Service Definition

“Traffic Management for Corridors and Networks” means the elaboration, application and quality control of Traffic Management Plans (TMP) for the management of the European network and corridors including multi-modal capacities to allow for a more efficient use of the road network in Europe (and not restricting measures to country or local basis).

A TMP is the pre-defined allocation of a set of measures to a specific situation in order to control and guide traffic flows as well as to inform road-users in real-time and provide a consistent and timely service to the road user. Initial situations can be unforeseeable (incidents[1], accidents) or predictable (recurrent or non-recurrent events[2]). The measures are always applied on a temporary basis.

Four spatial levels are suited to the elaboration of such complex TMPs:

• Regional TMPs: for networks within areas or regions on the TERN that can be extended, under certain conditions, to link with neighbouring regions for cross-regional and cross-border levels.
• Cross-regional TMPs: for national networks and key corridors on the TEN-T covering multiple regions
• Cross-border TMPs: for cross-border networks and key corridors on the TEN-T and
• TMPs for conurbations: conurbations and the urban/inter-urban expressways network with relevance to long-distance traffic.

[1] Incident: situation on the road that is not expected, foreseen, and which may or may not lead to an accident (collision) but impacts on the safety and/or capacity of the road network for a limited period of time.

[2] Event: Unexpected situation that happens on the road, but doesn’t necessarily have a negative impact on safety and/or capacity.