CONNECT consortium meets in Slovenia

Date: 23 March 2006

The CONNECT Euro-regional project - in which ERTICO is a participant - met for a workshop on 1-2 March in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Supported by the European Commission, the project was established to help coordinate and stimulate ITS activities in the Central and Eastern European Countries. By coordinating national traffic management arrangements, CONNECT helps ensure that system differences and breaks on the important east-west and north-south road corridors are avoided.

Hosted by ERTICO Partner Slovenian Ministry of Transport, the Ljubljana workshop discussed issues such as EU ITS Architecture development and evaluation processes for ITS projects. More than 35 participants from industry and governmental organisations based in Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria, UK and Belgium took part. Parallel to the workshop, the CONNECT Steering Committee met to talk about the current status of activities and the conclusion of the project's first phase.

The next important gathering of the consortium will be the I2Tern meeting of Euro-regional projects in June in Barcelona. The 4th CONNECT Steering Committee Meeting will also be organised in parallel.

For more information, contact ERTICO Project and Development Manager Mariana Andrade or visit the CONNECT website.

(From left) Dean Herenda of the Slovenian Transport Ministry, Mariana Andrade of ERTICO and John Berry, Project Officer for CONNECT from the European Commission DG Transport & Energy