European Parliament + EasyWay Event - A SUCCESS!

Thursday 26 January 2012 > 00:11

On Tuesday 24^th of January 2012, EasyWay, under the patronage of Hon. MEP Antonio Cancian (EPP) and the kind cooperation of his staff, has organized a Conference in the Brussels’ EP premises (Room Jan 6Q1).

The event "EasyWay: making road mobility safer, greener and more efficient for the European citizen" has taken place immediately after a session of the TRAN EP committee and was attended by - among others - Brian Simpson (TRAN Committee Chairman), Ines Ayala Sender (MEP TRAN Committee), Anne Jensen (MEP, rapporteur of the recommendation for second reading on the adoption of a general framework for the spread of intelligent transport systems in the field of road transport and interfaces with other transport modes), Dominique Riquet (MEP TRAN Committee), Giommaria Uggias (MEP TRAN Committee), Georgios Koumoutsakos (MEP TRAN Committee), Carlo Fidanza (MEP TRAN Committee), Theodoros Skylakakis (MEP), Spyros Danellis (MEP), Othmar Karas (MEP), Giancarlo Scotti (MEP),Vice-President of the European Parliament Roberta Angelilli (MEP), Fotis Karamitsos (Director of Directorate C for Innovative & Sustainable Mobility, DG-MOVE), Christopher North (Head of Unit, Air, Waterborne Transport, Logistics, Innovation and Co-modality, TEN-T Executive Agency), Klaus Schierhackl (ASECAP President) and Skirmantas Skrinka (CEDR President).

Hon. MEP Antonio Cancian stated that: The aim of this meeting is to understand what worked in this program, what results were obtained, which further developments are possible and confirm that it is continuing to invest resources in this area of the Community budget," said Hon. Cancian. "The program EASYWAY but more generally the application of intelligent transport systems to the road sector responds to the call in my opinion a more intelligent use of existing infrastructure: the applications and ongoing trials may benefit from an important environmentally, reducing congestion and encouraging better use of infrastructure. In my opinion, these systems can do more and better interventions for over taxation, such as those proposed by the Eurovignette Directive, for example.

Photo gallery here!

See the official press release here!

Final Programme available here

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