From April 26 to 28, 2022, organized by ITS Spain, the 22nd edition of the Spanish Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems was held, also known as the ITS Congress for its acronym in English (Intelligent Transport Systems). This is the annual meeting where the most relevant key players from the Public Administration, Business and Academia meet in Spain to discuss the challenges for Transport and the Solutions provided by ITS. Held at the Hotel Chamartín The One in Madrid, it had more than 370 face-to-face attendees and some 200 people following the event online. The attendees represented 175 different companies and entities with a networking area with 8 companies represented.

The Official Opening of the Congress was carried out by the Spanish authorities with competence in the matter: the Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid, Mr. Carlos Díaz-Pache Gosende, Ms. María José Rallo del Olmo (General Secretary of Transport of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda), Mr. Pere Navarro Olivella (General Director of Traffic - Ministry of the Interior), Mr. Manel Villalante i Llauradó (General Director of Development and Strategy of RENFE) and Mr. Sebastián de la Rica Castedo (President of ITS Spain and of the Association of Traffic Engineers and Mobility Technicians).

As usual in the ITS Congress, the first day focused on infrastructure and its communication with the vehicle, dealing with ITS for payment for the use of roads, ITS and the Environment, ITS in Tunnels and Cooperative Systems and the Autonomous Mobility.

The first session of the day and of the Congress was chaired by D. Bruno de la Fuente (Director of Construction, Concessions and Water Technology of SEOPAN). After the initial presentation by the chairman, the presentations by Mr. Pablo Lois - INDRA and Ms. Lorena Cuadrado - CINTRA were presented, respectively on the Payment Model for Road Use and on the example of the use of GNSS technology and the smartphone for payment for the use of the infrastructure in the SATELISE pilot in Portugal. In the turn of the Free Communications, Mr. Carlos Fuentes participated – ABERTIS: Payment for use for the road network; Mr. Ramón Fuentes – KAPSCH: Payment for Use in Bizkaia, Technology, challenges and key aspects; Mr. Alfredo Velasco – TERNACONSULT: Considerations about the pay-per-use model in Spain; Mr. Miguel López – IDOM: Croatia finances Pay Per Use with Next Funds; Ms. Marisa González Dubreuil – TEKIA INGENIEROS: Regional and national vision of payment for use.

ITS and the Environment gained relevance in the second session S2, chaired by Mr. Julio García, president of ITS Catalunya. The interventions were by Ms. Ana Herrera – GMV: Ecodriving in the Avanza fleet in the Community of Madrid; Mr. Fernando Moreno – BOSCH: Calculation of emissions in the same planning process; Mr. Andrés Díez – ALUVISA: Design of an open platform for the management of a ZBE.

Mr. Ignacio González, Senior Technician of the Technical Directorate of the General Directorate of Highways, of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, chaired the S3 session on ITS in Tunnels, which had a lot of face-to-face and virtual follow-up. The session opened with a presentation by D. Luis Azcue, head of the Tunnel Service of the SG for Conservation of the DGC. MITMA to explain the current situation of ITS and the Ministry's Tunnel Plan. After him, Ms. Rosalía Gonzalo, CEO of Madrid Calle 30, and Mr. David Calero, Manager of Interurban Traffic and Tunnels at SICE, gave a joint speech on the technological renovation project of Calle 30: New technologies for advanced tunnel management. In the free communications section, Mr. Pedro Rosa – ETRA GROUP: Tunnels as part of Smartmobility Management; Mr. Paulo Pereira – GLOBALVIA: C-Roads Project for the A23 in the Gardunha tunnel (Portugal); Mr. Antonio O. Martín – COMSA INDUSTRIAL: Planning of electromechanical installations and ITS of the tunnels. Always on the critical path of the opening to traffic.

Mr. Vicente Gallego, vice president of the Ibero-American Federation of Traffic Engineers and Mobility Technicians, chaired the last session of the first day of the S4 Cooperative Systems and Autonomous Mobility congress. D. Francisco Sánchez, Director of Electronics and ITS of CTAG began by presenting the New cooperative services for autonomous last-mile shuttles. Mr. Jose Manuel Martínez, Director of Business Development at GRUPO ETRA, spoke about the evolution of cooperative services towards Connected and Automated Cooperative Mobility (CCAM) and especially the Concept of CCAM Urban Corridors. Regarding free communications, D. Alfonso Brazalez – CEIT: Tool to ensure the quality of roads for Automated Vehicles; Mr. Xavier Daura – ABERTIS: 5GMED Project; D. Francisco Jaén – APPLUS IDIADA: 5G private network for the development of autonomous and connected mobility technologies; Mr. Carlos Luján – APPLUS IDIADA: Cybersecurity Regulations, Practical application from the point of view of the Technical Service; Mr. José Eugenio Naranjo – INSIA-UPM: Perception of the risk of users of highly automated and connected vehicles; Mr. Santiago García – FIXALIA: Line of Work: Technology as a moderator of the human factor in accidents.

Mobility management was the protagonist of the second day, firstly, with the ITS applied in the interurban area and later in the urban area, ending the day with the subject of mobility data and the application of models for management.

The morning began with the S5 session on ITS for Interurban Traffic Management, chaired by D. Indalecio Candel, Head of Service of the General Directorate of Traffic. Ministry of the Interior, and the interventions of Mr. Martín Rivas – INDRA: Mobility 2030 Project: Smart and sustainable technologies for the mobility of the future; Mr. Pablo Fernández – OPENVIA MOBILITY: Solutions based on microservices for users of toll roads; Ms. Gabriela Ruggiero – ANTEA GROUP: Optimization of mobility in unique environments, accesses to the city of Vigo; Mr. Pablo Rivas – GMV: Enhanced Galileo Green Lanes Project.

Ms. Maria Lourdes Puigbarraca, Deputy Director General of Traffic Management of the Catalan Traffic Service, was the chair of the S6 session on ITS for Mobility Management. The first presentation of the day dealt with the deployment of the ITS Plan of the General Directorate of Traffic, by Mr. Jorge Ordás Alonso, Deputy Director General of Mobility and Technology Management of the DGT and the second on the SEITT Digitization Process and implementation of on-line payment in R4 and AP36 by Ms. Isabel Navarro, Head of Systems of the State Society of Land Transport Infrastructures - SEIT. After the presentations, in the turn of the free communications Mr. José Antonio Fernández – INDRA: Success story of unification of traffic management control centers; D. César Fernández – SIEMENS: HyperScada in the new ITS; D Juan Manuel Sanz – SENER: Intelligent driving assistance system in very dense fog conditions; D. Catalin Dobrea – IMAGE SENSING SYSTEMS: Detection of vehicles in the opposite direction on highways.

In the urban area, the Low Emissions Zones (ZBE) had a special role. Mr. Roberto Ríos, Mobility Technician of the Barcelona City Council, chaired the S7 session on the keys to the deployment of ZBE. Mr. Jorge Meana González del Yerro, Temporary Unit Coordinator for the Execution of the PRTR of the DGTT. Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda presented the Grants to municipalities for the implementation of ZBE and sustainable transformation of transport. Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. Mr. Carlos Guillamón, Technological Area Director of ALUVISA presented the strategies for the management of a ZBE. The time for free communications began with Mr. Josep M. Aymamí – AIMSUN: Simulation for the deployment of ZBE; Mr. Raúl Díaz – NTT DATA: Key criteria for the establishment of ZBE and first conclusions of the cities; Mr. Raúl García Platas – TEVA: Flexibility of adaptation to the different municipal needs of the ZBE management platform; Mr. Jose Luis Faubel – CPS: The ZBE in small and medium cities. New challenges for urban planning and management; Mr. Manuel Ocaña – TEKIA INGENIEROS: Engineering in the implementation of the ZBE.

The S8 session on Technological Solutions for ZBEs, chaired by Mr. Antonio F. Alfeirán, Director of Infrastructures and Mobility of the City Council of A Coruña, had a large number of interventions. Mr. Miguel Melchor – ABERTIS MOBILITY SERVICES: Sustainable urban mobility solutions; Ms. Nuria Ciprés – INDRA: Applied Technology in the Management of ZBE; Mr. Juan Francisco Monzón – ETRA GROUP OMNIVISION: Implementation of ZBE with guarantees; Mr. Nuno Pereira – NEURAL LABS: ZBE, how to implement them and how to take advantage of their infrastructure for other uses; Mr. Ángel Martín – LECTOR VISION: New technological trends applied to Urban Traffic Management; Mr. José Julián Rodríguez – ELECNOR SISTEMAS (ONE ZBE): Transforming sustainable mobility in cities with technological solutions; Mr. Jose Lozano – EYSA: Sustainable solution for ZBEs.

Continuing in the urban sphere, the S9 session on ITS & Smart Cities was chaired by Mr. Jesús Sánchez Company, Head of the Traffic Regulation Section of the Valencia City Council. The session began with a presentation on ITS in the General Directorate for the Regulation of Traffic and the Taxi Service of the Madrid City Council, by Mr. José Javier Rodríguez, Deputy Director General for Regulation of Traffic and the Taxi Service of the Madrid City Council. Madrid. Along the same lines, there was also an international speaker from the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Engineer Alan Balfour, Director General - UPE Mobility Infrastructure of the Secretary of Transport and Public Works, who did the same on ITS deployed in your city. The free communications presented were: Mr. Baldomero Ortega – KAPSCH: Mobility in Smartcities Systems. Developed projects; D. Gustavo Molina – ALUVISA: Simulation environments in the design of traffic light regulation strategies. The Kielce project (Poland); Mr. Ángel Sánchez – INDRA: Advanced Management Platforms at the service of mobility and decision-making; Mr. José Luis Sanz – FLOWBIRD ESPAÑA: Solutions aimed at the decarbonization and digitization of Urban Mobility; D. Ibon Arechalde – ASIMOB: Cunit City Council: Physical infrastructure monitored from Police vehicles.

To end the second day, the S10 session on Data and Models for Mobility Management was chaired by Ms. María Carmen Corral Escribano, Technical Director of the Subdirectorate General for Planning of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda. Ms. Susana Magro, Deputy Director General for Mobility and Transport Planning of the Madrid City Council, and Mr. Francisco Gallo, Delegate of SICE, gave a joint presentation entitled Big Data: A new approach to mobility in the Madrid City Council. After this intervention, from the KAPSCH company, the Product Manager & Data Analytics Team Leader D. Aritza Aldama spoke about the Data Management and Governance Models: centralized vs. Federated; Mobility applications. These were the free communications presented: Ms. Susana Alarcón – INGARTEK: Integration of various data sources in the Mobility Study of the Basque Country; Mr. Aleix Anducas – NEXUS GEOGRAPHICS: Information and geographic technology for more sustainable mobility; Ms. Berta Flores – CPS Data selection and fusion processes for the development of mobility models. Success stories.

The third and last day was mainly about the application of ITS in Public Transport.

Mr. Carlos Acha, Chief Digital Officer of ALSA, chaired the S11 session. ITS for Public Transport Management, which included the interventions of Mr. Emiliano Domínguez – TMB: The future Information System for Users and Video Surveillance of TMB buses; Mr. Antonio Abascal – GMV: The future SAE of the Public Service of collective passenger transport between the municipalities of Castelldefels, Gavá, Viladecans, Barcelona and its surroundings; Ms. Mónica Capablo – CAPMAR: STIs at bus stops; Mr. Miguel Picornell – NOMMON: Big Data and data fusion for the analysis and monitoring of mobility in public transport; Mr. David Collado – HIKVISION: Artificial Intelligence applied to transport systems; Mr. Ignacio Fernández – SIEMENS MOBILITY: Controlguide AIRO: Solution for optimizing public transport schedules based on expected passenger demand; Mr. Juan José Bermejo – IDOM: Conceptual design of ITS in BRT in Bangladesh

The S12 session on Equipment and elements for payment in Public Transport was moderated by Mr. Gregorio Haro Javaloyes, from the Systems Area, Sales Network and Customer Service of the Valencia Metropolitan Transport Authority, and president of the ITS Committee in the Public Transport of ITS Spain. The free communications exposed by Ms. Elena Martínez – GMV: Update of the Public Transport of the City of Granada with a state-of-the-art ITS system, Mr. Gonzalo Sánchez – KAPSCH: New concept of Sales and Cancellation terminal; Mr. Francisco Javier Núñez-Flores – ETRA GROUP: Payment solutions in Public Transport; Mr. Bruno Piñeiro – AIRWEB: Digitization of the transport ticket through a mobile app and QR code.

In session S13, some trends in Ticketing for Public Transport were presented, under the chairmanship of Mr. Lázaro Redondo, Head of Area of the General Directorate of Land Transport, Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda. In the first place, the current situation of the EMV Contactless deployment in Spain was discussed, by Mr. Ignacio González-Posada, Acceptance and Acquisition Director of MasterCard and Mr. Jorge Otamendi, Business Development Director of Getnet Europe ( to Santander Company). To conclude the session, the communications of Mr. Luis Coronil – METRO DE SEVILLA: Postpaid system of the Seville Metro; and Mr. José Martín – BUSMATICK: Solutions demanded by Public Transport Authorities and Operators.

Mr. Jesús Herrero Gamón, Secretary General of ATUC, chaired session S14 entitled ABT: Towards the generalization of account-based payment. The six interventions of the session were: Mr. Pedro Antonio Barroso – INDRA: ABT Account Based Ticketing - New paradigm in payment models in transport; Ms. Laurence Vivet-Ract – UBITRANSPORT: ABT Account-Based Ticketing at the service of open mobility; Mr. Antonio Blanco – INETUM: Starting from Open Payment, reaching Mobility as a Service. Real cases; Mr. Alberto Rodríguez – MASABI: Modernize a card-based system by migrating it to accounts; Mr. Tomás García – WORLDLINE: The new generation of mobility for the Paris Region based on ABT payment schemes; Mr. Antonio Ramos – SÉPALO and Mr. Martin Gruver – PALMA TOOLS: ABT based on EMV with Tariff Coordination and Interoperability.

The chair of the S15 session. ITS in Logistics, Mr. Miguel Angel Pesquera González, Professor of Transport Engineering and Infrastructure at the University of Cantabria, actively participated with the participants in the session: Ms. Cristina Martín – USYNCRO: Traceability and agility in document management in the transport of goods. How to coordinate all the actors via Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence; Mr. Santiago Abia Abia – COTESA: Management APP for the Urban Distribution of Merchandise (DUM); Mr. Jesús Murgoitio – TECNALIA FOUNDATION Automated eTRIKEs for last-mile delivery and surveillance rounds.

The last session of the day and of the congress was S16 on Mobility as a Service, chaired by Ms. Soledad Pérez-Galdós, Coordinator of the Innovation Center of the Madrid Regional Transport Consortium. The last communications of the congress were given by D. Javier Saralegui Sánchez – NTT DATA: Revolutionizing the use of Public Transport - Success story of the Algarve; D. Iñigo Bolado – INETUM: Tool for multimodal and multicity planning; Mr. Guillermo Campoamor – MEEP: Challenges and Opportunities of MaaS for public transport; Mr. Josep M. Aymamí – AIMSUN: Solutions to evaluate new mobility schemes and Transport on Demand systems; Mr. Rubén Artime Torres – NOMMON: Artificial intelligence for the prediction of the CO2 balance in shared mobility services.

After the last session, the Closing Ceremony and delivery of the ITS 2022 Awards took place. The ceremony was presided over by Mr. Luis Miguel Martínez Palencia, Managing Director of the Madrid Regional Transport Consortium and participated by Mr. Alfonso Sánchez Vicente, Managing Director of the EMT of Madrid, Mr. Lázaro Redondo, Head of Area of the General Directorate of Land Transport, Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and Mr. Sebastián de la Rica Castedo.

The prizes were delivered by the speakers at the Closing Table. In this year's edition the winners have been:

• Connected Mobility:Connected cranes of DGT 3.0, to the General Directorate of Traffic.Roadside Assistance vehicles communicate by telematic means the geopositioning of the detained vehicle for publication at the National Access Point.
• ITS in Infrastructure:Biscay Provincial Council, which is a pioneer in the application of Highways ITS since its appearance in the 90s, maintaining this vision in a sustained manner until today. Both due to its firm commitment to technology and its practical criteria when applying it to road management, make it a reference entity in ITS both inside and outside of Spain.
• ITS on Highways:Satelise application, developed by CINTRApioneer for the payment of motorway tolls through the mobile phone without having to stop. Its application for more than 5 years in Spain demonstrates the viability of satellite systems for payment for use on our roads.
• STIs in Public Transport:TMB - Barcelona Metropolitan Transport. Great track record in implementing state-of-the-art Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) throughout its transport network, both Bus and Metro. In addition to being a technological benchmark, TMB has always been characterized by maintaining the highest quality standards in the implementation of its ITS systems and by its great commitment to citizens.
• ITS & Smart Cities: Mr. Josep María Aymamí, Engineer of Roads, Channels and Ports by the UPC with almost 20 years promoting the deployment of models for mobility from TSS - Aimsun. His great availability has led him to participate in a large number of projects and sectoral work groups beyond the projects of his company.
• MaaS - Mobility as a Service: Tap&Go Seville Metro, Intelligent postpaid system, which applies the best available rate based on the trips made, with the contactless EMV bank card as an identification element.
• ITS in Parking: Telpark Application, developed by EMPARKleader in paying for parking in Spain with almost three million users.
• Information to the user: CAPMAR, a family business that has stood out for its innovation in the development of efficient, intelligent and environmentally friendly Bus Stops. For almost 3 decades, they have been a reference in the matter with a continuous renewal of their proposals for Furniture Elements and Systems.
• ITS in the Vehicle: Mr. Felipe Jiménez Alonso. University Professor. Director of the Intelligent Systems Unit of INSIA. PSU. He has developed his entire professional life linked to ITS in the Vehicle. He is one of the most recognized technicians in Spain in the field of ITS for the Automotive Industry.
• ITS in Logistics: Usyncro, for its solutions to approximate the use of Blockchain in logistics in an economical and efficient way.

Mr. Luis Miguel Martínez Palencia closed the Congress after this ceremony congratulating all the participants for the success of the event, thanking the attendees for their presence during the three days and encouraging all of them to be an active part of the next edition.