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Research/Project Description

eIMPACT
Socio-economic Impact Assessment of stand-alone and co-operative intelligent vehicle safety systems (IVSS) in Europe eIMPACT is an European Specific Targeted Project co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies and Media.

This 6th Framework project, coordinated by TNO focuses on the socio-economic Impact Assessment of stand-alone and co-operative intelligent vehicle safety systems (IVSS) in Europe. The project started in January 2006 and will end in December 2007. European governments aim to halve road fatalities by the year 2010. One way to achieve this aim is provided by IVSS. The successful introduction on the market of IVSS is strongly related to the socioeconomic impact of such systems and, in this context, eIMPACT will contribute to paving the way to their successful implementation.

Socio-economic impacts

The socio-economic impact assessment, developed in the SEiSS project (2005), forms the basis for this project and will be extended in eIMPACT to address stakeholder-specific issues. All other eIMPACT work is defined in relation to this socio-economic impact assessment. Key activities include:

  • Identification of the most promising standalone and co-operative IVSS technologies;
  • Development of scenarios for IVSS for the years 2010 and 2020;
  • Impact of IVSS traffic safety and efficiency in these scenarios;
  • Identification of policies to enable the implementation of IVSS.

Expected results

The most important results of eIMPACT will be:

  • Inventory and recommendations of IVSS for in-depth socio-economic impact assessment;
  • Methodological framework and database for socio-economic evaluation of IVSSs;
  • Traffic and Safety impact assessment of IVSS;
  • Cost-benefit analysis for stand-alone and cooperative Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems;
  • Policy recommendations to promote selected Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems;
  • Stakeholder Analysis for Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems;
  • Perspectives for market introduction of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems.

These results will contribute directly to policy development at European and national levels. Information about workshops, conferences, newsletters & brochures will be available from the website www.eimpact.info.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

The consortium is managed by TNO (NL) and consists of 13 partners:

  • TNO
  • UOC
  • DCA
  • CRF
  • BMW
  • Bosch
  • PTV
  • VTT
  • BASt
  • RWS
  • CDV
  • MOVEA, IMC.

Contact

  • Kerry Malone, TNO, Telephone: +31-15-269 69 12, E-mail: [email protected]
    www.eimpact.info

Time Frame

Start Date: 01/01/2006
Duration: 24 months
End Date: 31/12/2007

Research/Project Description

MORYNE
EnhanceMent of public transpORt efficiencY through the use of mobile seNsor nEtworks MORYNE aims to contribute to:

  • greater transport efficiency
  • increased transport safety
  • a more environmental friendly transport by improving traffic management in an urban and sub-urban area.

MORYNE will provide an effective cooperative system, by using public transport vehicles (e.g buses) as elements of a network of mobile sensors, communicating with the infrastructure, and setting up co-operation between public traffic management and city traffic management.
Within the MORYNE project, the cooperation loop will be the following:

  • Public transport vehicles will be equipped with sensors that will collect data about the vehicle environment
  • Sensor data will be processed locally and in real-time to generate information which will be sent to a Public Traffic Management Centre through reliable and cost-efficient radio communications
  • The Public Traffic Management Centre will make the collected information available to a City Traffic Management Centre to provide an upto-date picture of the traffic situation
  • The City Traffic Management Centre will derive traffic management decisions always going through the Public Traffic Management Centre before being sent to appropriate distributed Traffic Control Devices (e.g. Variable Message Sign panels) and to vehicle drivers (via PDA, Internet, message broadcasting)

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

The consortium consists of 10 partners:

  • EADS SN SAS
  • EADS SN GmbH
  • MARTEC
  • MULT
  • TEMEX
  • EUSKALTEL
  • GMV
  • KTI
  • BVG
  • MRBC

Contact

  • Name: Audrey Zeini, Organisation: EADS Secure Networks, Telelephone: +33-1-34 60 88 70, E-mail: [email protected], www.fp6-moryne.org

Time Frame

Start Date: 01/01/2006
Duration: 24 months
End Date: 31/12/2007

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