Annex 6 - Courses Organised at European Level

A) ATRACC

A description of the basic features of the ATRACC initiative is given in Chapter 3 of the Main Report. Below are details of the contents of the six courses held in the period 1991-1993, followed by an analysis of attendance and evaluation of some of the organisational aspects.

ATRACC 1 : 3-5 April 1991

"Urban Traffic Control"

1. Introduction - classic control by Hartmut Keller - Technical University of Munich - Germany
2. Improved classic control by Fritz Busch - SIEMENS AG - Germany
3. Modern on-line control by Mike McDonald - University of Southampton - UK
4. Optimisation control by Jean-Loup Farges - CERT ONERA - France
5. Congestion control - assisted control by Gregorio Martin - LISITT - Spain
6. Implementation aspects by Vito Mauro - MIZAR - Italy

ATRACC 2 : 3-5 June 1991

"Route Guidance"

1. Introduction to routing by Jean-Jacques Henry - CERT-ONERA - France
2. Assignment by B. Heydecker - University College London - UK
3. Requirements, options and modelling by Nick Hounsell - University of Southampton - UK
4. Route guidance optimisation by Jean-Loup Farges - CERT ONERA - France
5. Architectures for the dynamic route guidance by Alfredo Bolelli - MIZAR - Italy
6. Implementation problems by Heinz Sodeikat - SIEMENS AG and by Hartmut Keller - Technical University of Munich - Germany

ATRACC 3 : 23-25 November 1992

"Advance Transport Telematics Impact Assessment and Evaluation"

1. The Evaluation process - an introduction by Hartmut Keller - Technical University of Munich - Germany
2. The EVA framework by Rupert Bobinger - Technical University of Munich - Germany
3. Field Trials and Related Case Studies by David Maltby - University of Salford - UK
4. Behavioural Assessment by Peter Bonsall - University of Leeds - UK
5. Transportation Modeling Methods by Philippe Toint - Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix - Belgium
6. Realistic Pilot Project Evaluation by Paul Kompfner - ERTICO - Belgium

ATRACC 4 : 7-9 December 1992

"Corridor Information and Control"

1. Introduction to motorway control by Jean-Marc Morin - ISIS - France
2. Data Handling by Domenico Inaudi - CSST/ELASIS - Italy
3. Models and Methods for corridor control by Michael Cremer - Uni. Of Hamburg - Germany
4. Use of simulation techniques for the impact analysis of corridor information & control strategies by Jean-François Gabard - CERT ONERA - France
5. Corridor Information by Alfredo Bolelli - MIZAR - Italy
6. Implementation Aspects by Franz Middelham - Rijkswaterstaat - NL

ATRACC 5 : 13-15 June 1993

"Demand Management"

1. Introduction to travel demand modelling by John Polak - University of Oxford - UK
2. Demand management through integrated payment systems - the GAUDI experience by Bénédict de Saint Laurent - CETE Méditerranée - France
3. Parking policy as an example of demand management by K.W. Axhausen - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London - UK
4. Public perception and acceptability by Peter Jones - University of Westminster - UK
5. The strategic view on demand management by Siegfried Rupprecht - City of Cologne - Germany
6. Technological means for pricing - the use of road space by Peter J. Hills - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne - UK

ATRACC 6 : 6-8 December 1993

" Advanced Transport Telematics pilot project evaluation"

1. Decision context and evaluation process by Hartmut Keller - Technical University of Munich - Germany
2. Evaluation Methodology by Rupert Bobinger - Technical Univ. of Munich - Germany
3. Field trial design for ATT pilots by David Maltby - University of Salford - UK
4. Evaluation plans for ATT in metropolitan areas by Hartmut Keller - Technical University of Munich - Germany
5. Transportation modelling and emerging technologies by Philippe Toint - Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix - Belgium
6. The safety evaluation of pilot projects by Oliver Carsten - University of Leeds - UK
7. ATT Assessment in practice by Paul Kompfner - ERTICO - Belgium

Attendance: national representation and type of organisation

ATRACC 1 : 15 participants
- Type : 5 governmental authorities - 10 private companies
- Nationality : 10 French attendants + Belgium, Germany, Italy, England

ATRACC 2 : 16 participants
- Type : 5 governmental authorities - 11 private companies
- Nationality : 6 French attendants + Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Greece, England

ATRACC 3 : 13 participants
- Type : 1 research centre, 1 academic, 11 private companies
-Nationality : 3 French + England, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Sweden

ATRACC 4 : 16 participants
- Type : 4 governmental authorities - 8 private companies - 4 universities
- Nationality : 3 French + Belgium, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Italy, Israel

ATRACC 5 : 8 participants
- Type : 1 governmental authority - 1 academic - 6 private companies
- Nationality : 1 French - Sweden, Greece, Norway, Switzerland

ATRACC 6 : 7 participants
- Type : 3 governmental authorities - 2 research centres - 2 private companies
- Nationality : 2 French + Sweden, The Netherlands, Finland, England

NB. Most of those attending were engineers, researchers, or consultants.

Organisational aspects

Material: After their oral presentations, the lecturers gave participants a written document which included the whole contents of the course. Any presentations made during the course using slides were duplicated and given to participants. Glossaries were also distributed to help attendees understand specific words used in the transportation and traffic domains. A book was produced for ATRACC 3, 4 and 6 to gather together all the presentations.

Course content: Some courses given by high level experts were found to be too theoretical for some attendees. It is important that courses correspond to the participant's requirements, though it is difficult, even with surveys, to understand the precise nature of demand.

Time for discussion: It was felt that more time should be devoted to exchange and open discussion in order to allow people to express their national experience. Some breaks must also be planned because these courses require sustained attention.

B) FRAME-S

The main European project currently providing education and training in the ITS field is the FRAME-S Project (FRAMEWORK ARCHITECTURE MADE FOR EUROPE - SUPPORT), which is funded within the IST Programme (Information Society Technologies). It runs from 2001-2004 and among its primary goals are:

• To identify the type of training material needed in order to explain effectively how to use the European ITS Framework Architecture, and the benefits to be gained with its use;
• To prepare work-packages of training material for brief courses, including case studies;
• To run 2-3 day courses for professionals involved in the creation of ITS architectures (at national, regional, city or trans-national level) or in decisions regarding their creation.

A series of such courses are being held in European countries which have requested training support (beginning in September 2002). The target audiences are:

1. Transport Executives - those who provide high-level advice to decision makers, or who make the decision themselves;
2. ITS Engineers - those who support the decision making process with technical data, who produce the specifications for Calls for Tender, or who supply ITS equipment.

At present the training is organised as a 3 day course made up of two workshops: the first (one day) has more general content and is aimed more specifically at the first group, while the second (two days, immediately following the first workshop) is more technical and is for ITS engineers involved in the drawing up of ITS architectures. The two workshops could however also be held separately.

Workshop 1: (One day) "Planning a modern integrated (road) transport system"

Recommended Audience
Transport Executives and/or ITS Engineers

Aims and objectives:

• To show how the aspirations of stakeholders can be captured and combined into an architecture that will satisfy their needs. How to assess the costs and benefits, plan the infrastructure and the systems that will use it, and to identify the risks.
• To explain the work needed to create an ITS Architecture, and the people who must be involved.
• To provide real examples of this approach, and of achievements that have been made.

Audience: Transport executives and ITS engineers. Groups of up unlimited number.

Organisation

• This workshop can be presented on its own, or as an introduction to Workshop 2.
• The workshop takes the form of presentations and discussion.
• No technical equipment is needed apart from an LCD projector and screen, and there is no limit to the number of possible attendees.

Workshop 2: (Two days) "Creating and using an Its Architecture"

Recommended Audience
ITS Engineers

Aims and objectives:

• To show how the European ITS Framework Architecture can be used as a starting point for creating an ITS Architecture that will satisfy your own particular needs.
• To show how systems, and their communications requirements, can be specified.
• To show how the ITS Architecture can be used to undertake cost/benefit and risk analysis, as well as deployment and migration plans.

Contents
Introduction to the European ITS Framework Architecture documents; Users' Needs; Models of ITS applications; The Functional Viewpoint; The Physical Viewpoint; The Communication Viewpoint; The Organisational Viewpoint; Deployment and Migration Plans; Cost/Benefit and Risk Analysis; System Specification.

This workshop also provides practical examples of each topic covered and a case study with practical exercises chosen from the following topics: Traveller Information; Urban Traffic Management; Public Transport Management; or Freight and Fleet Management.

General comments
Workshops are being organised for groups from different European countries and will be held in English, though in some cases the participating country is making special arrangements for having the courses presented in the local language and the written material translated.

Courses have been held for the following groups: Viking countries (23-25 Sept 2002), Italy (7-9 Oct 2002), and are planned in Austria and the Czech Republic.

Presentation Team
Consists of members of the FRAME-S Project, led by Eur Eng Peter Jesty, supported by Mr Richard Bossom and other experts on ITS architectures from different European countries.

Workshop 1: presented by Peter Jesty (ITS consultant, and associate lecturer at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds) and Richard Bossom (Siemens Traffic Control Division, UK). Both worked on the KAREN project (developing the European ITS Framework Architecture) and have practical experience of creating architectures for Urban Traffic and Public Transport Management in the UK. Workshop 2: presentations on how to use the European Framework Architecture are supported by practical examples from a specific ITS area. There are four case studies to choose from:

• Urban Traffic Management, Incident Management, Emergency Services and Public Transport Management - Bruno Dalla Chiara
• Freight and Fleet Management - Jacques Claude Rennesson
• Public Transport Management, Electronic Payment and Public Transport Information - Antony Stathapoulos
• Trans-National Traveller Information, Inter-Urban Traffic Management and Bridge & Tunnel Management - Peter Jesty.

Information from info@frame-online.net or project Website: www.frame-online.net