Accelerating Smart Mobility with Beter Benutten ITS

The Netherlands’ Beter Benutten programme is focused on ITS deployment and smart mobility. Beter Benutten (Optimising Use) is a programme run by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment focused on ITS deployment and smart mobility that actively encourages cooperation between the private sector, users and the government. The Netherlands has clear ambitions to foster innovation, strengthen its competitive position and be a frontrunner in the area of cooperative ITS, self-driving cars and smart
March 21, 2016 Read time: 4 mins

The Netherlands’ Beter Benutten programme is focused on ITS deployment and smart mobility.

8364 Beter Benutten (Optimising Use) is a programme run by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment focused on ITS deployment and smart mobility that actively encourages cooperation between the private sector, users and the government. The Netherlands has clear ambitions to foster innovation, strengthen its competitive position and be a frontrunner in the area of cooperative ITS, self-driving cars and smart mobility as a whole. Beter Benutten ITS is working on better traffic flow on the road network, both within the city and outside it. By adding  'intelligence' to mobility, door-to-door journey times can be shortened. Over the next few years, the Beter Benutten programme is looking to roll out intelligent transport systems and services on a large scale. Intelligent mobility stands to have an enormous economic impact on the automotive, ICT and telecom industry.

This year, as visitors to Intertraffic Amsterdam 2016 will learn, Beter Benutten ITS wants to start deploying a road user messaging system that enables information to be gathered, processed and then distributed to the relevant road-users with quality, accuracy and at sub-second delivery rates.

Furthermore, the Ministry is conducting several ITS programmes and projects areas such as supermarket logistics, incident and event management, connected and cooperative ITS (shock wave mitigation), travel information services, setting of new standards and use of open parking data.

Sharing risks and benefits

Within Beter Benutten, government and public authorities are not buying, but are supporting private investment and deployment, bringing private and public shareholders together, sharing risks and benefits. Behind the Beter Benutten-projects, which have a total public investment of 70 million euros in the next three years, are smartphones, computer clouds, fast telecommunication techniques delivering fast data exchange, new services in support of user behavior and experience.

On the Beter Benutten ITS stand in the Smart Mobility Center in hall 9, visitors will find companies such as Here, Ericsson, Be-Mobile, Innovactory, V-Tron, Technolution, Monotch, TrafficLink, Route42 and various other parties, that participate in Beter Benutten-projects and are part of the network. All these entities will be together on the stand at Intertraffic to explain about all current and concrete developments in the area of smart mobility. In close cooperation with these market parties, a number of sessions will be provided in the Smart Mobility Theatre as well as in the InnovationLAB and possibly some outdoor demos.

TomTom
TomTom will show a variety of solutions improving traffic flow in the network by smarter use of infrastructure and technology. The company innovates traffic management in ways that will ultimately serve the needs of connected and self-driving cars. Data collected from 400 million vehicles with TomTom navigation software, built-in apps and navigation screens is used to provide drivers with real-time travel information and to help solve traffic congestions worldwide.

ARS Traffic & Transport Technology
On their stand at the Smart Mobility Center ARS T&TT will focus on strategic, tactical and operational consultancy on ITS issues and solutions to optimize existing traffic information and traffic management centres.

Rutoll
Rutoll will show its toll collection system, a comprehensive and flexible solution varying from a manual toll collection to full multi-band non-stop travel. The system works with high billing in real-time and is successfully operated on most toll roads of Russia.

Cisco
At Intertraffic 1028 Cisco focuses on Community Digitization & Mobility and will give examples of innovative projects and programmes that address the ways we work, live, consume, play, learn and deliver within the context of cities. Typical innovations delivered or currently being worked on include Smart Light, Smart mobility solutions, Street Digitization, City Digital Platform, Digital Ceiling, Smart Work Centres, Learning Hubs, Smart Ports, high end broadband deployment as well as the architectures and service models that will help drive the digitization of society at large.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Partnerships with Japan, EU Accelerate ITS Development
    December 3, 2012
    According to the Transportation Research Board ITS Committee, international cooperation between the United States, Japan, and the European Union (EU) is helping accelerate the research and development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) standards and technologies by fostering collaboration between professionals on three continents. "Through international cooperation, we're able to learn from each other more quickly and with less expense than if we were working on our own," said Jane Lappin, chair of
    Read More
  • Revealed: future of mobility in Hamburg
    October 7, 2021
    From 11-15 October, the ITS World Congress will present a myriad of innovations
    Read More
  • Urban utility
    July 24, 2012
    Steve Lane, Commercial Director at Triteq, talks about the successful deployment of ZigBee in Barcelona where a low-cost wireless metropolitan network for location and citizen services was established. The project, he says, demonstrates ZigBee's effectiveness as an urban communications system solution ZigBee is based on the IEEE radio frequency standard 802.15.4 - 2006 for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), which provides a license-free radio frequency for a flexible, robust private wireless network. Z
    Read More
  • China plans more ITS deployment despite economic slowdown
    March 30, 2017
    The Chinese government is turning to ITS to help solve urban traffic congestion in the majority of its large cities. Eugene Gerden reports. China is investing an estimated 3.5bn yuan ($551 million) per year in ITS and while the country’s current economic strategy may see this decline, the government plans to continue active development of the national intelligent transport system.
    Read More

Highlighted Content