SERTI - Southern European Road Telematics Implementation
Overview
Background & policy context:
SERTI was one of seven Euro-Regional programmes initiated by the European Commission's Directorate General for Energy and Transport (DG-TREN) with the aim of improving the quality and continuity of services on the European road network. The current SERTI-MIP programme extended over the six-year period 2001-2006 and represented a total investment of EUR 160 million of which EUR 30 million is European funding. The 25 SERTI partners were implementing traffic management and user information services using Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to improve safety and comfort on the road corridors linking Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Andorra: 5000 km of motorways and main roads, 20 regions in 6 countries. The traffic comprises a considerable proportion of foreigners on the different national networks, with the following significant characteristics: periods of heavy migration, regular cross-border and considerable HGV (heavy goods vehicle) transit traffic. User information services, cross-border traffic management co-operations, data broadcasting, data exchange and traffic management equipment… Since 1997, considerable co-operation and co-ordination has been developed on both a national and European scale to improve safety and reduce congestion on the SERTI network.
Objectives:
In order to improve safety and comfort on the road corridors, the SERTI partners are implementing Intelligent Transport Systems, concentrating on three main aspects:
- User Information services via different media (Variable Message Signs, radio, RDS-TMC, Internet etc.);
- Development and co-ordination of traffic management plans;
The improvement of the data collection systems and the traffic management centres.
While SERTI is mostly centred on deployment, this project profile focuses more on the research elements.
Methodology:
As with all seven Euro-Regional projects, SERTI is organised into Domains as follows:
- Domain 1: Road and Traffic Monitoring Infrastructure
- Domain 2: Traffic Centres and Data Exchange
- Domain 3: Traffic Management and Control
- Domain 4: Traveller Information Services.
There are two other domains that deal with Horizontal Activities (evaluation, system architecture, enforcement, etc.) and Project Management.
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