ESG2 – Europe-wide Traffic & Network Management & Co-modality

Leader: Marjolein Masclee Today’s traffic management systems cover national or local cross-border traffic problems with a coordinated approach among neighbouring Member States, but less in a Europe-wide network dimension. Also, various black spots in terms of capacity and road safety are not yet either covered or managed by the necessary harmonised state-of-the-art systems. Hence the development of international TM strategies and common approaches are needed to meet the requirements of traffic in the long distance corridors, with a particular attention to freight transport.

The European Study on Traffic and Network management will:

  • create a common view of the performance of the European road transport system as a basis for identifying which are the key bottlenecks and black spots that need to be addressed in collaboration;
  • define a set of core traffic management services and recommendations on their deployment (which traffic management measures are applicable to which operating environment);
  • propose recommendations for service performance levels in relation to network/link/corridor role (operating environment);
  • provide a plan for the deployment of traffic and network management measures in a Europe-wide context; and
  • identify the need for regulations, directives and legislation that may be required; and
  • initiate experiments and pilot projects and develop a format for their co-ordination at a European level. 

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