ITS4SIT

Intelligent Transportation Systems for Safer and Improved Traffic

Coordinatore	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE    more  Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Shaun Cognome: Power Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7594 8773 Fax: +44 20 7594 8609
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	272˙980 €
EC contributo	272˙980 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-09-01   -   2013-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE  Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Shaun Cognome: Power Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7594 8773 Fax: +44 20 7594 8609	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	272˙980.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Recently there has been a growing interest for minimizing the negative effects of human activities in the Earth climate. One of these activities is road traffic, since its impact on the air quality is enormous. Thus, in this project we will investigate on making the vehicles intelligent so that they reduce consumption. At the same time, the project has another very important goal: improving driving safety. Road accidents are a major concern in many countries. Thus, by providing the vehicles with some intelligence, we expect to reduce the number of accidents.

In particular, the project has two main objectives: (1) inter-vehicle coordination, and (2) situation-aware infrastructures. Regarding inter-vehicle coordination, we want to provide the vehicles with the capability of exchanging information among them (vehicle-to-vehicle communication), which will allow them to negotiate and reach agreements on the actions to perform (e.g. who changes lane first, facilitate overtaking manoeuvres). With such coordination, unexpected actions will be reduced, causing the potential accidents to be reduced as well. As for situation-aware infrastructures, we plan to provide vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, so that the vehicles and the infrastructure (road network) can also exchange information. This will allow the vehicles to inform about their targets (destination, desired time of arrival, intermediate waypoints), and the infrastructure will be able to inform about the network situation (congestion points, cordon zones, alternative routes). This exchange of information will allow to have a better balanced traffic throughout the network, improving the overall driving activity in many ways (reduce congestions, minimize travel times, reduce pollutants emissions).

To achieve these goals we will use mechanisms such as biologically inspired models to predict driving behaviors, or socio-economic approaches to allow for the coordination among vehicles and the infrastructure.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

City traffic causes many related problems. An EU team's solution involves systems allowing vehicles to communicate with each other and with a central network, permitting high-level traffic control and improved efficiency.