Looking back on the final SOCRATES^2.0 conference

The final SOCRATES^2.0 conference ‘Wondering is the beginning of wisdom’ was held online on 22 June. More than 200 participants saw and heard about the SOCRATES^2.0 journey of the past four years.

Plenary Introduction

 that presented the, the participants listened to project manager Tiffany Vlemmings talk with Serge van Dam from Rijkswaterstaat and Ulrich Fastenrath from BMW Group about the start of the project and the SOCRATES^2.0 results and how to use these in the future. Also, Peter Lubrich from BASt outlined the innovative elements that have been developed within SOCRATES^2.0.

 

Breakout sessions 

1. : Lessons learned & how to fail faster: Organisational, functional and technical aspects of SOCRATES^2.0.
2. : SOCRATES^2.0 cooperation framework: The essential first step towards the win-win-win.
3. : Bringing the concept of interactive traffic management to European practice: Enablers & bottleneck.
4. : Different road authorities have different perspectives: How does this impact interactive traffic management?
5. : Facing reality: Piloting SOCRATES^2.0 services in 4 cities.
    

Plenary wrap-up with partner reflection on the project, results and future 

Finally, the public and private partners of SOCRATES^2.0 reflected on the project and the future of interactive traffic management. This is  available for you to watch online. During the reflection, the partners elaborated on aspects like the necessity of cooperation between several parties such as road authorities and service providers to make SOCRATES^2.0 a success. .