N° 9 October 2018

This Month Focus On...

Pietro Spirito, President of the Port Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea

Italy has recently signed the Blockchain Partnership Initiative promoted by the European Union and Europe in general is putting many funds on this technology. What is it exactly?
The blockchain is a tool for the innovative sharing of databases in a specialist market. This technology allows to drastically reduce, up to zero, the indirect costs of the production and logistics process, resulting in powerful increases in efficiency.

What could be the future developments in general and for the transport world in particular?
We are in the presence of a discontinuity not only technological, but also organizational. The sharing of information allows to reduce transaction costs and to reduce the circulation of paper documents, resulting in a drastic reduction of administrative operations and greater traceability of processes. The orientation towards the use of this technique, however, passes through a cultural revolution of management and corporate values. We must be aware that information must also be shared with competitors, as well as with customers and with the entire community of stakeholders.

What are the critical issues to be overcome for the development of these technologies?
First of all, it will be necessary to regulate the use of these platforms, which - as tools - can certainly be placed at the service of the community, businesses, logistics, but can also lead to pollution in transactions: the system is based on trust and must provide for penalties for those who break the fiduciary mechanism. Then, tools for training and for the reconversion of professional skills must be put in place. Investing in human resources is a crucial component of the change in technological paradigm. Finally, it will be necessary to invest in the culture of sharing information in the business community: only when the awareness that it is necessary to cooperate, and not just compete, will it be possible to move towards the digital world of the blockchain.

As President of a Port Authority, which are in your opinion the systems already on the market whose use should be incentivized to improve logistics?
We live a season of profound changes in the structure of information systems. The treatment of big data will induce - through these tools - an unavoidable change in the logics of business management. For logistics, digitization is equivalent to containerization, due to the importance of discontinuity. As with the transition to the container, a dramatic productivity jump was made, with the consequent chain effects, so with the blockchain the administrative costs of the transactions will collapse, affecting the average logistics around 15%.

Finally, looking to the future (even next) what are the devices and the connections that you think will be decisive for improving the world of transport and in particular the port sector?
Physical and telematic connections are strategic factors of competitive advantage for the territories and businesses. For logistics in general, but for maritime traffic in particular, the digital revolution profoundly changes the coordinates of the business. For example, think of the new company that was recently set up to create the container transport blockchain: Maersk, the world's leading container shipowner, and IBM, a colossus of IT innovations, have joined together. If the experimentation of the blockchain model under construction will succeed in creating the common platform in the segment of container traffic on an international scale, a new push towards the processes of globalization will be determined.

Who is Pietro Spirito. Graduated in Political Science at the Federico II University of Naples, since December 2016 he is the president of the Authority of the port system of the central Tyrrhenian Sea. After a long career in the Fs Group where he worked a lot on railway cargo, Spirito arrived at the command of the Bologna Interport in 2009 and in 2011 he became director of Atac. He has numerous scientific and editorial publications.

Member of the month

DUEL

Duel proposes cutting-edge technological solutions for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) market. For this purpose, more than 40% of the company's resources are dedicated to research and development, in continuous collaboration with the academic world.

Just one year after its foundation, on 1994, Duel created the first European virtual set design system for RAI, while in 2001 it provided the company TVfiles with the first worldwide platform for the satellite transmission of video content with IP protocol.

Duel was responsible for the introduction of the first multimedia technology platform for mobility services for citizens. From the first CCISS information system, Viaggiare Informati, for RAI in the 80's, through the new technological platform for the Campania Region, Muoversi in Campania, to the present day with the latest multimedia platform for infomobility "Full Datex II" for the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, recently adopted by 5T Turin.

Founder and CEO of Duel is Riccardo Colasanti, a cum laude electro-technical engineer. He grew up in professional terms in IBM Italy, then as manager in the Fintermica group assuming the responsibility of general manager Staff, and finally, as an entrepreneur, with the founding of the company Telesia and then of the Duel in 1994.

PRODUCT IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Traffic Over Voice

The traffic Over voice platform, which was completed in 2016, offers a service for the distribution of personalized voice traffic news. On 13 September 2018, the "International Searching Authority" gave a positive opinion for the granting of the International Patent. All claims of the patent have been declared both with novelty and inventive activity. 

The proposed original process creates a traffic bulletin in a natural language, specific to the needs of the user, analyzing, grouping and summarize, in real time, hundreds of thousands of measurements of speed and traffic events related to roads graphs with millions of arches.

Already a year before, TomTom had acknowledged its worldwide uniqueness by signing an exclusive distribution agreement for the Radio and Automotive Web markets. Thanks to the collaboration with TOMTOM, the service is now available in Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Western and Central Europe and North and South America.

TWO QUESTIONS TO…

Riccardo Colasanti, Duel CEO

Who is interested in the TOV service?
The TOV application, for a personalized voice traffic service, is proposed to large companies that want to integrate it into their branded applications.
The application, typically always active, offers the user useful information in total driving safety, and the company an opportunity for initiatives and promotional messages based on localized geo profiles.
For web radio and multimedia streaming a simple SDK will allow the music provider or the radio to integrate traffic messages into the content transmitted.
To the drivers involved in the distribution in metropolitan areas, Duel proposes a virtual assistant for an optimization of the service in terms of business profitability and reduction of the environmental impact.
The virtual assistant reprocesses the delivery plan dynamically, taking in account the time windows linked to the individual delivery operations and the actual traffic conditions made available by the TOV platform together with the vehicle data, detected by the on-board device or mobile applications.
The service uses sophisticated "Vehicle Routing with dynamic Time Windows" algorithms elaborated by the Research Centre for Transport and Logistics (CTL) of the University of Rome La Sapienza. The activity of research and development, for the realization of the new service of the Duel, have enjoyed a co-financing of Lazio Innova.

What are the short-term objectives?
1. To offer large national and international companies the use of the TOV service, perhaps exclusively for their market sector.
2. To complete the realization of our virtual advertising system, innovative in the way of distribution customized for each user on desktops, mobile devices, Apple TV, Smart TV.

Project of the month

The TM2.0 platform as an enabler of the MaaS and its employment in MyCorridor

During the ITS World Congress held in Copenhagen on 17-21st of September 2018, SWARCO MIZAR presented a study about the convergence of two current major trends in the transportation world, namely MaaS (“Mobility as a Service”) and TM2.0 (“cooperation between traffic managers and service providers”); the specific case study described is MyCorridor project.

MyCorridor (mycorridor.eu) is a 3-year project, funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, and its overall objective is to achieve sustainable travel in urban and interurban areas and across borders by replacing private vehicle ownership by private vehicle use. The project looks into connecting services from various service providers and providing the traveller with alternatives to replace their own vehicle trip with combined shared vehicles and multimodal transport solutions. The project is part of the “Mobility as a Service” concept that puts users at the core of transport services, offering them tailor-made mobility solutions based on their individual needs.

In MyCorridor, SWARCO MIZAR leads the implementation of the TM2.0 concept in the MaaS environment in order to extend the TM2.0 platform beyond the Traffic Management world by providing solutions that incorporate multi-modal, seamless, flexible, reliable, user-friendly, all inclusive, price-worthy and environmentally sustainable travel within cities and regions and most importantly across all Europe. The MaaS concept can be defined as “Integration of various forms of transport services into a single mobility service accessible on demand” (maas-alliance.eu) to allow travellers for continuous travelling within a geographic region independently of the transport mode offering integrated payment options. Therefore, MaaS can be considered a tool for building sustainable communities across three pillars: environment, quality of life and social welfare.

However, in many cases MaaS schemes omit smooth transition from private vehicle ownership towards car sharing/usage as well as the MaaS schemes emphasize on services for travellers omitting how the optimization of mobility operations could be reached through traffic and multi modal transport management.

The concept of Traffic Management 2.0 (TM2.0), builds upon the deployment of connected vehicles and travellers in order to achieve convergence of mobility services and traffic management, combining actions of the individual travellers with the collective mobility objectives.

The traffic management industry offers well-proven ITS (Intelligent Transport System) solutions for improving traffic flow and safety using a large diversity of sensors along the roads. Traditional traffic data collection, monitoring and control represent mature technologies with clear business models. Still, an efficient Traffic Management integration into multimodal MaaS has not been attempted.

Starting from the identification of these current gaps, the challenge of MyCorridor project is to demonstrate, through the implementation of specific Use Cases, how the implementation of the TM2.0 concept in the MaaS platform could generate benefits and vice versa how the TM2.0 concept could be evolved from car owners to multi modal travellers (incl. ticketing, payment, etc.).

In this way, MyCorridor will lead to TM2.1, that stands for a new interactive concept for Traffic Management and Control, in which the travellers by using new technologies and sensors, become entirely part of the multimodal data supply chain. In addition, traffic management operators work together with the MaaS operators to optimize the transport road capacity through the implementation of common interactive transport management measures across all the available different transport layers. Therefore, according to the vision of TM2.1, the future of mobility management is to combine intelligently the individual traveller objectives (individual users’ optimization) together with network wide multi-modal management strategies (system optimization and equilibrium) in a win-win business model.

Finally, we can conclude that TM2.0 is an enabler for the deployment of MaaS platforms but also MaaS trend is an enabler for TM2.0 opening the door to the multimodal management (TM2.1 Framework) where “Interactive road transport management” can evolve in “Multimodal transport management”.

TTS Italia partners

Agreement between Anas and MIT for mobile sensors on road network

The smartphones of individual drivers become "mobile sensors" for signaling the state of the pavement and road infrastructure (including bridges and viaducts) thanks to the technology introduced a year ago by the Senseable City Lab Consortium of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, directed by the Italian Carlo Ratti.
In recent days, Anas, TTS Italia supporting member, and MIT have announced an agreement to test this technology on two highway sections managed by Anas: the A90 Grande Raccordo Anulare in Rome and the A91 Rome-Fiumicino airport. The technology allows to exploit the data contained in the accelerometers contained in each smartphone: three researchers of the MIT will collect the data of users in transit on the two sections, especially vibrations and noises, and this will provide (by putting together all the data) a first screening (daily and in real time) on the situation of paving and bridges / viaducts. The data collected will be those from the ten cars Anas, in service every day on H24 Gra and Rome-Fiumicino, but also those coming from the smartphones of all users who have downloaded or will download the Anas app. All data will be collected anonymously.
Source: IlSole24Ore

Kapsch TrafficCom Completes Upgrade of Dallas-Fort Worth 511 Traveller Information System

Kapsch TrafficCom (Kapsch), TTS Italia ordinary member, announced the successful upgrade of the existing 511DFW platform and mobile app to a new “Next Generation” system for the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The new system, which is powered by the Kapsch EcoTrafiX™ software and for which Kapsch served as the lead systems integrator, positions the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area transportation network as a fully integrated asset. It allows agencies to share information, optimize operations, and balance traffic flow while providing travelers with personalized, real-time traffic and transit information that enables them to make better decisions about how they travel in the region.
The Dallas Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) project initially comprised the US 75 corridor and utilized an Information Exchange Network to provide regional agencies with real-time data about roadway conditions, which were shareable with the public via 511. Under the leadership of NCTCOG, the project scope increased to include more than 19 agencies in 12 counties and over 6,000 miles of regional roads. The new 511DFW system is a robust platform of integrated applications including a bilingual (English-Spanish) public website and 511 phone system, subscription-based XML web services, and new performance measures dashboard that analyzes road network conditions. During the system upgrade the mobile app, interactive voice response (IVR), web services, and 511 system were enhanced while Waze data was also introduced to facilitate incident detection capabilities and enhance the richness of traffic data collected in the system. These new features meet the increased demand of regional users, while offering enhanced situational awareness and coordination for all participating agencies.
The integrated platform is powered by the Kapsch EcoTrafiX™ software, which offers regional transportation agencies an integrated, multimodal platform for managing their transportation network and sharing real-time information with each other and the public. Kapsch EcoTrafiX™ boosts the efficiency of transportation operators by providing a fully map-based situational awareness of the entire intersections and arterials network, accelerating collaboration between stakeholders, optimizing safety and response plans via automatic incident detection, and forecasting future traffic conditions.
Kapsch will maintain the new system for NCTCOG for an additional two-year period, and will continue to enhance it based on new data sources and customer feedback as applicable.
Source: Kapsch

Kapsch TrafficCom strengthens footprint in Latin America

Kapsch TrafficCom, TTS Italia ordinary member, has been awarded three major contract wins in Latin America to provide advanced traffic management systems to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Lima (Peru) and the Panama City (Panama). The new contracts sum up to an accumulated value of approx. EUR 15 million. The Austrian headquartered mobility expert thus strengthens both its local footprint in the Latin American region as well as its expertise in managing dense traffic environments in major cities around the globe. All contracts are covered by Kapsch’s EcoTrafiXTM urban traffic management software. However, requirements differ in terms of size, scope of work and aim thus proving the adaptability and scalability of Kapsch’s urban traffic management software as well as expertise. "Our steadily growing presence in Latin America is a strong proof of the viability of our growth strategy", explains André F. Laux, COO Kapsch TrafficCom. "The increasing demand shows that the topic of Smart Urban Mobility is becoming more and more important worldwide and that we are well ahead with our offer through both solution competence and implementation strength." In Buenos Aires, EcoTrafiXTM will be used as lead mobility dashboard system integrating existing urban traffic control and management systems and aims for better coordination between agencies as well as better access to transportation information enabling high quality decisions and planning for the city mobility strategy. Around three million citizens of Buenos Aires and nine million from surrounding areas will benefit from the intelligent traffic management system that will control more than 3800 intersections integrating four different technologies, protocols and vendors, 60 variable message signs, 150 CCTV cameras, and different traffic sensing technologies. The system will also integrate information from public services like trains, buses, subway and shared bicycles. The project will be rounded off with the integration of existing third-party ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) and urban traffic control systems enabling a multi-agency coordination for events management. Information of the police, fire brigades, ambulances or citizen travel information and more can be included in the future. In Lima, Kapsch is responsible for engineering, implementation, installation, centralization and maintenance of almost 300 intersections. The contract was awarded by the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima. EcoTrafiXTM will be used to control more than 5,000 traffic lights, 128 CCTV cameras, 860 vehicle detection devices, 90 kilometers of optical fiber, 63 bluetooth detection system sensors and 15 variable message signs. The system will deliver also advanced functions such as origin-destiny-matrix to better monitor movements and flows of vehicles and improve traffic conditions. All will be controlled via a new videowall and server equipment for the main traffic control center. This new contract strengthens Kapsch’s position in the Andean region and Central America, where urban traffic management systems by Kapsch are used in the main cities throughout the Latin America (e.g. Rio de Janeiro (BR), Santo Domingo (RD), Quito (EC), and others). In Panama, Kapsch was commissioned by the Transit and Land Transportation Authority to implement a preventive and corrective maintenance of the traffic lights centralization system of the City of Panama. The system was initially installed in 2006 based on the solutions EcoTrafiXTM Expert and EcoTrafiXTM Controller. The contract has a duration over the next 18 months.
Source: Kapsch

In Chartres the first AEP urban EMV

Are the new digital mobility solutions a threat or an opportunity? Also, in the field of mobility, traditional schemes are driven by the digitalization of services and leave decision-makers faced with numerous questions.
The independent association AGIR (Association pour la Gestion Indépendante des Réseaux de transport public) has organized the Journées AGIR 2018 (7/8 November 2018, Chartres, France), an important opportunity for public transport and services operators, such as bike sharing, car sharing, car parks, etc.
The "Journées" will deal with issues of governance, partnerships between public actors and private solutions, tools and technological obstacles in the development of new mobility solutions for:
- understand the problems and define the target for new mobility flows, in accordance with local decision-makers and for the benefit of passengers;
- design a local vision of the public mobility service in a globalized environment;
- encourage the development of private initiatives for the benefit of users or fear a loss of control by mobility managers.
During the "Journées" will be presented by Filibus (www.filibus.fr), the Chartres transport company, and by the transport authority Chartres Metropole (www.chartres-metropole.fr), sponsored by MasterCard France, (www.mastercard.fr/fr-fr.html) the new Automatic Fare Collection System of AEP Ticketing solutions, TTS Italia ordinary member, which offers, among other things, payment on board with contactless EMV bank cards according to the Open Loop Payment model, the first created by AEP and the first in France on a complete urban area.
The French association AGIR (www.agir-transport.org) it was created in 1987, by officials and technicians elected by the local authorities, with the aim of acquiring a competence independent of the large transport groups.
Today, more than 220 members from local authorities or transport companies benefit from the expertise developed by AGIR in complete independence.
AGIR provides its members with the services of experts on all topics related to public transport.
AGIR has acquired multiple operational resources to meet the needs of its members, in the areas of regulation, transport supply, choice of management.
AGIR offers its members the guarantee of independent and high-level consulting through its network of lawyers, fiscal experts, operational experts, electronic ticketing experts, communication consultants, etc.
To ensure that the range of services is complete, AGIR is also an approved training organization and has set up a central purchasing office.
AGIR has experienced strong growth in recent years with an average of 30 new memberships per year. Such an in-crease illustrates the relevance of the services offered and their adequacy with the need for support for professionals.
In addition to the expertise made available to members, AGIR's development is closely linked to the dynamism of its network, which encourages the exchange of “best practices”.
Source: AEP

Octo Telematics wins tender for black boxes supply
Octo Telematics, TTS Italia ordinary member, has won the tender issued by Le Assicurazioni di Roma Mutua Assicuratrice Romana for the supply in loan for use to the insured of Le Assicurazioni di Roma of the hardware tool called black box with software equipment able to record the activity of the vehicle and transmit the data for insurance purposes.
Source: TTS Italia

OpenMove at IBE in Rimini
OpenMove, TTS Italia ordinary member, took part at IBE – International Bus Expo, held in Rimini on 24/26 October 2018. The biennal event showcases the leading companies of public and private road transport, and the focus of this new edition was on: TPL, zero-emission buses, mobility and disability, security and ICT, start-ups, new technologies and innovation.
OpenMove has presented the OpenMove Suite: OpenMove is an ecosystem of solutions for ticketing that is divided into a series of mobile and web applications for users, transport agencies, controllers and sellers. The OpenMove Suite is used by public transport companies, private companies and tourism agencies. Use cases include the sale of tickets in digital format, printing and sale of printed tickets and integration with third-party platforms for user access and data exchange. The system currently processes € 2.5 million per month.
Source: OpenMove

Project Automation wins tender for mobility management in Cagliari
Project Automation, TTS Italia ordinary member, has won the tender issued by ITS Città Metropolitana S.c.a r.l.
for the functional integration of the mobility control system, and the implementation of technological systems for civil protection, for the municipal police and for the viability of the Municipality of Cagliari.
Source:TTS Italia

Swarco Mizar wins GTT and ITS for public transport tenders

Swarco Mizar, TTS Italia founding member, has won the tender issued by AgenziaCampana per la Mobilità, Le Infrastrutture e le Rete, for the executive design, installation, configuration, activation, training and assistance for the start-up and operation of the entire system and maintenance of on-board ITS systems for buses to be used for local public transport in the Campania Region: supply no. 500 complete on-board ITS systems, supply no. 1 400 minimal on-board ITS systems.
In addition, Swarco Mizar was also awarded the tender issued by Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT) S.p.A. for the supply of 1,200 cameras for automotive equipment and 1 000 video cameras for car parks.
Source: TTS Italia

TO Move: New GTT Torino App based on AEP VTS technology

TO Move, the GTT App, was officially presented on October 1st, through which users can buy tickets, validate them on board using validators and perform other functions. On the second day, more than 5,000 people have already downloaded and installed it.
The ticket can therefore be bought at any time and place, even at the stop.
TO Move is available from October 2 on Google Play Store and soon on the GTT site. At the moment it is compatible with Android phones equipped with NFC, from version 4.4 to version 8X and allows buying:
• City ticket, 1.70 euros, valid 100 minutes on the urban and suburban network plus a subway ride;
• Daily ticket, 3 euros and valid until the end of the service of the day of the first validation on the urban and suburban network and on the subway;
• Multidaily ticket, an electronic carnet composed of 7 Daily tickets, activated one at a time.
Once you download the App, you must enter your personal information before purchase, paying by credit card or prepaid. The card can be stored so as to avoid the hassle of re-entering the data at each purchase.
To validate the ticket purchased with TO Move simply bring the back of the smartphone to the validator. The expiration time of validity of the ticket will appear on the App.
TO Move was created by GTT using AEP VTS technology, TTS Italia ordinary member, for primary functions (purchase and validation, not for card reading).
Some brief notes for insiders: TO Move is already giving excellent results today October 3, customers are purchasing and validating without any problem. However, the following is noted:
• TO Move It has the great advantage of allowing travelers to fulfill the obligation of mandatory validation; this advantage is clear to public transport experts, as it is one of the primary methods of combating evasion but is less understandable by a part of the public;
• this advantage, thanks to NFC and VTS technology, it was obtained without any physical change to the thousands of AEP validators mounted on the vehicles, and therefore with limited investments; the addition of a QR-code optical reader would have been very expensive;
• NFC technology is now widely common and accepted, but when it comes to large numbers, it is inevitable that there is a microscopic part of the audience that, not understanding it or not having it available in the smartphone, may declare a little disappointed;
• at the moment, moreover, TO Move it can not be used on Apple smartphones, notoriously limited in this sense by the Manufacturer's choice;
• TO Move allows only emulating the current chip-on-paper; it is possible that the success obtained and the numerous requests of the Customers in this sense could induce the Authority to upgrade to the GTT cards, which can be supported by VTS technology.
Source: AEP Ticketing Solutions

TomTom announces new partnerships

During the Paris Motor Show, TomTom, TTS Italia ordinary member, announced that it has been chosen by the BMW Group to provide drivers with Live TomTom Traffic information, Online Routing and Electric Vehicle (EV) Services for BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles. The deal is being announced after an extensive testing programme that began in April 2018. TomTom Traffic provides drivers with live updates on upcoming traffic and delays, keeping the driver informed and reducing their total travel time. TomTom’s Online Routing technology uses cloud-based processing power to quickly send alternative routes to the navigation system embedded in the vehicle. TomTom’s EV Service provides drivers with information on the distance that their vehicle can travel before running out of charge, and plans the most efficient route to a charging point on their journey which is suitable for their vehicle and is actually available at the right time.
TomTom also announced that it has been awarded an extension to an existing deal to provide navigation components to PSA beyond 2020. Drivers of Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall vehicles will continue to enjoy driving with TomTom’s full suite of navigation components including automotive grade maps, award-winning navigation and routing, and live services such as traffic information. Over 1 million PSA vehicles have already been sold in 2018 with TomTom’s full stack of navigation components.
Source: TomTom

UIRNet: three new intermodal hubs in Genoa

UIRNet, TTS Italia supporting member, is growing in Genoa.
Thanks to a funding of 60 Million Euros, 30 from the European Bank for Investment and 30 from privates, UIRNet aims at the creation of three intermodal hubs with the objective of reducing heavy vehicles traffic.
Source: The MediTelegraph

Urban mobility: Politecnico of Turin as the main hub

As part of the continental-scale structuring of a series of "InnovHubs" operating in the field of urban mobility, Turin is at the forefront of the South European pole. It was presented at the Politecnico di Torino, TTS Italia ordinary member, the Knowledge Innovation Community U-Move, a proposal for financing in the context of urban mobility, now being examined by the European Institute of Technology (EIT). PoliTo, leader of the initiative for the South Europe hub, has the support of leading partners such as Politecnico di Milano, University of Genoa, ordinary members of TTS Italia, Center for Research and Technology Hellas - CERTH (Greece), Eni, FCA-CRF, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, IVECO, ordinary member of TTS Italia, Swarco Mizar, founding member of TTS Italia, TIM, ordinary member of TTS Italia, Regions of Piedmont and Liguria and City of Turin, Genoa, members of the Platform of Local Authorities of TTS Italia, and Trento. The aim is to create a network that allows the development of intermodal transport solutions focused on the user and aimed at a more profitable use of the urban territory, as well as the formation of human capital with courses of study and civic education process aimed at young people.
Source: Ingegneri.info

Viasat: two new acquisitions for the Group

Viasat Group, TTS Italia ordinary member, has recently acquired the Spanish company Detector and the Portuguese one TRACKiT Consulting, meaning a strengthening of the Group in the market of the design, production and distribution of telematic products and services and IoT (Internet of Things) for Insurtech, Fleet and Big Data with a presence, through its subsidiaries and distributors, now in over 50 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
Therefore, Viasat Group continues in its growth plan for external lines by completing these two new M & A transactions in Europe that, adding to the organic growth of the Customer base on its traditional services and on new segments of the wide IoT and Big Data sectors, allowed her to reach numbers from Top Player. A base of over 700,000 vehicles connected between fleet management, insurance telematics and car connect, 7.6 million connected people (including apps, wearable devices and workforce management), about 6,500 connected buildings, 400 cities served with intelligent transport systems and more of 700 employees.
Source: Viasat

TTS in action

MaaS for transport services supplier: in Rome a workshop to discuss social, technical and legal framework – 16 November 2018

Urban and intercity transport service providers are facing an unprecedented paradigm shift in the legal, social and technological norms guiding the transport industry, leading to a greater emphasis on multimodal ‘Mobility as a Service’ (MaaS) concepts and ‘one-stop-shop’ mobile app and platforms.
How should transport service providers make use of the latest technology and business models in order to remain competitive?
The 2nd Pan-European MyCorridor Workshop will look at the current social, business, legal, and technical environment for MaaS and provide a sneak peek at progress on the EU-funded and MaaS-enabled MyCorridor platform which is currently under development.  Workshop sessions will include several keynote speakers, demonstrations of MyCorridor, and an opportunity for service providers to get involved. 
Join us in Rome at Hotel Londra & Cargill (Piazza Sallustio, 18) on 16 November to take part in the discussions and hear more about how service providers can participate in MyCorridor.
Participation is free of charge but registration is compulsory.
Source: MyCorridor

TTS Italia in Livorno with the AUTOPILOT project

On October 19, in Livorno, the "Smart roads for autonomous vehicles" event took place in the framework of the European project AUTOPILOT (www.autopilot-project.eu), which involved TTS Italia among the co-organizers and participants.
The "Smart roads" covered by cars with automatic driving are not a distant future. Technologies already exist, but the added value for citizens and businesses depends on how they are integrated into services.
The AUTOPILOT project aims to demonstrate on 6 large-scale testbeds (5 in Europe and 1 in South Korea) that IoT (Internet of Things) technologies facilitate automatic guidance in several use cases for which testing is carried out in real time. Livorno hosts the Italian pilot site, and the event was an opportunity to demonstrate the results achieved so far, as well as to start a debate with citizens, institutions and businesses.
TTS Italia, in particular, represented by the General Secretary Olga Landolfi, has moderated the panel discussion on "Smart roads and autonomous driving vehicles impact on the future of the cities".

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Smart City, Smart Building: rules, projects and solutions within fith
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MTRAM User Meeting 2018 di M.A.I.O.R.
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Mercintreno
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Innovation on the move - IRU World Congress
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IRF Global Road Conference & Road2Tunnel Exhibition
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Smart Mobility Congress
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ITS relevant tenders in Italy

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Italia-Fiumicino: Devices for traffic monitoring
Italia-Frosinone: Services for parking areas management
Italia-Pozzuoli: Videosurveillance system
Italia-Roma: Vehicles for special use

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