Project News: ROSATTE requirements workshop to be held in Paris

Date: 15 July 2008

The ROSATTE project (ROad Safety ATTributes exchange infrastructure in Europe), co-funded by the European Commission (DG INFSO) FP7 programme and coordinated by ERTICO – ITS Europe, started its activities in January 2008.

ROSATTE will be organising a Requirements Workshop on 17 September 2008 in Paris. The project is in the process of elaborating its cases, user needs and system requirements, and the objective of the workshop is to validate these interim results. The workshop is open to any organisation interested in the project and in digital maps generally. The feedback gathered from participants will help to steer the development of a flexible exchange infrastructure to ensure access to road safety attributes in Europe, as well as enable incremental map updates.

Mr Vincent Blervaque from ERTICO – ITS Europe will welcome participants, followed by keynote speakers Elina Holmberg from the European Commission’s DG Information Society, and a representative of the French Ministry of Transport. Sophie Dupuis from ERTICO will then present the ROSATTE project in general, before Trond Hovland from NPRA, gives an overview of requirements and architecture. The morning session will be rounded off with individual presentations by test site leaders on the test site requirements, followed by Work package leaders (WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6) on next steps and perspectives.

The afternoon session will kick off with a panel discussion on requirements and architecture, which will offer participants the opportunity to exchange views, before moving on to a presentation by Dr Jun Shibata from the Digital Road Map Association, who will speak on Japanese activities in relation to ROSATTE. Following a short coffee break, Keith Hamish from Transport for London will present the ROSATTE-related initiative in London. To round off the afternoon session, Jacques Ehrlich from LIVIC will offer participants an overview of the French activities on ROSATTE. Sophie Dupuis will wrap up a hopefully interactive and insightful workshop.

Please register at www.rosatte.eu, where detailed information regarding practicalities is available, including a list of hotels close to the meeting venue. Participants are advised to book their hotel before 31st July (afterwards all rooms blocked by ERTICO will be released).

Registered participants will receive the finalised deliverable in early September, in order to be well prepared for the workshop.

A draft agenda of the workshop is available:

ROSATTE_workshop_20080917.pdf (20 KB)

We look forward to welcoming you in Paris on 17 September!

For more information on the ROSATTE project, please visit www.rosatte.eu or contact ROSATTE_info@mail.ertico.com