ibec 2012 - International Road Federation

CHAI IR’’S MESSAGE::
IIBEC 2012 –
IBEC NEWSLETTER
April 2012
THE YEAR AHEAD
Now more than ever, the community of experts that comprises the 400
strong membership of the International Benefits, Evaluation, and Costs
Working Group can make a difference in our chosen profession of
transportation. In challenging economic times, our nations and their
transport systems are called on to:
� Make prudent choices when using the limited financial resources we
have available. Doing more with less is a must.
� Operate and maintain our systems effectively, with a particular focus
on managing capacity to improve safety and mobility and to provide
sustainable transport.
How We Can Make a Difference
In the field of intelligent transport systems (ITS), the transportation
Tom Kern, Chair IBEC
technologies that researchers, the private sector, and public agencies now routinely develop and deploy
also effectively monitor and enable assessments of the operation of our transport systems, thus contributing
directly or indirectly to their performance or both. As evaluators, it is our responsibility to ensure
that ITS serves us well and in doing so, helps inform our transport choices and maintain our systems. To
do so, members of IBEC can play three important roles:
1) Invite a colleague to join IBEC;
2) Contribute knowledge to the IBEC community;
3) Use IBEC’s collective knowledge and strength as a community of practice to influence transportation
practices.
(continued on page 5)
Tom Kern, Chair IBEC Management Committee
CONTENTS
Chair’s Message: IBEC 2012 – The Year Ahead……….….…1
Highlights from the 18 th - IBEC at 18 th World Congress (Box)
IBEC News and Activities ..……………………………….….....2
Success at 18 th ITS World Congress in Orlando ...............2
IBEC Sunday Workshop ..................................……….2
IBEC04 Enforcement Cameras - Highlights ................2
Upcoming Events …………………………………….…….3
Plans for the 19 th ITS World Congress in Vienna...….3
IBEC Committee Updates……………………………………...3
Membership ………………………………………….………3
Push for 500 ……………………………………….…...3
Communications………………………………………….….4
Management Committee ..…………….. …………………..4
New MC Member Profile - Jianping Wu, China ….…4
Management Committee Members 2012 (Box)..…...4
Annual General Meeting ……………………………………4
Update on Incorporation of IBEC-ITS………….……..5
Building the IBEC Knowledge Base…………………….….…5
ITS Evaluation in Europe ……………………………..…….5
The 2Decide Toolkit………………………………..……5
Easyway Evaluation ...…………………………….…....6
Future Events and Calendar 2012 ………………………..….6
Photo courtesy of Tom Kern and William Johnson
Highlights from the 18 th …
IBEC at 18 th World Congress in
Orlando, Florida October 2011
Sunday Workshop
The theme of the Sunday Workshop
was “Performance measures”. The
unique idea that emerged was to set
up an “ITS Observatory”.
(See article on page 2)
Annual General Meeting
Election Results 2012:
� Tom Kern Chair
� Paul Vorster 1 st Vice-chair
� Caroline Visser 2 nd Vice-chair
Members present voted to adopt the
Swiss model for an incorporated
IBEC service entity.
(See article on page 4)
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IIBEC News and Acttiiviittiies
Success at 18 th ITS World Congress
in Orlando, Florida
The 18 th ITS World Congress in Orlando, Florida
was a great success with over nine thousand
participants. The complete listing of session
topics and the names of IBEC speakers are
listed in the October 2011 edition of the IBEC
Newsletter at: http://www.ibec-its.co.uk/
IBEC held its annual reception on the floor of the
Exhibition Hall. This was a change from previous
practice where the reception was a private affair.
It was also held in cooperation with ITS Canada
at the ITS Canada booth since IBEC did not have
its own booth. This new arrangement helped to
raise IBEC’s profile with many more Congress
delegates and it demonstrated IBEC’s ability to
work with national ITS societies.
IBEC Reception 2012 Poster
on Exhibit Floor
IBEC Sunday Workshop - ITS technologies
and their performance measures
Paul Vorster, CEO ITS South Africa and Vicechair
IBEC chaired the Sunday Workshop and
Gerry Conover, Board of Directors, ITS America,
welcomed the delegates.
The workshop purpose was to provide a forum to
discuss the critical relationship between ITS
technologies and their performance measures as
geared to both policy makers and practitioners.
The speakers included:
1) Eric Sampson, Transport Operations Research
Group, Newcastle University, UK and President
of IBEC
2) Risto Kulmala, VTT, Finland
3) Reinhard Pfliegl, Austriatech, Austria
Paul Vorster moderated a lively discussion
following the presentations by the featured
speakers. He led off with a succinct summary of
the main thrust of each presentation by each of
the speakers:
Eric asked – do we need an external reviewer?
Risto asked – how can we use procurement to
improve our choices?
Reinhard – are we not measuring too narrowly?
After the audience had its chance to quiz and
engage in a lively debate with the speakers, Paul
again drew attention to the speakers’ main
messages:
Eric had explored the concept of accountability
and the search for objective measurements.
Risto had proposed using procurement policy to
foster innovation in measured results.
Reinhard had convincing arguments to define
benefits as broadly as possible.
IBEC04 Enforcement Cameras: To Install or
Not to Install – That is the Question!
This session was organized by Barry Pekilis of
Transport Canada and moderated by Paul
Vorster, CEO ITS South Africa and Vice-chair
IBEC. This brief note serves to illustrate the
nature of the sessions that IBEC sponsors at ITS
World Congresses.
Paul introduced the four speakers:
1) Mark Bonnormoris, Road Safety Systems,
Siemens LPC, Europe – Mark spoke about
the application and effectiveness of ALPR
(licence plate readers) for urban streets.
2) Trevor Hall, Office of ACPO Road Policing
Enforcement Technology Committee, UK –
spoke about the use of red light cameras in
the UK. They can reduce casualties by
reducing average speed on urban streets
and are effective at low cost. But the media
tends to be resistant to the use of red light
cameras even though as much as ₤250K in
social costs have been saved. On the other
hand, using red light cameras to raise funds
for public purposes fails to be accepted by
the public.
IBEC Newsletter April 2012 Page 2 Issue 1/2012

3) Mark Milner, Insurance Corporation of British
Columbia, Canada – spoke about experience
upgrading safety cameras located at
intersections. This project replaced analogue
based cameras installed in 1999 to digital
cameras in 2007 at 140 sites. When a
violation is detected, authorities have 6 days
to issue a ticket. There are 230 crashes per
year and cameras have achieved a 6%
reduction in injuries and deaths. The criteria
to select sites include severity and type of
injuries, site suitability for cameras, infrastructure
changes and other issues. The
cameras provide a strong evidence for policy
development and there is no consideration to
raise revenue.
4) John Tipaldo, New York City DOT Traffic
Management, USA – spoke about
experience with cameras to monitor high
occupancy lanes in his jurisdiction. Violation
of a lane restriction carries a fine of $115.
Exemptions are given to taxis and vehicles
making right turns. From 1993 to July 2011,
29,122 tickets were issued with 10% of these
challenged in court and only 2.2% found not
guilty.
Paul moderated a Q&A Session. This is a
selection of the questions and answers at this
session.
Eric Sampson asked Trevor if government
should only use enforcement or were there other
alternatives. For example, the police proposed to
replace enforcement with education.
Al Gullon raised a number of points – the effect
of time of day on running lights; how to change
driver perceptions of risk; how to integrate into a
broader program of education and not of fines.
Al Gullon described the results of his study that
found a correlation between speed reductions
and fuel price increases.
Richard Harris asked if under-performing drivers
should be removed from the road.
Al Gullon asked how to monitor camera usage.
The local police can monitor them. UK is a leader
in the use of average speed cameras and has a
very effective system.
A delegate from Italy saw benefit of average
speed cameras on a highway where travel is
continuous but not on roads where drivers can
stop. The systems for matching vehicles at
different points may only achieve a 50%
matching rate.
Upcoming Events
Plans for 19 th ITS World Congress in
Vienna, Austria
The Management Committee plans for the IBEC
sessions at the ITS World Congress in Vienna
are taking shape. The plans include a Sunday
Workshop and four Special Sessions. We are
able to give readers a brief preview of the topics
already approved by the International Program
Committee.
IBEC Pre-Congress Workshop:
Title: Professional Capacity Development – How
well is the ITS industry served?
Organizer: Bill Johnson, Canada (& MC members)
IBEC Special Interest Sessions:
Title 1 – Benefits of Adaptive Real Time Traffic
Control – The most cost effective ITS ever?
Organizer: Alan Stevens, UK
Title 2 – The Impact of Social Media on Sustainable
Travel Choices
Organizer: Alan Stevens, UK
Title 3 – How to Use ITS Evaluation to
Accelerate Deployment
Organizer: Richard Harris, UK
Title 4 – Business models and revenue sources
for C2X communication
Organizer: Matthias Schulze, Daimler AG in
cooperation with IBEC
Details of the sessions and speakers will be
published in the next issue of the IBEC
Newsletter.
IIBEC Commiittttee Updattes
Membership
Membership is 400 from over 40 countries.
Membership is free. To join, send an email with
your contact details marked “I want to join IBEC”
to Patty Fusaro at: membership@ibec-its.org.
IBEC congratulates Patty on her marriage!
Goodbye Ms. Del Pozo; Hello Mrs. Fusaro!
Push for 500!
Chairman Tom Kern has challenged the
members of the Management Committee to
contact friends and colleagues and encourage
them to join IBEC. The goal is to reach a
membership total of 500 in 2012. The MC
members have agreed to contact their
colleagues with the aim to recruit at least 10 new
IBEC members each. If they succeed, that would
bring in a total of 240 new members!
IBEC Newsletter April 2012 Page 3 Issue 1/2012

Communications
The new website is now under development.
Andy Palanisamy, Communications Coordinator
is transferring files from the old website to the
new so that legacy files continue to be available
to members. It is hoped to have it open for
members to use by June 21 st .
When the new website is up and running, Tom
Kern and Patty Fusaro will act as website
administrators. The new website will feature a
blog-style section “Latest News and Events” to
capture member contributions.
The new website needs to be populated with as
many ITS benefit, evaluation and cost knowledge
resources and links as possible. All members are
invited to send in their contributions addressed to
Patty Fusaro at pfusaro@itsa.org .
Management Committee
The Management Committee (MC) conducts its
business via bi-monthly telephone conference
calls to plan events and generally advance the
business of IBEC. Contact Tom Kern, IBEC
Chair for information about the Committee.
New MC Member Profile – Jianping Wu
Jianping Wu studied Civil Engineering at
Zhejiang University and University of Southampton.
He is now a Professor of Transportation at
Tsinghua University, China and a visiting
Professor at the University of Southampton. He
has over 20 years experience on ITS research
and consultancy in the UK and China. His
research interests include: i) Real time traffic
data collection and analysis, ii) Driving behaviour
study, iii) Traffic modelling and simulation, iv)
Intelligent Transport Systems, v) Traffic pollution
assessment and control. He has contributed to
over 50 research and consultancy projects and
authored and co-authored over 200 publications.
He has extensive contacts at national and
municipal levels of government.
IBEC welcomes Professor Wu to the
Management Committee.
Annual General Meeting
Orlando, Florida October 19, 2011
The agenda included the Chairman’s report, the
election of the Management Committee and
officers, a review of lessons learned at the 18 th
World Congress, a vote on the legal entity for
IBEC, plans for the 19 th WC in Vienna and a
report on communications. There were 18
members present.
Chair Keith Keen reported on the year 2011.
The 24 members of the Management Committee
for 2011-12 were elected (see table for names
Management Committee Members
October 2011 - September 2012
Tom Kern (Chair)
ITS America
Paul Vorster (1 st Vice Chair) ITS South Africa, SA
Caroline Visser (2 nd V-Chair) IRF, Switzerland
Keith Keen (Past Chair &
V-President)
Consultant, UK
Martin Boehm Austria Tech, Austria
Sunderlall Dhingra IIT Bombay, India
Stig Franzén Chalmers, Sweden
Richard Harris (V-President) Xerox, UK
Bill Johnson (Newsletter) TRENDS, Canada
Jane Lappin (V-President) Volpe, USDOT, USA
Jose Lobaco ITS Mexico, Mexico
Meng Lu Dinalog, Netherlands
Steve Morello (V-President) D’Artagnan, Consulting, USA
Zeina Nazer Innova Consulting, UK
Andy Palanisamy (Commun) Citizant, USA
Barry Pekilis Transport Canada
Reinhard Pfliegl AustriaTech, Austria
Patty Fusaro (M-ship) ITS America, USA
Alan Stevens TRL, UK
Luca Studer Politecnico Milan, Italy
Svetlana Vukanovic World Bank, Serbia
Russell Whale GHD, Australia
Jianping Wu Tsinghua U, China
Joe Peters USDOT, USA
MC Associates:
Chris Bennett World Bank, USA
Eric Kenis European Commission
Risto Kulmala FTA, Finland
Dick Mudge (V-President) Delcan, USA
Gethin Perry GHD, Australia
Guido Schuster LMB Rheinland-Pfalz, Ger
Steve Tarry (V-President) AECOM, UK
President:
Eric Sampson Newcastle/City (London)
Universities, UK
Secretariat:
Steven Turvey AECOM, UK
and affiliations). Tom Kern was elected as the
new chair, Paul Vorster as the 1 st Vice-chair and
Caroline Visser as the 2 nd Vice-chair.
Tom gave a brief summary of his goals for his
term as chair including increasing membership to
500 and to enhance IBEC communication
services to members.
Paul Vorster agreed to lead the organization of
the IBEC events at the 19 th WC in Vienna in
October 2012.
IBEC Newsletter April 2012 Page 4 Issue 1/2012

Update on Incorporation of IBEC-ITS
The plans for the IBEC legal entity were put to a
vote at the AGM. A motion was proposed for a
small committee to finalize the wording and
present the result to the Management Committee
for it to vote to approve. The IBEC legal entity is
proposed as a service agent for the MC and for
the IBEC membership indirectly. This way, IBEC
members will not have any legal responsibility for
the incorporated entity but MC members will
become members of the legal entity when they
are elected to the MC. The motion passed and
the small committee including Tom Kern,
Caroline Visser, Eric Sampson, Keith Keen and
Paul Vorster assisted by Sibylle Rupprecht at
IRF in Geneva then set to work to finalize the
documentation for incorporation.
The finalized documentation was presented to
the MC for an email vote to approve just before
its meeting on March 29, 2012. The motion
passed with 23 in favour and one abstention (to
avoid a perception of conflict of interest by a
public servant).
The next steps are to confirm the required funds
are available to pay the fee for incorporation in
Switzerland and then to actually proceed to
register the new legal entity. This process should
be finished shortly. The executive of the IBEC
MC will serve as the executive of the legal entity
and the IBEC MC members will serve as the
members of the legal entity.
A formal signing of the official documents and a
celebration is planned for the reception at the
19 th ITS World Congress in Vienna in October.
Chaai irr’ ’ss Meessssaagee
(continued from Page 1)
Let me expand on these thoughts:
� Invite a colleague to join IBEC; it’s easy and
free. It also expands our network and our
knowledge sharing.
� Contribute knowledge to the IBEC community.
This is possible in one of several ways:
o Submit knowledge to the IBEC knowledge
center on the new IBEC website,
o Send inquiries to the IBEC membership to
generate discussion and problem solving,
o Respond to inquiries to help your
colleagues, and
o Volunteer as presenters at IBEC program
sessions and workshops at the World
Congress.
� Use IBEC’s collective knowledge and strength
as a community of practice to influence transportation
practices. Examples include:
o Shaping the procurement system at the
national and local level to ensure elements
like evaluation and performance management
are central to the process.
o Enhancing evaluation and performance
management tools so that they are understandable,
straightforward to use, and
demonstrable in their assessment of
system performance.
o Focusing on end-users of transportation
and the services they need. Consumers
need to be convinced of the difference ITS
makes so that they support their deployment
and use.
Start Making a Difference Today
Please take on one or more of these roles right
away and share your accomplishments with the
IBEC Management Committee so that we can
promote your hard work!
Chair Tom Kern
Buiilldiing tthe IIBEC
Knowlledge Base
ITS Evaluation in Europe
The 2Decide ITS Toolkit
The 2Decide Toolkit site is now live. The project
was developed by a European consortium (led
by Austriatech) and supported by the European
Commission within the 7 th Framework R&D
Programme. It addresses two specific aims of the
EC’s ITS Directive, namely to ‘Stimulate ITS
Cooperation and Coordination’ and develop a
‘Decision-support Toolkit for Investment
Decisions in ITS Applications and Services’.
The Toolkit provides users with a quantified
evaluation of the economic, social, financial and
operational impacts of particular ITS
Applications, based on reported results across
Europe and beyond. The Toolkit also covers
aspects such as user acceptance, life-cycle
cost/benefit as well as the identification and
evaluation of best practice for facilities
procurement and deployment.
The Toolkit database includes a collection of
evaluation reports covering all fields of ITS
services and technologies. A smart algorithm
finds relevant studies in response to a user’s
search parameters (problems, context, goals or
ITS Service) and presents an indication of the
achievable impacts of such applications
To register and obtain access to the Toolkit site,
visit www.its-toolkit.eu. Those using the site are
requested to provide feedback to enhance future
operations by posting comments at
feedback@its-toolkit.eu.
IBEC Newsletter April 2012 Page 5 Issue 1/2012

EasyWay Evaluation
Key inputs to the 2Decide ITS Toolkit are the
results of evaluations undertaken within the
EasyWay project - a project for the co-ordinated
delivery of integrated ITS systems and services
across Europe.
The results of the second phase of EasyWay are
soon to be published, highlighting the tangible
benefits delivered from the project in terms of
impacts on safety, network efficiency and the
environment.
Approximately 120 projects (circa 10 % of all
deployment projects) have been earmarked for
Future Events and Calendar 2012-2013
Dates
detailed evaluation within the current phase of
EasyWay. Evaluation, undertaken by individual
project partners, is co-ordinated by the EasyWay
Evaluation Expert Group (EEG).
The EEG has set up an evaluation database to
collate evaluation reports received. The database
currently includes around 80 project reports. It
also includes around 40 pre-implementation
reports for projects to be deployed in the
remainder of EasyWay. Access to the evaluation
reports can be obtained via the Evaluation
section of the EasyWay website at:
http://www.easyway-its.eu/home
Event Sponsor Location IBEC Contact
May 21-22 ITS America 2012 Annual
Meeting & Exhibition
Jun 21 IBEC Management
Committee Meeting
Sep 13 IBEC Management
Committee Meeting
Oct 22-26
19 th ITS World Congress
and Exhibition
Oct 21 IBEC Workshop at 19 th
Oct 23-24
(tbc)
Oct 24
(or Oct 25)
Jan 13-17
2013
Jan 17
(tbc)
ITS World Congress
IBEC Sessions at 19 th
ITS World Congress
IBEC Annual General
Meeting (*)
92 nd TRB Annual Meeting
IBEC and ITS Committee
IBEC Management
Committee Meeting
ITS America National Harbor,
MD, USA
Patty Fusaro
pfusaro@itsa.org
IBEC Online Tom Kern
TKern@itsa.org
IBEC Online Tom Kern
TKern@itsa.org
ITS World Congress
Board
Vienna, Austria Reinhard Pfliegl
reinhard.pfliegl@austriatech.org
IBEC Vienna, Austria Bill Johnson
johnswf@attglobal.net
IBEC Vienna, Austria Paul Vorster
paul.vorster@itssa.org
IBEC Vienna, Austria
(*)
Transportation
Research Board
Washington DC,
Tom Kern
TKern@itsa.org
IBEC Newsletter April 2012 Page 6 Issue 1/2012
USA
IBEC Washington DC,
USA (*)
(*) Teleconferencing not yet confirmed for these IBEC Meetings.
Disclaimer:
Jane Lappin
Jane.Lappin@volpe.dot.gov
Patty Fusaro
pfusaro@itsa.org
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