Organiser

• Peter Öhman, Programme manager, Test Site Sweden, ITS Sweden

Description of the session
This session is about the permanent ITS test beds in Europe including their communication technologies, projects and ITS applications that will be demonstrated/tested in the near future. Each presenter will specifically address the lessons learned during their test site implementation and operation. Discussion at the end of the session will focus on / will consider the following points:

• The need for permanent test beds
• Coordination on European level
• European dimension and drive
• Lack of test infrastructures
• Test sites outside Europe

Invited moderator

• Torbjörn Biding, Program Director, Swedish Transport Administration - STA, Sweden

Invited speakers

• Hossein Zakizadeh, Program Manager ITS, Test Site, Sweden
• Sander Maas, Technical Consultant, Applied Scientific Research Organisation - TNO, The Netherlands
• Roger Wilson, Business Development Manager, innovITS Advance, United Kingdom
• David Sánchez Fernández, Active Safety Responsible, CTAG (Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia), Spain
• Maxime Flament, Head of Sector SafeMobility, ERTICO – ITS Europe

Organiser

• Irina Silva, Project Manager, ERTICO – ITS Europe

Description of the session
The EC-funded project FOT-Net has been in place since 2008 as the networking platform for stakeholders involved or interested in FOTs. While the focus so far was mainly on building up the FOT network and promoting the FESTA methodology, the next phase will explicitly address issues raised by the FOT network which need common European positions. The FESTA methodology will be further refined, based on recent FOT experiences. FOT-Net will gather the relevant experts to revise and adapt the FESTA methodology for FOTs on ADAS, nomadic devices, cooperative systems, and naturalistic driving. Subsequent to the revision, five new expert working groups will be created to clarify critical topics related to legal and ethical issues, data analysis, incident definition, impact assessment, and data sharing.

This session aims to present the preliminary results of the FESTA revision and the expert working groups.

Invited moderator

• Maxime Flament, Head of Sector SafeMobility, ERTICO – ITS Europe

Invited speakers

• Yvonne Barnard, Senior Research Fellow, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• Adrian Zlocki, Head of ADAS Department, IKA/Aachen University, Germany,
• Christhard Gelau, Department for Co-operative Traffic and Driver Assistance Systems, Federal Highway Research Institute - BASt, Germany
• Eline Jonkers, Research Scientist, Applied Scientific Research Organisation - TNO, The Netherlands
• John-Fredrik Grönval, Manager - Traffic Accident Research, Volvo Cars, Sweden, (TBC)

 Organisers

• Angelos Amditis, Research Director, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems – ICCS, Greece
• Andras Csepinszky, Project Manager, ERTICO - ITS Europe

Description of the session
The large-scale European Field Operational Test on Active Safety Systems (euroFOT) is an EC funded research project which aims at providing answers to questions like: What is the performance and capability of the systems? How does the driver interact with and react to the systems? What is the impact on safety, efficiency and the environment? Over the course of one year, approximately 1000 cars and trucks equipped with different intelligent technologies are being tested on European roads across France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. During the field tests, different sensors and devices monitor all aspects of individual driver behaviour in real-world traffic conditions. On the other hand, the TELEFOT EC funded project aims to assess, via Field Operational Tests, the impact of functions provided by nomadic devices in vehicles.

During the special session the first issues regarding the methodology of testing, the test site set-up, data acquisition, management and processing techniques will be presented, as well as approaches about safety impact assessment.

Invited moderator

• Wolfgang Hoefs, Project Officer, European Commission, DG INFSO

Invited speakers

• Aria Etemad, Senior Research Coordinator, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering Europe, Germany
• Petri Montonen, Senior Research Scientist, Technical Research Centre - VTT, Finland
• Mohamed Benmimoun, Researcher, Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge RWTH, Aachen University, Germany
• Barbara Metz, Researcher, Center for Traffic Sciences, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
• Katia Paglè, Researcher, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems – ICCS, Greece
• Roberto Montanari, Senior Researcher, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

• Tanja Kessel, Head of Project Management, EICT, Germany

Description of the session

This session will discuss challenges of carrying out C2X field tests in Europe. C2X technologies have been researched for many years to improve traffic flow, management and safety. Today, there is a general understanding of the benefits of cooperative systems. Up to present, they have been tried out in small scale experiments mostly on closed test tracks. So far, there has been no proof of the benefits with many communicating vehicles. Yet, communication systems and their components are mature enough for large-scale field operational tests. Additionally, past activities have created concepts and standards for a pan-European deployment and several national FOTs have started.
Building up from this foundation, the methodologies and approaches for creating a Europe-wide testing environment for
cooperative systems will be discussed. The projects DRIVE C2X and FOTsis strive to put this notion into practice. Hence, implementation strategies and use cases for FOTs will be laid out for discussion.
The speaker will share, challenges in test site harmonization, standardization and interoperability with the participants. Furthermore, concepts and business cases for a pan-European deployment of C2X technologies will be debated.

Invited moderator

• Matthias Schulze, Senior Manager Driver Support and Warning, Daimler AG, Germany

Invited speakers

• Helen Köpman, Deputy Head of Unit ICT for Transport, European Commission, DG INFSO
• Federico García-Linares, Research & Development Manager, OHL Concesiones, Spain
• David Sanchez, Active Safety Responsible, Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia - CTAG, Spain
• Cornelius Menig, Project Manager C2X in Advanced Technology Development, AUDI AG, Germany
• Maarten Oonk, Business Development Manager Mobility, Applied Scientific Research Organisation - TNO, The Netherlands

Organiser

• Nicole van Nes, Cluster Manager Safer Vehicles, Institute for Road Safety Research - SWOW, The Netherlands

Description of the session
Naturalistic driving is a new and promising observation method to investigate the many dimensions of traffic. This observation
method offers a great potential to learn more about road safety, sustainable transport and traffic management which could relate to transport of both persons and goods in urban and rural regions.
Currently in Europe a number of projects are in place that make use of naturalistic driving observation. This session will provide short presentations on three of the main ongoing projects: PROLOGUE, a feasibility study exploring the value and feasibility of setting up a large scale naturalistic driving study in Europe; INTERACTION, a multi-method study on the use of in-vehicle technologies including naturalistic driving observations (N=120); DaCoTA (WP6), a feasibility study aimed to explore the value
of Naturalistic driving in order to monitor road safety within the scope of the European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO); SeMiFOT, focusing on the development of the tools in the methodology chain (data acquisition-data storage-data analysis) needed to perform naturalistic driving studies.

Invited moderator

• Rob Eenink, Head of Road Safety Research Department, Institute for Road Safety Research - SWOW, The Netherlands

Invited speakers

• Nicole van Nes, Cluster Manager Safer Vehicles, Institute for Road Safety Research - SWOW, The Netherlands
• Corinne Brusque, Technical Manager of INTERACTION, Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l’aménagement et des réseaux - IFSTTAR, France
• Niels Bos, leader Dacota WP6, Institute for Road Safety Research - SWOV, The Netherlands
• Trent Victor, Project Leader of SeMiFOT, SAFER/Volvo Technology, Sweden