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ITS explained: where 'multimodal meets autonomous'

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) stands for digital innovation in mobility.

ITS organisations work for 'better mobility that works':

multimodality - giving end users a maximum of choice

meets

autonomy - excellence in digital roadside and in-vehicle infrastructure.

While ITS organisations applaud any progress in digital innovation, their wider goal is to help create efficient mobility markets in an EU context.

Efficient mobility markets emerge when every relevant player can access data and services, and when the conditions for access are transparent, proportionate, and non-discriminatory. ITS organisations assist both the public sector and the market in developing the 'rules of the game' for this and making them practically workable, where possible based on European standards (in short, this constitutes regulatory market-making).

In Europe, national ITS organisations work together towards this wider goal in a common network - the ITS Nationals and ITS Europe - ERTICO.

About ITS.be: an independent mechanism for market development

ITS.be is a public-private partnership that is neutral and independent.

It includes key stakeholders such as regional and urban authorities, mobility service providers and industry, as well as research organisations.

Its roles are to:

create awareness in the ecosystem
align public and private actors
help organise the market (via regulation and standards)
advocate and support

covering areas such as:

market development
regulation
user acceptance
technical standards
infrastructure support.

In particular, ITS.be has a clear view on how the combination of regulation and standards can help create markets.

While the roots of ITS organisations lie in the traffic technology (C-ITS or Connected & co-operative ITS) community, they have branched out, to support all modes as well as various essential building blocks for digital (in-vehicle and roadside) mobility infrastructure:

multimodal services all modes (& MaaS):
- active mobility
- shared mobility
- collective & public transport
- private & fleet mobility
- parking & hubs
digital (in-vehicle and roadside) infrastructure:
- autonomous mobility
- electro-mobility
- co-operative mobility & C-ITS
- road charging
- access rights.

ITS and open data

Open data - public information digitally available to all stakeholders - is a key component for the successful deployment of ITS services.

The EU has taken regulatory action to force public stakeholders to publish a wide range of open data - and this in all mobility domains.

ITS.be is helping public stakeholders to meet these obligations in a pro-active way and in line with private sector expectations, based on the outcome of the Vlaio-sponsored ITS-VIS project.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for support on how to incorporate open data in mobility plans, concessions and calls for tender, as the Brussels Capital Region, the cities of Hasselt, Gent, Kortrijk, Leuven, Namur, Roeselare, Kuurne and Oostende, as well as the province of Limburg have already done.