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Enhancing Smart Cycling through Collaborative Efforts

03/12/2024

Joint workshop of MegaBITS and MERIDIAN on Enhancing Smart Cycling On December 3, 2024, a virtual workshop brought together 30+ stakeholders in the realm of smart cycling under the initiative spearheaded by the MERIDIAN Smart Cycling task force and MegaBITS projects. This workshop aimed to tackle the challenges and opportunities in fostering smarter and more sustainable cycling…

NAPCORE MOBILITY DATA DAYS

07/11/2024

I would like to thank NAPCORE for the invitation to the NAPCORE MOBILITY DATA DAYS. I think we were able to express once again in our session how important the exchange between corridor projects and harmonization projects is. At the same time, I was happy to be able to update the participants on the current developments in MERIDIAN….

C-ITS demos & networking

Bringing Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems to life To demonstrate the concrete benefits of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (CITS), Autobahn GmbH hosted an event for interested trade visitors on October 22, 2024 in Frankfurt. Participants experienced first-hand how the integration of vehicles and infrastructure significantly improves road safety. This C-ITS roadshow organized by Autobahn GmbH was part of…

Deliverable D1 – D1.11 – Onsite visit LV – Report

On the 5th of June 2024, the Latvian State Roads organised a MERIDIAN onsite visit in Riga, Latvia. 30 representatives of the MERIDIAN partners participated in the onsite visit. The one-site visit was organized with the aim of familiarizing the MERIDIAN partners with a comparatively different solution than in other countries regarding digital traffic management and infrastructure…

Deliverable D18 – D1.08 – Onsite visit BE – Report

On the 20th-21st of June 2024, The Flemish Government – Agency for Roads and Traffic organised a MERIDIAN onsite visit in Ghent, Belgium. The Belgian onsite visit was organized as a self-contained event (not connected to a steering committee or other MERIDIAN meeting). To allow the highest attendance possible the onsite visit was followed by a knowledge…

Deliverable 1.7 – “D1.07 – Onsite visit DE – Report”

The Autobahn has introduced its “Truck Parking – ITP Info to NAP” project to MERIDIAN partners. This activity involves equipping parking spaces with radar detection and forwarding information on available free parking spaces to the German NAP (Mobilithek). This step is seen as necessary in Germany in order to better brand existing parking spaces for better use….

Events

Digital Infrastructure workshop

09/10/2024

The purpose of task T1.04 is to exchange and build up knowledge on relevant topics, amongst others Digital Infrastructure, C-ITS, Bottleneck and Digital Corridor Management and Multimodal Services, etc. This time a virtual workshop was organised around Digital Infrastructure, i.e. Artificial Intelligence in Mobility. You can find the agenda, the presentations and the recording of the workshop…

Conference on the Port of Ravenna

23/04/2024

The Port of Ravenna logistic system: a Mediterranean gateway to and from EuropeTuesday 23rd April 2024, 16.00-18.00rue Montoyer 21, 1000 Brussels The Port of Ravenna Authority, Gruppo SAPIR and Gruppo Federtrasporti, in collaboration with the Emilia Romagna Region, are pleased to present the Port of Ravenna intermodal logistic system. 16.00 – 16.10 Welcome addresses Lorenza Badiello,…

Steering Committee Riga

04/06/2024

On the 4th and 5th of June, The Latvian road authority Latvijas Valsts Celi will welcome us for the first Steering Committee of 2024 in Riga. During the Steering Committee we will discuss the ongoing business of MERIDIAN and Ursa Major Neo and present several projects. The second day the Latvian colleagues will show us their traffic…

Capitalisation workshop & Knowledge building workshop in Livorno

13/12/2023

On 13 December 2023, the MERIDIAN capitalisation workshop with a focus on multimodal activities was held in Livorno at the Interporto Toscano Amerigo Vespucci, organized jointly by SINA, the port authority of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea (Port of Livorno) and the port authority of the northern Adriatic Sea (Port of Ravenna). The event, held in hybrid mode…

Third DCM workshop

25/09/2023

The third knowledge building expert workshop on the topic of Digital Corridor Management was held on September 25th. As guest speaker we invited Mr. Enrico Ferrante who was previously leader of the Expert Group on Traffic Information Services (TIS), collecting best practices and reviewing the Deployment Guidelines of EU EIP. Enrico shared his experiences at Autostrade Alto Adriatico with…

Steering committee meeting in Dublin, Ireland

10/10/2023

For the next MERIDIAN Steering Committee partners will be welcomed in Dublin on behalf of the Irish partners. The Steering Committee will take place on the 10th and 11th of October 2023. A summery will follow after the meeting on the website and in the newsletter….