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ACTIVITIES

Currently the main commitment focuses on the preparation and management of technological projects co-financed by the European Commission for applications in the field of transport and road traffic (ITS and C-ITS applications). As regards ongoing activities, NICom participated, as a direct promoter and coordinator for Italian partners, in the drafting of two new project proposals presented to the European Commission at the beginning of 2024, in response to the CEF 2023 Transport Call:
• SCALE – Strengthening C-ITS Adoption and Lining-up across Europe,
• C-Roads Extended
These proposals were assessed as eligible for EC co-financing and, following the signing of the respective Grant Agreements, started activities in September 2024.
Specifically:

  • the SCALE project, which lasts 52 months until 31 December 2028, sees the participation of bodies/companies from France (Coordinator), Spain, Austria and Italy, and aims to expand the implementation of C-ITS services and support technical development and impact assessments for the large-scale implementation of new C-ITS use cases in 10 different pilot sites. To ensure the best replicability conditions, the managers of the pilot sites, together with academic experts, industrial partners and road network managers, are focusing their technical and impact assessment on four specific themes: technological, environmental, safety and socio-economic. Relying on a robust consortium representative of transport and mobility sector stakeholders, the SCALE project plans to promote the adoption of C-ITS by all relevant stakeholder groups, producing a global set of practical use cases, technological tools, impact assessment results and decision-making processes in order to maximize their industrialisation. In collaboration with the C-Roads platform, SCALE will ensure the commitment of European stakeholders on this issue. Addressing the above-mentioned challenges, the SCALE project will contribute to the EU’s “Strategy for Sustainable and Intelligent Mobility”, including indirectly contributing to the European Green Deal, the Vision Zero strategy and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 9, 11 and 13.

 

For Italy, the following are present:

  • Almaviva
  • ANAS
  • Autostrada del Brennero
  • Autostrada Brescia Verona Vicenza Padova
  • Autostrada Milano-Serravalle
  • Autostrade per l’Italia
  • Codognotto
  • CAV/Concessioni Autostradali Venete
  • Comune di Torino
  • Comune di Trento
  • Comune di Verona
  • IVECO
  • Famas
  • North Italy Communications (coordinatore e punto di contatto nazionale)
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • Telecom Italia
  • TTS Italia
  • C-Roads Extended lasts three years, until 31 August 2027, ensuring the continuation of the C-Roads platform, supporting the diffusion of harmonized and interoperable cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) in Europe. Under the project, Member States undertake to define, discuss and agree on the technical and organizational elements for the deployment of harmonized and interoperable C-ITS services. The work undertaken will be carried out in close collaboration with implementation projects, with industry in general and with a specific focus on the automotive industry. The C-Roads platform will develop and publish new specifications for harmonised and interoperable C-ITS services, which will be made available for all C-ITS deployment activities in Europe. Additionally, the C-Roads specifications are based on open standards and are promoted and publicly available. The project includes partners responsible for the Core and Comprehensive Network in Austria (Coordinator), Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Furthermore, the project also involves the participation of associated partners from the United Kingdom and Norway.

For Italy, they participate directly as Beneficiaries:

  • Almaviva
  • ANAS
  • Autostrada Milano-Serravalle
  • Autostrade per l’Italia
  • Comune di Torino
  • Comune di Trento
  • Comune di Verona
  • North Italy Communications (coordinatore e punto di contatto nazionale)
  • Politecnico di Milano

With reference instead to the recent past, on 12/31/2021 NICom concluded the Project Management (technical-administrative) functions of the C-Roads Italy pilot project (02/08/2017 – 12/31/2021), co-financed by the European Commission within the CEF 2014-2020 program (Connecting Europe Facility), whose Coordinator and National Beneficiary was the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – General Directorate for Territorial Development, Planning and International Projects; Division IV – Development of the trans-European transport network and multimodal corridors.

The project had the participation of various implementing entities, such as various motorway network operators, the Ministry of the Interior – Traffic Police Service, as well as vehicle manufacturers, telephone operators, logistics operators, listed below:

  • Autostrada del Brennero
  • Autovie Venete
  • Azcom
  • Centro Ricerche FIAT – FCA
  • Codognotto
  • Concessioni Autostradali Venete
  • IVECO
  • North Italy Communications
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • Polizia Stradale
  • Telecom Italia

 The C-Roads Italy project was implemented, along with similar pilot projects in 18 EU Member States, under the coordination of the C-Roads Platform. Since October 2018, NICom has also taken on the role of Project Management (technical and administrative) for the C-Roads Italy 2 project, which concluded on December 31, 2023, and was co-financed by the European Commission through the CEF Transport Program. This project represented the continuation of the previous C-Roads Italy pilot project.

C-Roads Italy 2 once again had the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – General Directorate for Territorial Development, Planning and International Projects; Division IV – Development of the trans-European transport network and multimodal corridors as its beneficiary and coordinator, and relied on the following Italian public and private implementing bodies to implement the planned activities:

  • Almaviva
  • Autostrada Brescia-Verona-Vicenza-Padova
  • Centro Ricerche FIAT – FCA
  • Comune di Torino
  • Comune di Trento
  • Comune di Verona
  • Movalia
  • North Italy Communications
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • Telecom Italia
  • TTS Italia

The Project Management activity in charge of NICom took place in support of both the National MIT Coordinator and Beneficiary and the Companies and Bodies present for the implementation of the activities.

Specifically, the main objective of C-Roads Italy 2 was the implementation of a study and from the execution of tests, mainly in real urban traffic conditions, with the involvement of the Cities of Turin, Verona, Trento and the A4 Brescia-Padua motorway, of some C-ITS services, called “Day1” and “Day1,5”, as defined by the European Commission.

Also for C-Roads Italy 2 the technical coordination of C-ITS implementations on the European road network, for the definition of specifications and technical standards, was conducted by the C-Roads Platform.  Furthermore, the C-Roads Italy 3 project was launched in July 2020, also concluded on 12/31/2023, again with the technical-administrative coordination of NICom on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – General Directorate for Development of the Territory, Planning and International Projects; Division IV – Development of the trans-European transport network and multimodal corridors, with the aim of starting the gradual operational extension of C-ITS services on a larger national scale, making use of the experiences gained with previous pilot projects. To this end, stations and services have been added on some motorways already partners of the C-Roads Italy pilot project and new motorway sections (A1 – Bologna Florence) and a new urban area (Rome) have been equipped.

The implementing subjects of this third phase were:

  • Autostrada del Brennero
  • Autostrade per L’Italia
  • Autovie Venete
  • Concessioni Autostradali Venete
  • Roma Servizi Mobilità
  • North Italy Communications (Project Management)

All C-Roads Italy, C-Roads Italy 2 and C-Roads Italy 3 projects operated under the European Platform “C-Roads Platform”, with the presence of 16 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Holland, Greece and Italy) and two non-EU countries (United Kingdom and Norway). The main objective of the “C-Roads Platform” was to define and harmonize functional, technical and organizational requirements aimed at ensuring the interoperability of C-ITS services in the road sector between the various national pilot projects across Europe linked to it. For further details, please visit the website:

https://www.c-roads.eu/nextcloud/index.php/apps/files/?dir=/Italy/C-ROADS%20ITALY&fileid=9965 .