Video-analysis and artificial intelligence integrated into cameras. What are the hidden secrets?

There is often talk of deep-learning cameras and intelligent video analysis. However, not everyone is aware of the working mechanisms of video analysis algorithms and their hidden flaws..
What are the qualitative technical elements that just how good the video analysis algorithms of these devices actually are at doing their job?
The first step in determining the processing power of a camera is to discover how its deep learning algorithms are trained: a type of neural networks that are trained to recognize a specific subject (people, faces, vehicles, etc.).
The process of training an algorithm is called "reinforcement training" by virtue of which in order for the algorithm to recognize a specific subject without any errors, behind the scenes, software engineers need to dedicate a lot of their time to collecting, cataloguing and labeling an enormous set of sample images of that specific subject.

This process leads the manufacturer to decide how much it wants to “spend”, in terms of development, to train the network. The smaller number of work hours they invest in training, the less expensive and faster the product will be made. Needless to say, the camera will be less trained and consequently faultier in video analysis providing many positive false data/alarms. It's up to us to decide.
The following is actual data to better understand how many man hours of labor are needed to make a camera reliable. In order to achieve a decent level of reliability in recognizing the make and model of a vehicle, our engineering staff had to collect more than 100 million images, cataloging and labeling each of them by individual model and manufacturer.
This activity required 6 years of human labor, but thanks to which we have been able to develop cameras capable of recognizing over 400 brands and 9,000 models, and reach an accuracy and reliability in the reading of the license plate that is higher than 99.8%.
This gives an idea of how it's one thing to read on a datasheet that the camera knows how to recognize make and model, yet it's another to know how much the camera has actually been trained to provide reliable data.
If we do not give importance to this aspect, knowing that smart cameras generate hundreds of thousands of transit data per month, means not giving importance to the huge numbers of false alarms and the amount of incorrect data accumulated.
And in the era of big data and smart cities, these errors make all subsequent traffic analyses wrong, while making the system ineffective in the field of investigations, prevention and repression of crimes.
Selea, for both traffic and safety analyses, and for a Smart City, has developed TARGA-850, a dual lane camera that allows the following data to be extrapolated:
• Number plate of vehicles in transit
• Kemler dangerous goods codes
• Colour recognition in 16 shades,
• 400 brands and 9,000 vehicle models,
• Identification of 31 types of vehicles (i.e., if car, lorry, man, bicycle, ambulances, etc.),
• Nationality,
• Direction of travel
• Instantaneous speed estimation.

This is all useful information for the safety of the territory and traffic analysis and in specific sectors, such as ticket management linked to the payment of the fare based on the class of the vehicle.
TARGA-850 is the best performing camera on the market, designed to make cities more efficient and smarter, not only in traffic management but also in urban safety.

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SWARCO Italia meets with Jakarta. Implementing Traffic light priority for an improved Public Transport efficiency

Jakarta has long been plagued by severe traffic congestion that shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, according to a recent TomTom report, the Indonesian capital has the worst traffic congestion in the world, with an average congestion level of 53 percent in 2019. The city's traffic problems can be attributed to a myriad of factors, including rapid urbanization and infrastructure that still struggles to keep up, an increase in private vehicles, and the need for a more efficient public transportation system.
But local authorities are not taking the situation lightly. In an effort to improve the city's traffic flow, SWARCO Italia has partnered with PURIMET to launch a pilot project that prioritizes public transportation along a key road. The project will use SWARCO ITC3 controllers installed at four different intersections to manage the traffic flow of public buses. The GPS trackers on the buses will communicate their location directly to OMNIA, SWARCO's intelligent mobility management suite, which will use the data to estimate arrival times at the intersections. Based on this information, OMNIA will send a preemption call to the ITC3 controller to prioritize buses.
Unlike other traffic management solutions, this trial will not use SPOT technology, a dedicated intersection control software. Instead, it will use a direct link between the traffic signal controller and the OMNIA center via STCIP, a communication protocol for the interface between the controllers and the center. Although this architecture lacks fully adaptive traffic strategies, which would involve, for example, the prediction of feasible queues along and in the vehicle cross-path, it promotes an easy, less intrusive, and faster implementation while ensuring high accuracy and precision of service.

To measure the effectiveness of the pilot project, data will be collected from vehicles and analyzed to compare pre- and post-implementation conditions. Relevant factors for the pilot are waiting time at the intersection, average speed in the corridor, average commercial speed and travel time in the corridor.
The use of STCIP communication to ensure traffic light priority for public transport has the potential to greatly improve the way traffic is managed in the city. If successful, the project could serve as a model for other cities grappling with similar traffic congestion problems, paving the way for more sustainable and efficient urban mobility systems, and Jakarta could take another step in the right direction to reduce its notorious traffic congestion.

Almaviva: the new ticketing system was successfully tested in Catania
The new digital ticketing system created for FCE Catania by Almaviva, supporting member of TTS Italia, was promoted with full marks on the test bench of the Festa di Sant'Agata.
"FCE notes with satisfaction the good performance of the new electronic ticketing system for the part put into operation, the first real test bench passed which pushes more and more towards a rapid transition of the entire sales structure towards the new system".
This is the comment of the general management of FCE Catania after the boom in purchases - over 3,500 - for the AgataTickets, the travel ticket that allowed the citizens of Catania and tourists to enjoy the party by traveling on the subway without using the car, with 40 journeys available.
Many advantages for users of the new ticketing system.
• Zero code: the validation of the new travel documents via QR Code has allowed the rapid disposal of the large flow of passengers via optical reading in record time at the validators.
• Simplified and fast purchase: passengers who chose to purchase the digital ticket on the App had the tickets available directly on their mobile phone, without having to go to the points of sale.
Positive feedback from users, who welcomed the many advantages of the new system - simple, fast and modern.

Source: Almaviva

Another leading Mediterranean port relies on the CIRCLE Group's "Port Community System" services
CIRCLE Group (“CIRCLE”) – group specialized in the analysis of processes and in the development of solutions for the digitization of the port sector and intermodal logistics and in international consultancy on Green Deal and energy transition issues led by Circle S.p.A., listed on the Euronext Growth Milan market organized and managed by Borsa Italiana, and TTS Italia ordinary member - will provide, following what was already announced last January 18, "Port Community System" services to a new primary port in the Mediterranean.
The "Port Community System" services offered by CIRCLE Group make it possible to manage port logistics processes more effectively by digitally connecting the various actors of the port community - from the Customs Authority to shippers, from transport suppliers to railway companies, from last mile logistics operators at the terminals.
For CIRCLE, the contract has a value of over €500,000 distributed over the four-year period 2023-2026.
As the President & CEO of CIRCLE Luca Abatello declares "We are extremely enthusiastic about this beginning of 2023 and how, even under the positive push of international operators, increasingly demanding on full digital tools, many initiatives are taking shape. CIRCLE is demonstrating once again, in this crucial phase of the Connect 4 Agile Growth evolutionary path, that it knows how to seize the opportunities that the logistics digitization sector is a harbinger of thanks to the quality of its resources and the services offered, and by virtue of its proposal that the market recognizes as distinctive”.

Source: Circle Group

CIRCLE Group signs framework contract of approximately € 450,000 with leading European multimodal customs operator for Master SPED® and Federative Services
CIRCLE Group (“CIRCLE”) – group specialized in the analysis of processes and in the development of solutions for the digitization of the port sector and intermodal logistics and in international consultancy on Green Deal and energy transition issues led by Circle S.p.A., listed on the Euronext Growth Milan market organized and managed by Borsa Italiana, and TTS Italia ordinary member - will supply Master SPED® and Federative Services to a leading European multimodal customs operator.
The contract has a duration of 60 months and a value that will increase over time up to a maximum of approximately € 450,000, when fully operational, including software licenses in Software As A Service mode, maintenance fee, assistance provided and federated services..
“This project represents an important new step in the 2024 Connect 4 Agile Growth industrial path for the development of the Group through the opportunities connected to the Supply Chain market request to simplify processes and make the most of collaborative logistics thanks to Federative Services” comments Luca Abatello, CEO & President of CIRCLE.
Thanks to the combination offered by the advanced Master SPED® platform (in its latest release 10.2) and the Milos® Federative Services, it will in fact be possible for the Customer to integrate and make management processes even simpler, smarter and more homogeneous, as well as optimize operational control and customs in all offices.

Source: CIRCLE Group

CIRCLE Group: important Mediterranean port chooses CIRCLE's "Port Community Services"
CIRCLE Group (“CIRCLE”) – group specialized in the analysis of processes and in the development of solutions for the digitization of the port sector and intermodal logistics and in international consultancy on Green Deal and energy transition issues led by Circle S.p.A., listed on the Euronext Growth Milan market, and ordinary member of TTS Italia - announced that the "Port Community Services" offered were selected by an important Mediterranean port.
This order, lasting 4 years and worth over € 290,000, goes as follows to add to the other two obtained in the month of January alone and intended for primary international players in port logistics, a market in which CIRCLE is making significant use of its experience.
Luca Abatello, CEO & President of CIRCLE explains: “It is a topical moment for the port system and for Mediterranean multimodal logistics. The centrality of digital services, federated services and the Mediterranean as trades (demanded by the market today) are also the founding elements of our Connect 4 Agile Growth strategy. We are therefore very pleased that the market continues to appreciate this approach and we will continue with our highly evolutionary roadmap on the subject".
It should be remembered that the "Port Community Services" solutions developed by CIRCLE are able to digitally connect public and private actors, effectively implementing the community processes of a port and networking the players who are part of it.

Source: CIRCLE Group

FIT Consulting launches Manifesto for sustainable mobility in European cities by 2030
Raise awareness among key players and private citizens by highlighting the commitment of FIT Consulting Srl, TTS Italia ordinary member, for the energy and digital transition that leads to new models of sustainable mobility for goods and people. This is the objective of the "Manifesto to take up the challenge towards sustainable mobility in European cities by 2023, in response to the climate emergency" launched by the leading company in the field of innovation, research and business design for people's mobility and goods, both at European and national level.
The commitment of FIT Consulting. During 2023, FIT Consulting will therefore actively strive to achieve the following objectives:
– Study and anticipate future trends, such as Physical Internet, MaaS, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, transport automation, curbside management, digital ecosystems (Data Space) to start a path towards decarbonisation and digital transformation in European cities;
– Exchange experiences on best practices, based on demonstrations carried out in real, effective and replicable Living Labs deriving from more advanced research and innovation in the field of mobility of goods and people;
– Making its network available with the main key players at European level, building and strengthening partnerships of excellence, in order to share knowledge and disseminate solutions and best practices for facilitate replication and scale up at European level;
– Actively involve all stakeholders older and influencers in research and innovation projects, in the identification of needs, in the decision-making processes during the executive planning phases for the creation of bottom-up solutions for Smart Cities, to make usable and sustainable (also from a financial point of view ) market penetration of innovative services;
– Facilitate solutions that encourage data sharing among stakeholders, in a trusted manner and aimed at defining increasingly efficient and optimized mobility solutions for goods and people;– Increase awareness of the potential advantages and benefits of Smart Cities, helping to achieve a higher level of digital literacy, creating procedures and systems that provide incentives and rewards for citizens and businesses that demonstrate and offer a continuous and virtuous commitment;
– Strengthen their leadership in involvement of mobility users, logistics operators ca and local and national authorities in defining solutions for Smart Cities, empowering all social strata, including vulnerable or socially disadvantaged people, to foster a greater gender balance in participation. It is important to facilitate "capacity building" actions and tools for city administrators and urban planners to make cities fit for people and the planet, at the same time promoting ethical and resilient growth in a broader scenario of economic development.

Source: Ferpress

New analysis by Geotab investigates the impact of temperature and speed on electric vehicle range
Geotab, a global leader in connected transportation solutions, and TTS Italia ordinary member, announced its new electric vehicle (EV) range analysis, examining the impact of speed and temperature is now available on the Fleet Electrification Knowledge Center. The interactive analysis, showcased for the first time at Geotab Connect 2023, uses de-identified, aggregated data from 3 million EV trips and 550,000 hours of driving time to better understand the relative range impact of temperature and speed.
Building confidence in EV range is critical for widespread adoption. The analysis allows users to explore two significant factors that impact range, namely outdoor temperature and a vehicle’s drag at different speeds. Understanding the functional range of an EV helps increase confidence that vehicles are operating efficiently and that the right vehicle is selected for the job and present conditions. The analysis compares the range of two vehicle body types by modeling an electric sedan and a light cargo van, both adjusted to represent a 65 kWh battery.
From the analysis, Geotab observed that the speed at which vehicles drive influences the relative impact of temperature. At low speeds, temperature can significantly impact range, and at higher speeds, temperature becomes much less relevant. The size and shape of the vehicle also influence the optimal conditions to maximize EV range, and larger vehicles lose range more quickly with increased speed. These insights reveal that the best strategy to optimize EV range should consider the context of the trip. For a highway route, avoiding speeding will be the best strategy to conserve range, especially for larger vehicles. For slower routes, there will be more seasonal variability in range, so mitigating the impact of temperature will have the best results.
“Electrification is an important component in reducing carbon emissions in fleets. To help businesses feel confident about integrating EVs into their fleet, Geotab provides exceptional data insights that support informed decision-making,” said Charlotte Argue, Senior Manager of Fleet Electrification at Geotab. “Backed by real-world EV data, the analysis is intended to be used as a resource to help educate users on factors that impact EV range and build awareness of strategies to optimize EV deployment.”
With one of the largest data science teams in the industry and processing more than 100 thousand data points per second, Geotab has the expertise and scale to help fleets solve today’s challenges and plan for tomorrow’s world. Led by its mission to help fleets accelerate their rate of carbon reduction, Geotab offers educational resources on its Fleet Electrification Knowledge Center and a full suite of tools powered by one of the largest data set for real-world EV performance data to help companies make intelligent and sustainable decisions, that are in the best interest of their organization and the planet.
For more information about the free and interactive analysis, click here.

Source: Geotab

Urban logistics in European cities: the results of the study coordinated by FIT Consulting
The European Commission has published the results of an extensive survey on the development of the urban logistics sector in European cities. The study, coordinated by FIT Consulting, TTS Italia ordinary member, which oversaw the methodological approach, carried out an in-depth analysis of the results and drafted the publication, focused on urban logistics, one of the most complex and least efficient segments of the freight transport, responsible for a significant share of traffic congestion and polluting emissions in the cities of the European Union. Despite the growing interest aroused by urban logistics in the public debate, also following the significant impacts generated by the increase in e-commerce knowledge of the phenomenon in European cities remains highly fragmented and related data are not harmonized due to the lack of a systematic methodological approach. Furthermore, logistics operators are reluctant to share information in a highly competitive context and in such a profitable market. With these assumptions, the European Commission has launched a survey (called Study on New Mobility Patterns in European Cities – Targeted Survey on Urban Logistics) focused on urban logistics with the aim of collecting data and making available indicators relating to economic, environmental and operational aspects and to lay the foundations for a better understanding of this sector and its players, simultaneously promoting standardized methodologies for further insights from conduct at the city level.
For more information, click here

Source: FIT Consulting

Timetable Optimization in Urban Corridors with MAIOR solutions
MAIOR's timetable optimization algorithm embedded in the MAIOR, TTS Italia ordinary member, Transit Scheduling Suite supports trip-building optimization in urban corridors, depending on the needs and requirements of the transit company and passengers.
Urban corridors are public transport network areas, in which different lines may share parts of their routes, stops, or be linked with contiguous or nearby routes.
In these cases, it is possible to plan the service trips having an overall view of headways or frequencies, passenger demand, available vehicles, or provided origin/destination to provide a better experience and reduce operational costs for the company (in terms of the number of vehicles and dwell times).
This is where the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite speeds up and eases the management through a dedicated algorithm to optimize timetables, achieving more efficient connections and allowing multi-line trip planning.
The dedicated timetable optimization algorithm of the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite has two well-defined goals with regard to trip building in urban corridors:
• The first goal: Optimize headways in urban corridors by creating trips with regular frequency between target stops (time points) to ensure that the service offer improves passengers' experience with better service regularity.
• The second goal: To synchronize the frequency of lines in order to have better mobility on corridors in which the lines have common routes.
The timetable optimization algorithm within the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite finds the right balance between different needs and stakeholders: on one hand, you have the user who wants the most regular service possible, and on the other, you have the service provider company, which wants to minimize costs by reducing the number of vehicles and dwell times.
The MAIOR trip-building algorithm automatically creates trips balancing these two needs.
Users can easily find the best timetable solution, by defining per time band:
• The target headway
• The number of available vehicles
• The number of desired trips
• The number of passengers to be transported
The algorithm then finds the best timetable solution for the urban corridor, creating trips respecting all constraints, and satisfying the needs of both passengers and public transport company.
For more information, click here

Source: MAIOR

Targa Telematics expands its connected mobility solutions portfolio by integrating BMV and Mini connected fleet data
Targa Telematics – a technology company specialising in the development of IoT solutions and digital platforms for connected mobility, and TTS Italia founding member– has signed a strategic partnership with BMW to expand its portfolio of solutions for connected mobility.
Thanks to this agreement, Targa Telematics is able to integrate a stream of connected car data also from BMW and MINI vehicles directly into its platform. This enables the company to provide its customers with an advanced suite of GDPR compliant telematics solutions, without the operational overhead of installing aftermarket hardware into the vehicles.
Following similar agreements with other manufacturers in the automotive sector, this new collaboration allows Targa Telematics to strengthen its focus on global data integration. In the automotive market, the number of hardware solutions installed on-board by car manufacturers in the latest models is significantly increasing. This is why the IT company is aiming to integrate the data streams produced by in-car systems of all manufacturers, with who it is signing various partnerships. The connected car is a crucial trend in the automotive industry and Targa Telematics is one of the leading companies in car manufacturer data.
The objective of Targa Telematics is to be able to provide fleet managers and drivers with more and more digital services, simplifying the provisioning process in vehicles.
“Car manufacturers are looking to embrace the future and are increasingly opening their connected vehicle data to third-party specialists, where expertise in data capture can then turn vehicle data into meaningful performance insights”, commented Alberto Falcione, VP Sales at Targa Telematics. “In this context, we are leveraging our proprietary ‘hardware agnostic’ platform which can collect, integrate and analyse data from every car manufacturer and simplify telematics technology, thus reducing the impact of device installation. We constantly work to innovate our smart mobility services and solutions to increase the value for our customers and concretely build the mobility of the future”.

Source: Targa Telematics

Targa Telematics mentioned in the report dedicated to 100 Italian excellences in the field of e-mobility
Targa Telematics, TTS Italia founding member, was mentioned in the report prepared by Symbola - Foundation for Italian quality and Enel X Way dedicated to 100 Italian excellences in the field of e-mobility.
This is an increasingly important market: to date, in the Italian automotive supply chain, about 1 out of 3 companies has positioned itself in the field of electric vehicles, also chosen by companies to reduce their impact on the environment. Solutions such as Targa4electric, for example, increasingly facilitate the inclusion of EVs in company fleets, helping fleet managers to identify opportunities for the adoption of electric vehicles based on the types of travel and the needs of the drivers.
The "100 Italian E-Mobility Stories 2023" report is available here

Source: Targa Telematics

Targa Telematics works together with SAP Labs France to achieve greener fleet management
Targa Telematics , TTS Italia founding member, partners with SAP Labs (France) to launch a joint project that accelerates digital transformation as well as the transition to electric vehicles for leasing and rental companies, corporate fleets, and airport services vehicles.
Targa Telematics, tech company specialising in the development of IoT solutions and digital platforms for connected mobility, will provide its know-how and cutting-edge technology in AI Machine Learning, Internet of Things and data analytics.
SAP Labs France is part of an SAP research centre network focused on the development and ongoing improvement of the main SAP solutions. SAP Lab will contribute with its expertise of vehicle electrification and will supply its platform to build, run, and manage electric vehicle charging networks, integrating the end-to-end billing processes on one platform. The aim of this project is to support customers in fleet electrification and management. The solution reduces the company’s environmental impact by evaluating their entire fleet and vehicles that can potentially be replaced by electric models. According to analysis by Targa Telematics, 70% of vehicles within large fleets could be easily replaced with electric cars.
Thanks to the integration between Targa Telematics’ digital platform and SAP’s Open E-Mobility platform, the solution provides fleet managers with advanced tools to manage and book charging stations with the required power output, automatically setting the correct KWH value to optimise recharging. This will guarantee the precise breakdown of charging costs between the workplace, home and public charging points, regardless of the brand of the vehicle. Furthermore, this solution will optimise the use and the battery of the vehicle in the fleet.
Additionally, to maximise the company’s fleet optimisation and increase its sustainability, the project can be completed with a Corporate Car Sharing solution with Keyless access to the latest electric vehicle models, optimising its power supply via the Open E-Mobility platform.
“When I announced my wish in 2015 to convert the entire company car fleet to electric cars within 5 years, I got a lot of criticism. Today 92% of our employees are happy EV drivers and Open E-Mobility was instrumental in driving this change.” said Hanno Klausmeier, SAP Labs France Managing Director.
Jad Tabet, Country Manager France Targa Telematics, commented: “We are pleased to partner with an innovative player that shares our approach in innovation and environmental sustainability such as SAP Labs. The future of fleets will also be influenced by digital solutions, supporting clients’ operability and offering significant benefits to reach the company’s and environmental KPIs. Thanks to this collaboration, we keep investing in Research & Development to support rental companies and company fleet managers in their digital transformation and vehicle electrification”.

Source: Targa Telematics

Four reasons why on-demand transport must be integrated into the wider public transport network. The point of view of OpenMove
Demand-responsive transport (DRT) is a form of transport that has gained popularity over the last few years and is expected to keep growing (read the previous blog post to find out what DRT is and its main advantages)
If correctly implemented, communicated to passengers and integrated with the standard fixed line services, DRT has the potential to shape the mobility of the future. Often, however, we see that on-demand transport projects are conceived and set up as a separate silo aside from the broader public transport network, with little or no integration between the two.
Setting up separate systems may seem as the easiest way to deploy such a paradigm, but this comes at a very high cost.
To achieve the objective of optimizing mobility networks and making people free to move, DRT must be fully integrated with scheduled services. Public administration and PTOs disregarding this usually fall into one or more of these traps:
• The ridership is inevitably going to have two separate apps (one for the DRT and one for public transportation) or even more if we want to include shared mobility and micro mobility as well. This leads to huge confusion and awful user experience, against the mission to make life easier for all the passengers, as they are going to lose confidence in a vicious circle that will ultimately prohibit adoption.
• Hardware and software solutions on board the buses are going to be needlessly duplicated, bearing huge extra costs especially due to installation and maintenance. Bus drivers will have to juggle multiple systems: their daily work will get more and more cumbersome, leading to dissatisfaction on multiple levels.
• Transport operators’ management staff will continue to have challenges to effectively manage and govern their operation and successfully deliver the overall mobility scenario for their organization. Due to the lack of a centralized tool for managing both DRT and scheduled service, their operational flexibility will therefore be severely diminished.
• Public administrations subsidizing the mobility ecosystem with taxpayer money are going to suffer duplication of unnecessary costs to support both public transport and potentially unnecessary DRT services and vice versa; think about a user with their DRT app booking for a door-to-door service while completely ignoring that potentially a fixed-line bus route is just around the corner and would perfectly serve their needs.
On the other hand, a full integration between DRT and public transport – possibly also with shared mobility and micro mobility – avoids an unjustified increase in costs, saves effort and improves the ridership experience by exploiting the intrinsic ability of on-demand mobility to act as a feeder service of the transport network. Effective intermodality enables full-scale MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service), which aims at tailoring the mobility to the needs of passengers to give freedom of movement but at the same time to streamline the mobility scenario in a holistic way, that is the fundamental building blocks of present and the goal of future mobility.
For this reason, the OpenMove platform supports all transport schemes, namely:
• Fixed route (e.g. local public transport)
• Fixed route with upfront reservation (e.g. long-distance services)
• Demand-responsive transport (DRT), with different service options:
• Door-to-door
• Point-to-point
• Curb-to-curb
It is possible not only to manage them all through a single app for the ridership, a single solution on board the vehicle and a single management dashboard, but also to seamlessly switch from one paradigm to another. Why is this flexibility crucial?
• The design of public and shared mobility solutions cannot be the result of a top-down decision but must rather follow a bottom-up approach that starts from the needs of the people that are going to use the services. Needs are not static but evolve over time and from user to user. Integrating different transport schemes allows to tackle real-case scenarios and offer tailored solutions to individual customer needs, starting from the problem and not from the solution.
• Flexibility means also being open to third party systems: being able to feature DRT, as well as other shared-ride and micro-transit services, into a wider mobility scenario is key to implementing a future-proof scheme in which people are really free to move and can do that in an economically and environmentally sustainable way.
• DRT is great when it comes to serving areas with low and dispersed demand but it may not be the best choice in other areas or when demand grows quickly. Having a single software platform allows you to seamlessly shift from one paradigm to the other, while introducing interoperability and eliminating possible confusion while saving costs.
Versatility resonates with mobility: OpenMove software solutions are engineered to cover all transport schemes and to integrate and adapt to evolving passengers’ needs, mitigating the risk of wasting money on purchasing a silo software solution that becomes obsolete over time and cannot support the plurality and growth of emerging transport paradigms.

Source: OpenMove

Logistics: the FENIX project ends, TTS Italia among the partners. Ready to follow up.
The FENIX  Project was launched in 2019 with the ambition of creating the first European federated architecture for data sharing. In the four years that followed, the 45-member project consortium overcame considerable challenges to deliver high-quality results, culminating in a final public event that took place on 8 and 9 February in Brussels. Over 150 participants were on site to testify and experience the results of FENIX, through presentations, round tables and demonstrations.
TTS Italia was among the project partners, covering the role of implementing body of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to coordinate the activities carried out by the other 22 implementing bodies, including the Bari Polytechnic, leader of the Trieste pilot, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, leader of the Reno Alpi national pilot.
The final FENIX event offered the opportunity to explore the results of the project and how the consortium's activities were orchestrated on a pan-European level to achieve its objectives.
The European Commission is working on a single European portfolio of electronic identity and trust for all (eIDAS regulatory framework) which will also be used for transport document flows. This signals the great interest of the institutions for the digitization of transport and logistics, together with other sectors, and demonstrates that FENIX has followed the right path in the last four years.
For this reason, the continuation of the project, which will materialize through the FENIX 2.0 initiative, will build on the achievements of FENIX and leverage the momentum generated by the final event. The new phase will revolve around a few cornerstones: trust (the data consumer must fully accept the data owner's usage policy), data decentralization (the data physically stays with the respective data owner until it is transferred to a trusted party), standardized interoperability, data markets (data-driven services using data apps).

For further information, click here.

MaaS: TTS Italia at the Conference "Digitalisation of mobility - Presentation of MaaS Operating Guidelines and enabling digital technologies", on 9 February in Rome
The President of TTS Italia, Rossella Panero, was among the speakers at the conference "Digitalization of mobility - Presentation of MaaS operational guidelines and enabling digital technologies", held on 9 February in Rome, organized by Club Italia, with the patronage of Asstra, Anav and Agens.
The centrality of the event was given by the construction of operational guidelines containing design phases, information, digital technologies useful for the construction of MaaS thanks to the direct contribution of Club Italia members (public transport companies, parking companies and technology suppliers and ITS and payment systems).
An aid, in fact, in terms of Guidelines that follow on from others of the association; the most recent, the MaaS Guidelines of 2021 and, previously, those of the payment of collective transport with bank cards, known as the EMV Standard of 2016.
Digital technologies were discussed, their usefulness with regard to collective transport and parking systems, with particular attention to their effectiveness for MaaS systems.
A national survey, organized for the occasion on the transport companies affiliated to Club Italia, Asstra, Anav and Agens, was presented and discussed together with the more general issues of the sector in an interassociative round table with the presence of the four associations themselves, of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, of TTS Italia and of Aipark.

Logistics: on Strade&Autostrade, the TTS Italia interview with Ivano Russo, Sole Director of RAM
It is one of the strategic objectives of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and declines for Italy an equally strategic vision of the European Commission: we are talking about the digital transition which, together with the ecological transition, constitutes the main challenge for the future of Europe. Two closely intertwined revolutions, destined to change our lives and, as in many sectors, to have a profound impact on the modus operandi of transport and logistics.
There are two main drivers that have set the digital transition in motion in our country. The first is the European Regulation 1056 eFTI, the electronic Freight Transport Information which requires making the exchange of data and information interoperable in all Member States between all platforms and all operators, public and private, who intervene in various capacities in the transport of goods. The second, the specific project line identified by the PNRR, the M3C2 - Digitization of the logistics chain, which mobilizes investments of no less than 250 million euros in the period 2021-2026, with the constraint of completing 70% of what is planned by June 2024, under penalty of blocking funding.
The holder of this innovative and ambitious mission is RAM – Logistics, Infrastructures, Transports, the in-house company of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, with capital entirely held by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which promotes and technically supports the processing, the implementation and management of the lines of action in the field of transport and logistics. More specifically, RAM is entrusted with the project to create the National Logistics Platform (PLN).
Ivano Russo, the Sole Director who has been leading RAM since July, takes stock for us on the state of the art of actions for the development and implementation of the digitization of logistics and transport.
Read the article (available in Italian) here 

Source: EDI-CEM Srl – Rivista “Strade & Autostrade”.

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31st International Symposium on Electronics in Transport – ISEP 2023
27 March 2023 – ONLINE
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