Traffic Efficiency

Its main purpose is to enable knowledge sharing and reflection about current transport practice, new developments and evolving European policy related to network management, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and data.

Working Group meetings have mainly drawn upon POLIS’ experience and knowledge in ITS, which has been at the heart of POLIS activities since the creation of the network. The Working Group has focused in the recent past on issues such as multi-modal network management, data and digitalisation, automation, C-ITS, MaaS and European ITS/data policy.

Through the Working Group, POLIS partners with the EU’s CCAM platform, CCAM research partnership, POLIS-ACEA CCAM infrastructure dialogue, and NAPCORE communities of interest.

Topic priorities for 2025

Our current topic priorities for 2025 are the following:

• Traffic and network management: multimodal traffic management, focusing on the integration of walking, cycling, and public transport within the traditionally car-centric field of traffic management; policy-responsive network management to address the evolving needs of urban mobility; POLIS’ involvement in related projects like SYNCHROMODE and ACUMEN on artificial intelligence for multimodal traffic management, and UNCHAIN and DISCO on data and urban freight;
• Digitising transport infrastructure and regulations: consequences of the transport data digitisation obligations arising from the 2022 revision of the ITS Directive and the Real-Time Traffic Information (RTTI) delegated regulation, including continued cooperation with NAPCORE; knowledge and good-practice sharing via the RTTI Taskforce about making information/data machine-readable and standardised, e.g. digitising traffic regulations/restrictions or traffic management measures; continue work on ‘Traffic circulation plan’ provisions, building on the ‘Digitising Traffic Circulation Plans’ paper and how to take this forward at the EU level; best practices at regional/national level to digitise infrastructure and regulations such as UVARs, collaborating both with public authorities and private service providers;
• Data provision in urban and regional areas: building a data culture: continue ‘member in the spotlight’ webinar series, offering unique insight into the data practices and plans of local authorities; continue cooperation with NAPCORE on cycling data, looking at use cases and standardisation needs, with a series of focus groups to understand the needs of local and regional authorities to facilitate good quality data provision to the National Access Points; use cases for the European Mobility Data Space;
• Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility: prepare for automation in a rapidly advancing regulatory landscape: good practices, also from beyond Europe; C-ITS: explore the deployment of C-ITS in urban areas, in view of the new C-Roads intiative and a possible new EC delegated regulation on C-ITS.