ITS programs and strategies worldwide Chapter | 15 169- The FHWA’s Technology and Innovation Deployment Program aims to turn^
research products into proven technologies and demonstrated practices, and
to promote the rapid adoption of technologies and innovations. - The Pipeline Safety RD&T program supports job creation through the
launch of new technology services and protects newly developed technol-
ogy and intellectual property through US patent applications.
All these programs create an ideal landscape for innovative and applicable
ITS solutions to develop and bring together government and private companies
that want to invest in the transportation sector.
Berkley’s Institute of Transportation Studies has released a series of brief
smart investments on ITS and infrastructure (Bayen & Shastry, 2017) that can
transform transportation infrastructure and improve the delivery of people and
goods. The ideas are based on real-time data exchange and communication,
control, and sensing technologies that can allow people and goods to move more
quickly, efficiently, and safely. They refer to ITS for roads and connected vehi-
cles, improved road infrastructure that will guarantee high-performance in auto-
mation and safety operations, and the use of drones in the low altitude airspace.
They also propose the investment in data collection and communication infra-
structure that will guarantee the overall system resiliency. They recommend the
establishment of public–private partnerships for the quick and efficient imple-
mentation of the proposed investments.
The H2020-EU.3.4. Program (https://cordis.europa.eu/programme/
rcn/664357/en) addresses the societal challenges that arise from smart and
environmentally friendly transport and funds several projects that aim for:
(1) resource-efficient transport, (2) faster, safer, and more secure mobility, (3)
global expansion of the EU transport industry, and (4) efficient policy mak-
ing that accounts for the socioeconomic impact of ITS. This program funds
the Mobility4EU project (https://www.mobility4eu.eu) (Bierau-Delpont
et al., 2019 ) that developed an action plan for innovative transport and mobility
solutions in Europe. The project considers the use of multimodal transport for
passengers and goods. The resulting action plan for transport in Europe in 2030
addresses technical topics and other societal issues such as policy, standardiza-
tion, collaboration, and user acceptance. ETNA2020 (https://www.transport-
ncps.net/) is another EU project from the same program that aims to facilitate
transnational cooperation for “Smart, Green and Integrated Transport.” Several
EU projects are researching Hydrogen Mobility, such as the Hydrogen Mobil-
ity Europe 2 that addresses the innovations required to activate the hydrogen
mobility sector, the FLAGSHIPS project that will demonstrate two commer-
cially operated hydrogen fuel cell vessels in France and Norway, or the joint
initiative for hydrogen vehicles across Europe (JIVE and JIVE 2) that will put in
operation nearly 300 buses in 22 European cities, thus providing further devel-
opment of this sector.