative vehicle-infrastructure solution. |
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19 December 2008 TISA had a busy time during, and around, the 2008 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, in New York in November. |
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19 December 2008 International experts, researchers and students attended the 5th ITS Forum in Zagreb on 12 December 2008. |
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19 December 2008 The aim is to accelerate deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in Europe. A Directive proposal spelling out obligations of the Member States for the implementation of the Action Plan has been released as well. |
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19 December 2008 ERTICO News: Season’s Greetings and best wishes for 2009 from the team at ERTICO – ITS Europe! |
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02 December 2008 ERTICO is pleased to welcome Géraldine Viérin and Lina Konstantinopoulou to the team! |
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01 December 2008 ERTICO to participate in eCall Impact Assessment Study that will investigate different options for market introduction of eCall across Europe. |
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28 November 2008 Cooperative Systems Workshop and Product Launch Event, 10-11 December 2008 in Berlin, Germany. |
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28 November 2008 SatNEx, the European Satellite Communications Network of Excellence project held its 2008 General Assembly. |
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28 November 2008 SISTER Session on Satellite Communication attracts 50 participants at ITS World Congress in New York. |
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28 November 2008 European Field Operational Tests on intelligent in-vehicle systems (euroFOT) launches website at ITS World Congress in New York. |
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28 November 2008 Tele Atlas's Speed Profiles enables optimal routing in GPS devices and mapping Applications. |
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28 November 2008 ERTICO Partner NAVTEQ has taken another step towards expanding its traffic information systems into Europe by agreeing to acquire T-Systems Traffic (T-Traffic). |
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28 November 2008 NGTP is one of the initiatives BMW has undertaken with Connexis, a subsidiary of ERTICO Partner Ygomi, and WirelessCar to help define future telematics services. |
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28 November 2008 ERTICO Partners and staff took part in a host of sessions as organisers, moderators or panelists around this year’s theme of ‘ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives’ at the ITS World Congress in New York. |
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14 November 2008 Cooperation will enable connected telematics services throughout Europe. |
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14 November 2008 ERTICO Partner Egis is adding to its consultancy, project development and operational portfolio, by launching their United Kingdom subsidiary Egis Mobilité UK. |
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14 November 2008 Main objective of the consortium’s activities: Development of a unified domestic transportation information collection and distribution system. |
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14 November 2008 The Traveller Information Service Association (TISA) certifies large quantity of new and revised TMC location tables. |
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14 November 2008 Commissioner Viviane Reding awarded three of the most outstanding achievements in promoting eSafety systems in Europe. |
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14 November 2008 ERTICO staff and ERTICO Partners to participate in a host of sessions at the ITS World Congress, covering a wide range of topics around this year’s theme of’ ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives.’ |
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03 November 2008 ITS Hellas hosts an insightful 2-day meeting in Thessaloniki |
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31 October 2008 The Cooperative Systems Workshop and Product Launch Event will take place in Berlin on 10-11 December 2008. Presentation of Europe’s first universal reference platform for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and services. |
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31 October 2008 GOOD ROUTE and EURIDICE projects to hold workshop in Lucerne, Switzerland from 3rd to 5th November 2008. |
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31 October 2008 Successful installation of the CVIS reference platform at workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
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31 October 2008 i-Travel blog launched at beginning of October. |
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31 October 2008 Join us on 20 November 2008, after the ITS World Congress for the first FOT-Net International Workshop! |
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31 October 2008 TIL-ITS - representing ERTICO Partner the Basque Government - to organize a Brokerage Event on Logistics in Bilbao on 18 November 2008. |
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31 October 2008 The Finnish Road Administration offers a new information service for road and traffic managers and service providers. |
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31 October 2008 ERTICO and its Partners to provide ITS solutions for traffic management, e-ticketing and Electronic Toll Collection for EXPO 2010. |
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17 October 2008 The final handbook and all other FESTA deliverables are now available on the FESTA website www.festaproject.eu. |
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17 October 2008 FeedMAP attracts 60 participants to its final workshop in Trento and receives positive feedback from EC evaluators. |
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17 October 2008 On Thursday 27 November TNO will be organising a roundtable discussion on the impact of road pricing and other possible price-raising effects on transport. |
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17 October 2008 Airbiquity end-to-end system enables a large number of sought-after telematics applications. |
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17 October 2008 The two companies cooperate on enriching real-time traffic information with data from the mobile network. |
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17 October 2008 INTUITION network marks four years of successful project cooperation and holds final conference. |
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17 October 2008 Newly published ETSI Harmonized Standard enables market placement of radio equipment for road safety and traffic management. |
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17 October 2008 Join us for the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems this November 16-20 in New York City, New York. Register now! |
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17 October 2008 ERTICO supports the cooperation between Europe and China for the development and deployment of ITS in both regions. |
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07 October 2008 The EC-funded coordination project PROMIT will hold an international Workshop in Lisbon on 16th/17th October 2008. |
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03 October 2008 FOT-Net project to organise international workshops in the US and Japan. |
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03 October 2008 FOT-Net to hold a series of 7 seminars in 2008-2009. |
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03 October 2008 ERTICO – ITS Europe Partner Octo Telematics, a MetaSystem Group company, global market leader in research, development and management of insurance telematics applications for the automotive sector, signs new agreements for the provision of cutting-edge insurance telematics applications with Amaline Assurances and Aviva France. |
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03 October 2008 Avnet Memec will distribute Wavecom’s GSM/GPRS, CDMA, EDGE and 3G Wireless CPUs, cellular software and services for M2M (machine-to-machine) communication in the UK and Ireland. |
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03 October 2008 The telematics solution is developed on the Blue&Me Fiat Group Automobiles hardware platform. |
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03 October 2008 In the EU-funded EuroFOT project TNO together with other partners performs a number of large-scale field tests for in-vehicle systems in real traffic conditions. |
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03 October 2008 For the fourth year running, a major event focusing on information and communication technologies (ICT) in motor vehicles is being organized by ITU1, ISO2 and IEC3, working together as the World Standards Cooperation (WSC). |
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03 October 2008 European Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems for the trans-European Road Network, Giardini Naxos – Taormina, Italy, 14-16 October 2008 |
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03 October 2008 Ten countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, The Netherlands, Spain, including the Basque region and Sweden) were represented at the Public Authorities Platform Meeting held 23 September in Paris. |
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30 September 2008 The 16th ITS World Congress & Exhibition will host a wide range of sessions and an exhibition around the theme of ‘ITS in Daily Life’. |
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25 September 2008 eSafety support will hold the 10th European eSafety Observers meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania on 25 September. The event features presentations by the European Commission and eSafety Support experts, who will discuss its current priorities and achievements to date. |
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24 September 2008 Reminder: FeedMAP final workshop to be held in Trento, Italy on 9 October. Registration will close on Friday 3 October. |
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19 September 2008 The i-Travel project will hold its ‘connected traveller open workshop’ on the 13th November at Espace Moselle in Brussels. |
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19 September 2008 The simplified version of the ADASIS protocol, ADASIS v2, features an updated version of the CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol specification. |
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19 September 2008 ROSATTE Requirements Workshop in Paris attracts more than 50 participants from industry, OEMs, public authorities and road administrations. |
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19 September 2008 Radiocrafts uses Wavecom’s open-interface Fastrack Supreme to create a compact gateway combining several radiofrequency technologies for smart meter management. |
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19 September 2008 ERTICO is proud to present four new team members! |
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15 September 2008 CVIS consortium to hold workshop in Berlin on 10-11 December. |
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15 September 2008 The simplified version of the ADASIS protocol, ADASIS v2, features an updated version of the CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol specification. |
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05 September 2008 ERTICO Partners Adam Opel GmbH and Continental AG launch DIAMANT project in Hesse, Germany |
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01 September 2008 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems to take place from 16 to 20 November 2008 in New York. |
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27 August 2008 The FeedMAP workshop will take place at the Grand Hotel in Trento, Italy, on 9 October 2008. Registration for the event and a questionnaire on participant’s expectations now available! |
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25 August 2008 On 17 September, the ROSATTE project will hold its first workshop on Requirements and Architecture in Paris. |
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12 August 2008 The ERTICO-coordinated project i-Travel develops solutions for the future of travel. The ultimate aim is to create a service platform for the connected traveller. |
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11 August 2008 Preparing for future EU-China cooperation towards Digital Broadcasting and Mobile Communications Convergence. |
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11 August 2008 Kapsch TrafficCom endorses decision by The Association of Toll and Traffic Systems Integrators of India (ATTSII) to propose world wide tested and recognised CEN 278 for Electronic Toll Collection in India |
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11 August 2008 DLR's Institute of Transportation Systems in Braunschweig has put into operation the mobile RailDrivE laboratory. |
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11 August 2008 ITS United Kingdom, the Intelligent Transport Society for the United Kingdom and member of the ERTICO hosted Network of National ITS Associations, has given its web site a complete new design. |
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11 August 2008 GOOD ROUTE and EURIDICE to organise joint workshop at Lucerne, Switzerland, 3-5 November 2008. |
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08 August 2008 Join the discussions on 14 August at 14:00 at Connekt/ITS Netherlands premises in Delft |
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05 August 2008 As part of its overall fight against road accidents and traffic jams, the Commission decided today to reserve, across Europe, part of the radio spectrum for smart vehicle communications systems (so called co-operative systems) |
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01 August 2008 The 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Preliminary Program is now available. |
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25 July 2008 9th ITS Asia Pacific Forum & Exhibition was held on 14-16 July 2008. |
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25 July 2008 “Safety in Mobility: Intelligent Weather Information Systems and Services in Traffic and Transport” |
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25 July 2008 TNO concept aims to improve coordination at accident sites. |
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25 July 2008 Dynamic Route Information Panels inform drivers about the length of traffic jams. |
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25 July 2008 Car manufacturers, truck manufacturers and suppliers are invited to participate in a survey on CVIS systems. |
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25 July 2008 ERTICO – ITS Europe will be the platform for disseminating the output of SatNEx and general knowledge of satellite communication to transport industry and key policy makers. |
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11 July 2008 Join us in Brussels on 25 September 2008. |
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11 July 2008 Preparing for future EU-China cooperation towards Digital Broadcasting and Mobile Communications Convergence. |
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11 July 2008 Final FeedMAP event to showcase map updating results |
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11 July 2008 The first ERTICO workshop on NGTP (Next Generation Telematics Protocol) was held in Brussels on 19 June 2008. |
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10 July 2008 The vehicles of the future were on show on 6 June in Eindhoven where ERTICO Partner TNO along with the three Dutch Universities of Technology and the Automotive Technology Centre organised a symposium on intelligent vehicles. |
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10 July 2008 First cars equipped with Electronic Vehicle Identification to be ready by the end of 2008, and will be used in the Peak Traffic Avoidance project between Gouda and The Hague. |
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10 July 2008 The General Assembly of TTS Italia elected Gioacchino Gabbuti as new President of the Association on 23rd May. |
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04 July 2008 High level ambassadors underline the importance of ESC in cutting accident rates at recent event in Brussels |
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27 June 2008 ROSATTE is organising a Requirements Workshop on 17 September 2008 in Paris. |
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26 June 2008 The euroFOT integrated project officially kicked off on 13-14 June. |
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26 June 2008 A win-win collaboration to provide a cost effective solution for automatic meter management (AMM) market. |
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26 June 2008 ERTICO Partner Swedish Road Administration (SRA) to promote RDS-TMC as a Europe-wide service. Destia Traffic new service provider for Traffic Message Channel in Sweden after signing contract with Swedish Road Administration. |
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26 June 2008 Demo vehicle at European cup to show safety application in action. |
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26 June 2008 With HAVEit, the Institute of Transportation Systems of ERTICO Partner German Aerospace Center (DLR) expands its drive-by-wire activities in Europe. |
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26 June 2008 ERTICO Partner German Aerospace (DLR) successfully tested the traffic simulation software SUMO, and combined it with a GSM simulation. |
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26 June 2008 The General Assembly Meeting of „ITS Hungary Association” was held on 26 May 2008. |
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26 June 2008 The ADASIS Forum held its 2008 General Assembly in Aachen on 18 June. |
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24 June 2008 European Parliament adopts Intelligent Car Report, more than 90 politicians and stakeholders attend eSafety forum awareness-raising event. |
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19 June 2008 Over 1,200 Congress attendees and more than 320 participants from over 60 ERTICO - ITS Europe Partners discussed this year’s theme of “ITS for Sustainable Mobility” |
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16 June 2008 Breakthrough telematics solution enables cost-effective, simple installation and enforcement. |
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13 June 2008 NAVTEQ map data to support geographic market intelligence systems across Europe |
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13 June 2008 The theme of ITS innovation for sustainable mobility was reflected by ERTICO’s stand, with a new interactive approach to showcase the benefits of ITS. |
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27 May 2008 Deadline for tender submission: 30 May 2008! |
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27 May 2008 Carole Berthelot joins ERTICO’s communication team |
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27 May 2008 ERTICO ITS –Europe Partners to contribute to a host of sessions around this year’s theme of “ITS for Sustainable Mobility” |
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26 May 2008 Test your knowledge on ERTICO’s ‘ITS Quiz’! |
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26 May 2008 The ERTICO-coordinated project ROSATTE is dedicated to improvements in road safety through exchange of data between public authorities and map providers. |
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26 May 2008 EC-funded Field Operational Test project unveils implementation plans at Geneva Congress. |
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26 May 2008 New Satellite-UMTS G family radio interface Technical Specifications to support smooth convergence between Mobile Satellite Systems and “terrestrial” Mobile Systems. |
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26 May 2008 Co-operation in the areas of music, mobile gaming, maps, advertising and location based services |
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26 May 2008 The European Commission’s DG Information Society collects views on the contribution of Information and Communication Technologies towards the EU’s energy efficiency targets. |
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26 May 2008 On 25 April, eSafety experts met in Ljubljana to discuss how the European Commission should go forward to deploy eSafety systems throughout Europe. |
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13 May 2008 Over 50 ERTICO Partners to showcase ITS solutions for sustainable mobility in Geneva |
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13 May 2008 A new version of the TMC Inspector tool has been developed by TISA member Geologix and launched for TISA members who are owners of published TMC location tables. |
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13 May 2008 TISA Executive Director Dr.-Ing. Heinz Friedrichs made a speech at the Eurotravel conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 21 April, introducing TISA. |
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13 May 2008 ERTICO organises exploratory workshop on the Next Generation Telematics Protocol (NGTP), an open approach to implementing in-vehicle telematics services. |
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13 May 2008 Road Charging Interoperability project to hold validation workshop on 30 May. |
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13 May 2008 The FESTA consortium presented the new European methodology for Field Operational Tests at its widely-attended final workshop on 29 April in Brussels. |
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13 May 2008 ERTICO Partner opens futuristic research and development centre. |
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18 April 2008 ERTICO is very pleased to announce Fujitsu Ten (Europe) as a new Partner in the Industry sector |
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16 April 2008 The "First Intelligent Car" report has been adopted by the European Parliament Committee on Transport on 8 April 2008 |
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16 April 2008 On 18 March 2008, the FeedMAP project which studies the commercial and technical feasibility of map deviation feedback, successfully presented its latest results in Brussels |
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16 April 2008 All stakeholders with an interest in field operational tests (FOTs) should attend |
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06 April 2008 On 03-04 April, the ROSATTE consortium met in Antwerp to launch some key work packages in the project |
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04 April 2008 Former Vice President and Deputy Head of the Corporate Department “External Affairs, Government and Political Relations” at Robert Bosch will act as Executive Director of the new Traveller Information Services Association. |
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04 April 2008 Three young, dynamic and upcoming women join team ERTICO! |
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28 March 2008 On 26 March 2008, the EC organised a public consultation workshop in order to collect stakeholders’ views on an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Action Plan in preparation |
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20 March 2008 The www.rosatte.eu website is now live. |
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18 March 2008 1 April 2008 marks opening of online registration for the 15th World Congress in New York City. |
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17 March 2008 Introductory look at what will be featured at this year’s 7th ITS in Europe Congress. |
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11 March 2008 European Organization for Security holds first event in Brussels in May. |
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07 March 2008 International cooperation project ends on high note. |
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20 February 2008 4-6 February 2008, SISTER project partners met in Ljubljana for 12 months review. |
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20 February 2008 25 February 2008, SIMBA project holds Final European Event at ERTICO premises. |
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18 February 2008 ERTICO – ITS Europe has yet again managed to obtain a bright, young and hard working individual to aid in its mission to develop and deploy ITS in Europe and beyond. |
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12 February 2008 More than 60 Partner representatives gathered at ERTICO on Friday 8 February for the kick-off meeting of the new Partner Topic Groups. |
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05 February 2008 Follow up last year’s most important developments in eSafety and eCall. |
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31 January 2008 29th January 2008, ERTICO-coordinated project, i-Travel, holds first meeting of stakeholders in Brussels. |
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28 January 2008 24-25 January 2008, ERTICO-coordinated project, ROSATTE, holds first meeting of stakeholders in Brussels. |
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18 January 2008 18 March 2008, second FeedMap User Forum workshop takes place in Brussels, Belgium. |
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16 January 2008 6 December 2007, a new association to promote telematics in transport was launched in Portugal. |
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07 January 2008 21-22 January 2008, joint SAFESPOT and WATCH-OVER User Forum workshop to take place in Stuttgart, Germany. |
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14 December 2007 Network for road transport research cooperation between Europe and emerging markets holds final workshop. |
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14 December 2007 Hermann Meyer, Head of the External Relations Office of the Volkswagen Group to the EU, takes over as Chief Executive Officer. |
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14 December 2007 11 December FESTA project workshop identifies interests for future European Field Operational Tests. |
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13 December 2007 New addition to ERTICO – ITS Europe and eSafety Support appointed. |
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11 December 2007 RCI project reveals technology to easy pan-European driving. |
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10 December 2007 Discussions at SIMBA event in India conclude with priorities for EU-India cooperation in ITS. |
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30 November 2007 AGILE project nears end as actions for LBS take up are identified. |
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30 November 2007 The newly launched Traveller Information Services Association gathers in Berlin for its first General Assembly. |
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30 November 2007 On 18 February the European project RCI will begin a major demonstration of interoperable road charging across Europe. |
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30 November 2007 27 November 2007 benefits of TMC introduced to Middle East at first NaviForum in Dubai. |
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29 November 2007 FESTA Consortium to hold workshop on perspectives and needs of stakeholders for field operational tests in Europe. |
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16 November 2007 6-7 November meeting brings together stakeholders to discuss the future of Field Operational Tests. |
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16 November 2007 Director for Development & Deployment Michael Nielsen to move to ERTICO Partner IRU. |
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02 November 2007 Satellite navigation workshop, 17 October in Turin, Italy, discusses business potential of LBS sector. |
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26 October 2007 21 November event at European Parliament stresses intelligent mobility through intelligent information sharing throughout Europe. |
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19 October 2007 9-13 October 2007 event attracts nearly 4,000 participants. |
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19 October 2007 ERTICO-coordinated project holds 14 September 2007 event on impact of cooperative systems on transport policy. |
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17 October 2007 Press review section collects mentions of the September PReVENT in Action! exhibition from the English, German and French-speaking media. |
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10 October 2007 ITS United Kingdom interest group holds 7 November 2007 conference on benefits of ITS on the environment. |
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05 October 2007 Rome hosts ERTICO - ITS Europe’s Public Authorities Platform and Network of National ITS Associations meeting. |
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