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ITS&S


Date founded	14 February 2000
Number of staff	1 employee (Office Manager), 5 Presidium Members as honorary representatives of the association. More information is here: http://www.sdt.cz/page.php?id=2&lang=en
Name of President/CEO	Dr. Ing. Miroslav Svítek
Name of Chairman	The Association has no Chairman, however Mr. Roman Srp, the Vice-President acts, when the President is not present.
Number of members	74 member companies
Listing of members	http://www.sdt.cz/page.php?id=9&lang=en
Description & Mission	ITS&S - association of companies, institutions and universities from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, that deal with using information, communication technologies and services (ITS) in transportation sector and other utilities. Our mission is: - Representation of Czech & Slovak ITS - Strategic marketing & product development - International co-operation - Assistance to Eastern European ITS initiatives - Education & training of ITS professionals, users - Co-ordination of members' projects - ITS projects support via working groups
Main Achievements	ITS&S Czech Republic provides mainly a communication infrastructure to its members, so most of the association projects are in fact joint projects of a subset of the association member’s companies. Some examples of joint projects are provided below: Education projects • ITS Prague International Conference (each 2 years, next one in 2009) • NavAge Prague conference (each 2 years, next one in March 2008) • ITS Bratislava, Slovakia Conference (annual event, next one September 2008) • Digital Maps – regular meeting of the Czech professional Community Czech Industry promotion • ITS Sofia Czech Days, Bulgaria (annual event, next one September 2008) Consulting projects • Czech strategy of electronic ticketing in public transport • Evaluation of the efficiency of the tolling system • SSADM e-Vignette feasibility study R&D projects • EFC (implementation conditions in the Czech Republic) • RDS-TMC (research and field tests) • ITS National Architecture (project name TEAM) • GALILEO (5-year application project) Pilot applications • Field tests of RDS-TMC in Prague region (2004) • Safe Road Tunnels (three tunnels in Prague) Standardisation • Chair of national group CEN/TC278 and ISO/TC204 • Chair of standardisation committee TNK136 “Road Telematics” Publications • Intelligent Transport Systems by Přibyl, Svítek • TIC technical conditions
Current and Future actions	March: ITS Prague 2009 CONGRESS, www.itsprague.cz April: Rosaline 2009 Bratislava conference, www.rosaline.eu October: ASE Space Explorers congress

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