New and upcoming projects

摘要

ERTICO started the new year by kicking off two new projects. i-Travel is an 18-month project co-financed by the EC DG for Research, Transport Directorate. The project, which brings together a consortium of 20 partners drawn from public authorities, commercial companies and research institutes, is being coordinated by ERTICO. Key to the i-Travel concept is the building of a community of service providers that can operate competitively to provide services and goods to the connected traveller. Project Manager at ERTICO is Gary Bridgeman The second new project that got underway in January was ROSAT-TE, a 30-month project which is being co-ordinated by ERTICO and co-financed by the EC DG Information & Society & Media. ROSATTE, which brings together a consortium of 15 European companies and organisations consisting of public road authorities, commercial map providers and research institutes, will develop the enabling infrastructure and supporting tools that will ensure European access to road safety attributes including incremental updates. Project Manager at ERTICO is Sophie Dupuis In addition there are three proj- ects which will be launched in April. EuroFOT is a major project which is being co-ordinated by the auto industry and which will be conducting an on-road impact assessment of ADAS. Over the next three years some 1000 vehicles will be driving round Europe putting various advanced driver assistance systems into practice. This project, which is key in the transfer of research to deployment, will test commercially available systems and others which are at pre-maturi-ty stage but could be introduced soon.