This committee is made up of 8 Euro-Regions chairs and EC representatives with the support of the Secretariat group. It has the following tasks:

1. Define the EasyWay strategy, objectives and methodology;
2. Steer the EasyWay Programme activities: coordination of the deployments, validation of European Studies results, Coordination of dissemination of best practices activities, Management of the communication programme;
3. Provide recommendations to the ITS High Level Group on adoption of proposals from EasyWay (services deployments, interoperability and standardisation actions, legal aspects for services deployments, etc.);
4. Nominate the European Studies leaders, Expert Groups leaders and EasyWay Secretariat chairpersons (yearly basis);
5. Steer the consultation process of the MS for the ES results endorsement;
6. Provide the Euro Region Steering Committees with recommendations on future services, and ways to deploy them, following European Studies results.

 Strategic decisions regarding the project management will be made by the EasyWay SC. Decisions regarding national deployments and MS involvement in studies, will be made by the related Member States within the framework of their regional co operations.
Each EasyWay SC will be prepared by Euro Regions Chairpersons that will present the stakes to the Member States and Road Operators during the Euro Regions SC, in order to collect the different approaches and to build a consensus when necessary. The MS will have a direct impact on the agenda of the EasyWay SC through the Euro Region SC. The EasyWay Steering Committee will be chaired by a representative of one of the Euro Regions according to a yearly rolling chairmanship. Current Chair for 2009 is the Chair of EasyWay/CONNECT: Mr Dean Herenda. Following are the 8 members of the EasyWay Steering Committee.

María Pilar del Real Suárez. EasyWay/ARTS Chairman

Civil Engineer since 2005. Between 2005 and 2007 she worked in a private consulting of transport. In 2007 she entered the Spanish public servants grade of Technical Traffic Managers. She began working in the Provincial Traffic Office in Majorca and now she works in the Sub-directorate General for Traffic Management and Mobility. Since 2010 she is Chairman of ARTS.

Henk Jan de Haan. EasyWay/CENTRICO Chairman

 In 1974 Henk Jan de Haan graduated in Civil Engineering at the Delft Technical University. He started working as a design engineer at a consultancy company, now owned by Royal Haskoning. He designed breakwaters for the harbours of Arzew (Algeria) and Tripoli (Libia) and was involved in the design of the communication towers of Schiphol Airport. He was involved in the quay constructions in several harbours in The Netherlands and was a member of the design team of the Bahrein Causeway.

In 1983 he started his career with Rijkswaterstaat at the NorthSea Directorate, working on several projects of maintenance dredging  for the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp.

In 1990 he changed to Headquarters of Rijkswaterstaat, where he became responsible for international relations of Rijkswaterstaat. He was in charge of cooperation initiatives between The Netherlands and Indonesia, Argentina and Israel and was a direct advisor of the Minister of Transport. This function also involved assisting the Secreatary of State on several foreign missions in Asia.

In 2005 he entered the European arena, as one of the Dutch representatives for CENTRICO and Easyway and became Chairman of the Traffic management expert group.  In 2010 Henk Jan was appointed chairman of CENTRICO.

Henk Jan is 60 years old, he is married and has three children and one grandchild. 

Dean Herenda. EasyWay/CONNECT Chairman

Dean Herenda, Secretary, Head of ITS and Road Charging Department in the Slovene Ministry of Transport. With a formal backround in building constructions and informatics he has more then 20 years experience in IT and ITS. Currently chair of EasyWay/CONNECT. From 2008 on he is also a  member of ERTICO's Supervisory Board and ERTICO's Strategy Commitee. Just recently turned 50.

Francesco Sirchi. EasyWay/CORVETTE Chairman

Born in 1951, he graduated as a Road Transports engineer and in the early 1980’s he worked in Nigeria (Western Africa) as a civil and bridge engineer, becoming Project Manager and Manager for the call for tenders for main road infrastructures. After returning to Italy, he worked in companies for the creation of railway sections and dams. He then started his career at the municipality of Rome working on great infrastructural projects dealing with: urban parking lots, high velocity peri-urban roads, sewer networks, and static tests on schools and tunnels. From 2006 on he is actively working as executive manager for the Italian Ministry for Infrastructures and Transports, representing it in international committees, such as the Statistical group of “Seguiti di Zurigo” or the Swiss-Italian Work Group on Infrastructures and Monitoring within the framework of the rail section agreements. He is the Chairman of EasyWay/CORVETTE from May 2008.

Andreas Arnaoutis. EasyWay/ITHACA Chairman

Born in 1945, he graduated as an Electronic engineer before beginning his career in South Africa, where he was responsible for seminars on technology for the public administration. In Greece, he worked in the telecommunication sector before entering TEO S. A. as the ITS Director. Main promoter of the Electronic Toll Collection on the Greek highways, he collaborates actively in numerous ITS related programmes and committees, such as ADEPT I and II, INRESPO, MOVE IT, CESARE I-IV and COPER I-III. Currently he is a member of the ASECAP steering committee, of IRF, of the committee for instructions for EFC (Electronic Fee Collection) in Greece, of the committee for interoperability in Greece and member of the toll committee for the EC. Ever since the Euro-Region EasyWay/ITHACA has been working together, he has been its Chairman.

Bernard Lucas. EasyWay/SERTI Chairman

Born in 1951, he graduated as a Public Works engineer and has been working for the French ministry in charge of transports, housing and town planning. He was successively the head of different units in local or central services of the ministry in the fields of construction, road operations and maintenance, urban engineering and public buildings. In the domain of public works, he has been for about fifteen years a master builder of construction projects such as roads, streets, sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment plants. Now, as a chief engineer, he is an assistant manager in the department in charge of road conservation and traffic management on the French national highways network (about 12 000 kilometres). He has been chairman of EasyWay/SERTI since November 2008 and is for 2009 the Chairman of the overall EasyWay project.

Steve Crosthwaite. EasyWay/STREETWISE Chairman

Having spent his whole career in Public Services, Steve moved to the Highways Agency in 1990, working first in Finance Services, before moving to the National Traffic Control Centre in 2005. During that time he has managed the delivery of information channels to road users, and now heads up the team managing the PFI Contractor.  Over the next 18 months the Highways Agency will be re-letting the contract to deliver traffic information to both internal and external customers, and Steve is heavily involved in assisting with the delivery of that contract, as well as defining levels of service provision going forward. 

Christer Karlsson. EasyWay/VIKING Chairman

Having worked in the field of ITS since 1984, he is the CEO for ITS-Sweden since the start of 1999. He represents Sweden internationally in several projects and groups with different roles, such as: Swedish representative at Committee Telepeage (Charging systems), Head of delegation from Sweden in CEN 278, Standardisation for road informatics, Chairman for International Programme Committee for the World Congresses on ITS, Member of the Board of Directors for the ITS World Congresses and Member in the coordination committee for the national ITS-organisations in Europe. He is currently the Chairman of EasyWay/VIKING.