Co-ordination of ITS implementation in northern Europe

Northern Europe´s traffic is often disrupted by harsh weather conditions. To better manage the impact of weather on traffic, and to take advantage of new technologies to ease other traffic-related problems, the VIKING project co-ordinates national and bi-lateral traffic management schemes, and implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway) and five regions in northern Germany. The co-operation in VIKING will ensure homogeneity and continuity of services for road users, and enable interoperability for mobile equipment including equipment for automatic road user fee collection. VIKING is also an important tool to spread knowledge about these systems and services between the countries and to speed up the implementation process for the Trans-European Network for Transport (TEN-T).