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APEC Transportation Working Group 17th Meeting
ITS Experts Group Meeting
Singapore, 27th - 31st March, 2000
Minutes of meeting – Prepared by Canada

  1. The APEC TPT WG - ITS Group meeting was held in Singapore on Tuesday March 28th, 2000 from 08:30 AM to 5:30 PM. The meeting was chaired by Canada and attended by representatives from 11 economies including: Australia, Canada, Peoples Republic of China, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, and USA.
  2. Actions arising from the last ITS Group meeting in Toronto, Canada were reviewed:

The chair encouraged all economies to use the TPT WG website to facilitate intersessional activity

  1. ITS Strategies and Deployment: Reports were delivered by Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and USA. Paper copies of these reports were distributed and soft copies will be posted to the website when available.
  2. ITS Architectures: presentations were made by Japan and Canada on their efforts to establish an ITS architecture for their respective economies. The presentations will be posted to the website.
  3. ITS Group relationship to other APEC and ITS Groups: in response to concerns of limited resources and possible overlap, the chair opened for discussion whether or not the ITS Experts Group should continue to operate as an independent group. The consensus was that it should. In examining the opportunity for joint efforts with other APEC TPT Groups, an opportunity to develop a high impact presentation with the Intermodal Task Force and the Electronic Commerce Group was identified. This would be presented at the Minister's Meeting in Peru and would discuss the use of ITS in improving trade corridors. This focus of 2-3 groups and theme of trade facilitation will help to attract interest. The idea was supported by a majority of the economies and will be pursued by the chair.

    4. A majority of economies indicated ongoing engagement of National ITS organisations and related government departments

  4. Chairing of ITS Group: Canada has agreed to chair the ITS Experts Group through to Spring 2001. Each economy should consider whether it wishes to hold the chair and be prepared to discuss at the next meeting. USA has expressed an interest.
  5. Work Program and Action plan: it was proposed that the work program be converted to an action plan. USA presented an overview of a suggested plan that was then discussed in further detail
  6. Action Plan Discussion: after much discussion it was agreed that the objectives of the original work program would be modified to more accurately reflect the Group's interests. The discussion included comments on the neccessity to maintain a focus for clear actions that were measureable and near term. Results of the discussion of the group's objective:

    7. 1. to identify ITS standards requirements which are APEC priorities

    2. to facilitate the establishment of ITS standards by ISO which are APEC priorities.

    3. to promote the universal use amongst all APEC Economies of ITS standards established by ISO.

    4. to share information among APEC Economies regarding ITS developments.

    These four objectives were mapped to the Action Plan Overview and the original work program as identified in Attachment #1, slide 4 "Action Plan Overview" .

    The Action Plan discussion then centered on initial investigations identifying ITS priority areas based on the ISO fundamental services list (TICS). The list would be reviewed by all economies before the next meeting so that at the next meeting a consensus would be reached so that discussion on the use of the list could begin.

    Korea agreed to the objectives subject to further discussion and agreement on the procedures used to achieve the objectives. Concern was expressed by Japan about the methods and procedures that would be used to establish priorities.

    A liason statement will be prepared that will be delivered to ISO TC204 at their June meeting that would establish APEC 's interest in ISO TC204's standard's development activities and provide an indication as to APEC's objectives regarding ITS standards

    Due to time constraints, the remainder of the proposed Action Plan (attachment 1) could not be discussed. It was requested that economies would review the plan and be prepared to discuss it at the next meeting.

    Next Meeting
  7. The next meeting of the ITS Group is scheduled for the next APEC TPT WG 18th meeting to be held in Japan, November 2000. The exact date and time will be confirmed by the Chair in a subsequent communication to APEC economies

Recommendations

The ITS Group recommends that the Steering Committee:

Attendance List

Australia

Mike Kimberlee, Department of Transport and Regional Services

Canada (Chair)

Colin Rayman, ITS Canada and Ontario Ministry of Transportation
Paul Frigon, ITS Canada

Chinese Taipei

Li-Yen Chang, Ministry of Transportation and Communication

Japan

Hiroshi Nishida, Ministry of Transport
Masafumi Mori, Ministry of Construction
Naofumi Tsuzuki, Ministry of International Trade and Industry

Republic of Korea

Sanghoon Bae, Korea Transport Institute
Jae-Choon Lee, Ministry of Construction and Transportation
Yie Jin-Haeng, Ministry of Construction and Transportation

New Zealand

Nick Clark, Ministry of Transportation

Papua New Guinea

Lister Heni, Department of Transport

People's Republic of China

Gu Yuxin, Ministry of Construction
Li Guangling, Ministry of Communications

Singapore

Sing Mong Kee, Land Transport Authority

Thailand

Jiraporn Kaewkraison, Department of Land Transport

United States of America

Andrew Schoka, Mitretek Systems
Walter Kulyk, Department of Transportation

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