Road Transport Information and Control (RTIC) Conference 2012

Technical scope

Contributions were encouraged from, but not limited to, the following themes and topics:

A. Travel and traffic information

• A1. Co-operative systems, interfacing to the intelligent vehicle
• A2. Data collection, pervasive data
• A3. Driver and passenger information
• A4. Internet, kiosk, call centres and phone Apps, added value services
• A5. Journey time measurement
• A6. Travel information collection and dissemination
• A7. Route guidance, pre-trip and in-vehicle data exchange

B. Integrated Transport

• B1. Dynamic and integrated time-tabling
• B2. Smart ticketing, concessionary schemes and new payment systems and technologies
• B3. Multimodal best practice
• B4. Journey planning, passenger information systems
• B5. Web, Social Networking and Mobile Apps for integrated transport
• B6. Air, rail and maritime interfaces
• B7. Integrated freight transport

C. Traffic control and management

• C1. Active traffic management, motorway speed control, access control
• C2. Congestion charging and toll systems
• C3. New vehicle propulsion facilities and management
• C4. Enforcement
• C5. Incident management
• C6. Integrated urban/interurban network control
• C7. Facilities for vulnerable road users
• C8. Journey quality (duration, reliability, safety, service)
• C9. Junction monitoring and control, priority for buses and high occupancy vehicles
• C10. Network control and management strategies
• C11. Parking control
• C12. Vehicle location, fleet management
• C13. Tunnel and bridge control
• C14. Network performance monitoring and decision support
• C15. Developments in urban traffic management
• C16. Control room best practice

D. Transport systems

• D1. Advances in detection
• D2. Monitoring and control systems
• D3. Multiple use of detection
• D4. Open data systems covering the road, control centres and control software
• D5. Surveillance systems
• D6. System architecture and system integration
• D7. Use of probe vehicle data, computer vision
• D8. Video tracking

E. Strategic perspective

• E1. Electric vehicle impact on network management
• E2. Environmental perspectives, effective partnerships
• E3. International co-operation
• E4. International projects
• E5. Network modelling and planning
• E6. Operational and maintenance management
• E7. Public acceptability
• E8. Ownership of data
• E9. Policy development, 'more for less' agenda
• E10. Standards development
• E11. Safety issues
• E12. Technology asset management
• E13. Technology roadmaps
• E14 ITS skills

F. Environment

• F1. Air quality management
• F2. Sensors and data for environmental monitoring
• F3. Traffic management strategies to support environmental goals
• F4. Technologies to reduce negative environmental impacts
• F5. Sustainability

See also

• Call for papers
• Why submit a paper?
• Author information