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IRU welcomes the provisional agreement reached last week to increase the deployment of intelligent transport systems (ITS) on European roads. EU Member States must now include road transport data on their National Access Points by the end of 2025.
The Council and Parliament were able to find common ground on ITS, particularly compared to their previously distant positions.
The agreed text confirms the European Commission’s approach: EU Member States must ensure that specific road data – such as access conditions for tunnels and speed limits to information and reservation services for safe and secure parking places for trucks – are available on National Access Points (NAPs) by the agreed deadlines, between 2025 and 2028.
NAPs – which are publicly available online data repositories created to facilitate the access, exchange, and reuse of transport data – should have road data from both the core and comprehensive network of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), including in urban nodes.
Although Member States have already set up NAPs, several have incomplete data, undermining the efficiency, sustainability and safety of road transport.
IRU Director of EU Advocacy Raluca Marian said, “Intelligent transport systems can make road transport safer, more efficient and greener, values that IRU and the industry fight for every day.
“Considering that Member States had completely removed their commitment to provide specific road data in the Council’s general approach, this is the best deal we could get. The agreement reached sets concrete deadlines.
“The agreed text reflects the determination of the European Parliament’s rapporteur Rovana Plumb to avoid a completely watered-down ITS proposal.” Read more
Source: IRU
