ict for transport european commission directorate general information society and media

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ICT for Transport European Commission

Directorate General Information Society and Media

André VitsHead of Unit

IMPACTS 2006 Conference

EU Opportunities in FP7

Vienna, 14th March 2006

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Content

FP7 Proposal

FP7 Cooperation programme: Transport Research

“Transport” (including Aeronautics)

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative

eSafety Initiative

What are the challenges?

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FP7: Four inter-linked objectives

• Gain leadership in key fields by supporting cooperation – Essential « core business», high European added value

• Stimulate excellence through competition– Attracting the best brains, frontier research

• Develop and strengthen Human Capital of research

• Improve research and innovation capacity

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FP7 approach: Continuity & New Impetus

• Continuity– Thematic priorities– Scaling up ERA coordination actions– Scaling up Marie Curie actions– Scaling up SME measures

• Seven years duration

• New Impetus– Doubling of budget per year– European Research Council– Joint Technology Initiatives– New research infrastructures– Mainstreaming NEST/FET, SSP/Priority8, Int’l Cooperation – New management schemes

Leverage effect onMember States +

private investments

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FP7 Specific Programmes

Cooperation: 44432 m€

Ideas: 11862 m€

People: 7129 m€

Capacities: 7486 m€

JRC: 1817 m€

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Timetable

FP6

FP7

New Financial Perspectives

2003 2004 2005

2007 - 2013

2006

Call 4 Call 5

Adoption

FP7, SPs, RfPproposals

Communication on FP7 orientations FP7 Work Programmes + Calls

Communication on new financial perspectives

2007 - 2013

Legislative proposals

Agreement

Call 1 Call 2 Call 3 Call 6

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“Cooperation” – Collaborative Research – Themes

Socio-econ research: 792 m€

Health: 8317 m€

Food, agri, biotech: 2455 m€

ICT: 12670 m€ Nano, materials, production: 4832 m€

Energy: 2931 m€

Environment: 2535 m€

Transport: 5940 m€

Space and security: 3960 m€

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• The greening of surface transport

• Encouraging modal shift and decongesting transport corridors

• Ensuring sustainable urban mobility

• Improving safety and security

• Strengthening competitiveness

Transport: 5 sub-activities objective-oriented

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FP7 Proposal





eSafety Initiative


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“Cooperation” – Collaborative Research – Themes

Socio-econ research: 792 m€

Health: 8317 m€

Food, agri, biotech: 2455 m€

ICT: 12670 m€ Nano, materials, production: 4832 m€

Energy: 2931 m€

Environment: 2535 m€

Transport: 5940 m€

Space and security: 3960 m€

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FP7 : The challenge

• Investment in Research is key to achieve the revised Lisbon Agenda

• FP7 aims to address part of that, but Member States and the private sector must equally play their part

• Europe lags particularly in investment in ICT Research

ICT R&D EU 15 US Japan

Investment per

Inhabitant80 EUR 350 EUR 400 EUR

% ICT /

TOTAL R&D18% 34% 35%

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ICT in FP7 – Objectives

“To enable Europe to master and shape the future developments of ICT so that the demands of its society and economy are met”

Thereby:– Strengthening the competitiveness of all industry in Europe

• Master ICT for innovation and growth

– Reinforcing the competitive position of European ICT sector• Build industrial and technology leadership

– Supporting EU policies• Mobilise ICT to meet public and societal demands

– Strengthening the European science & technology base• A pre-condition for success

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ICT in 7FP - Main Themes and Activities

• ICT Technology Pillars

• pushing the limits of performance, usability, dependability, cost-efficiency

Integration of Technologies• integrating multi-technology sets that underlie new functionalities,

services and applications

Applications Research• providing the knowledge and the means to develop a wide range of

ICT-based services and applications

• Future and Emerging Technologies• supporting research at the frontiers of knowledge

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7th FP - ICT for Transport areas (1) (1)

Integration of Technologies Intelligent infrastructures (e.g. Transport infrastructure)

– making infrastructure more efficient, easier to adapt and maintain, more robust to usage and resistant to failures

– data integration tools

– systemic risk assessment, early warning and automated alerts

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7th FP - ICT for Transport areas (2) (2)

Applications Research

ICT meeting societal challenges for mobility, e.g.

– Integrated ICT-based in vehicle

safety systems based on open,

secure and dependable architecture

and interfaces

– Interoperable cooperative traffic management and safety systems

– Personalised, location-aware info-mobility services, including navigation

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Content

FP7 Proposal





eSafety Initiative


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i2010 – Commission CommunicationRoad Transport Issues

A European Information Society for growth and employment

i2010 is a joint effort of the EC, Member States and economic actorsaiming to accelerate the take-up of knowledge society in Europe

It proposes three principal lines for action:

A single European information space Will improve vehicle and road safety, provide mobile access to new content

and introduce new advanced services.

Strengthening innovation and investment in ICT ResearchThe automotive sector will benefit from bigger investment in RTD

Achieving an inclusive European Information Society ICT offers tools to further improve safety, efficiency and sustainability of the European transport systems.

The i2010 communication launches a flagship initiative in the area of safe and clean transport, focusing on INTELLIGENT CAR.

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i2010 - Intelligent Car Initiative

The objective is to improve the quality of the living environment by supporting ICT solutions for

safer, smarter and cleaner mobility of people and good.

SmarterIntelligent communicationand interaction with other

Vehicles and with the Transport infrastructure

to improve efficiency andsafety.

SaferActive ICT-based safety systems and devices

helping to prevent accidents and mitigate their impact.

CleanerImprove traffic management

through intelligent driver assistance systems

(including Real-Time Traffic and Travel Information

(RTTI) and multi-modality),thus contributing to reduce

polluting emissions.

Intelligent Car

… addressing environmental and safetyissues arising from increased road use

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Intelligent Car Initiative: the Challenges

1. Congestion

• Costs amount to 50 billion €/ year • 10 % of the Road network is affected daily

by traffic jams

2. Energy Efficiency & Emissions

• Road transport consumed 83% of the energy consumed by the whole transport sector 85% of the total CO2 transport emissions

3. Safety

• still over 40.000 fatalities and 1.4 million accidents in the EU cost represent 2% of the EU GDP

• Human error is involved in almost 93% of accidents

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Intelligent Car: Objectives

Objectives of the Intelligent Car Initiative

1. Coordinate and support the work of relevant stakeholders, citizens, Member States and the Industry

2. Support research and development in the area of smarter, cleaner and safer vehicles and facilitate the take-up and use of research results

3. Create awareness of ICT based solutions to stimulate user’s demand for these systems and create socio-economic acceptance

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Intelligent Car: Structure

The i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative will build on the work of the eSafety initiative and follow a three – pillar approach:

(1) The eSafety Initiative and the

(2) RTD in Information and Communications Technologies

(3) Awareness raising Actions

RTD in ICTs

FP5, FP6, FP7

The eSafety

Forum

Awareness Raising Actions

Intelligent Car

Initiative

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The Focus in the eSafety Initiative will

remain in Deployment:

– Pan-European Deployment of eCall by 2009

– Updated European Statement of Principles

ESoP (HMI) – Commission adoption, May’06

– Launch of the eSafety Communications

Platform, September’06

– Adoption of the EP Report on eCall, April 2006

– i2010 High Level Conference-Helsinki,

September’06

First Pillar: eSafety

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• The Intelligent Car Initiative activities build upon the achievements and results of EU Framework Programmes on research and technological development.

• The long-term objectives of the Intelligent Car Initiative will be part of the ICT priority in FP7

• The research priorities of the Intelligent Car fully support the ERTRAC strategic research agenda

Second Pillar: The Research Programme

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The awareness pillar of the Intelligent Car Initiative will promote, active information dissemination to a wide audience:

• To raise drivers and policy maker’s knowledge about the potential of intelligent vehicle systems

• To stimulate user’s demand and create socio-economic acceptance

• To facilitate the deployment of mature technologies and systems in the initial phase of market penetration

• To encourage stakeholders initiatives supporting i2010

Third Pillar: Awareness Actions

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• Field Operational Test (FOT)

Examples: Pedestrian protection;

Driver hypo-vigilance monitoring and

warning; …

• Demos of IST results with significant impact on socio-economic cohesion and regional development

Example: 6th FP IST projects; demonstration more open and targeted to the citizen

• Awareness campaigns

Example: Support the production of short, well targeted TV series or documentaries (“Discovery Channel” or “National

Geographic”…) on ICT based systems

Of particular interest for the Structural Funds

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• Forum Plenary: Platform for consensus among stakeholders (currently over 150 members)

• High-Level Meetings with Industry and Member States defining strategy

• Working Groups: Solution-oriented, reporting to the Forum

Mailbox info: [email protected]

The eSafety Initiative

The eSafety Initiative was launched in 2002 as a joint initiative of the European Commission, industry and other stakeholders.

It aims at accelerating the development, deployment and use of Intelligent Integrated Safety Systems that use Information and Communication Technologies (ITC) in intelligent solutions, in order to increase road safety and reduce the number of accidents on Europe's roads.

The eSafety Initiative was launched in 2002 as a joint initiative of the European Commission, industry and other stakeholders.

It aims at accelerating the development, deployment and use of Intelligent Integrated Safety Systems that use Information and Communication Technologies (ITC) in intelligent solutions, in order to increase road safety and reduce the number of accidents on Europe's roads.

Synergies between 3 activities conducted in parallel• Intelligent Car Flagship

• R&D and Innovation, preparing future generation of Intelligent Car (second pillar)

• eSafety – Forum of industrial stakeholders

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Road Fatalities in Europe …

Transport in EU25

Road Accidents (2004 data)

• 45.300 fatalities • 1.3 million accidents

involving injury• 2.0 million injuriesSource: DG TREN-Statistical Pocket Book 2004

Main Causes and driving errors: 95% of all road accidents involve some human error In 76% of the cases the human is solely to blame Misjudging, driving dynamics, weather (50%) Distraction (38%)

39% of Passengers vehicles and 26% of trucks do not activate brakes before a collision Some 40% more do not brake effectively

Underlying Causes: AlcoholInexperienceTiredness

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The 1st eSafety Communication

“Information and Communications

Technologies for Safe and

Intelligent Vehicles”COM(2003)542 Final, 15.9.2003

3 priorities:

– eCall (Pan-European eCall)

– RTTI (Real-Time Traffic & Travel Information)

– HMI (Human-Machine Interaction)

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The 2nd eSafety Communication

2nd Commission Communication on eSafety: Bringing eCall to Citizens COM(2005)431 Final 14.9.2005

• eCall: A key recommendation of the

1st eSafety Communication

• Significant progress towards the full-scale

roll-out of eCall

But: Roll-out can be delayed if the national and regional governments do not invest in the necessary infrastructure for eCall

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Progress in ICT has created enormous opportunities for the design and management of urban transport systems, but also many challenges:

Speed of technology changes and uncertainty of life time

Where should I invest, and how long will it last?

Consumer products < > public investments

Solution determined by user needs, social perception

Why does the user accepts one and not the other?

What is he willing to pay?

What is the business case?

Fragmentation of markets results in low performance and high costs

The” invented here” syndrome is expensive!

Joining forces is cost effective

Challenges (1)

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Focus on performance rather than technological solutions

Developments have to be objective driven

Technology helps in achieving the objectives

From exchange of Best Practices to common architectures

Use formal methods as a basic tool (i.e. FRAME)

Standards versus organisation driven specifications

Maintaining a high quality service is an enormous difficult tasks,

in an environment where objectives and priorities are changing

High commitment is necessary!

While effort not always visible – in most cases, only when things go wrong

While industry has large RTD departments at their disposal,

public authorities depend mainly on academic research and consultancy services

Challenges (2)

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eSafety Mail Box: [email protected]

Mailbox of the Unit:

[email protected]

eSafety Web-site: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/program

mes/esafety/index_en.htm

eSafety on CORDIS website:www.cordis.lu/ist/so/esafety/home.html

eSafetySupport website

www.eSafetySupport.org

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