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When developing infrastructure, public debate is often dominated by the opposition. Frequently, the conflict escalates when a project is already planned or the construction has already started. One potential way for tackling these problems is to improve the strategic foundation of transport infrastructure projects. Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is one instrument for showing that a transport infrastructure projects is never an end in itself, but is essential to accomplish objectives from different policy fields. Taking the example of the SEA for the Airport link, this paper shows the importance of a broad evaluation framework for assessing infrastructure projects on a strategic level. This way, opinion leaders can be convinced of the plan or programme respectively of a possible follow-up project and can act as advocators. Strengthening the role of SEA as a strategic planning instrument can increase the quality of plans and programmes and subsequently of planning projects and disburden environmental impact assessment.

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International audience; The technological advances of autonomous and connected road vehicles have been shown an accelerating pace in the recent years. On the other hand, the regulations for autonomous, or driverless, road vehicles across Europe still deserve much attention and discussion. In this paper, we introduce the AUTOCITS project which has the main goals of conducting studies on the regulations for the adoption of autonomous cars in Europe, and also to carry out C-ITS Pilots in Madrid, Paris and Lisbon. AUTOCITS aims to contribute, directly or indirectly, to European related policy and reference documents on vehicle automation, regulations, connected and automated driving, and related road infrastructure issues due to the trend towards higher levels of connectivity and automation, where information provided via C-ITS can be truly catalyst for connected and autonomous driving. The project will specially focus on the communication links performance and connectivity between automated vehicles using C-ITS applications connectivity and automation ;, in particular, applications increase surrounding environment awareness in relation to infrastructure and ensure both road and driver safety requirements issues and using the regulation framework. AUTOCITS is an innovation project (CEF Program) that aims to facilitate the deployment of autonomous vehicles in urban nodes by developing intelligent transport services based on cooperative systems (C-ITS) that will enable vehicles, users and infrastructures to communicate, exchange, and share information. Document type: Conference object