Cross-border management system for Euro-regions.

The aim of the Centrico project supported by the European Commission is to get a better use of the Trans-European Road Network (TERN) in North West Europe by implementing crossborder management systems in several Euroregions. In the Netherlands, existing regional traffic management systems for highways are extended to fulfill this new task by controlling the variable message signs to inform the traffic. Due to the success of these systems in smaller networks, like urban ring roads, a remarkable reduction of congestion on the TERN is expected. The Central European Region Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination (Centrico) project is a Euro-regional cooperative project of 14 (semi-) governmental authorities in Belgium, Luxembourg, the western federal states of Germany, the northern departments of France including the Eurotunnel, the Netherlands and the South Eastern part of England. The cooperative parties aim at an efficient, reliable and safe use of the TERN. On the one hand the efforts are targeted at supplying effective management instruments to the road manager, and on the other hand the efforts are targeted at giving service to the cross-border road users by means of good and unambiguous information. In this case Centrico mainly has a coordinating and stimulating role. The execution lies in the hands of the road managers. Beside Centrico, another five associated projects are active in other parts of Europe. These associated projects are Serti, Arts, Corvette, Viking and Streetwise. Within Centrico ten re-routing projects have been selected. Four of them are partly located in the Netherlands. These are Eindhoven - Cologne (Kln), Rotterdam - Antwerp, Arnhem - Oberhausen and Brussels - Aachen. One of the objectives of the Centrico project is to reduce the congestion on the TERN up to 15%. The policy and the set up of cross-border management are discussed in detail in. This paper discusses the development of a cross-border management system for Euroregions whereby an existing traffic management system will be extended. In order to understand the way of extension this traffic management system is explained below.