Relevant Background & Expertise

TTS Italia's mission is to promote the development and implementation of ITS for safer, more efficient and sustainable transport for all modes (road, rail, sea, air), also by providing technical support to both central and local institutional bodies in the definition of policies and strategies for the ITS sector.

TTS Italia strongly believes that ITS are fundamental tools for the realisation of smart mobility and can bring important benefits both for the public sector, through the reduction of externalities, and for the private sector, with the creation of business opportunities, and above all for the user of the transport system, who can benefit from more comfortable, more efficient and more environmentally friendly mobility services.

The challenge that the Association has set itself since its foundation is to create the regulatory and technical conditions for the spread of smart mobility in Italy, an objective for which the public sector is fundamental in creating the appropriate conditions for development.

Over its now twenty-five years of activity, TTS Italia has actively collaborated with institutions, in particular with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT), in defining the main regulations governing this sector in Italy. In particular, TTS Italia supported MIT, as a national authority, in the process of drafting Directive 2010/40/EU and Directive 2023/2661, the so-called ITS Directive, which represents the European regulatory framework for the ITS sector. Subsequently, TTS Italia worked together with MIT to draft the ITS Decree of 1 February 2013, the Decree on Electronic Ticketing of 27 October 2016, the Decree on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (PUMS) of 4 August 2017 and the Decree on Smart Roads and Autonomous Driving of 28 February 2018, as well as, on behalf of the MIT, coordinated the activities that led to the definition of the National ITS Action Plan adopted by the MIT itself in February 2014 and indicating the country's priorities for the ITS sector over a five-year time horizon, as required by European Directive 2010/40/EU.

The Association has always been convinced that the widespread development of ITS on the national territory must pass through the involvement of Local Authorities, which are the main actors in the implementation of mobility policies. In this regard, in 2014 TTS Italia launched a Local Authorities Platform with the primary objective of creating a technical discussion table on the topic of ITS on neutral ground between the world of supply and that of demand represented by Local Authorities. Demonstrating the interest of the initiative, the Platform has been joined, free of charge, by the main metropolitan cities as well as some of the most active regions and is constantly being expanded.

Lastly, TTS Italia is also part of an international network consisting of the National ITS Associations present in the most important European and world nations and represents the Italian ITS sector at major international events.

TTS Italia’s participation in the KEYSTONE project aims to provide its expertise in the development of guidelines for stakeholders and operators and its point of view on the replicability and exploitation of results.