Two years since the renewal of its graphics on the occasion of its tenth anniversary in 2009, TTS Italia presents the new home page of its site www.ttsitalia.it. The new home page aims to better meet the needs of the members of TTS Italia and to give them greater visibility and space as possible. One of the novelty is the introduction of video interviews, top right, to key figures in the ITS sector. To inaugurate the series of interviews, the Chairman of the Technical-Scientific Committee of TTS Italia, Massimiliano Zazza of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. Also updated the section of "Infomobility in Italy" enriched, renewed and reorganized in the name of "Moving in Italy" to see the main web sites on traffic and viability currently available in Italy. From today you can also follow TTS Italia on Twitter and Linkedin.

TTS in action

Conference "The role of ITS in road safety" - Rome, 15 June 2011
TTS Italia is organizing for next June 15, 2011, in Rome, a conference entitled "The role of ITS in road safety. " The objective of this initiative is to propose a moment of debate and discussion on the impact of new technologies on transport safety, in order to define the national actions related to ITS required by the European Directive entered into force in August 2011. The conference is meant to represent a moment of reflection on the contribution that ITS systems can make to the safety of transport, in line with the European Directive on ITS and with the strategy outlined by the new White Paper on Transport published last March 28. The morning session of the event includes the participation of institutional representatives, while the afternoon session will be dedicated to companies developing services and systems dedicated to road safety.

Second edition of the on line training course on ITS of Politecnico of Turin and TTS Italia
The Department for Transport of the Politecnico of Turin, TTS Italia ordinary member, organizes in collaboration with TTS Italia the second edition of the innovative on line training course on ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems). The course will start on 20 June at the Politecnico of Turin and after that date the course will continue for the next months by distance thanks to a multimodal and interactive on line tool developed by the Politecnico with the support of the Italian Ministry for Infrastructure and Transport. The course is based on several on line lessons with sequential levels that the user will be able to manage as he prefers. However, the user has to pass each level to access the next one. The course will end on 15 November with the issue of the certificates to participants. This new edition will also include an optional session in English.

News of the month

Ministry of Interior / Police Service Road and three new companies in TTS Italia
The Directive Board of TTS Italia at its meeting on 13 April 2011 approved the accession as a supporting member of the Department of Public Security of the Ministry of Interior (Road Police Service). The Directive Board also approved the membership as ordinary members of the following companies:
Adria Infrastrutture, a company operating in the construction and management of highway infrastructure projects, and in the ITS sector, it deals with the various aspects of electronic toll and traffic service;
Almaviva Tsf (www.tsf.it), is a company of the Almaviva Group operating in the sector of Information and Communication Technology service in the field of Transport and Logistics;
Intecs SpA (www.intecs.it), a company active in the design and development of electronic high-tech systems in Space, Defense, Transportation, Telecommunications markets. In the transport sector, Intects is developing software for rail transport and the automotive industry.

Project Automation develops aggregator module for the estimation of crossing times on the arcs of the road network
Project Automation, TTS Italia ordinary member, has developed an aggregator module for estimating crossing times on the arcs of the road network on the basis of data from mobile sensors (onboard unit for the collection of floating car data, FCD, or location GSM devices).
The main task of the aggregator module is to assess the performance of the road network in terms of average speed and journey times, starting from the information collected from vehicles or from equipment moving on the GSM network.
The raw information acquired by mobile sensors provide indications of Position-Velocity-Time (PVT) for each individual vehicle: data are associated to the arcs of the road network of reference (map matching), and contribute to the estimation of travel times.
The development of the aggregator module can also be automatically reported on several graphs roads, owners or standards based on appropriate correlation tables.
Source: Project Automation

Product of the month

CD-CanBus and Check Fuel Tank
CD-CanBus is a device that extracts from the vehicle CAN Bus messages of interest, transferring them to RS.232 or RS-485 line. It can be customized to provide an analog electrical signal that represents the value contained in one of the field of an extract of the message.
It comes complete with cables for installation, the instruction manual and software customization (compatible Win 7/ Win XP).

CD-Check Fuel Tank is a device that reads the fuel level in the tank of a vehicle equipped with a float value and transforms it into an electrical signal modulated in frequency. It can be customized to linearize the response according to the geometry of the tank.
It comes complete with cables for installation, the instruction manual and software customization (compatible Win 7/ Win XP).

For further information: www.via-com.it
For contacts: massimo.tranfaglia@gruppoac.it

Save the date

4° International Saloon on Technologies for Safety and Security
9-12 May 2011, Rome
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MoTechEco – Saloon of Sustainable Mobility
11-13 May 2011, Rome
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32° National Congress Italian Union of Environment Experts
12-13 May 2011, Perugia
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National Workshop on Infomobility – SIMob Project
20 May 2011, Florence
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Transport Logistic 2011
10-13 May 2011, Munich, Germany
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TPEG-Workshop “Getting in touch with TPEG"
10 May 2011, Munich, Germany
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Smart mobility for better cities
12-13 May 2011, La Rochelle, France
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IBTTA Interoperability and All-Electronic Toll Collection Workshop
15 - 17 May 2011, Plano, Usa
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9° Training Programme for Public Transport Managers
16-18 May 2011, Tokyo, Japan
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6th e-Transport Conference and Exhibition-Sustainable Mobility: The 2010 Legacy
18-19 May 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa
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ITS Forum Berlin with national telematic summit
18-19 May 2011, Berlin, Germany
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eTransport Conference & Exhibition-Sustainable Mobility
18-19 May 2011, Gauteng, South Africa
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ITA-AITES 2011 World Tunnel Congress
20-26 May 2011, Helsinki, Finland
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13th International Conference Automated People Movers and Urban Transit Systems
22-26 May 2011, Paris, France
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Intertraffic Istanbul
25-27 May 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
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Intertraffic Istanbul
25-27 May 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
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International Transport Forum 2011
25-27 May 2011, Leipzig, Germany
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World ITS Summit China 2011
26-27 May 2011, Shanghai, China
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European Electric Vehicles Conference
26 May 2011, Brussels, Belgium
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ITS relevant tenders in Italy

I-Avellino: computer services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
I-Feltre: Parking meters
I-Genova: Tickets
I-Gessate: Average speed control system
I-Giulianova: Parking management

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