ITS in Italy - TTS Italia

Safety
For each theme area, twentythree priorities, the actions needed to realize them through the National
Architecture Instrument and the expected benefits were defined on the basis of the comparison and
research of a general agreement from the different actors and groups of interest represented in TTS
Italia.
The final aim of the document is to represent a real contribution for the definition of an ITS national
policy which enables Italy to face all the challenges coming from the interoperability needs showed by
the European systems and from the launch of Galileo expected in 2013. In this view, the objective is
to exploit the great opportunities offered by ITS to the integrated development of the national
transport system and logistic, ensuring benefits to the economy, to the competitiveness and to the life
quality.
The Plan document “The ITS Systems. Ideas for a new mobility of the Country” was presented on the
13 of December 2007 at the Convention “Mobility, Territories, Technologies. The infomobility as
priority for Italy”, organized by the Ministry of the Regional Affairs and the Local Authorities at the
Chamber of Deputies Conference Hall.
European Projects
TTS Italia has been involved since July 2007 in MENTORE, a European projects co-financed by the
European GNSS Supervisory Authority .
Participation in the project constitutes a great opportunity for the Association to add to its internal
know-how and transfer this to its members. This increases the value that TTS Italia can give to its
associates and, therefore, makes it more attractive to potential new members.
MENTORE (iMplemENtation of GNSS tracking & tracing Technologies fOR Eu regulated
domains)
MENTORE is a two-year project promoted by the European
GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) through funds from the 6 th
Framework Programme.
Capitalising on the results of previous European research,
MENTORE analyses the technologies, service platforms, market
scenarios and the service provision schemes of EGNOS/Galileobased
tracking & tracing regulated Services.
MENTORE implements and operates 5 real-life Pilot Service Demonstrations in various application
domains: transport, freights and goods, animals and persons.
MENTORE supports the Commission’s “GREEN PAPER on Satellite Navigation Applications” and one of
the main expected results of the project is to give guidelines for the creation of best practices in
regulated tracking & tracing services of EGNOS towards Galileo.
MENTORE involves 18 Partners in 6 EU countries and Canada: services providers, industrial groups,
telecommunication providers, market operators, transport authorities, regulatory bodies and agencies.
In MENTORE, TTS Italia is involved as support for the project management and in the dissemination
activities.
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TTS Italia Handbook 2008