FOT-Net Sixth Stakeholders workshop, 28 November, Brussels

FOT-Net stakeholders’ workshops provide a forum for cooperation, discussion and information exchange, addressing FOT issues that have been identified as of high-priority to the stakeholders. European players interested in FOTs can use this medium to share information about planning, developments and results of trials which are being carried out at European and national levels.   

FOT-Net’s “Common Roll-out plan to support coherent development and implementation of FOTs”serves as guidance to setting-up the agenda of the Stakeholders workshops. However FOT-Net remains open and will listen to requests from the FOT community to tackle important issues that may arise. Feedback can be sent via the FOT Wiki or directly to info@fot-net.eu.

The theme of the 6^th Stakeholders workshop was “Exploitation of FOT results”. FOTs are a product on their own right but they are also a resource and a tool that can be used by stakeholders that were not directly involved in the execution of the FOT. Namely, FOT results will be used by policy makers to support their policy decisions and by industry players to make informed decisions about market introduction.

At their start FOT projects usually define an exploitation plan that draws attention to the value of the FOT, that defines how to get the most out of the findings, at how to make the results live beyond the end of the FOT and ultimately make the link with ITS deployment.

In this edition of the Stakeholders workshop:

• Stakeholders from within and outside the FOT community discussed their specific expectations from FOT results and how it is ensured that they can exploit the results.
• Examples of exploitation plans of FOTs were presented and existing processes of transferring the results were discussed.
• Stakeholders drew recommendations towards the sustainability of FOT results and how past experience can be capitalised.

In addition, the concept of innovation incubators was discussed, more specifically the use of test beds as an environment to evaluate ITS applications and also as a multi-stakeholders meeting point to explore new ITS solutions. The newly kicked-off EC funded project SATIE (Support Action for Transport – ICT European large scale action) shared its plans for the definition of implementation schemes for pan-European test beds, incubators and services.

FOT-Net also took this opportunity to report on its activities namely the revision of the FESTA methodology, seminars, new working groups, tools for FOTs and stakeholders needs analysis.

Workshop presentations are available at the following page. 

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