Steering Committee

This committee is made up of 8 Euro-Regions chairs and EC representatives with the support of the Secretariat group. The 2012 Chairman for of the EasyWay Steering Committee is Mr Roberto Ferrazza. The EasyWay Steering committee has the following tasks:

  • Define the EasyWay strategy, objectives and methodology;
  • 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;
  • 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.);
  • Nominate the European Studies leaders, Expert Groups leaders and EasyWay Secretariat chairpersons (yearly basis);
  • Steer the consultation process of the MS for the ES results endorsement;
  • 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. Following are the 8 members of the EasyWay Steering Committee.

 

 

María Pilar del Real Suárez 

María Pilar del Real Suárez. EasyWay/ARTS Chairwoman

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

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

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.
 Mr. Roberto Ferrazza

Roberto Ferrazza. EasyWay/CORVETTE Chairman

Degree in Architecture, “summa  cum  laude” at the School of Architecture in Rome and Member of the Italian Association  of Architects and Town Planners.
Italian expert for the new NATO Headquarter in Brussels. Expert for  EU PESC projects.
Holder of NATO Security Clearance Certificate.
30 years  of professional experience as architect and town planner, also in Libya, Saudi Arabia, USA, Nigeria.
Since 2003, head of TEN-T Unit at  the Italian Ministry for  Infrastructure and Transport - DG for spatial planning and EU projects.
 Andreas Arnaoutis


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.
 Catherine Marque


Catherine Marque. EasyWay/SERTI Chairwoman

She graduated as a Public Works engineer. After several years in the field of design and construction of road bridges, she dealt with transport issues in Sub Saharan Africa, then for the French overseas departments. She was in charge of European Affairs in the road safety Direction of the French Ministry before assuming his current position, in charge of European affairs in the department responsible for traffic management on the national network and traffic information.
 David Laoide-Kemp

David Laoide-Kemp. EasyWay/STREETWISE Chairman

David has a degree in Systems Modelling and MSc in Mathematical Modelling. He has worked in Transportation since 1989, and specifically in Intelligent Transport Systems since 1995. Currently he is the ITS Project Manager at the Irish National Roads Authority and is responsible for the development of the NRA's ITS Policy and ITS Deployment Programmes on the national road network (most notably the M50 and GDA in recent years). He has worked on a number of European-funded programmes including INSTANT, INTERREG, TEMPO and EASYWAY, and has attended/ presented at many national and international conferences on ITS and related topics. In addition to his NRA responsibilities he is also the Vice Chair of ITS Ireland and has recently taken over as Chair of the EASYWAY Euro-Region STREETWISE
 Christer Karlsson

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.