ASECAP (the European Association of Operators of Tolled Road Infrastructures) and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) have announced they are stepping up their cooperation and will examine together the potential and the use of GNSS applications in motorway operations. The 40th ASECAP Study and Information Days, which ends today in Turin, Italy, provided an important opportunity to examine the common ground between the GSA’s support for the use of European GNSS in road transport to improve traffic management and
The 40th ASECAP Study and Information Days, which ends today in Turin, Italy, provided an important opportunity to examine the common ground between the GSA’s support for the use of European GNSS in road transport to improve traffic management and road safety and reduce CO2 emissions, on the one hand, and ASECAP’s promotion of tolling as the most efficient tool to finance the construction, operation and maintenance of motorways and other major road infrastructures, on the other.
During the conference, there was discussion about how the GSA and ASECAP are both pursuing road transport integration, coordination and development. “Our shared wish is to structure realistic deployment-oriented road management and charging, with the goal of offering the customer a road service of a high quality at a fair cost”, explained ASECAP secretary-general Kallistratos Dionelis.
For this purpose, the GSA and ASECAP are jointly exploring the potential for deployment of GNSS-based road user charging schemes in the EU in the medium to long term.
