Dialogue with local authorities, agencies and stakeholders and engagement with suppliers and other C-ITS stakeholders have been main activities during the first year of the CIMEC project.
Surveys and workshops were used to engage with authorities and stakeholders in cities across Europe.
The four partner cities hosted two workshops each during the first three months of 2016, with a total of 108 participants representing a wide range of stakeholders in European cities:
A local workshop with a broad representation of stakeholders including representatives of transport and planning authorities, public transport and freight operators, emergency services, logistics trade union and chamber of commerce.
A regional workshop with participants from small/medium sized cities.
A wide range of city-relevant Use Cases for C-ITS was identified through these surveys and workshops. These Use Cases were based on information about the cities’ transport-related challenges and strategies, as well as the prevalence of ITS applications, plans, requirements and barriers for further deployment of C-ITS.
To enhance the city participation beyond the workshops organised by the CIMEC city partners, the CIMEC City Pool was established as a forum to enable a wider gathering of input from cities on urban transport needs and requirements and opportunities for C-ITS deployment. During the project lifetime, three City Pool workshops have been held (London, March 2016; Barcelona, November 2016; Brussels, May 2017). The two first workshops were joint events with the CODECS project, and back-to-back with events of other H2020 projects, ensuring broad participation from a wide range of cities and stakeholders. The City Pool workshops have drawn participants representing 38 distinct local authorities (excluding partners) from 14 different countries.
A supplier database has been established, comprising large, small and medium sized ITS suppliers. Suppliers and other C-ITS stakeholders have been approached by means of survey, workshops and personal interviews, to collect information about emerging C-ITS products, the supplier’s views on benefits for cities and commercial expectations. Requirements for new/extended standards for were explored in a dedicated workshop.
The work on user needs and on supplier offerings has been brought together in activities aiming at developing a realistic, constructive and practical Roadmap for C-ITS in the urban area. This work built on a review of existing Roadmaps - both the theory and how they have been applied to C-ITS historically, and participation in the city- and supplier-related activities. The Roadmap for city deployment of C-ITS has been validated against user needs and technology maturity by CIMEC partners as well as city authorities and stakeholders taking part in the early CIMEC workshops and surveys. A draft version of the Roadmap was the topic of separate workshops in each of the four CIMEC partner’s cities, and the final version was further discussed in the final City Pool workshop.
The main CIMEC findings and events and all public CIMEC deliverables have been published on the CIMEC web site. The CIMEC Newsletter has been distributed by email to a large number of representatives of city authorities, stakeholders and suppliers participating in surveys and workshops conducted in the project, and through the local, national and Europe-wide networks of the CIMEC partners. The findings and outputs of CIMEC have been brought into the European policy and deployment arenas such as the EC C-ITS Deployment Platform - Urban WG, CEN and ETSI standardisation committees, the Amsterdam group, H2020 and CEF projects, etc. All CIMEC partners have identified actions further exploitation of the CIMEC findings and outcome.
