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In contrast to euroFOT, CVIS project’s ambition was to begin a revolution in mobility
by creating a system allowing vehicles to communicate with the immediate roadside
infrastructure. This means, for instance, that traffic light controllers in “smart
cities” adapt green waves to the number of approaching vehicles, or that the wider
transport infrastructure, such as network management centres, enable a wide range
of cooperative services to run on an open application framework (including on
smartphones). At test sites in six different European countries, CVIS tested cooperative
reference applications for freight, fleet and public transport management. Although
CVIS terminated already some years ago, its achievements live on, for instance in
the current FREILOT innovation project or in the recently kicked-off research project
Compass4D.
CVIS (Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems)
CVIS developed and tested at six test sites across Europe a number of cooperative
applications: a router capable of maintaining a continuous internet connection over a wide
range of media, techniques for enhanced vehicle positioning and the creation of local
dynamic maps, improved data sharing between vehicles, roadside infrastructure and other
service centres. Its technological solutions are now used in project eCoMove (see below)
funded by Seventh Framework Programme.
http://www.cvisproject.org
Funded by the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
Duration: 2006 - 2010
The growing mobility of people and goods implies very high social costs in terms of
fatalities and injured people. SAFESPOT developed a cooperative solution called
Safety Margin Assistant that detects potentially dangerous situations and extends
drivers’ awareness of the surroundings. This higher awareness of the vehicle’s
immediate environment gives the driver more time to react to dangerous conditions
and thus helps avoid or mitigate accidents and increase road safety. The results
achieved by SAFESPOT have been used in several follow-up projects.
SAFESPOT
SAFESPOT developed many solutions that can prevent accidents on intersections, help to
overtake safely in urban and semi-urban roads, warn against head on, rear end and frontal
collisions, inform about road conditions.
Applications were tested in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands. Its
technological solutions are now used in project eCoMove funded by Seventh Framework
Programme.
http://www.safespot-eu.org/
Funded by the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
Duration: 2006 - 2010
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