Bringing intelligent systems to the market: the new European research challenge of

Field Operational Tests

Fabrizio MinariniHead of Sector

ICT for TransportDirectorate General Information Society and Media

European Commission

FESTA Workshop11 December 2007

The Intelligent Car is one of the i2010 Flagship Initiatives.

The objective is to improve the quality of the living environment by supporting ICT solutions for safer, smarter and cleaner mobility of people and goods.

i2010 and the Intelligent Car Initiative

eSafety ForumStakeholderscoordination

Research FP6 FP7

Challenge 6 – 2 Objectives.

Awareness

Set of specific Actions

Intelligent Car

Intelligent Car Systems

new solutions contributing to solve societal challenges related to transport:

Contribute to a more efficient use of fuelsby better vehicle and traffic management

Increase overall performance of the transportsystems by providing real time information

Reduce the number of fatalities and injuries on the roads by alerting the driver of dangers

Intelligent Car Initiative:from passive to active system approach

Intelligent Car: Objectives

1. Coordinate and support the work of relevant stakeholders, citizens, Member States and the Industry through eSafety Forum

2. Support research and development in the area of smarter, cleaner and safer vehicles and facilitate the take-up and use of research results

3. Create awareness of ICT based solutions to stimulate user’s demand for these systems and create socio-economic acceptance

Focus on Safer, Cleaner and Smarter Vehicles

1st year achievements

1. Coordination and support eSafety• eCall 3rd Com – Signatures MoU – EP Report • HMI ESoP• ADAS Code of Practice• Incentives

2. Research and development:• Strategic Research Agenda• Co-operative V/V & V/I systems• ICT for Clean Mobility• FOTs

3. Create awareness • eSafety Aware• Studies: Benchmarking - Eurobarometer

Intelligent Car Implementation

new Commission Communication

Adopted 17/9/2007

Towards Europe-wide

Safer, Cleaner and Efficient Mobility:

The First Intelligent Car Report

Action 8

The Commission will launch Field Operational Tests (FOT's)

within FP7 by mid-2008.

History of Research on ICT for Transport

IST98-02

TAP94-98

DRIVE1986-90

PROMETHEUSEureka Activity

TransportTelematics 92-94

FP6

2002-2007

150m€ 160m€

FOT: the missing ring in the R&D chain

• Several Systems have been developed (PREVENT)

• Demonstrations have been used to test the technical and functional behaviour

• Often constrained to controlled conditions and in limited scale

• This situation has created a true need for improved knowledge on questions that are crucial for a faster market implementation.

• how drivers use intelligent systems,

• what are their short and long term effects

• how system performance could be further improved.

Answers very valuable to the industry but also to policy makers and public authorities in their decision making process.

Field Operational Tests

Objective of FOT in FP7

1. Validate the effectiveness of ICT based systems for safer, cleaner and more efficient transport in a real environment

2. Analyse driver behaviour and user acceptance 3. Analyse and assess the impact of intelligent safety and

efficiency functions using real data 4. Improve awareness on the potential of intelligent transport

systems and create socio economic acceptance5. To obtain technical data for system design and product

development6. To ensure the transferability of the FOT results at National,

European and International level.

Field Operational Tests

FOCUS ON TECHNICALLY MATURE SYSTEMS

Examples of systems • eCall • enhanced night vision systems• advanced cruise control plus stop-and-go functions• lateral support systems like lane change assistant and lane

departure warning• emergency braking • speed alert• collision avoidance and collision mitigation systems • pedestrian protection • driver hypo vigilance monitoring and warning • trans-national Real time traffic information • active navigation (navigation augmented with dynamic

traffic information).

FOT Requirements

FOTs should be:

– Carried out at European level according to the FESTA handbook,

– With the necessary fleet of vehicles and infrastructure,

– With the appropriate number of drivers – During sufficiently long periods

to collect data that will allow statistical value and scientifically sound conclusions.

The purpose is to test and evaluate IVSS FUNCTIONS and not brands’ products

FOTs Networking

Complementary ongoing/past experiences

Europe • Demonstration activities in previous R&D

programmes• National FOTs

Japan• SMARTWAY• FOT - part of the national R&D Programme

USA• IVI, VII,

Field Operational Tests

Planning FOT

• Phase 1: First call– Ramping up of FOT; to analyse and establish the

structure, organisation, running conditions and assessment methodology of FOT in Europe

• Phase 2: Second call– FOT:s on technically mature ICT systems, including

technical, user acceptance, efficiency and deployment aspects

• Phase 3: Future calls– FOT on co-operative systems

• Labelling and Networking of FOTs

Field Operational Tests

Timing

Call 1

• Successful ramping up of Field Operational Tests – FESTA

Call 2

• Large scale Field Operational Tests– Evaluated in November 07– Results available this week to ICTC– 4 large Proposals received– 2 IPs + Networking activity selected

Field Operational Tests

Future

WP 09-010 Orientations

• Large scale Field Operational Tests– FOT on Intelligent Vehicle Systems– FOT on Cooperative Systems– Focus on problem specific scenarios

• Urban Traffic• Intersection safety• Motorway Driving

– Naturalistic Driving for accident causation– FOT Methodology

Field Operational Tests

Indicative Budget & Call Information

• Objective 6.1: Call 1 – budget Available 57 M€:– Rumping up FOTs: FESTA – 1.4m€– 100% Funded

• Objective 6.2: Call 2

– Indicative budget available: 48 M€:– Large scale FOTs: 2 IPs+SA ~ 25m€

• WP 09-010: ??

Field Operational Tests

Contact:Fabrizio Minarini:

fabrizio.minarini@ec.europa.eu+32 2 2968829

Mail Boxes: INFSO- intelligent-car@ec.europa.euINFSO-eSafety@ec.europa.eu

ICT in FP 7:

• http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/

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