I_HeERO Newsletter December 2016

UPDATE ON I_HeERO ACTIVITIES
eCall for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HVG) (including Dangerous Goods)
and Long Distance Buses and Coaches
by Renata Kadric
IRU Projects
The work of this Activity of I_HeERO project is dedicated to the research on the extension of eCall to other types
of vehicles, in this case HGV (including vehicles transporting dangerous goods) and Long Distance Buses and
Coaches. The work of this Activity is planned to be performed according to the following steps:
1. Analysis of stakeholder needs and specification of interfaces
2. Prototype development and interfacing to existing information sources
3. Development of cost-benefit analysis for each of the specific vehicle groups
4. Recommendations on type approval legislation and next steps towards eCall implementation
Work on this Activity started in December 2015 with the Kick-off meeting in Brussels with the presence of most
of Member States involved in the project. At that meeting, Member States (Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Italy,
Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovenia) presented their individual plans regarding the activity on eCall for HGV.
The first steps of the work included the collection of information on HGV research in the previous eCall projects,
mainly HeERO2. The important issue was also to collect all the current standards that need to be taken into consideration
for any future recommendations on HGV eCall. Cooperation was also established with the CEN (European
Committee for Standardisation) Working Group 15 for eSafety in order to get their feedback on all the
documents produced and possibly recommendations on how to set the basis for future HGV eCall standards.
The work of Activity 2 was organised in such a way that all the project partners work together on the deliverables
set out in the Grant Agreement and the Work Plan, but each Member State participating in this activity is
also doing its own research and studies on the development of HGV eCall in their respective countries.
The joint work included the setting up of the Technical Expert
Group to work on the specification of eCall for HGV and prototype
development. The main focus of this group through 2016
was the work on Deliverable 2.1 Draft specification of eCall for
HGV (including Dangerous Goods) and related use cases which
will help to define user needs. The next step is work on requirements
and reference architecture.
This Activity had two meetings with project partners this year.
The first one was held on 10 and 11 May 2016 in Prague and
the second one on 26 October 2016 in Brussels. Most of the
activity partners also participated in eCall days from 21 to 23 of
September 2016 in Hamburg.
All of these activity deliverables are due well into 2017, with the
first ones coming up at the end of March 2017. This means that
the most intensive work for this activity is taking place during
the winter of 2016/2017. For 2017, this activity also plans significant
dissemination activities, especially the demonstration road show with the truck travelling through the
project Member States and demonstrating the HGV eCall.
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