7th European Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems & Services

ITS for Sustainable Mobility

Palexpo Convention Centre, Geneva, Switzerland
4-6 June 2008

Preliminary Programme

"Sustainable mobility" means reaching your destination in a way that is reliable, safe and easy on the environment. Intelligent transport systems can make an important contribution to achieving this: they have the potential to alleviate congestion, optimize transport flows and improve road safety. Traffic flowing freely along the best route requires less fuel, so pollution is reduced. Achieving sustainable mobility is an enormous challenge especially when humanity is facing one of its biggest challenges this century: how to control its CO2 emissions.

According to Jacques Barrot, Vice President and European Commissioner for Transport, "building intelligence into our vehicles and infrastructure can make a positive long term contribution to resolving the problems we face in terms of congestion, reliability, security and the environment". During 2008, the EC will put forward an Action Plan for the deployment of intelligent transport systems for road transport. The focus will be on integrating vehicle and road: "We must work towards a cooperative system delivering a whole range of new services ranging from traffic information for guidance to the prospect of innovative ways of directly paying for the services that road users enjoy".

Leading experts and innovators in the ITS field will present their most interesting research studies, demonstration projects, best practices; ITS 2008 will also showcase for ITS research activities under the 6th Community RTD Framework Programme that are delivering their results. At the exhibition, world-class suppliers will present their latest ITS innovations including advanced vehicle control systems, travel information and traffic management systems, digital mapping, public transport applications, smart card and communication technology. ITS in Europe 2008 in Geneva will arrange many technical visits to sites with interesting ITS applications in Switzerland as well as in near France.

Participation of CVIS

1. Wednesday 4 June, 11.00-12.30
   TS08 ! Highway improvements 2
    
   "Real-time information from roadside and in-car systems (CVIS & SAFESPOT) along regional roads"
   Bart Swaans, Provincie Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands
    
2. Thursday 5 June, 16.00-17.30
   SS22 ! CVIS: initiative for Co-operative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems in Europe
    
   This Special Session presents the latest achievements of the European Commission funded Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure System (CVIS) project. The CVIS project is developing core technologies to set up cooperative systems in which every vehicle can communicate directly with the nearby road infrastructure, other vehicles and centres (e.g. traffic data & control or fleet management centre) using a variety of media and with enhanced positioning. The architecture of the developed technical platform will be presented as well as the underlying hardware and software elements, highlighting the innovative aspects and the key results obtained so far.
   This session will focus on:
   • the core components and functionalities to create a unified technical solution allowing all vehicles and infrastructure elements to communicate with each other in a continuous and transparent way using a variety of media and with enhanced positioning;
   • the performance that can be expected from first laboratory measurement and tests of core technologies;
   • the evolution from today’s fixed road-side systems via the CVIS infrastructure-centric co-operative applications towards a ubiquitous flexible roadside controller that can balance collective requirements with individuals’ need for speed, comfort and safety;
   • the technical requirements for successful deployment of cooperative vehicle and roadside systems in Europe.
   

    

3. Thursday 5 June, 09.00-10.30
   TS15 ! Core EC projects
    
   "CVIS: Is the user willing to pay and accept cooperative systems?"
   Rosa Canellas, Fundacion RACC, Spain
    

4. Thursday 5 June, 14.00-15.30
   TS24 ! Coop
    
   - "Co-operative vehicle infrastructure systems and their potential impact on policies for mobility and transport efficiency"
   Neil Hoose, Bittern Consulting Ltd, UK
    
   - "Driving simulator study for intelligent cooperative intersection safety system (IRIS)"
   Jaap Vreeswijk, Peek Traffic BV, the Netherlands
    
   - "Active infrared communication in the context of ISO CALM"
   Hannes Stratil, EFKON AG, Austria
    

5. Friday 6 June, 14.00-15.30
   TS37 ! Integrated management 3
    
   "Why French toll motorway companies are involved in the 3 major cooperative projects of the European Commission : SAFESPOT, COOPERS and CVIS"
   Jacques Boussuge, Association des Sociétés Françaises d'Autoroutes et d'ouvrages à péage - ASFA, France
    

6. Friday 6 June, 14.00-15.30
   SS38 ! ITS test sites in Europe
    
   The session will focus on different ITS infrastructure test beds in Europe including their communication technologies and ITS applications that will be demonstrated/tested in the near future. Test Site Sweden is a national project and a neutral meeting place for joint research projects in Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS) which focuses on traffic safety, logistics and the environment. Test Site Sweden offers several testing and demonstration environments. One part is the Reality Lab - a demonstration environment with ITS infrastructures. In this environment, existing infrastructure is used and complemented with ITS communication technologies to manage demonstration and testing of future ITS innovations. For example, tests can be carried out
   for co-operative vehicle applications such as “Situation awareness”, “Tunnel safety”, “Slippery road”, “ADAS - dynamic SpeedAlert”, “Co-operative Monitoring - extended floating car data collection” and “monitoring of dangerous goods”. Other ITS test sites will be invited to be part of the session to give a wider scope of the ITS activities.
   

Cooperative Systems-related sessions

• Wednesday 4 June, 11.00-12.30
  SS01 ! Towards a co-operative automotive and traffic environment: the SAFESPOT approach
   
  In the past decade a lot of research has been dedicated to solving traffic safety and efficiency related problems by the development of driver assistance systems based on autonomous sensor technologies that are able to perceive the traffic situation surrounding the vehicle and, in case of danger, to properly warn the driver. In the last few years, research initiatives have started on co-operative systems which show a high potential for improving road safety
  and efficiency including measurable impacts on related environmental issues. SAFESPOT is an integrated research project co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies under the 6th Framework Programme which focuses on developing tools, methods, architectures and communication concepts that will enable a number of co-operative applications. Sensor technologies allow, in real time, a picture of the vehicle’s surroundings, thus improving road safety by avoiding a significant number of accidents, or at least reducing their effects. Telematics technologies are entering vehicles as information and support systems supported by the growing consumer market that offers systems and services with high reliability at low cost.
  The above support scenarios, in which the vehicles and the infrastructure co-operate to perceive potentially dangerous situations extended in space and time horizon which will only be limited by the range of the radio communications. This Special Interest Session will discuss a number of issues related to co-operative systems including the efforts towards a common architecture for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure co-operation, and the related platforms that are under development in SAFESPOT, which will enable co-operative applications. The specific applications that are under development in SAFESPOT but also in the related WATCH OVER STREP will also be presented giving the audience an idea of the future of co-operative driving.
   
• Wednesday 4 June, 11.00-12.30
  TS08 ! Highway improvements 2
   
  "COOPERS - Preparing road infrastructure for a field test of co-operative systems", Martin Böhm, AustriaTech, Austria
   
  "Co-operative systems for road traffic safety: demonstration of COOPERS services in the Rotterdam-Antwerp corridor", Lu Meng, ARS Traffic & Transport, the Netherlands
   
• Wednesday 4 June, 14.00-15.30
  SS05 ! IBEC: evaluation of vehicle infrastructure integration and in-vehicle systems
   
  This Special Interest Session, co-ordinated by the IBEC Group will present a comprehensive view of the evaluation approaches developed to assess the impacts of new driver support systems, co-operative vehicle highway systems, in-vehicle information systems, and on-board support systems. Understanding the effects of new systems and technologies is paramount for improved road safety and stakeholder acceptance. Mobility is essential to the functioning of European society but presents major problems in terms of congestion, safety and environmental impact. Traffic congestion now affects 10% of our major road network and costs an estimated E50 billion per year, or 0.5% of EU GDP. Road transport accounts for more than one quarter of the EU’s total energy consumption, and still there are around 1.3 million accidents and 41,000 fatalities on EU roads each year. Europe’s estimated 300 million car drivers would like their driving to be made easier with fewer delays, and less chance of getting injured. The Intelligent Car initiative is an attempt to move towards a new paradigm, one where cars don’t crash anymore, and traffic congestion is drastically reduced. Part of the i2010 strategy to boost Europe’s digital economy, the Intelligent Car initiative is an
  answer to the need of citizens, industry and the Member States to find common European solutions and to improve the take-up of intelligent systems based on information and communication technologies (ICT). Intelligent systems can help solve many of Europe’s road transport problems. They can support drivers to avoid accidents, and even call the emergency services automatically in the event of a crash. They can also be used in electronic traffic management systems or the optimising of engine performance, thus improving energy efficiency and reducing pollution. And with the help of ICT, good progress is being made towards the 2001 EU goal of halving road deaths by 2010. But citizens and policy-makers cannot be expected to invest in or to promote car safety technology unless its benefits are clear. This session will provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the latest evaluation methodologies and help raise awareness
  of the support available including presentations covering:
  • impact assessment of co-operative system deployment
  • results from eIMPACT
  • the selection of services within co-operative traffic management environment - COOPERS
  • the evaluation process developed to assess ISA in Sweden
   
• Thursday 5 June, 11.00-12.30
  ES04 ! Traffic and transport management
   
  ITS has been extensively used over the past 15 years to manage traffic and transport. However, there is a high demand for mobility management solutions to deal with the impact of increasing traffic volumes, especially with regards to safety and efficiency. The sessions under this theme will examine these issues, especially how ITS can achieve an integrated and co-operative mobility management at key points in both urban and inter-urban areas. In addition, the new ITS solutions that ensure an efficient management and enforcement of the total mobility system will be discussed here.
   
• Thursday 5 June, 14.00-15.30
  TS24 ! Coop
   
  "Impact analysis of co-operative systems on external effects - the example of COOPERS", Philipp Gilka, Transport Technology Systems Network Berlin, Germany
   
  "Market failures and the deployment of cooperative vehicle safety systems - a first analytical assessment of potential reasons for the non-diffusion of safety-improving vehicle systems in Europe", Heiko Peters, Federal Highway Research Institute, Germany
   
• Thursday 5 June, 14.00-15.30
  SS18 ! COOPERS: user reaction and impact assessment of co-operative services
   
  COOPERS is an integrated project co-funded by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Programme. It started in February 2006 with a duration of 48 months. COOPERS focuses on the development of innovative telematics applications on the road infrastructure with the long term goal of a “Co-operative Traffic Management” between vehicle and infrastructure, to reduce the self opening gap of the development of telematics applications between car industry and infrastructure operators. The goal of the project is the enhancement of road safety and efficiency by precise and up-to-date traffic information directly
  communicated between infrastructure and motorised vehicles on a motorway section. In spring 2008, the first results concerning user behaviour and user acceptance of the COOPERS approach will be available as the simulator study will be finished and the first results will be elaborated. The main purpose of the simulator study is to compare driver behaviour between driving with a system and driver behaviour while driving with no system in three different traffic scenarios. These first results will also be used to fine-tune the user acceptance test for a real environment along the COOPERS demonstration sites in Italy, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France. The starting point of the session will be a short description of the defined co-operative services that will be tested within COOPERS followed by the definition of the test methodology. After the discussion of the first results based on the simulator study and their effects on the tests along the Test Sites, an outlook of expected results will be given.
   
• Friday 6 June, 09.00-10.30
  SS27 ! Co-operative traffic systems for the environment reducing traffic emissions by integrating floating vehicle data
   
  This session will open with a keynote speaker giving a commentary on the challenges in the area of reducing traffic emissions. Following this, the role of ITS and telematics in reducing traffic emissions will be considered using the example of co-operative traffic systems for the environment. Specific topics in this session will include:
  • Integration of on-board vehicle sensor data with environmental monitoring data enabling traffic management strategies
  optimised for CO2 reduction;
  • Influencing traffic patterns / flow using driver information and guidance and adaptive traffic control systems;
  • Reducing CO2, other emissions and noise through co-operative urban traffic control that dynamically optimises traffic light
  phases according to the numbers, types and destinations of vehicles arriving at a junction;
  • On-line validation of impacts by integrating real-time modelling and real-world environmental monitoring;
  • Development of strategies for access control and charging linked to drivers’ actual CO2 emissions and driving behaviour.
  The integration of ITS technologies, as a new approach to mitigate the impact of mobility on the environment, is a topic whose time has come if future growth in mobility levels in Europe is to be sustainable. For example, in its Green Paper on urban mobility (adopted 25 September 2007), the European Commission sets a new European agenda for urban mobility, consistent with the responsibilities of local, regional and national authorities in this field. This Special Interest Session will provide an ideal platform to discuss the challenges of sustainable mobility and discuss the solutions that could be offered through the widescale implementation and integration of ITS technologies.
   
• Friday 6 June, 11.00-12.30
  TS34 ! ETC – EFC 6
   
  "Developing value chains for co-operative services - an Austrian example", Susanne Fuchs, HiTec Marketing, Austria

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