Regions for ITS solutions Network (RITS-Net)

RITS-Net responds to a urgent need to foster sustainability of regional transport policies via the use of Transport Telematics or Intelligent Transport Systems (usually referred to as ITS) solutions at regional level. The recent adoption of the EC Action plan for urban mobility, the ITS Action plan , the EC Directive (2010/40/EU) for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in the field of road transport, and the recently issued With Paper (COM(2011) 144 final) puts more and more emphasis on the use of ITS as a management tool of transport policies. While local ITS implementations already exist in advanced cities, these applications can be very inhomogeneous and generally not interoperable when transport activities spread out the administrative urban boundaries.

Regions, by integrating the ITS component in a comprehensive regional mobility planning can improve their transport policies enhancing on one hand their role of coordinators of local actions, and on the other assuring harmonization of local ITS applications with the ITS Country plans as required by the ITS Directive.

RITS-Net final objective is to help Regions developing individual ITS regional plans to be integrated in each overall mobility master plan and provide a common methodology to be further replicated.