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CONNECTED 

TRUCKS AND 

DRIVERS 

www.renault-trucks.com

RENAULT TRUCKS 

Without trucks, everything would grind to a halt. As a designer, manufacturer and distributor of commercial 

vehicles Renault Trucks uses "intelligent" technologies to enhance hauliers' productivity together with meeting 

the interests of society. However, the manufacturer cannot imagine creating any transport system that is not 

built around people. 

People at the heart of a cooperative transport system 

Commercial vehicles are becoming increasingly incorporated into a complex system made up of components 

that interact with each other, exchanging information to optimise their assignments. Drivers and their trucks 

have become key links in the system, using telematics to obtain information which allows decision-makers to 

act in the best interests of safety, environmental protection and optimised mobility. 

Connecting truck and driver 

In this context, the challenge is to simplify truck drivers' lives and help them with their assignments without 

taking away any of their responsibility. For they should always be in full command of their vehicle and its 

assistance systems, whether they are on-board or remote. The aim is to give drivers the key information they 

need in real time, allowing them to make the best choices and enjoy working and living in their cabs. 

Driver interconnection has reached a new level, since it is now possible for them to be directly linked to 

information systems via roaming applications designed to optimise their assignments. For example, since the 

beginning of 2011, Renault Trucks has been offering the NAV'TRUCK application, the first HGV dedicated 

GPS available for Smartphones. This application comes with a geo-locator so that users can contact the 

closest Renault Trucks service point with just two clicks. Other complementary applications will be regularly 

added to this system. 

ITS are the key to Green urban deliveries 

Renault Trucks believes that in the future, goods transport will be progressively separated into two distinct, 

although interrelated, types. On one hand there will be long haul transport carried out by highly productive rigs 

running on Diesel, and on the other, strictly regulated urban zones in which "grouped goods transport" will be 

provided by vehicles with high environmental credentials carrying consolidated loads. 

All-electric or electric-hybrid vehicles, such as the Renault Maxity electric or the Renault Premium Hybrys-Tech 

are now appearing on the European market. They are the first in the new generations of vehicles capable of 

meeting the demands of local public policies which will control the mobility of goods in urban environments and 

impose "carbon free" transport solutions by limiting access in terms of space or time. They are also 

emblematic of the role Intelligent Transport Systems will have to play to guarantee that this mobility can be 

provided as energy-efficiently as possible and with a minimum level of nuisance. 

Their connection to the transport system is in fact essential, since the quantity of electrical energy stored on 

these vehicles is limited. This means drivers must always be sure they can replenish their energy supply. Their 

vehicle must therefore be able to receive information in real-time, processing and forwarding it in order to 

complete their assignments. This involves knowing the shortest or least congested route, the availability of 

delivery bays, conditions of access to protected zones, the location of supply sites, etc. 

Full-scale demonstrations 

For several years, Renault Trucks has been taking part in national and European research programmes 

demonstrating in the field how ITS technologies can contribute to incorporating commercial vehicles into 

transport systems. These include: CHAUFFEUR2, SafeTunnel, VIF, SafeSpot, CVIS, FIDEUS, CityLog, etc. 

This type of project makes it possible to test these technologies and determine what is involved and the 

benefits they can bring (safer, more productive, and more reliable operations having a reduced impact on the 

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environment). They also highlight the necessity for a far-reaching collaborative effort between those concerned 

by the success of their implementation (infrastructure designers and managers, vehicle and equipment 

manufacturers, hauliers, public authorities, etc.). 

In particular, Renault Trucks is involved in the European FREILOT project which aims to improve the energy 

efficiency of urban deliveries by the use of ITS. Within the framework of this project, in 2011 Renault Trucks 

vehicles are taking part in a full-scale experiment in the Greater Lyon Authority area. They are fitted with 

automatic speed and acceleration limiters which are activated within certain predefined zones as well as realtime 

economic driving assistance to reduce their Diesel consumption and resulting CO2 emissions. With the 

same end in view, they will also support applications designed to give trucks priority at traffic lights. 

As an acknowledged specialist in urban vehicles and focusing its superior competences in this field in the 

Rhône-Alpes region, Renault Trucks is a founding member of the Lyon Urban Truck & Bus competitive cluster 

dedicated to public transport and grouped goods transport in urban areas. The company has the benefit of 

belonging to a powerful group (Volvo AB), particularly with respect to Volvo Technology (VTEC), 

which combines the skills of 500 researchers worldwide, all focusing on innovation in the vehicles, services 

and transport solutions field. 



June 2011

NAV'TRUCK 

The first GPS for HGVs on smartphones 

At the beginning of 2011, Renault Trucks launched Nav'Truck, the first GPS 

application specially designed for HGVs, available on iPhone and Android. 

Once drivers have entered their vehicle's configuration into the system, they 

will be given a route entirely made up of the safest roads and those they are 

allowed to take. A series of add-on applications to further facilitate their 

transport assignment is also available. 

Advantages 

 

Maps accurate routes 

■ Increases productivity 

■ Reduces delivery times 

■ Reduces 

the risk of error 

Information on access restrictions 

■ Increases safety 

■ Reduces 

costs 

Main functions 

 

 

Products & services 

■ Enables low bridges and restricted access roads to be avoided 

■ Gives warnings of hairpin bends or no-overtaking zones 

■ Enables HGV prohibited bends and U-turn zones to be avoided 

■ Enables roads prohibited to dangerous or inflammable materials to be avoided 

■ Vocal instructions at each corner using "Text 

to speech" technology to announce street 

names 

■ 3-D and 2-D driving views with variable zoom 

■ Positioning indicator on the road giving a more realistic view at complex intersections 

■ Street number navigation accuracy or to a contact address 

■ Standard radar warnings 

■ Adjustable speed limitation warnings (speed limitation warnings 

for HGVs only available in 

some zones) 

■ Routes with multiple stopping points and road plans 

Smartphone integration 

■ Navigation continues during calls 

■ Calls or navigation 

to points of interest by touching the screen 

■ Portrait or Landscape 

mode with "Pinch to zoom" 

Live services 

■ Live Local Search 

■ Live weather: with 5 day forecasts. 

■ Live Traffic Warnings 



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Complementary applications (1 per month) 

Renault 

Trucks network 

■ Indicates the closest 

Renault Trucks network outlet and the services it offers. Once located, 

the driver can contact the dealer by telephone or visit the dealership website and then view 

the shortest route for reaching 

it. The application is available in French and English and lists 

more than 1,500 Renault Trucks service points in the 100 countries where the manufacturer 

is represented. 

Deliver 

eye 

■ In the event of any incident, 

drivers can take a photograph of the situation on which the time, 

date and place are shown. This can then 

be sent into the office as proof of what has been 

reported. 

Renault Trucks Racing 

■ The truck racing simulation videogame. 

Technical 

description 

 

Partners 

NAVTEQ Transport Q3 2010 data 

■ Detailed maps with restrictions for HGVs: 

Austria, Belgium, Croatia*, the Czech Republic*, Denmark, Germany, Finland*, France, 

Hungary*, Ireland*, Italy*, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway*, Poland*, Slovakia*, Slovenia*, 

Spain, 

Sweden*, 

Switzerland, the United Kingdom. 

■ Detailed maps without restrictions for HGVs: 

Andorra, 

Estonia, Gibraltar, Greece, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Monaco, Saint Marino, 

Vatican 

City. 

■ Main 

roads and towns 

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Byelorussia, 

Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, 

Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine. 

■ ALK Technologies: development 

■ NAVTEQ: european 

cartography 

Distribution 

■ AppStore 

■ Android Market 



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*HGV restrictions on main roads only

ELECTRIC MAXITY 

Full electric light commercial vehicle 

Specifically designed for operating in town centres on specific urban 

applications, the Electric Maxity opens up new horizons for fleet 

managers. With its zero emission and zero noise pollution, this LCV is 

perfectly adapted to access to protected and restricted access zones by 

day and by night without infringing any regulations. It has a payload 

capacity of up to 1.5 t and can be driven, in France, with a car driving 

licence, just like any other LCV with a GVW of less than 3.5 t 


Fitted with an asynchronous electric motor requiring very little maintenance compared with a comparable 

internal combustion engine, the Electric Maxity is powered by latest generation Li-ion batteries which can be 

recharged in 7 hours. The recovery of braking energy and speed limited to 70 km/h for urban applications 

gives the Electric Maxity an average operating range of 100 km and an instant maximum torque. For greater 

driving comfort and improved manoeuvrability, the Electric Maxity is equipped with a robotised gearbox, and 

features a turning radius of only 6.74 m. 

Application 

■ Urban distribution and other activities geared for the urban environment (garden 

maintenance, street furniture maintenance and waste collection) 

Advantages 

 

■ No pollutant emissions in the atmosphere 

■ No CO2 emissions 

■ No noise pollution 

■ Quiet night-time operation 

■ Access to low emission zones 

■ Braking energy regeneration to recharge batteries 

Original chassis 

■ 4500 kg technical GVW 

■ Homologated at 3500 kg in France, thanks 

to a specific regulation for "clean vehicles“ (car 

driving license) 

■ Payload from 1.1T up to 2T in France 

Electri c driveline 

■ Up to 100 km average operating range 

■ 90 km/h max speed (limited at 70 km/h) 

■ 6 speed robotized gearbox 

■ 47 kW asynchronous electric motor 

controlled by flux vector variation 

■ Instant maximum torque (270 Nm) 

■ Brake 

energy regeneration 

■ Electrically-operated 

ancillaries 

Batteries ■ 40 kWh batteries (~weight 400 kg). Li-ion technology 

■ Battery charge time: 7 hours 



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PREMIUM HYBRYS TECH 

Fuel efficient, quiet and clean 

Leading the field with experimentation of hybrid technology in Europe 

since 2009, Renault Trucks has been able to test several Renault 

Premium Distribution Hybrys Tech vehicles under actual operating 

conditions. The manufacturer achieves this aim by supplying selected 

customers with hybrid vehicles so that they can try out this technology in 

an urban context for as wide a range of applications as possible. 

Field tests 


Waste collection. In 2008 and 2009 Renault Trucks and its partners, the Greater Lyon Authority 

and SITA (the environmental branch of the Suez Group), tested a hybrid refuse collection vehicle 

in the Lyon conurbation. 

Supply of urban worksite. Colas a subsidiary of the Bouygues Group is testing a vehicle fitted 

with a tipper body dedicated to supplying urban worksites with bulk materials in the Lyon 

conurbation. 

Delivery. Coca-Cola Enterprises Belgium is operating a vehicle on the roads of the Brussels 

conurbation delivering the brand's products to various outlets. 

Results 

 

 

■ Energy consumption cut by up to 20 % (up to -30% in household refuse collection 

configuration) 

■ Quieter operation: Diesel engine shuts down when vehicle is at a standstill and starts off in 

electric mode 

■ Improved vehicle mobility and driving comfort 

Advantages 

■ 

■ 

For the individual: 

• Lower CO2 emissions 

• Less noise (stopping, starting and collecting phases) 

• Lower local pollution 

(Electrical starts) 

For the community: 

• Reduced environmental impact 

• Lower diesel oil consumption 

• Operation over longer time periods 

(operating range) 

• Operation in low noise zones 

Implemented Technologies 

■ 

■ 

"Parallel" hybrid technology 

• Kinetic energy recovered in slowing down and braking phases. 

• Operating modes: all-electric; Diesel; 

Diesel-electric 

Diesel/Electrical Driveline : 

• DXi 7 Euro V Diesel engine 

• 1 MDS (Motor Drive System) electrical motor: 120 kW peak power and 70 kW continuous 

• 1 Optidriver+ robotized transmission 

• 1 ESS electric block (Electrical Storage System) in the wheelbase, including power 

batteries, control electronics, power distribution circuits, cooling system. 



June 2011

FREILOT 

Urban Freight Energy Efficiency Pilot 

Objectives Research programmes 

To facilitate and stimulate market introduction 

of ICT services aiming at increasing energy 

efficiency ■ Showing quantifiable benefits to all relevant stakeholders. 

■ Ensuring that FREILOT implementations continue after the pilot. 

■ Extending 

the implementations to more cities and/or truck fleets. 

Increasing 

fuel prices and effects from climate changes have brought the increase of energy efficiency to the 

forefront in all aspects of life. Considering Transport, the European Commission has identified it as one of the 

areas where the biggest energy savings are to be made: 27% by 2020. 

FREILOT pilot focuses on reducing energy 

consumption of goods delivery vehicles in urban areas. The 

specific 

energy consumption of urban goods transport depends on many factors; vehicle performance, driver 

behaviour, urban geography and the road network, traffic control strategies and performance, 

weight of the 

vehicle 

and its load to name but a few. 

Pilot locations : Helmond, Netherlands 

; Lyon, France ; Bilbao, Spain ; Krakow, Poland. 

 

■ Demonstrate -25% CO emissions 

2 

Description 

Services 

Energy efficiency optimised 

intersection control 

Real-time 

delivery space booking 

Acceleration 

limiter and Adaptive speed limiter 

Eco driving support 



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Expected impacts and benefits 

■ Reduced fuel consumption 

■ Reduced CO emissions 

2 

■ Reduced number of vehicle stops and go 

■ Adapted driver/vehicle behaviour 

■ Better speed adaptation 

Evaluation of mature systems & services 

through real condition usage 

■ Systems validation and 

tuning 

■ Driver acceptance 

■ Energy consumption analyses 

Stimulate market introduction of such services 

 

Partners Partnership with key partners as public authorities, laboratories and fleet operators 

■ ERTICO ITS-EUROPE (coordinator) 

■ PEEK Traffic 

■ MLC-ITS EUSKADI 

■ Renault Trucks 

■ Volvo Technology 

■ CTAG (Fundación para la promoción de la innovación, investigación 

y desarrollo tecnológico 

de la industria de automoción de Galicia) 

■ CERTH (Centre For Research and Technology 

HELLAS) 

■ CNRS-LET (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) 

■ City of Helmond 

(Gemeente Helmond) 

■ City of Bilbao (Ayuntamiento 

de Bilbao) 

■ Grand Lyon (Communauté 

urbaine de Lyon) 

■ City of Lyon 

■ Van den Broek 

Logistics 

■ Transportes AZKAR 

■ Thetis 

■ POLIS (Promotion of Operational Links with Integrated Services) 

■ GERTEK 

■ Transportes NANUK 

■ UL2-LET (Université Lumière 

Lyon 2 - Laboratoire d’Économie des Transports). 

Funding programme 

Duration 

■ European Commission. 

■ Project approved by the Lyon Urban Truck & Bus cluster. 

■ 3 years (2009-2012). 



June 2011

CVIS and SAFESPOT 

Renault Premium Distribution Demonstrator 

Objectives 

 

CVIS: Increase efficiency and safety through V2V and V2I cooperation enabled by: 

■ An open architecture and a universal platform prototype 

■ A wireless network amongst vehicles & infrastructure 

■ A framework for application management 

■ Enhanced positioning and mapping solutions 

■ Cooperative data management and exchange 

■ Innovative cooperative applications 

Research programmes 

SAFESPOT: Increase road safety through 

“intelligent” vehicles and “intelligent” infrastructures 

cooperation by 

developing/assessing: 

■ Wireless communication amongst vehicles and infrastructure 

■ Collection and transmission 

of dynamic parameters and safety information in real-time 

■ High precision geo-positioning Innovative cooperative applications 

■ Local Dynamic 

Maps 

Description 

Experimental platform 

Renault Premium Distribution for new solutions developed by Volvo 

Technology within the European Research Programs framework on mobility (CVIS) and safety 

(SAFESPOT.) 



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Applications 

CVIS 

■ Pre-reservation of delivery spaces or parking 

■ Access control (Authorization access to sensitive, low-emission areas according to the 

characteristics of the vehicle) 

■ Supply of information on the traffic and route advice 

■ Speed and environmental instructions 

■ Intersections instructions 

Possible advantages 

■ Reduction of delivery delays 

■ Reduction of the polluting and C02 emissions 

■ Traffic fluidity 

■ Driver comfort and safety improved 

SAFESPOT 

■ Information of road conditions 

■ Speeds limitation and safety distance warning 

■ Lane-change assistance 

■ Frontal and head-on collision warning 

■ Ghost driver Detection 

■ Intersections instructions 

■ Detection and protection of the vulnerable 

road users 

■ Local Dynamic Map 

Possible advantages 

■ Reduction of the number of accidents 

■ Traffic fluidity 



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Results 

Contribution to E.U. Directive on intelligent transport 

systems deployment 

Agreed priority areas 

■ Optimal use of road, traffic and travel data; 

■ Continuity of traffic and freight management ITS services; 

■ ITS road safety and security applications; 

■ Linking the vehicle with 

the transport infrastructure 

CVIS and SAFESPOT developed cooperative platforms and applications that demonstrated how intelligent 

vehicles on intelligent roads can improve 

network efficiency and safety. Projects outcomes are being used in 

several follow-up initiatives, e.g european projects FREILOT, eCoMove and COSMO. Both projects took an 

active part in the standardization of the co-operative 

systems (architecture, communication protocols, and 

messages) 

via ETSI and CEN. 


Coordination Duration 

Agreed priority actions 

■ The provision of EU-wide multimodal travel information services; 

■ The provision of EU-wide real-time traffic 

information services; 

■ Data and procedures for the provision of road safety related minimum universal traffic 

information free of charge to users; 

■ The harmonised provision for an interoperable EU-wide eCall; 

■ The provision of information services for safe and secure parking places for trucks and 

commercial vehicles; 

■ The provision of reservation services for safe and secure parking places for trucks and 

commercial vehicles 

Partners (CVIS and Safespot) 

 

■ 

European Community - FP6 

■ CVIS 

: ERTICO – ITS Europe 

■ SAFESPOT : Centro Ricerche Fiat 

■ CVIS/SAFESPOT: 2006–2010 

For further information: www.cvisproject.org ; www.safespot-eu.org 



June 2011

CITYLOG 

Sustainability and efficiency of city logistics 

Objective 


To contribute to the improvement of the overall city logistics efficiency through a combination of 

several measures: 

■ Technology 

Info-telematic support functionalities 

New logistic-oriented vehicle solutions 

■ Delivery process review 

Vehicle-to-vehicle transhipment 

Innovative and interoperable load units 

Global logistic scheme 

 

Logistic 

hub 1 

Freight bus 

route 

Today’s situation 

CityLog concept 

Proposed logistic model 

City 

centre 

Transhipment areas 

Delivery van route 

Delivery 

van 

route 

Today, commercial vehicles leave the hubs for the delivery missions. 

The paradigm is: one vehicle, one mission. In the CityLog vision, the 

freight will be moved from the hub to the city centre by a “freight bus”, a 

vehicle able to carry several load units. The load unit will then be 

transferred onto a van for the last mile delivery. These innovative, 

compact load units will have several configurations, also to be used 

according to the “Bento Box” concept, a sort of mobile pack station. The 

Ben to Box allows decoupling the parcel delivery by the carrier and the 

customer fetching his parcel in 

order to reduce unsuccessful deliveries. 



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At the transhipment area 

Today 3 vans leave the hub and enter the city 

for the final deliveries. In CityLog, a freight bus 

moves the containers downtown with the freight 

for 3 urban areas. Vans carry out the distribution: 

for each area they load the respective container.


Partners ■ Low environmental impact and safe vehicles 

■ Optimized routing for commercial vehicles, less impact on urban mobility 

■ Flexible solutions and higher efficiency of the freight distribution 

■ Reduction of unsuccessful deliveries 

■ Safety manoeuvring 

■ Closer to the stakeholders needs: operators, drivers, city authorities, end users 

■ Centro Ricerche FIAT (coordinator) 

■ IVECO 

■ Volvo Technology (Renault Trucks) 

■ TNT 

Express Italy 

■ NAVTEQ 

■ TNO 

■ PTV – Planung 

Transport Verkehr 

■ Mizar Automazione 

■ Fraunhofer Institut 

für 

Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik 

■ Europlatforms 

■ Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung 

Berlin 

■ Communauté Urbaine de Lyon 

■ Regione Piemonte 

■ ERTICO-ITS EUROPE 

■ ICOOR – Interuniversity Consortium 

for Optimization 

and Operation Research 

■ Interface Transport 

■ RE:LAB 

■ Logistic Network Consultants. 

Funding 

program 

Duration ■ European Commission 

– FP7. 

■ Supported by EUCAR, the European Council for Automotive R&D. 

■ Project approved by the Lyon Urban 

Truck & Bus cluster. 

■ 3 years 

(2010-2012) 

For 

further information: www.city-log.eu 



June 2011

COROLA 

COncrete mixer ROllover Avoidance 

Objective 


The aim of COROLA is to provide the truck driver in advance with information regarding the rollover stability. 

Using GPS technology and tools, the truck is positioned (latitude and longitude) on a digital road via mapmatching 

algorithms. Then, we estimate the road curvature, calculate in real-time the suitable max speeds and 

alert the driver if the speed profile of the truck is risky compared to a reference. 

Description 

 

 

■ Using GPS technology, the truck is positioned on a digital map and the road identified. 

■ The suitable max speeds are calculated in real-time from road curvatures. 

■ The driver is alerted (sound and visual) if his speed profile is risky compared to a reference. 

■ The feature is released in a standalone device that can be retrofitted on all existing trucks. 


■ Driver’s safety. 

■ Accident avoidance. 

■ Overall road safety and service. 

Partners 

■ Renault Trucks (coordinator) 

■ Adeneo (Adetel Group) - Embedded Electronic hardware and software 

design company 

■ Lafarge - Concrete and gravels supply 

■ University of LYON I – LEACM/CRIS – Human science laboratory 

■ IFSTTAR (former INRETS) – French institute of science and technology for transport, 

development and networks. 

Funding program 

Duration 

■ FEDER. 

■ Project 

approved by the Lyon Urban Truck & Bus cluster. 

■ 3 years (2009-2011) 



June 2011

FIDEUS 

Freight Innovative Delivery of goods in European Urban 

Spaces 

Objective 


To test innovative urban freight delivery solutions on the basis of vehicles fitted with on-board ICT 

services enabling communication with the infrastructure. 

Renault Trucks developed a medium range (12-tonne) 190 hp Renault Midlum, equipped with new emissions 

reduction systems, better safety and security features, improved driver environment. 

It was tested in the Grand Lyon area by DHL for parcels delivery in January 2008 and in Barcelona by Condis 

for night deliveries in March 2008. 

Results 

Lower noise emissions, down to –6 dB (A) for night-time deliveries 

■ Reduced impact by a work on noise generating sources 

■ Low noise mode through active driveline monitoring 

Fuel savings and lower air pollution 

■ Low emission and low consumption mode through active driveline monitoring. 

 

 

Improved safety 

■ Hands-free entry and exit 

■ Automatic driver identification 

■ Automatic door and window control 

Enhanced operational efficiency 

■ Navigation, geo-location, continuous contact with the control base, via PDA 

■ RFIS parcels identification 

■ Authorisation to access low emission zones 



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Partners 


■ IVECO 

■ Impacts 

■ Grand Lyon 

■ Barcelona de Serveis Municipals, S.A. 

■ DHL 

■ TNT 

■ Dsd 

■ Mizar 

■ University of Westminster 

■ Centro Ricerche FIAT 

(coordinator) 

■ Cybernetics France 

■ Hannover region 

■ Impacts Europe 

Funding 

programme 

Duration 

■ European 

Commission - FP6 

■ 3 years (2006-2009) 



June 2011

VIF 

Interactive Vehicle of the Future 

Objectives 

Definition, Implementation and assessment of a Vehicle-Infrastructure System 

■ To optimize costs of transport (infrastructures and vehicles) 

■ To improve safety on the 

roads 

■ To reduce congestion 

■ To reduce pollution 

Description 

 

 

 


On board functions 

■ Speed limitation in a given geographical area 

■ Maintenance of a minimum distance between 

vehicles in a given geographical area (ACC) 

■ Rollover prediction 

■ Driver's information display management 

■ Axle load information improvement 

■ Fuel gauge information improvement 

■ Collection of legal 

data from digital tachograph 

■ Area management and communications 

with the control tower 

■ Weigh station 

Functions hosted in the Control Center 

■ Area management and communications with 

the 

vehicle 

■ Human-Machine Interface 

■ Collection 

of legal data from digital tachograph 

■ Forecast calculation of fuel consumption 

Results 

A complete system involving vehicle, in-motion weigh station and management center. 

Partners 

■ Renault Trucks (Coordinator) 

■ Michelin 

■ SODIT 

■ Actia Group 

■ LCPC – Laboratoire 

Central des Ponts et Chaussées. 


Duration 

■ PREDIT/ FUI. 

■ Project approved by Lyon 

Urban Truck & Bus cluster (LUTB). 

■ 3 years (2005-2008) 



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PROMOTE-CHAUFFEUR 2 

Objectives 

 

■ To help to assess the problems of truck integration into traffic 

■ Various trucks exchange data between them 

■ The infrastructure is used as the reference 

system. 

■ Sensors allow measuring environment 

■ Man-machine interfaces 

■ Communications protocols and technologies. 

Expectations and benefits 

 


ACC: Adaptive Cruise Control 

■ As long as no vehicle is detected ahead, the ACC system provides speed control as a 

conventional Cruise Control system. 

■ If a vehicle is detected in the 

current lane, the ACC then provides a Safe Distance Control. 

Tow bar – Automated platoon 

■ Tow bar system provides an electronic coupling of two or more trucks in an automated 

platoon. Only the first truck needs an active driver. 

■ The Tow bar features a very short following distance control: about 12 meters at 90kmh. 

Therefore, a 2-truck Tow bar platoon is about 45% shorter than 2 conventional trucks 

separated by the legal distance of 50 m. The aerodynamic drag is reduced as well, and the 

fuel consumption of the so-formed convoy is lowered by until 15 %. 

■ Based on video image processing 

and inter-vehicles radio communication, the Tow bar and 

Automated platoon 

developed within the CHAUFFEUR 2 project does not require any road 

infrastructure modification. 

 

■ Improvement of driving safety 

■ Improvement of traffic safety 

■ Reduction in fuel consumption. 

Features developed on the Renault 

Trucks demonstrator 

Lane keeping 

■ A two-camera Vision Sensor detects the lane boundaries (lane width, lane curvature, current 

lateral offsets to boundaries). 

■ The LK computes these data together with vehicle dynamic parameters (current yaw angle 

and velocity, current speed), and controls the electronically controlling steering system (target 

wheel angle). 

ZF Lenksysteme steer by wire for CHAUFFEUR 2 



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Results 

A complete system including 3 different demonstrators from 3 different companies: Mercedes, 

IVECO, and Renault Trucks. 

Partners 

Duration 


■ Renault DR 

■ Daimler Chrysler 

(coordinator) 

■ IVECO 

■ ZF Lenksysteme 

■ Wabco 

■ Bosch 

■ CRL 

■ TÜV 

■ Cologne University 

■ CSST 

■ Benz Consult 

■ Clifford Chance 

■ Pündler. 

Funding 

program 

■ European 

Commission – FP5. 

■ 3 years (1999-2002). 



June 2011

SAFE TUNNEL 

Innovative systems and frameworks for enhancing traffic 

safety in road tunnels 

Objective 


To contribute to reduce the number of accidents inside road tunnels by preventive safety 

measures. Basic ideas are to communicate the knowledge of the vehicle status in order to avoid 

the access into the tunnel to those vehicles with detected or imminent on-board anomalies and by 

introducing measures to achieve the control of the speed and distance of the vehicles inside 

tunnel. 

Description 

 

■ Development of advanced on board algorithms able to improve the status information of 

selected components generating possible breakdowns or high temperatures. The on board 

system communicates with the control center and allows managing the access of the 

tunnel. 

■ Integration of speed and distance control by using Adaptive Cruise Control. 

■ On board Human/Machine Interface to communicate with the driver in case of emergency 

information broadcast. 

Vehicle Prognostics 

■ Detect and forecast faults likely to immobilize the vehicle or decrease vehicle behavior. 

■ Highlight some critical overheating components. 

■ Send the 

relevant information to the Tunnel Control Center (TCC) related to the vehicle 

status. 

Access control 

■ Situation analysis by the Tunnel Control Center and decision on the strategy concerning the 

tunnel access. 

■ Possibility to establish a phone call between the driver and the TCC. 

Tunnel 

Deregistration 

Tunnel Area exit Detection 

Tunnel Exit Detection 

Tunnel 

Registration 

Tunnel Area Entrance Detection 

Tunnel Entrance Detection 



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Telecontrol: objective for the Renault Trucks demonstrator 

 

■ Integration of advanced driver assistance systems to support regulation of speed and 

distance 

■ Speed and inter distance regulation is done according to tunnel rules received from the 

infrastructure 

■ Maximum speed is defined by speed limitation inside the tunnel 

■ Distance regulation between vehicles is done according to tunnel instructions. 

■ Use of a radar system 

Dissemination of information 

■ Emergency information and instructions distributed from the Tunnel 

Control Center directly to 

the on board display. It can concern safety and traffic information. 

■ The system 

enables to establish a voice connection between the driver and the tunnel control 

centre. 

Results 

Partners 

■ Concept analysis, safety assessment, emergency procedures, relevant 

data processing, 

communication protocol, prognostic, features… 

■ Final demonstration involving Renault Trucks, Iveco, Frejus Tunnel… 


■ Centro Ricerche 

FIAT (coordinator) 

■ TILAB (Telecom Italia Lab) 

■ SITAF 

■ SFTRF 

■ Fiat Engineering 

■ ENEA (Ente per le Nuove tecnologie l'Energia 

e l'Ambiente) 

■ TÜV 

■ TLC Tecnosistemi 

■ BGU (Ben-Gurion University). 


 

■ European 

Commission – FP5. 

Duration 

■ 3 years (2001-2004) 

For 

further information: http://www.ist-world.org 



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