London 2012 - Who should attend and why ?

All those with an interest in ITS including policy makers, practitioners, suppliers and students.

In particular, if you fall into any of these categories you will find the Annual Forum informative and useful:

  • An engineer or manager of a road authority or road operator who is participating in EasyWay
  • A member of the European Commission or Agency involved in, or who has a strong interest in the EasyWay project
  • A consulting organisation, service provider or supplier, road operator or individual who is supporting the EasyWay project
  • You are a member of CEDR, ASECAP, ERTICO or other stakeholder group where EasyWay may have an impact 
  • An ITS professional who is seeking a wider perspective on use of ITS especially if you want to learn about European real life ITS applications.
  • You work in the ITS sector at any level
  • You are a supplier to the industry

Why should you attend?

There are many good reasons why you should attend. In attending you will, amongst other things:

  • Have many opportunities to learn about the application of ITS and ITS technologies in real life
    • practical applications by road authorities throughout Europe
    • how ITS supports effective management of the Network
    • Learn about how London has met the transport challenges of hosting the Olympic Games.
  • Update yourself in national and European policy perspectives for ITS
    • How can ITS encourage our economic recovery?
    • The ITS Directive, how are member nations starting to address the challenges?
  • See how the EasyWay has evolved
    • Deployment Guidelines have been developed. How do they assist in the application of best practice and European harmonisation of ITS services?
    • See some of the tools EasyWay has developed to assist our understanding of the state of ITS deployment across Europe.
    • See which road authority has won an EasyWay Award for ITS deployments or services in their nation and why it has made a difference