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Project funded by the Eurpean Community under the Information and Communication Technologies Programme - Contract ICT-FP7-280733

D7.4 Third meeting of the Project Advisory Board

DATA science for SIMulating the era of electric vehicles

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Project details

Project reference: 270833 Status: Execution Programme acronym: FP7-ICT (FET Open) Subprogramme area: ICT-2009.8.0 Future and Emerging Technologies Contract type: Collaborative project (generic)

Consortium details

Coordinator: 1. (UHasselt) Universiteit Hasselt

Partners: 2. (CNR) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 3. (BME) Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem 4. (Fraunhofer) Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerdering der Angewandten Forschung E.V 5. (UPM) Universidad Politecnica de Madrid 6. (VITO) Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V. 7. (IIT) Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 8. (UPRC) University of Piraeus Research Center 9. (HU) University of Haifa

Contact details

Prof. dr. Davy Janssens Universiteit Hasselt– Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)

Fuction in DATA SIM: Person in charge of scientific and technical/technological aspects Address: Wetenschapspark 5 bus 6 | 3590 Diepenbeek | Belgium Tel.: +32 (0)11 26 91 28 Fax: +32 (0)11 26 91 99 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.imob.uhasselt.be

Deliverable details

Work Package WP7 Deliverable: D7.4 Project Advisory Board meeting: Third meeting of the Advisory Board, presenting the project progress to our Advisory Board consisting of data-providers, policy makers and inter-disciplinary scientists Dissemination level: PU Nature: 0 Contractual Date of Delivery: 31.08.2014 Actual Date of Delivery: 31.08.2014 Total number of pages: 12 Authors: Davy Janssens and Ansar Yasar

Abstract This document is the fourth DATASIM deliverable of WP7 for the third review period (01.09.2013 – 31.08.2014). The document gives a summary of the recommendations and comments given in the DATASIM Advisory Board Meeting dd. 01/04/2014 in Bonn (Germany).

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Copyright

This report is DATASIM Consortium 2014. Its duplication is restricted to the personal use within the consortium and the European Commission.

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Content

1 The Role of An Advisory Board in DATA SIM ................................................................................. 4

2 Advisory Board Meeting Programme............................................................................................... 5

3 Advisory Board Members ................................................................................................................ 6

4 Main Results from the Third Advisory Board Meeting ..................................................................... 9

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1 The Role of An Advisory Board in DATA SIM The Advisory Board we installed in the DATA SIM project is a multi-disciplinary board which was composed in order to guide the scientific institutions mainly from the applications’ perspective. With this effort, we want to add a clear application layer to this OPEN-FET project (which is normally mainly driven by fundamental research). The DATA SIM Advisory board was restricted to maximum size of 7 members due to financial constraints. The board consists of 6 board members (the 7th member agreed to participate but cancelled at the last moment due to personal reasons) and is formed by representatives from external companies, governments, and from the application domain (electric vehicles and the energy sector). A short curriculum vitae of the board members has been given in section 3.

The board members were approached via email by means of a formal invitation letter in the first year of the project. More details can be found in the first year advisory board meeting report. For third board meeting, the members were informed in advance about the project updates since the beginning of the year 3 and they were asked to join the third advisory board meeting in Bonn (Germany). All work package leaders gave detailed presentations followed by an interactive discussion with the advisory board members.

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2 Advisory Board Meeting Programme

Third Advisory Board Meeting: Tuesday, 01 April 2014

Fraunhofer-Institutszentrum,

Schloss Birlinghoven IZB

53754 Sankt Augustin

Germany

Agenda:

10:00 – 10:30 Overview of the project and addressing comments made by the reviewers (after year 2)

10:30 – 11:00 Q&A

11:00 – 11:15 WP1 status

11:15 – 11:30 Q&A WP1

11:30 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 13:00 WP2 status

13:00 – 13:15 Q&A WP2

13:15 – 13:30 WP3 status

13:30 – 13:45 Q&A WP3

13:45 – 14:00 WP4 status

14:00 – 14:15 Q&A WP4

14:15 – 14:30 Coffee break

14:30 – 14:45 WP5 status

14:45 – 15:00 Q&A WP5

15:00 – 15:15 WP6 status

15:15 – 15:30 Q&A WP6

15:30 – 16:00 Possible other remaining issues and discussion points

18:00 Dinner (offered by the consortium to the advisory board members) + Networking

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3 Advisory Board Members

Carlo Mol

Carlo Mol graduated as engineer on electricity-electronics in 1991. He has always been active in different research institutes in Belgium (Sirris, Flanders’ DRIVE and VITO), respectively as a technological advisor, account manager and project developer. Setting up new projects and making “the bridge” between research and industry has always been the main driver. Innovations in e-mobility is his main interest by looking at this domain from a broad perspective : electric vehicles, new mobility concepts, smart grids and smart cities. He worked for 7 years in the Flemish Competence Centre for the vehicle industry, supporting the local OEM’s and supplier in their innovation process toward new innovative products. One of the main research topics was clean powertrains. Since 2009, he started working at VITO as project developer on smart grids and e-mobility. Within this function he has been working in different national, European and international projects on e-mobility. Since September 2011 he became the coordinator of the Programme Office for the Flemish Living Lab Electric Vehicles. For the next 3 years, he will be responsible to follow-up and support the activities within the “Flemish Living Lab Electric Vehicles” and will be a first point-of-contact for other interested stakeholders.

Other ongoing activities :

- Member of Steering group for the Belgian “National Masterplan for Electric Mobility” - Co-chair of the Green eMotion “External Stakeholder Forum”

Pedro González

Pedro González is an expert in policy and energy regulation with an extensive experience in regulation, competition and litigation matters and in all those aspects that are related to the transition from electricity regulated to liberalised markets. He is presently working for the Spanish Association of Electricity Utilities (UNESA) in the Direction of Regulation and Economics, focused on the measures to be adopted for the continous development of the electricity regulation and competition promotion in the liberalised market. Prior to joining UNESA, he was Adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy, in the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, specialised in electricity regulation, nuclear matters, coal subsidies, tariff setting processes, auctions, EU State aids, economic support to legal processes, energy planning and design of renewables remuneration schemes. Before joining the Secretary of State, he acquired ample experience in consultancy for more than 10 years, with projects that included assessment to a wide range of public and private companies, multilateral institutions (the World Bank, EBRD, or EIB) in many countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Armenia, Cape Verde, Vietnam or the European Commission.

Pedro graduated from Carlos III University (Madrid, Spain) holding a B.Sc. in Economics, and has received a specialisation course in Energy Sector Economics, while he also holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Economics from Carlos III University specialised in Transport Economics in the University of Leeds.

Sjef Moerdijk

Sjef Moerdijk graduated in 1986 as a Traffic Engineer at National Traffic Academy in Tilburg. After this he worked in 1988 and 1989 as a data analyst in two commercial companies. In 1990 he returned back to traffic engineering and worked almost two years on municipal and regional level as a consultant. From 1991 he expanded his experience to national scale, working from then until now at Rijkswaterstaat (the national road authority in The Netherlands), combining functions with several

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aspects of traffic engineering: design, research, information technology and innovation. He combined this with his graduation as Human Geographer at Utrecht University in 1994. Between 2000 and 2007 he developed his management skills in Rijkswaterstaat as head of the department Basic traffic and transport information. From 2007 he returned to traffic engineering, mainly leading projects on the interface between road characteristics and the behaviour and satisfaction of road users. To develop his critical thinking he graduated in 2011 as Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Cor Dierckx

Cor Dierckx is a Civil Engineer Architect, Master Urban Development and Spatial Planning. Since the mid-1970s he has been working in the field of spatial planning, traffic and transport on different levels (local, municipal, provincial, regional, international) and this both as a scientific researcher and as an advisor. He is professionally involved with the creation of the spatial master plan for Flanders and the creation of the (draft) Mobility Plan for Flanders. As a specialized contractual worker at the Department of Mobility and Public Works, Cor Dierckx has been sent on secondment to the Cabinet of the Flemish Vice Minister President of the Flemish Government and the Flemish Minister for Employment, Education and Training and to the Cabinet of the Flemish Minister for Mobility, Social Economy and Equal Opportunities. Cor Dierckx is a lecturer of traffic planning and transportation sciences, at the Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences of Hasselt University. He also teaches traffic research and traffic planning at the Provincial Technical Teacher Training College for Transportation Sciences, and at the Limburg Province Teacher Training College., Campus Diepenbeek and furthermore teaches traffic engineering and traffic planning at the Erasmus University College in Brussel. In addition, he is also a member of the Executive Board of the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge.

Zoltan Nochta

Zoltán Nochta received his Ph.D. at the University of Karlsruhe where he conducted research in the area of secure access control mechanisms and cryptography applications in distributed systems. At SAP Research, he is mainly dealing with problems related to service orientation and security within ubiquitous computing environments. Currently he is mainly working on a new service provisioning business model for SAP related to the Internet of Things, called SAP Global IoT Services. He is Deputy Director of the Research CEC in Karlsruhe and managing the group called Cluster 1 that focusses on Smart Items, Security & Trust and Future Energy.

Zoltán Nochta is Director of the SAP Research Center in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been working on Internet of Things technologies and applications in future ubiquitous business processes.He is deeply involved in international research activities and SAP development projects.Zoltán received his Ph.D. at the University of Karlsruhe where he conducted research in the area of applied cryptography in distributed systems.

Tina Martino

Graduated in Computer Science, Tina has spent more than 23 years working in Telecommunication, ICT and Wireless Solutions (internet of the things). At the moment she has the responsibility to drive the Octo Telematics research & development to enhance new areas and technologies for Insurance Telematics and Mobility Area and to harmonize Octo offering worldwide (Insurance Telematics solutions mainly based on driving behavior, crash management for frauds reduction, E/B call services, traffic forecast etc). She also covers the role of Program Manager and member of the Steering

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Committee of Pegasus, a project at its third and final year, cofinanced by Italian Ministry of Innovation. The project involves 14 Italian Universities and other companies and is mainly focused on sustainable mobility in urban area (traffic monitoring and forecast, safety, green driving, smart navigations etc).

During the last three years she has been the head of IT program management area with the goal to deploy platforms of services for the insurances and manage the changes during all the projects lifecycle. In the past, she has worked in Siemens Wireless Modules as responsible for M2M solutions gaining innovative projects on the international market and working on the strategic partnership to build the Italian network of business partners. She has also worked at the beginning of her professional career as network architect in Telecom Italia, the incumbent Italian Telco, and after increasing her experience in sales and business development for Key Customers, mainly addressing emerging ICT solutions to push innovation on verticals industries.

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4 Main Results from the Third Advisory Board Meeting In this final meeting of the advisory board, all work packages (WPs) were presented by the WP leaders and discussed with the members of the project team. The presentations were technical and contained the up-to-date information on the progress of each WP. Furthermore, the presentations also focused on the challenges each WP face, both from the research point of view and from the applications’ point of view. The meeting took place in an informal setting and both during the presentations as during a separate discussion moment, several interesting points have been raised by the advisory board.

This section focuses on the most important points raised and concluded during the meeting. Several other details (specific detailed questions raised during the presentation to clarify things), as well as a description of the content of the presentations are not included in this summary report for the sake of clarity.

General remarks:

Also during the final meeting, the board members reconfirmed their appreciation about the project and unanimously agreed about the high level of ambition and scientific results the project has reached.

The board recommended the consortium to emphasize as much as possible on the valorisation of the scientific results. The board recommended the scientific teams to release as much work as possible which can already be adopted by end users. Several members of the board reconfirmed that while end users may not deal with these problems at this moment, they will do so in the years to come and interest from the broader end user community will most probably increase significantly (as penetration degree of electric vehicles is expected to increase as well).

<These general remarks are repeated in the concrete recommendations mentioned below; along with a response of the consortium about how to tackle the recommendation given>

Concrete recommendations and clear outcomes of the meeting:

The board asked about the end date of the project and whether the project will be finished in time. <The consortium answered that they felt that more work was done than stated in the DOW, the results are of high scientific quality (primary criterion for Open-Fet projects), and the amount of work is sufficient for every partner; so there is no indication that we will not be able to finish the project in time.>

The board asked about the real added value of the project compared to other existing tools. What can others simulators and projects not do what you can do? The board is not in favour of showing comparisons with other simulators and systems (impossible in this time frame given the often closed source contexts of these scientific tools; also not stated in the DOW); but they recommended to show that end results of Datasim are useful and show that the project can achieve end results which other simulators/tools cannot.

o The consortium agrees with the comments made and while scientific

valorisation and communication was done at many different occasions over the last years (see activity reports), we confirmed at the meeting that we will organize a closing event for a wider audience within the context of the project. If

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successful, this event can be repeated after the project. We communicated this extra event as an extra deliverable as requested by the reviewers and now also highly welcomed by the advisory board as a way to disseminate scientific results.

Furthermore; the consortium responded by saying that the added value of the project lies:

-in the huge number of different scientific papers and results, which are part of the broader methodology which has been developed to process and use big data in the context of mobility (scientific insight in the area soared because of this project). Most papers have been peer reviewed, some appearing in the very best journals and several reviewers restated in this process the scientific quality of the work done. - in addition to this practical tools have been developed (some will be made available as open source projects to the general public) which can be used by several end users:

(i) a tool for the storage and management of big spatio-temporal mobility data;

(ii) a tool for extracting mobility knowledge and predictions out of raw mobility data along with insights into how to enrich raw mobility data with semantic information;

(iii) an advanced activity-based simulator which can be adopted in the process of analysing complex mobility scenarios like making electric vehicles predictions and introducing complex concepts of negotiation and coordination between agents,

(iv) several techniques which are ready to be used by typical outcomes of a transportation model and to mirror these results with typical big data information,

(v) tools for scalability in the context of car pooling, (vi)specific useful end results in the 2 application contexts of the project

being carpooling and electric vehicles.

o While all deliverables contribute to this in their own way, the consortium decided that the final deliverable of WP6 is probably best positioned to illustrate the end application value of the project. An extensive deliverable will be written to explain the value of the concept related to end users.

The board asked whether the simulation model also takes into account the concept of a the tour and not only a single trip. Especially in the concept of an electric vehicle end users may be worried about the concept since they need to answer the question whether they are able to go back with a car which was only charged in the morning.

<The consortium responded by saying that the concept of a tour is a core concept of the activity-based simulation that was developed in the project, so the answer is positive. We agree that the tour concept is a crucial approach to fully and realistically model travel behaviour. Modelling isolated trips may lead to serious flaws and unrealistic behavioural assumptions.>

The board asked about the applicability of the nice scientific results for end users. The board also mentioned that they understood that the core of an OPEN-FET project is not application but how to develop science and move science forward; but now that science is realised, the question should be how to disseminate it.

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<The consortium answered by saying that they have made initial contacts with industry to explore the market potential of the approach. Although more activities are certainly needed in several follow-up projects, contacts were made with the Italian Grid operator ENEL and with Flemish grid operators. The meetings with these operators revealed that we could contribute to their business by supporting them in answers to questions like: “where to position charging stations for electric vehicles?”,”in which regions is the expected (forecasted) power demand because of travel peeking?”, “what is the impact on the grid of a projected number of electric vehicles for a particular region?”, etc. Also, we felt that with the current degrees of penetration of EV, there is not a huge problem for grid operators, but if the technology really breaks through; a lot of these questions will become highly relevant for them. Also, in cases of unexpected events, such as a break down of power generators, a solution may be needed>

Ms. Tina Martino, who is working in industry with OctoTelematics, made the recommendation to also talk with other end users in industry (not only actors active in the electricity market) since in her business with Octo, everything we have done in the project will be highly useful. This industry (profiling in the insurance market) is dealing with how to process huge amounts of data and how to extract mobility information and mobility knowledge out of this. In summary, although the application area of the project was electric vehicles, she identified many interesting applications in many other fields. She also encouraged the consortium to show some applications at the final event the consortium is planning to organize.

<The consortium is grateful for the very positive and encouraging remarks which were made by Ms. Martino. The consortium plans to seek other end users like big data vendors in follow-up projects. Initial contacts were already made with a company like TomTom but more future contacts need to be explored. The comment of Ms. Martino however is very legitimate and we think that all research groups in the consortium have taken a huge step in other potential projects they can undertake in the future because of the knowledge which was added to the community in the Datasim project. These contacts and projects will probably even go beyond the core expertise domain of the research group, which is a good thing because in this way interdisciplinary research will also be stimulated in the future.>

The consortium is also recommending the consortium to explore and emphasize that the simulation of scientific results is done at a nationwide level. Due to budget constraints local communities may prefer smaller, less complex commercial solutions available (if any).

<The consortium testifies it is indeed the case that local communities sometimes prefer simplicity (based on financial resources) instead of more functionality and in-depth analyses. But, it is good to know these boundaries and conditions and that the project enabled us to get further insight into this (non-scientific issue). Furthermore, the complex (nationwide) simulation is a clear scientific outcome of the project, which is not easily copied by other commercial tools.>

The board detected that data availability is often a huge problem, also in this project. The question is whether the consortium also used synthetic data at some moment in the project to solve this issue.

<The consortium confirms: while several data were available to us in the project, it was very difficult to find all necessary data sources in one particular country. (DLV 1.1. has made an inventory of all data available in the project). It is true that this complicated our scientific task. To solve some of the issues we indeed relied upon some synthetic data. Examples are the synthetic grid which was developed for Flanders, the hermoupolis simulator which was developed to test the scalability of the DWH, and also to test our

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Route Decomposition method, we relied upon some synthetic data. However, for the majority of our work, we used real data.>

The board asked whether it is possible to take into account dynamic traffic information which people can absorb during driving like info from navigation devices, radio etc?

<The consortium confirmed that this is the idea behind the rescheduling work that was done in year 2 and year 3. Only, in this project we mainly used the idea of rescheduling in the context of Electric vehicles (people adopt behaviour based on price signals from the market) but Indeed; (exactly) the same framework can be used to broadcast information about e.g. incidents which may have happened on the routes. In this case 2 scenario’s can occur: (i) people absorb the broadcasted info and adapt their behaviour and (ii) people did not absorb or did not adapt the broadcasted info and this may lead to additional travel times and congestion. This congestion can be fed into our behavioural model. Although it was not the core of the project, the framework we developed is able to accommodate both types of scenarios.>

The board asked to clarify the applicability of the highly theoretical results of WP5.

<The consortium explains that the work done in WP5 is highly relevant for science since it solved some NP-hard problems that can for instance be used in a carpool advisor website (here people may negiotate about carpooling and send back the feedback of negotation and about the driver to the carpool advisor website). The problem for these websites is that there may be too many candidates with bad advice and that potential customers may move to other websites. We can train these kind of carpool advisor websites with agent-based models in which we can use the graph work of WP5. We have explained this issue in previous deliverables and the referees approved the extension of this scalability work.>

The board made another comment regarding the work done in WP6. The board stated that the external cost in urban areas is higher than in the countryside: the board feels that this dimension is not taken into account in the WP6 results.

<The consortium responded by saying that while the methodology that was developed is able to do carry out high location-resolution analyses in terms of transport, we had no detailed data about the external costs of these areas, so for this reason this dimension was indeed not taken into account in our environmental scenario’s.>

Finally the board expressed their appreciation about the high number of quality papers which have been written during the course of the project and about the good level of science that was reached. Some other final general recommendations were made:

o Tell a story to the commission in a general overview presentation, since a lot of work has been done.

o Explain not only the science done and methodologies adopted to the commission, but also mention concrete results achieved and concrete outcomes and realisations of the project.

o Re-emphasize the urgent need for having better open access data, also in the context of fast growing domains like smart cities (in which EV’s have a clear place of course). Welcome and emphasize initiatives like the Smart Innovation Lab in Germany.

<The consortium responded by thanking the board for their very active and very useful contributions during the several meetings. The concrete final general recommendations will be dealt with during the final review meeting (during the time slots: “Scientific overview” and “Summary of most important scientific DATASIM contributions and valorisation achievements (period of 3Y))”>

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