European Commission Directorate General Information Society and Media ICT for Transport

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European CommissionDirectorate General
Information Society and MediaICT for Transport
eScope Observers Advisors Meeting
Emilio Davila
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Contents of the update

• Outcome of the eSafety High Level Meeting
• Update on FP6 Call 4
• eCall and the 2nd eSafety Communication
• eSafety Forum
• i2010 Intelligent Car
• Next Steps

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Call 4 Co-operative Systems - the Vision

• Co-operative Systems will enhance the support
  available to drivers and other road users.
• They will provide for
• Greater transport efficiency
• Making better use of the capacity of the
  available infrastructure
• Managing varying demands
• Increased safety and comfort
• Improving the quality and reliability of
  information used by advanced driver assistance
  systems
• Allowing the implementation of advanced safety
  applications

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Active Safety with Communication
Source Car2Car Consortia
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Co-operative Systems Call 4

• Builds on the ongoing Call 1 projects
• RTD Focus in
• Advanced communication concepts
• Open interoperable and scalable systems
  architectures
• Advanced sensor infrastructure
• Dependable software
• Robust positioning technologies
• Research in accident causation analysis
• Research to assess the potential impact and
  socio-economic cost/benefit of IVSS, up to 2020
• Actions which will sustain the eSafety Forum
  (SSA)
• Budget 92 M - 60 for new instruments

• Total proposals received 68 (6 IPs, 48
  STREPS, 14 SSAs)
• Total grant requested 216.3M
• Planned budget distribution 60/40

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Call 4 Retained Proposals per Area
S.O. eSafety - Cooperative Systems for Road
Transport

• Co-operative systems and in vehicle integrated
  safety systems
• (3 IPs 13 STREPs)
• Architectures, technologies and harmonisation of
• Co-operative systems
• Towards autonomous vehicle-based systems
• Accurate localisation and dynamic traffic maps
• Next generation information and communication
• technologies of co-operative systems
• In support of the eSafety Initiative
• Accident causation analysis (1 STREP)
• Socio-economic analysis of impact of stand alone
  and co-operative intelligent vehicle systems (1
  STREP)
• Actions in support of the eSafety Forum (2 SSAs)
• International Co-operation, dissemination, SME
  measures, training of professionals
• EU-India international co-operation actions (1
  SSA)
• Training (1 SSA)

• Proposals retained 22
• Grant 91.7 M
• Distribution 57 / 43
• New / old instruments

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Call 4 Retained Proposals per Area
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Call 4 Work areas overview
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Call 4 Proposal CVIS (IP)
S.O. eSafety - Cooperative Systems for Road
Transport
The Integrated Project focuses on V2V and V2I
cooperative systems for greater transport
efficiency

• CVIS will develop and integrate into a CVIS
  platform unit
• basic and enabling technologies
• such as
• a multi-channel communications and network
  platform
• a highly accurate positioning and local map
  module
• an open software environment for applications
• allowing a vehicle to share urgent information
  V2V and V2I with
• immediate roadside infrastructure
• infrastructure operators
• service providers
• New tools for cooperative monitoring will
• deliver real-time traffic information over the
  entire road network
• augment the information available to local
  control functions such as intersection
  controllers

22 M 48 months 75 participants
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Call 4 Proposal SAFESPOT (IP)
S.O. eSafety - Cooperative Systems for Road
Transport
SAFESPOT aims at using V2V and V2I communications
to extend the perception of autonomous
vehicle-based systems.

• Developing a Safety Margin Assistant, the IP
  will extend in space and time the safety
  information available to drivers
• by
• using an open, flexible and modular
  communication architecture
• developing the key enabling technologies
• accurate relative localization
• ad-hoc dynamic networking
• dynamic local traffic maps
• developing a new generation of
  infrastructure-based
• sensing techniques
• testing scenario-based applications to evaluate
  the impact and
• end-user acceptability
• defining the practical implementation of such
  systems (especially in the interim period when
  not all vehicles will be equipped)
• evaluating the liability aspects, regulations
  and standardisation issues

20.5 M 48 months 49 participants
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Call 4 Proposal COOPERS (IP)
S.O. eSafety - Cooperative Systems for Road
Transport
COOPERS aims at developing innovative solutions
for an I2V Communication infrastructure, which
will be integrated with V2V communication systems
in order to develop holistic cooperative
systems, which will cope with the increasing
demands of road transport in a safer, more
efficient and environmental sustainable
way. Coopers brings together the vision of road
operators, which will research with the other
stakeholders on technological, operational and
liability issues related to I2V communications
within a 3 steps approach to ensure its take-up.
9.8 M 48 months 39 participants
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Call 4 Proposal COMeSAFETY (SSA)
S.O. eSafety - Cooperative Systems for Road
Transport
COMeSAFETY aims at supporting the eSafety Forum
with respect to all issues related to V2V and V2I
communications as the basis for co-operative
intelligent road transport systems

• Objectives
• - Co-ordination and consolidation of research
  results and their implementation
• eSafety Forum support
• Worldwide harmonization
• Frequency allocation
• Dissemination
• COMeSAFETY will provide a platform for both
• the exchange of information and the presentation
  of results

1.8 M 48 months 7 participants
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Why a Common Communications Architecture (1)

• Support to all applications
• Applications for traffic safety
• Applications for transport efficiency
• Commercial applications
• Support to interoperability
• Communications between vehicles of all brands,
  securely
• for a long period of time (over 15 years)
• Vehicle-to-vehicle vehicle-to-infrastructure
  Communications
• One architecture and deployment strategy for
  Europe
• Deployment strategy for pan-European eSafety
• Communications System is a key issue
• Cost of the system will be very high
• Essential to find applications with positive
  benefit-cost ratio
• for market-entry and low penetration levels

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Why a Common Communications Architecture (2)

• Prerequisite for standardisation
• Standardisation in Europe (ETSI, CEN)
• Standardisation in ISO (especially ISO TC 204
  CALM) and IEEE (WAVE)
• Cooperation for defending European requirements
  in standardisation
• Prerequisite for spectrum allocation
• Prerequisite for competitiveness of the European
  automotive, supplier and service industries
• The competitiveness requires that Europe takes a
  leading role in the development of safety systems
  based on V2V and V2I
• Automotive industry has global presence, but
  regions may emphasize different things
• Common architecture vs. U.S. VII and Japans
  initiatives (AHSRA, ASV)

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eSafety Forum Support Actions

• Accident causation data analysis
• TRACE (STREP)
• Accident analysis, potential impact assessment
  and socioeconomic analysis for Road Traffic
  Accidents and Injuries (RTAI)
• Socio-economic analysis
• eIMPACT (STREP)
• Socio-economic impact assessment of eSafety
  technologies and systems.
• Sustaining the work of the eSafety Forum
• COMeSafety (SSA)
• Support the eSafety Forum with respect to all
  issues related to car to car/infrastructure
  communications. International Cooperation.
• eSafety Support (SSA)
• Continuation of the eScope Observatory aiming at
  strengthening the activities and results
  generated from the eSafety Initiative, through
  the presentation of future actions, support to
  policy and dissemination of results.

TRACE (STREP) Total costs 4.107 K EC
contribution 2.976 K Duration 24 months
eIMPACT (STREP) Total costs 2.780 K EC
contribution 1.600 K Duration 24 months
IST Call 4 Under Negotiations
COMeSafety (SSA) Total costs 1.843 K EC
contribution 1.100 K Duration 48 months
eSafety Support (SSA) Total costs 2.074 K EC
contribution 1.974 K Duration 36 months
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eCall The 2nd eSafety Communication

• Bringing eCall to Citizens
• Adopted on 14 September, 2005
• Significant progress towards the full-scale
  roll-out of eCall has been achieved
• 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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eCall Actions for the Member States

• The Member States should sign the eCall MoU
• Lack of signatures threatens to delay the eCall
  implementation and weakens the commitment of
  industry
• The Member States should promote 112 and E112
• the Member States should promote the use of 112
  and take steps for accelerating the introduction
  of location information in their public wireless
  networks
• The Member States should upgrade their PSAPs to
  handle location-enhanced E112 calls and eCalls
• The infrastructure at PSAPs should be in place at
  the latest at the end of 2007
• The Member States should provide adequate
  location-enhanced emergency services and language
  support
• For maximum benefit, the whole emergency chain
  should be upgraded

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Promoting eCall

• The Member States should set up national
  platforms for promoting eCall
• The Commission will launch a promotion campaign
  on 112, E112 and eCall and organise conferences
• The Commission will propose establishing a
  sub-group dealing with public safety and
  emergency communications under the Civil
  Protection Committee
• All stakeholders should support the work of the
  eSafety Forum and the eCall Driving Group
• The European Standardisation Organisations ETSI
  and CEN, with the support of ITSSG should provide
  the necessary standards

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eCall Activities

• Road Map to success
• eCall DG
• Meetings with Insurance companies
• Meetings with Telecom operators
• EC activities the 2nd Communication
• eSafety High-level meeting
• Standardisation activities
• Next Steps

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eCall Plan to succes
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Next steps Specifications
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eCall DG Sub-Working Groups

• Performance criteria for the eCall service and
  PSAP requirements for the eCall generator
• Certification procedure of the eCall chain
• Fact finder study regarding the PSAP requirements
  
• Mobile Networks Operators
• Insurance companies to define costs benefits
• Vehicle manufactures to define costs of the
  In-Vehicle System
• eCall socio-economic benefits
• Fact finder study on requirements for the
  In-Vehicle System
• eCall Toolbox in eScope

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eCall HL Meeting 18 October 2005

• The Member States
• Supported unanimously the realisation of a
  pan-European in-vehicle emergency call service,
• Signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
  Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Slovenia, joining
  Finland and Sweden
• Announced that they had initiated the signature
  procedure Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, The
  Netherlands and Germany

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eCall Standards

• Communication IVS - PSAP
• ETSI MSG 3GPP
• Cellular communication (GSM-3G)
• Data in the Signal channel
• Expected 1Q2006
• Application level
• ETSI ERM TG 37
• ISO TC204 WG 16 CEN TC 278
• ? MSD format
• Input from stakeholders/eCall DG needed to
  complete requirements

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eCall Next Steps

• The 2nd Commission Communication in the Council
  and the European Parliament
• ? Member States Actions
• Finalising the work of the eCall Driving Group
• eCall Expert Meeting December 2005 (Zurich)
• A full-scale Benefit-Cost Study (starts 2006)
• Further User Awareness and deployment actions
  under the eSafety initiative and i2010
• Studying the use of incentives as a way to have a
  positive business case

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The eSafety Forum
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The 4th Plenary Meeting

• Largest ever - over 120 members attended
• Focus on deployment of eSafety systems
• Strong participation from the Member States
  insurance industry present for the first time
• Highlights of the Forum Agenda
• High-Level Opening Remarks
• Reports of the Working Groups Towards
  pan-European deployment of eSafety
• Panel Discussion How to accelerate the
  deployment of eSafety

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eSafety Forum Plenary Meeting Main Conclusions
(1)

• The 4th eSafety Forum welcomed the progress of
  the eSafety Working Groups, discussed their
  reports and other measures to accelerate eSafety
  deployment. The Forum
• Welcomed the interim report of the Implementation
  Road Maps WG and its approach on assessing the
  merits of various eSafety systems, requesting it
  to complete its work by the end of the year
• Stressing the importance of the user outreach
  actions gave its support to the proposal of the
  User Outreach WG to establish a joint platform
  for user outreach actions
• Agreed on the creation of an eSafety label to
  foster the awareness on eSafety systems

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Main Conclusions (2)

• Furthermore, the 4th eSafety Forum
• Stressed the importance of all stakeholders
  signing the eCall MoU, and welcomed Germanys
  announcement that it would be ready to sign on
  18th October 2005
• Stressed the importance of solving the business
  case for eCall, and welcomed the announcement of
  the insurance industry to investigate the use of
  incentives for eCall
• Welcomed Finlands announcement to conduct a
  detailed study on eCall benefits
• Acknowledged the important work of eScope in
  monitoring progress and dissemination of eSafety
  results
• Welcomed the reports of the Heavy Duty Vehicles
  and Digital Maps and Working Groups, and
  supported the RTD Working Groups proposal to set
  up a Joint European Technology Initiative for
  eSafety Co-operative Systems
• Welcomed the Commissions Draft Working Paper on
  incentives, and asked to distribute it to all
  members to enable further discussions on this
  topic

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Main Conclusions (3)

1. Encouraged the Commission to further investigate
   tax incentives for safety issues, following the
   schemes used for environmental aims
2. Emphasized the importance of RTTI, and asked the
   Commission to investigate the use of an MoU as a
   means to accelerate deployment of RDS/TMC
3. Acknowledged the importance of ITS standards to
   foster the deployment of eSafety and invited
   ITSSG to continue its coordination and strategy
   work
4. Appreciated the support of Commissioner Reding to
   eSafety, and welcomed her initiative to propose
   as a part of i2010 a new flagship initiative
   intelligent car

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HMI eSafety WG Recommendations

• Producers should
• Apply good design principles
• Supply a secure fitting kit (if not built-in)
• Provide clear instructions for product use
• Disable functions not intended to be accessed
  while driving
• Vehicle manufacturers, device manufacturers and
  service providers should
• Co-operate to develop smart interfaces
• Member States should
• Take measures to ensure secure fixing of devices
• Take actions on the misuse of visual
  entertainment systems (e.g. TV, video games)
• EC should
• Further develop and promote the European
  Statement of Principles on HMI

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HMI Timetable for new ESoP

• Expert Group
• April October 2005
• 2. Information Workshop
• June 29, 2005
• 3. Member States - High level meeting
• October 18, 2005
• 4. 3rd eSafety Communication End 2005
• EC Recommendation, including new ESoP

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User Outreach Working Group (1)

• Focus on aspects of communication and consumer
  behaviour
• Analyse best practices and research results
• Develop a communication model
• Develop recommendations
• Define next steps and prepare follow-up

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User Outreach Working Group (2)

• The Proposal for a Communications Platform
• Wide participation of stakeholders
• Non-competitive character
• Internal agreement on Financing and Ownership
• Definition of campaign subjects
• Development of media material
• Cooperation with agencies
• Next Steps
• Definition of Pilot Campaign
• Transition to Pilot Phase

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Road Map Working Group
A Draft Road Map of the technological steps and
economic implications for introduction of
eSafety systems, with required investments in
infrastructure

• WG Final Report published in October 2005
• Welcomed by the HL Meeting 18 October 2005
• Need to update regularly
• Involvement of key stakeholders needed

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RTTI Working Group
Goal 80 of all journeys served with adequate,
standardised services by 2010

• Short term RDS/TMC
• Longer term more advanced services with more
  advanced technologies for broadcasting and
  communications
• Final Report 12 detailed recommendations to the
  Member States

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Heavy Duty Vehicles WG
Goal To review road safety measures specific to
heavy duty vehicles, to evaluate them and to
formulate recommendations.

• WG Final Report published in October 2005
• Analysis of the most common accident types
• Analysis of 50 possible safety measures
• Identification of deployment obstacles
• Recommendations

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Digital Maps WG

• To define a business model for Public-Private
  partnerships
• To define the requirements for digital map
  databases containing road safety-related
  attributes

• WG Final Report discussed in Plenary session of
  18 Nov 2005
• This model aims to support the creation,
  maintenance, quality assurance and distribution
  of safety attributes that can be integrated into
  the digital roadmap databases.
• Involvement of Public Sector

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Communications Working Group
Goal To support the eSafety Forum in all issues
related to Communications, with focus on
spectrum issues, standardisation and
international cooperation

• New Working Group 1st Meeting 26 October
• Open to all stakeholders the car industry and
  its suppliers, road authorities and operators,
  service providers, providers/operators of
  communication infrastructure,
• Co-operates with current and future EU projects,
  especially with COMeSafety

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i2010 Commission Communication

• A European Information Society for growth and
  employment
• i2010 is a joint effort of the EC, Member States
  and economic actors
• aiming to accelerate the take-up of knowledge
  society in Europe
• It takes a time-frame of 10 years and 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 ICTs
• The 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.

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I2010 intelligent Car
With the objective to improve the quality of the
living environment by supporting ICT solutions
for safer smarter and cleaner mobility of people
and goods, the Commission is following a three
pillar approach
(1) The eSafety Initiative (2) RTD in
Information and Communications Technologies (3)
Commission Communication on Intelligent Car
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i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative (1)
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. In this context, the Commission
proposes to launch a quality of life flagship
ICT initiative on
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i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative (2)

• Main Actions Assessment, Policy, Communication
• to bring the results of RTD to the citizens
• to facilitate the deployment of mature
  technologies and systems in the initial phase of
  market penetration
• to assess the impact of advanced ICT-based
  systems through extensive field operational
  tests
• to raise user awareness through best practice
  and pilots for media campaigns.
• to encourage stakeholders initiatives supporting
  i2010

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Next Steps

• The Focus in eSafety will remain in Deployment
• Pan-European Deployment of eCall by 2009
• Updated European Statement of Principles (HMI) in
  December 2005
• Launch of the eSafety Communications Platform in
  January 2006
• i2010 will build on the successes of eSafety and
  the EU-supported RTD programmes
• i2010 Intelligent Car Communication in December
  2005
• Launch of the i2010 Intelligent Car Flagship in
  2006
• Support to deployment and dissemination eSafety
  Support

eSafety Support is an IST Call 4 project,
currently under negotiations
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More information

• eSafety Mail Box
• INFSO-eSafety_at_cec.eu.int
• Mailbox of the Unit
• INFSO-G4_at_cec.eu.int
• eSafety Web-site http//europa.eu.int/informatio
  n_society/programmes/esafety/index_en.htm
• eSafety on CORDIS website
• www.cordis.lu/ist/so/esafety/home.html
• eScope website
• www.eScope.info