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ERTICO will be reporting live on selected Sessions in the Congress.
Our team of ITS Experts will analyse and comment on Sessions as they happen, providing you with an immediate summary of the principle points and conclusions.
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Report from Job Klijnhout
Apart from the multitude of technical gadgets like video camera’s and led signs there were some interesting things on show.
The MYb IRF card that was given to the attendants is more than a way to pay for public transport. This type is now used as such 15 million times per day. It could be used to pay at vending machines. The card now comes in all sorts of attractive shapes including watertight wristwatches. I can be used for toll payment, in shops, as student-ID at a campus, as ID with the Government, and even to pay the Salvation Army Christmas collection. When ordering a taxi one can track the assigned taxi on the web to see when it will arrive.
And this is just one of the four widespread IRF cards. In short its applications are just a niche in the IRF card use.
This time ports and railways were well represented.
The driving simulator development in Korea has come a long way with high quality pictures.
Safety camera’s in vehicles can now be equipped with pedestrian detection based on a stereo interpretation.
In-vehicle services were abundantly available. What strikes is that the providers offer a whole bundle of services, not just one or two traffic information services.
A novel detection system uses diagonally placed detectors alongside classical square loops for vehicle classification.
On street and in vehicle high quality Public Transport information is provided in a multitude of ways using all sorts of monitors and led screens.
The showcase was very well organised. Demonstrations were scheduled at ½ to 1½ hour time interval with each interval two groups of 20 persons maximum each Participants could first follow an introduction video, a good way to prepare everybody for the demonstration. Those more seriously interested in the demonstration could visit a stand where each of the services that were going to be demonstrated was explained in detail. An introduction one could look at any time. Not to be missed as at that stand one had to sign up.
The quality of the demo deserved more aggressive advertising during the Congress.
The services were logically grouped in convenience, safety and green mobility services.
Fully automated driving, obstacle detection and parking was demonstrated using a driverless, in fact person less, vehicle.
The arrangement of the other demonstrations was clever; each group boarded a bus and all demonstrations could be followed from the bus using a demonstration vehicle and tv links to the busses. The vehicle was used to demonstrate a variety of services like lane departure warning and in the bus the movements of the vehicles could be seen and the tv images gave the additional information. All this was very well planned and arranged. The passenger all got their smartphone on the bus and the guides explained the various options that live could be demonstrated.
As one could expect from an ubiquitous approach detailed bus and metro information was available.
In many places one or two lanes of the street were coned off for the demonstration and the distances between the various demonstration spots were long enough to allow for a proper introduction of each demonstration
Kiosk services were demonstrated on site
The technical aspects did not get much attention, a pity as some aspects were well worth mentioning. To name a few.
WAVE technology was often used
The in-vehicle platforms were of the Open Contents type and OSMU One Source Multi Use
Most services demonstrated have been demonstrated before but never in such a modern and integrated. way.
List of services shown “live” using WAVE and/or DSRC
Directly reporting from Busan, Job Klijnhout
20 attendants
This initiative by Ericsson was not listed in the final program, an omission that should be avoided in the future.
One general message reflects the presentations: Mobile communications can serve transport and reduce environmental impacts but the approach should be holistic.
Olle Isaksson Ericsson
Fredrik Skoglund Ericsson Carbon smart commuting.
Åke Lindström Kista Science City.
All in all a consistent combination of presentations advocating a much broader view of the ways its could help reduce CO2 emissions.
Directly reporting from Busan, Job Klijnhout
This tour gave a good insight in the brand new highly automated container port terminal. Profesionally guided by the Marketing Part Leader S.M.Lee smlee@hjnc.co.kr
Cranes are remotely controlled. Loading and unloading with video support when serving trucks and fully automated positing when stacking on the quay.
Claim a 50% faster handling than existing (European) automated container terminals.
No automated internal truck transport like at ETC Rotterdam.
System is a pilot, a copy already is in use in Spain, another being built in Jacksonville USA, a third in Vietnam.
A good example of the Korean succes formulae: Define targets clearly, cooperate, agree-design and then construct without delay. Do not use the immature latest technology but what works. Similar to the i-phone approach.
Directly Reporting from Brusan, Job Klijnhout:
All in all a very consistent session. Unanomous warning to take the risks when using mobile comunications for v2x seriously.
30-40 attendants
Moderator Olle Isaksson
Christian Berle, Vodafone Automotive Program, Germany
Tetsuo Matsunaga, Japan Mayday Service.
Michael Sena Hughes Telematics.
Marko Wolf Embedded Security Germany
Guido Gehlen Ericsson Eurolab Germany.
This session was composed exclusively of Asian speakers. The attendance was around 45-50 persons. Maxime Flament moderated the session on behalf of FOT-Net.
1. FIELD OPERATIONAL TESTS in THE NEW TOMEI EXPRESSWAY, Akifumi Shintaku, Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited, a.shintaku.aa@c-nexco.co.jp, Japan
Central Nippon Expressway is a new express way that spans more than 500 km in Japan. The expressway is well equipped with ITS equipment. The Field test evaluated the benefits of danger warnings in the vehicle and on the road-side. It was shown that a combination of in-vehicle warnings with roadside warnings was the most effective for the drivers. When asked about the types of warnings in the vehicles, a majority of drivers preferred the auditory warning compared to the display on the on-board unit. The company also tested other aspects of the Expressway such as the tourist information, the lightning in tunnels, and cleaning procedures.
2. Field Operational Test toward the practical use of Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systems(DSSS), Joji Maki, National Police Agency, Japan, jmaki09@npa.go.jp, Japan
The NPA has made an assessment of the benefits of pedestrian and cyclist warnings in the vehicles. The tests showed some reduction of the approaching speed at dangerous spots. However this was not dramatic. The warnings were showed on the on-board unit with a auditory signal. The experiment was done with relatively little number of subjects and assessment will be further extended during next deployment of the service.
3. Evaluation of connectivity quality for V2V communication system, Hiroyuki Tanabe, Honda R&D Co,.Ltd, Hiroyuki_Tanabe@n.t.rd.honda.co.jp, Japan
Masashi Satomura, chief engineer, gave the presentation. The experiment focussed on the transmission quality of the 802.11p connection between a two vehicles in a very urban area. The 802.11p communication systems showed pretty good connectivity results. The system will be further tested in a noisy environment with 3-6 vehicles.
4. Application of V-I Cooperative Experiment for Safe Driving – Progress of The DSSS in Kanagawa, Japan, Kazuhide Maruki, Panasonic System Networks Co.,Ltd., maruki.kazuhide@jp.panasonic.com, Japan
Test were performed in the region of Kanagawa on 3 drivers totalling 175 turns for an application on left turning warning for oncoming traffic. The test were focussed on 3 different ways to display the warnings. The less invasive warnings were the most accepted but the least effective in terms of safety. The more invasive warnings were considered as rather annoying. A compromise was found with a good balance between acceptance and safety,
5. The conformance test of communication for seamless services under high speed environment, Jin Ki Lee, ITS Korea/research div., 0131271@itskorea.or.kr, Republic of Korea
The presentation showed a 2 km field test in Korea where 3 RSU have been installed. A series of tests have been performed.
In fact this blog was ment for ES-02: ITS intiatives in Environment issues-
Notes from J-Ch. Pandazis
Moderator: Sadayuki Tsugawa, Professor, Meijo University, Japan
M. Tsujimoto, Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
Eva Boethius, Project Officer, European Commission, DG-INFSO
Peter Sweatman, Michigan University
Evelinde Grassegger, Ministry for Transport, Austria
Jaehak Oh, Green Growth Policy and Implementation, KOTI, Republic of Korea
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This is now the reporting of the session PS-2
Distinguished Speakers:
Watanabe extended scope of ITS applications being tested on the Japanese roads including an innovative platooning for commercial HV and even light trucks using radar and V2V technologies and open integrated service platform for ITS. ITS Japan presented the roll out of the cooperative systems in Japan; after the series of FOT during the period 2006-2010, Japan is now deploying widely the cooperative systems based on VICS and DSRC technologies. This concerns mainly V2I information and warning applications.
Abbas Mohaddes of ITS America gave an update of ITS deployment in America including Smart Highway in Seatlle as well as Los Angeles and larger South-California intelligent traveller information system. US DoT RITA is now running diverse large scale action on ITS. Among them, IntelliDrive could eventually result in a decision of full deployment in 2013. At the moment they are planning the safety pilots for which a series of call for tenders are being released for international actors.
TraffikVerket presented the EU ITS action plan and the 6 action areas. Rode evoked different ways to achieve these plans including cooperation at early stage with the creation of pre-competitive public-private partnerships. TraffikVerket presented also the newly adopted Swedish ITS Action plan taking onboard the EU ITS directive in their implementation national plans.
Mr Isaksson of Ericsson, Sweden, came to ask questions to the speakers on behlave of the audience.
Hosin David Lee of university of Iowa, moderator, closed the session with some interesting questions on what is energy efficiency. What is energy efficiency? Is this a congested highway with good flow? Is this a highway with no car on it? Is this blocked cross-road? He also gave a series of examples of solar powered roadside energy farms, geothermal winter road heating and piezo electric energy harvesting equipment. Also examples on Road to Garden actions which are perhaps far from energy efficent.
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During the last decade, cooperative systems have been held up as one solution to the problems faced by road operators and car manufacturers. Around the world, Field Operational Tests for Cooperative Systems have taken place and more are being planned to assess the improvements that these systems can bring in the efficiency of the transport system, in the
safety of all road users and in making individual mobility more comfortable. In Europe, before any decision for full-scale deployment can be made, large-scale test programmes are planned aiming at a comprehensive assessment of the efficiency, quality, robustness and user-friendliness of close-to market systems. Daimler and ERTICO – ITS Europe will jointly
present the current plans in Europe. US DOT and NHTSA will give a critical commentary on the IntelliDrive program and the US’s overall evaluation and research framework. Finally, the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat will give an overview of the country’s deployment activities.
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