Impact analysis of the ITS Directive revision
On 22 November 2023, the revision of the ITS Directive (EU 2023/2661) was adopted by the European Commission. Together with DTV, Panteia carried out an impact analysis of this revision.
The ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Directive concerns the provision of various types of data to ensure that travellers can be better informed before and during their journeys. The Directive aims to promote a coordinated and coherent deployment and use of intelligent transport systems across the EU. Its main objective is to stimulate the deployment and operational use of ITS services throughout the EU in order to improve road safety and traffic flow and to promote a multimodal transport system. This is achieved, among other things, by increasing the availability and accessibility of infrastructure data, traffic data and travel data across the entire road network.
Panteia and DTV carried out an impact analysis of the revision of the ITS Directive for the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructuur en Waterstaat (Infrastructure and Water Management). The aim was to gain insight into the effects of implementing the revision: what does the Netherlands need to organise in order to comply with the Directive (main research question 1), and how can the revision help the Netherlands to achieve its ambitions in the field of mobility data (main research question 2)? As part of the project, numerous interviews were conducted with people working on making data (digitally) available.
The results of the impact analysis are set out in two reports. The first report (in Dutch) addresses main research question 1 and provides insight into how far the Netherlands has already progressed in meeting the obligations of the Directive and which actions are still required. The second report (also in Dutch) addresses main research question 2 and contains an assessment of the impact of the Directive based on three scenarios, a high-level roadmap indicating when which actions need to be carried out, and an inventory of the current state of affairs regarding the quality requirements for the data types included in the Directive.
In addition to the Ministry of Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, representatives of the VNG (Association of Netherlands Municipalities), IPO (the Interprovincial Consultative Body), Rijkswaterstaat, NDW and NTM were also involved in the study. The research does not stand alone; other impact analyses and publications by CROW also provide greater clarity on this (complex) subject. The results of the impact analysis support the Ministry and the other stakeholders mentioned, both in the implementation of national legislation and in relation to the Digital System for Mobility Data (DSM) and discussions at the European level. One of the stakeholders indicated that this report from the Netherlands is important to have, as it can be used effectively in discussions within Napcore, the organisation that coordinates and harmonises more than 30 mobility data platforms across Europe.
Panteia and DTV carried out this project as part of the Team Mooi Nederland consortium under the framework agreement for Policy Advisory and Engineering Services (BADI-3).
