Knowledge Centre
Even more knowledge information can be found on the gTKP website.
The resources in the Policy and regulations Centre are structured as follows:
By type of knowledge:
Road Safety
| Environment
| Public Private Partnership
| Intelligent Transport Systems
| Regional Development
By geographical region:
Americas
| Asia and the Pacific
| Europe
| Africa and Middle East
| International
By type of resource:
Policy and regulations
| Position papers
| Guidelines and manuals
| Case studies
| Overviews and activity reports
EU Directive on the framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (2010/40/EU)
- Date : 06 August 2010
- Region : Europe
- Type of Knowledge : Intelligent Transport Systems
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary:
The ITS Directive aims to accelerate and coordinate deployment of interoperable ITS by creating the necessary conditions and mechanisms through a coherent EU-wide framework. For the purpose of the Directive, ITS is defined as “systems, in which information and communication technologies are applied, in the field of road transport (including infrastructure, vehicles and users) and, traffic and mobility management, and with the interfaces to other transport modes”.
The Directive will work in such a way that, whenever EU Member States intend to introduce certain ITS measures, they need to assure their interoperability and meet the specifications adopted by the European Commission to this purpose. The Directive does not oblige the Member States however to deploy a certain ITS application; this is up to their own discretion.
The directive defines four priority areas, and priority actions within those areas, constituting the base of future EU legislation on ITS in order to foster the deployment of ITS. The European Commission will have the task of adopting specifications for the actions planned in the priority areas. The priority areas and corresponding main actions in the draft directive include (1) Optimal use of road, traffic and traffic data: EU-wide multimodal travel and real-time traffic information services as well as road safety related minimum universal traffic information services (2) Continuity of traffic and freight management ITS services: e.g. ensuring information flow; tracking and tracing of freight (3) Road safety and security applications: pan-European e-Call service and secure parking placing for trucks (4) Linking the vehicle with the transport infrastructure: e.g. exchange between vehicles and infrastructure (V-I communication) and between vehicles (V-V communication).
National Intelligent Transport Systems Strategy 2010-2015, Australia
- Date : 01 July 2010
- Region : Asia and the Pacific
- Type of Knowledge : Intelligent Transport Systems
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary:
The new Australian National Intelligent Transport Systems Strategy, released in July 2010, covers the timeframe from 2010 till 2015. It aims to enable seamless and consistent solutions, uniform application of standards, include all modes of transport, enable economies of scale and provide a coherent position of priority projects. The three main pillars to which the strategy is aligned are Safety, Mobility and Environment. The framework for evaluation and development of ITS initiatives presented in the paper has five components: 1) Architecture, Standards and tools; 2) Roadmap for coordinated development; 3) Projects; 4) Distributed ITS Centre of Excellence; and 5) Policy. Elaborate objectives and actions are phrased for each component.
The topic of Cooperative Mobility is recognised as a key development and a dedicated programme on it is announced in the strategy.
Milestone Achievement: Vietnam takes a step towards child safety on motorbikes
- Date : 08 April 2010
- Region : Asia and the Pacific
- Type of Knowledge : Road Safety
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed today an amendment to Resolution 32, the mandatory helmet law passed in December 2007. All drivers and passengers on motorbikes from the age of six must wear a helmet properly under penalty of a fine from 20 May 2010. Adults carrying children without a helmet or without it properly buckled will be fined 100,000 – 200,000 VND – the equivalent of five to ten US dollars. Those driving in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi will suffer higher penalties than in the rest of the country.
UN approves a Decade of Action to combat global road safety crisis
- Date : 06 April 2010
- Region : International
- Type of Knowledge : Road Safety
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary:
The United Nations has agreed that 2011-2020 will be the global Decade of Action for Road Safety, in a landmark victory for the FIA Foundation’s Make Roads Safe campaign. The UN has acted in the face of a rapidly escalating road safety crisis. Each year, 1.3 million people are killed on the world’s roads and the death toll is set to rise dramatically over the next decade unless action is taken. Developing countries are particularly badly affected, accounting for 90% of global fatalities.
Multimodal ITS strategy and action plan for Sweden, Summary in English
- Date : 01 March 2010
- Region : Europe
- Type of Knowledge : Intelligent Transport Systems
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary: In September 2009, the Government instructed the Swedish Road Administration (SRA), together with other authorities, enterprise and organizations involved, ”to draw up a multimodal transport strategy and action plan for the use of intelligent transport systems and services (ITS) in the transport system”. The objective is to expand the use of ITS solutions in order to exploit the potential of ITS for contributing to the attainment of the transport policy targets. The opportunities offered by ITS are not currently exploited to a desirable extent for increasing the efficiency and usability of the entire transport system. The strategy and action plan must cover both freight and passenger transport. Many contributors have collaborated in the development of the strategy and action plan. The congress management committee from the ITS World Congress 2009 has served as the steering committee. A working group with representatives from the authorities and from enterprises together with a secretariat, has produced the source information, analyses and proposals. The proposals of the investigation emanate principally from workshops. The points of departure for the proposals were the problems and obstacles to the introduction of ITS, which were identified by the participants. An information meeting was held in the final stages of the investigation, with a collective discussion concerning the proposals of the investigation. The strategy and action plan proposals were submitted to the Ministry for Industry on 1 March 2010. This document is a summary of the full report.
Slogans on Road Safety
- Date : 12 February 2010
- Region : International
- Type of Knowledge : Road Safety
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary:
The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and International Road Federation (India Chapter) have created some slogans on road safety which are being issued in more than 130 leading newspapers daily and in different languages in India.
Please download the slogans here
Partenariats public-privé - Au-delà des aspects financiers
- Date : 21 January 2010
- Region : International
- Type of Knowledge : Public Private Partnership
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary: Le débat sur les partenariats public-privé (PPP) a tendance à être dominé par des arguments juridiques et financiers. L'IRF représente dans ce débat la voix de l'industrie routière. Ce document préconise l'utilisation de PPP tels que les contrats à long terme basés sur la performance, en montrant les avantages de ces types de dispositions contractuelles d'un point de vue économique. Ce faisant, l'IRF souhaiterait convaincre les gouvernements, qu’ils soient nationaux, régionaux ou locaux, des avantages que les PPP peuvent apporter aux usagers de la route.
First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety: Time for Action
- Date : 10 December 2009
- Region : International
- Type of Knowledge : Road Safety
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary:
Aware that as described in the 2004 World Health Organization/World Bank World report on road traffic injury prevention and subsequent publications, road traffic injuries are a major public health problem and leading cause of death and injury around the world and that road crashes kill more than 1.2 million people and injure or disable as many as 50 million a year, placing road traffic crashes as the leading cause of death for children and young people aged 5–29 years
Declaration in English
Declaration in French
Are Vehicle Travel Reduction Targets Justified?
- Date : 19 July 2009
- Region : Americas
- Type of Knowledge : Environment
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary:
« Are Vehicle Travel Reduction Targets Justified? Evaluating Mobility Management Policy Objectives Such As Targets To Reduce VMT And Increase Use Of Alternative Modes” is a new report published in July 2009 by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. It investigates whether transportation policies should include mobility management objectives, such as targets to reduce vehicle travel and encourage use of alternative modes. It looks into the justifications and criticisms of such targets. The report also explores how mobility management could offer many benefits, and how specific policy objectives could provide guidance for strategic planning too.
Are Vehicle Travel Reduction Targets Justified?
- Date : 19 July 2009
- Region : Americas
- Type of Knowledge : Environment
- Type of Resources : Policy and regulations
Short summary:
"Are Vehicle Travel Reduction Targets Justified? Evaluating Mobility Management Policy Objectives Such As Targets To Reduce VMT And Increase Use Of Alternative Modes" is a new report published in July 2009 by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. It investigates whether transportation policies should include mobility management objectives, such as targets to reduce vehicle travel and encourage use of alternative modes. It looks into the justifications and criticisms of such targets. The report also explores how mobility management could offer many benefits, and how specific policy objectives could provide guidance for strategic planning too.
