| Exclusive Interview
Left: Caspar de Jonge
is inspiring the
industry to greater
cooperation through
his leadership at
the Ministry of
Infrastructure and
Water Management
Below left:
Visitors flock to the
previous Intertraffic
Amsterdam edition
in 2018
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– over 400 intelligent traffic lights producing,
distributing and receiving data from traffic. So
now we have to distribute that in a very
structured way, of course with a constant
maximum focus on privacy and security issues,”
says de Jonge. “We’re becoming very well
organized in deploying services.”
The first stages of implementation are already
underway in five different Dutch cities where
priority can now be given at intersections for
special groups like heavy freight, public
transport and emergency services. “This initial,
small-scale deployment is highly valuable as we
can see how those groups interact with our
processes, what they need to do in their
backends, and what the benefits are,” says
de Jonge. In the near future there are plans
to add larger groups of vehicles to the
prioritisation system, such as EVs, enabling
a greener transportation.
“Range anxiety is one of the major discussions
when deciding on whether or not to purchase or
use an electric vehicle. We can help there,” says
This initial, smallscale
connected
vehicle deployment is
highly valuable as we can
see how those groups
interact with our
processes, what they
need to do in their
backends, and what the
benefits are”
Caspar de Jonge, programme
manager, Data and Services,
Ministry for Infrastructure
and Water Management
will add to that programme with their own
specific offerings and insights.”
New partnerships
Encouraging private companies to work
together, breaking down silos and sharing
data are some of the key achievements of the
Ministry in recent years, enabling both its
Mobility as a Service projects and seven related
regional pilots and, more uniquely, the Talking
Traffic Partnership, for which de Jonge acted as
initiator on behalf of the Ministry. It’s through
this programme – which will be showcased in
Amsterdam in April – that the Netherlands has
created a world-leading open-data network that
gets hardware from ITS vendors across the
nation into talk the same language and thereby
connect not only in a hardware-agnostic way
across infrastructure networks, but also,
seamlessly, with the vehicles using the network.
“The in-vehicle use cases sound easy – but
we’re receiving a massive amount of data from
all traffic signs in the Netherlands, on all roads
400+
The number of intelligent
traffic signals now
connected through the
Talking Traffic Partnership
in the Netherlands
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