Aim of the session is to provide insight on how digital road managers and private industry stakeholders, use, exchange and maintain digital road infrastructure and traffic data to gain benefits. The main part of the session will be an interactive panel and audience discussion. The session debates at least the following statements and questions: - Digital transformation is crucial for road managers to achieve their road safety goals. - What changes when physical road manager becomes a digital road manager? - Road managers are unwilling to adopt third-party data as providers might not exist next year - Road managers should put data strategies into implementation and effort into trying out new data sources together with private industry ecosystems - Successful adoption of new data by road managers starts with building trust in the data quality before anything else. A Digital Road Manager can be defined as local or national road manager who seeks benefits from digitalisation by utilising digital models/shadows/twins, complementing third-party data, and other digital road infrastructure to enhance road network operation and its processes. Trust is an important factor to secure data exchange as well as to comply to data protection and privacy regulations and best practices.

Organiser: 

• Ilkka Kotilainen, Traficon Ltd

Moderator:

• Giovanni Huisken, MAPtm        

Speakers:

• Tom Alkim, MAPtm 
• Stephanie Chaufton, TISA
• Wolfgang Gritzner, ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH, ASECAP      
• Sven Maerivoet, Transport & Mobility Leuven     
• Cormac Synnott, Transport Infrastructure Ireland     
• Joost Vantomme, ERTICO - ITS Europe