Cooperative vehicles and road infrastructure for road safety

SAFESPOT at the ITS Europe in 2008

20.06.2008

SAFESPOT was again present at the ITS Europe in 2008. On Wednesday 4 June at 11:00 h started the special interest session with the title: "Towards a co-operative automotive and traffic environment: The SAFESPOT approach."

A number of issues were discussed related to co-operative systems including the efforts towards a common architecture for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) co-operation, and the related platforms that are under development in SAFESPOT, which will enable co-operative applications. In order to give the audience an idea of the future of co-operative driving the specific applications developed in SAFESPOT and also in the related WATCH OVER STREP were presented. [more]

SAFESPOT at TRA2008 conference
Ljubljana, Slovenia 21 – 24 April 2008

29.04.2008

At the Transport Research Arena conference, that was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 21 - 24 April 2008, SAFESPOT was presented in several sessions by Luisa Andreone and Giulio Vivo (both CRF).

For more information visit the conference's website.

WATCH-OVER and SAFESPOT User-Forum Workshop
Stuttgart, Germany – 22 January 2008

15.02.2008

WATCH-OVER and SAFESPOT User-Forum Workshop "Cooperative Systems for Road Safety" was held on 21 - 22 January 2008 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany

Click here, read more and download the presentations!

SAFESPOT General Assembly
Stuttgart, Germany – 22 January 2008

07.01.2008

It is time for the SAFESPOT consortium to meet again for the annual General Assembly which this year will be kindly hosted by the University of Stuttgart. The meeting is conveniently scheduled for the afternoon of the 22nd of January 2008, after the Common Workshop of SAFESPOT with the WATCH OVER project "Cooperative Systems for Road Safety" which is scheduled for the 21st and the morning of the 22nd of January 2008. The 23rd of January is also dedicated for cross SP meetings and internal technical workshops.

The progress of the project’s research activities is expected to be discussed during the assembly meeting while the fascinating new project results are going to be presented.

SAFESPOT travels to ITS world Congress in Beijing China
14th ITS World Congress - Beijing - October 2007

30.10.2007

This year the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress took place in Beijing, China at 9-13 October 2007. The SAFESPOT project was represented by a presentation preparared by Luisa Andreone (Centro Ricerche FIAT) and Christine Bartels (TeleAtlas) at the Special session No SS15 on "European Approach to Cooperative Systems Architecture". The Special session, organized by the European Commission, moderated by Juhani Jääskeläinen, gave an overview on the current status of the work on Co-operative Systems in Europe, concentrating on the approach towards a common Communications Architecture and the research challenges.

The Session will also outline the ongoing work of the recently established Architecture Task Force and address its implications on the International harmonisation and standardisation.

For those of you that will be there the session is scheduled for Thursday 11 October 2007, at 8:30-10:00 in the conference room 05. We will be happy to see you there!

For more information on the congress you can visit the following website: www.itsworldcongress.cn

SAFESPOT and PReVENT IP Exhibition Event

25.09.2007

As previously announced the SAFESPOT project was kindly hosted to the PReVENT IP Exhibition Event that was realised with great success between the 18th and 20th of September 2007 at Versailles, France. A common tent with the CVIS project attracted the interest of the more than 800 exhibition’s participants. Members of the consortium were present to provide any information requested while the project’s rolling presentation and the interactive information provided at the desk helped the invited experts understand the fundamental parts of the project and get a preview of the initial results. The up-coming joint workshop with the WATCH-OVER project, at Stuttgart on 21-22 January was also promoted through handouts and posters. SAFESPOT wishes to thank the organisers of the PReVENT exhibition and PReVENT consortium for their kind hospitality and congratulate them for the very successful event that provided an exciting overview of the results of the PReVENT project!

For more information on the event visit:
http://www.prevent-ip.org

SAFESPOT at the PReVENT IP Exhibition
PReVENT in Action !
"Technologies for safer road traffic"
MOV'EO - Test Track, Versailles, France,
18-22 September 2007

01.09.2007

SAFESPOT is pleased to announce the project’s participation to the exhibition that is organized by the PReVENT IP. The PReVENT in Action! Event features more than 25 PReVENT cars and trucks demonstrating the most advanced safety applications developed throughout this 4-year Integrated Project. The significant number of the roadshow attendees and the participation of high level EC commissioners, CEOs from various companies and journalists provides an excellent opportunity for SAFESPOT advertisement.

The SAFESPOT project is organizing a dedicated stand to which visitors will be able to be informed on the project’s activities and interact with the project’s representatives and experts. The event is also hosting the E-Safety Forum and the i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative conference.

For more information on the event visit:
http://www.prevent-ip.org

Workshop on Business Models and Business Cases for Cooperative Systems

01.06.2007

ERTICO - ITS Europe and LogicaCMG are jointly organising a Workshop on Business Models and Business Cases for Cooperative Systems, on 29 June 2007 from 10:00 to 16:00 in Brussels.

The objective of the workshop is to exchange ideas and thoughts regarding commercial issues, business cases and business models. In addition to presenting the visions of key stakeholders, the workshop is meant to give direction to the work of the CVIS deployment enablers sub-project

See full invitation for more detailed information!

SAFESPOT at the General Assembly of AKTIV Project

14.05.2007

At the end of March the General Assembly of the German Project AKTIV took place in Lindau. There a general overview of the SAFESPOT project was presented to AKTIV consortium by TUM (Technische Universität München).

SAFESPOT at ATA workshop

15.04.2007

This International Workshop, organized by ATA (Italian Automotive Technical Association), is an opportunity in which different stakeholders, working on the design and development of cooperative systems for future solutions, will be presenting their activities in European funded projects, like SAFESPOT, CVIS and COOPERS. Prospected solutions will enable a future breakthrough in road safety and traffic efficiency.

For more information on the event visit:  www.ata.it