Support to the coordination of ITS National Access Points

The following impacts are expected:

● enable the interoperable exchange of travel and traffic data in accordance with the requirements outlined in ITS Directive and its Delegated Regulations listed above,

● stimulate and accelerate the coordinated provision of road, traffic and transport data to enhance the quality of services based on these data,

● reflect the continuous development of ITS services, and include user-oriented activities to ensure support, training, outreach and promotion,

● enhance multi-stakeholder cooperation and partnerships amongst public authorities and ITS information service providers.

It is expected to accompany and facilitate the Member State's implementation of Delegated Regulations under Directive 2010/40/EU which apply to the TEN-T network, and efficiently contribute to the harmonisation of National Access Points in the long term.

On the basis of the work already achieved within the CEF PSAs NAPCORE and Data4PT, this action is expected to further support the coordination and harmonisation of a standardised NAP data distribution ecosystem throughout the Union.

Work on improving the NAPs coherence and functionality is essential for efficient implementation of both ITS Directive and of AFIR. This goes in particular through the definition of a deployment roadmap for NAP architecture (in line with the common European mobility data space) including for EU access points, the development and maintenance of tools for the management of data, the development, maintenance and use of interoperable data standards for multimodal data with EU reference profiles, the definition of a data and service quality framework, the monitoring of data availability, the harmonisation of compliance assessments and enforcement strategies, training, documentation and deployment support, etc. This includes a specific work on access nodes identifiers for multimodal passenger transport, including possible definition of unique EU identifiers.

Building on and integrating the outcomes of the CEF Programme Support Actions NAPCORE (https://napcore.eu) and Data4PT (https://data4pt-project.eu), the objective is to continue developing, coordinating and harmonising National Access Points (NAPs), contributing to the creation of a digital twin of the physical transport infrastructure and its operations, providing for a data layer supporting transport services.

The scope is the ITS Directive, and the Delegated Regulations relating to access to transport data have been adopted to define European specifications for priority actions of the ITS Directive:

(a) - EU-wide multimodal travel information services: Delegated Regulations (EU) 2017/1926 and 2024/490

(b) - EU-wide real-time traffic information services: Delegated Regulations (EU) 2015/962 and 2022/670

(c) - Road safety related minimum universal traffic information free of charge to users: Delegated Regulation (EU) No 886/2013

(e) - Information service for safe and secure parking places for trucks: Delegated Regulation (EU) No 885/2013

These Regulations mandate the setting up of national access points to give access to related ITS data, to foster the development of ITS services re-using this data