Programme

Provisional Programme

Sunday, June 29

12.00 - 15.00	Technical Visit: Nea Attiki Odos The technical visit to Nea Attiki Odos will offer participants a firsthand look at its advanced traffic management operations. The visit includes a presentation, a guided tour of the Traffic Management Center (TMC), and an exploration of the maintenance yard. (Registration required)
11.00 - 14.00	Registration Olympia Foyer
15.00 - 18.00	Symposium Association Partners Coordination Meeting (Invitation Only) Conference Room Ground Floor
18.00 - 20.00	Αcropolis Museum Tour Meeting Point: Royal Olympic Hotel (Spots now filled)

Monday, June 30

08.00 - 14.30	Registration Olympia Foyer
09.00 - 16.30	WORKSHOPS 09.00 - 10.30 \| WORKSHOP 1 Estimating Staffing Needs and Plans for Traffic Management Conference Room Ground floor 09.30 - 12.00 \| WORKSHOP 2 Future Traffic Management and Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) Conference Room 1st Floor 09.00 - 12.00 \| WORKSHOP 3 How to plan and cope with significant abnormal natural events Conference Room 2nd Floor 12.00 - 13.30 \| WORKSHOP 4 Turning mobility data into value Conference Room 1st Floor 10.45 - 13.30 \| WORKSHOP 5 Meeting the Challenge of Funding the Primary Road Network Conference Room Ground Floor 12.00 - 13.30 \| WORKSHOP 6 Transitioning Between Human and Autonomous Driving- Remote Operation of Buses and Trucks on Freeways, Motorways, and Tollways Conference Room 2nd Floor 14.30 - 15.30 \| WORKSHOP 7 Digitally Enabled Temporary Work Zones Conference Room 1st Floor 14.30 – 16.30 \| WORKSHOP 8 International Advancements in Multimodal Traffic Management Conference Room Ground Floor 15.30 – 16.30 \| WORKSHOP 9 Urban Last-Mile Deliveries: Challenges and Future Opportunities Conference Room 1st Floor 14.30 – 16.00 \| WORKSHOP 10 Achieving a national/international Digital Infrastructure Ecosystem Conference Room 2nd Floor	09.00 - 17.00 PIARC TC 2.4 WORKSHOP The role of new technologies and digital transformation in Road Network Operations Conference Room 3rd Floor
13.00 - 14.30	Lunch Kallirhoe Hall
14.00 - 17.00	IRF General Assembly (Invitation Only Event) Templars Hall
16.30 - 18.00	ERTICO TM2.0 Meeting Conference Room 1st Floor
17.00 - 19.00	Exhibition & Poster Set Up Olympia Foyer

Tuesday, July 1

08.00 -16:00	Registration Olympia Foyer
08.00 - 09.00	Coffee with an Expert Conference Room Ground Floor
09.00 - 18.00	Exhibition & Poster Presentations Olympia Foyer
09.00 - 10.00	PLENARY SESSION 1. WELCOME Olympia Hall Opening: Navigating the Future of Traffic Management Οpening Remarks moderated by Angelos Amditis, Symposium's Chair, R&D Director of ICCS, ERTICO Chairman Despoina Paliarouta, Secretary General of Transport, Greek Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport Konstantinos Karantzalos, Secretary General of Telecommunications & Posts, Greek Ministry of Digital Governance Moderator: Johanna Tzanidaki, ITS Committee member, Transport Research Board (TRB) Angelos Amditis, Symposium Chair, R&D Director of ICCS, ERTICO Chairman Bill Halkias, Nea Attiki Odos, CEO Konstantinos Iaveris-Markouizos, Appointed Advisor on Road Safety Issues – Head of the Traffic Management Center, Region of Attica Firechat with Efthimios Bakogiannis, Secretary General for Spatial Planning and Urban Environment, Ministry of Environment and Energy - Assistant Professor NTUA Firechat with Mike Wilson, Sales Director, Highway Software
10:00 - 11.10	PLENARY SESSION 2 Olympia Hall Navigating the Future of Traffic Management – What is the Destination? Moderator: Emanuela Stocchi, President of PIARC Mate Verdes, Head of the Intelligent Transport System Department of the Hungarian Public Road Company (MAGYAR KOZUT) Partnering and Innovation to Improve Traffic Management Network-Wide and Across Borders, Konstantinos Papandreou, CEO, Olympia Odos Operation Managing Freeway and Integrated Motorway Networks Mark Muriello, Vice President, Policy & Government Affairs Incorporating Freight and Financing Into Managing Mobility and Networks Vincent Lau, City of Amsterdam Meeting Future Mobility Challenges While Managing Public Spaces and Networks François-Régis Le Mière, Executive Director Europe, VINCI Highways Strengthening the Future of Road Mobility Through Public-Private Cooperation
10.30 - 11.15	Press Conference Conference Room Ground Floor
11.10 - 11.30	Coffee Break Olympia Foyer
11.30 – 13.00	TECHNICAL SESSIONS 1. SESSION 1A: Integrated Mobility Management - a series of Use Case presentations and discussions Olympia Hall SESSION 1B: Advancing Automation to Improve Operations Templars Hall SESSION 1C: Setting a Strategic Direction and Planning for Future TMS Improvements Conference Room Ground Floor SESSION 1D: Estimating the Revenue Potential of Transportation Infrastructure – The Science and/or the Art of Traffic & Revenue Projections Conference Room 1st Floor SESSION 1E: New ways and types of Data Conference Room 2nd Floor
13.00 - 14.15	Lunch Kallirhoe Hall
14.15 – 15.45	TECHNICAL SESSION 2. SESSION 2A: User Needs -Traffic Management and the Customer Journey Olympia Hall SESSION 2B: Improved Lane Management Techniques Templars Hall SESSION 2C: Navigating the Challenges of Data Management and TMS Assets Conference Room Ground Floor SESSION 2D: The Function of Collecting Transportation Revenues Conference Room 1st Floor SESSION 2E: Understanding the co-creation of fused data Conference Room 2nd Floor
15.45 - 16.15	Coffee Break Olympia Foyer
16.15 – 17.45	TECHNICAL SESSIONS 3. SESSION 3A: How to Govern the Use of AI in Traffic Management Olympia Hall SESSION 3B: Network Performance in an Urban Context Templars Hall SESSION 3C: Attracting and Developing Staff to Manage Traffic Management Systems Conference Room Ground Floor SESSION 3D: Building in the Cost to Finance Infrastructure Resiliency Conference Room 1st Floor SESSION 3E: Connected Work Zones: Leverage Data for Enhanced Work Zone Safety Conference Room 2nd Floor
19:30	Symposium's Networking Dinner Orizontes Restaurant on Lycabettus Hill Location: Find on the Map

Wednesday, July 2

08.00 - 09.00	Coffee with an Expert Conference Room Ground Floor
09.00 - 18.00	Exhibition & Poster Presentations Olympia Foyer
09.00 - 10.30	PLENARY SESSION 3 Olympia Hall Reaching the Destination – Building Blocks Along the Journey Moderator: Martin Russ, AustriaTech What Traffic Data to Share and Methods to Pursue, Beau van Ooijen, DG Move, European Commission Panel Discussion Timo Hoffmann, German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) Developing and Sustaining National Access Points to Share Traffic Data Joost Vantomme, CEO, ERTICO-ITS Europe European Data Spaces: How do they contribute to efficient traffic management? Yinhai Wang, University of Washington and TRB AI and Advanced Computing Committee Opportunities for Innovation and Technologies When Managing System Changes Martin Boehm, Technical Director, AustriaTech Enabling the Sharing and Use of Connected Vehicle Data Prof. George Yannis, National Technical University of Athens Seamless integration of road safety and mobility data into dynamic decision making
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break Olympia Foyer
11.00 – 12.30	TECHNICAL SESSIONS 4. SESSION 4A: Traffic Management and Climate Change Adaptation Olympia Hall SESSION 4B: Improved Safety Management Strategies Templars Hall SESSION 4C: Innovative Methods for Traffic Management Systems to Actively Manage Traffic Conference Room Ground Floor SESSION 4D: Achieving Network Optimisation Goals with the Carrot and the Stick Conference Room 1st Floor SESSION 4E: Risks and opportunities of applying control based on externally sourced data Conference Room 2nd Floor
12.30 - 13.45	Buffet Lunch Kallirhoe Hall
13.45 – 15.15	TECHNICAL SESSION 5 SESSION 5A: Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration Olympia Hall SESSION 5B: Emerging Traffic Management Strategies for Efficiency Templars Hall SESSION 5C: Managing Freeway Networks – Traffic Management System Capabilities and Services Conference Room Ground Floor SESSION 5D: Renewing, Reusing or Recycling Toll Concessions Conference Room 1st floor SESSION 5E: Can we all get along: data sharing eco-systems Conference Room 2nd floor
15.15 - 15.30	Coffee Break Olympia Foyer
15.30 - 17.00	CLOSING \| PLENARY SESSION 4 Olympia Hall Global Partnerships to Reach the Destination–Needed Collaboration and Targets Moderator: Gonzalo Alcaraz, Director General, International Road Federation (IRF) Jianming Ma, Texas DOT and AASHTO CTSO Research Working Group Chair Value Proposition for Agencies to Collaborate on Research and Share Traffic Management Practices Konstantinos Mattas, EC Joint Research Centre Identifying and Advancing Traffic Management Research Dimitris Mandalozis, IRF President, COO Aegean Motorways Collaborating on Traffic Management Across Borders, Modes, Sectors, and Organizations Angelos Amditis, Director of Research for ICCS and ERTICO Chairman Fostering a Global Dialogue and Incentives for Agencies to Share Traffic Management Practices and Research Industry Perspectives What Resources and Research Is Needed to Advance Traffic Management Practices
17.00 -17.15	STUDENT PAPER AWARDS

Thursday, July 3

08.00 - 12.30	Technical Visit: Olympia Odos The visit will take place at the Operation and Maintenance Centre (OMC) in Megara, featuring a tour of the Traffic Management Center (TMC) and key facilities. Participants will explore the motorway’s advanced traffic monitoring, maintenance operations, and incident response systems. (Registration Required)

08.00 - 12.30

Technical Visit: Olympia Odos

The visit will take place at the Operation and Maintenance Centre (OMC) in Megara, featuring a tour of the Traffic Management Center (TMC) and key facilities. Participants will explore the motorway’s advanced traffic monitoring, maintenance operations, and incident response systems. (Registration Required)

Provisional Programme

Sunday, June 29

Monday, June 30

WORKSHOPS

PIARC TC 2.4 WORKSHOP

Tuesday, July 1

PLENARY SESSION 1. WELCOME

Opening: Navigating the Future of Traffic Management

PLENARY SESSION 2

Navigating the Future of Traffic Management – What is the Destination?

TECHNICAL SESSIONS 1.

TECHNICAL SESSION 2.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS 3.

Wednesday, July 2

PLENARY SESSION 3

Reaching the Destination – Building Blocks Along the Journey

TECHNICAL SESSIONS 4.

TECHNICAL SESSION 5

CLOSING | PLENARY SESSION 4

Global Partnerships to Reach the Destination–Needed Collaboration and Targets

STUDENT PAPER AWARDS

Thursday, July 3