Cooperative vehicles and road infrastructure for road safety
SAFESPOT Integrated Project
SAFESPOT is an integrated research project co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies among the initiatives of the 6th Framework Program.
The objective is to understand how intelligent vehicles and intelligent roads can cooperate to produce a breakthrough for road safety.
The aim is to prevent road accidents developing a Safety Margin Assistant that detects in advance potentially dangerous situations and that extends in space and time drivers´ awareness of the surrounding environment.
The Safety Margin Assistant will be an Intelligent Cooperative System based on Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication.
Latest News
SAFESPOT to the 10th E-SAFETY Plenary Meeting
Brussels, 6th of November 2008
21.10.2008
The SAFESPOT project and its undergoing work and achievements are going to be presented to the 10th Plenary Meeting of the E-Safety Forum. The relevant presentation can be downloaded from here.
SAFESPOT presentation to the Telematics Munich 2008
Munich, 6-7 November 2008
16.09.2008
Telematics Munich 2008 is a European conference on the future of the automotive, mobile and web-based telematics that will be held at Munich, at 6-7 November 2008, gathering a wide interest from mainly industrial companies of the area. SAFESPOT will be represented to the conference by the project’s coordinator R. Brignolo (CRF). R. Brignolo will make a joint presentation with R. Mietzner, the General Manager of the Car to Car Consortium, on the SAFESPOT applications and on how the C2C Consortium is connected to the SAFESPOT project.
More information at:
http://www.telematicsmunich.com
Car to Car Forum
22 - 23 October 2008, Opel, Dudenhofen Test Center
16.09.2008
The Car to Car Forum will be held on 22 and 23 October 2008 at the Opel, Dudenhofen Test Center. This will be the second event of the annual forum and the latest news of the Car 2 Car communication consortium will be discussed. At this forum L. Andreone (CRF) will make a presentation on the SAFESPOT project and on its applications. The relevant presentation can be downloaded from here.
For more information visit:
C2C_ForumAndDemonstration.pdf
SAFESPOT at ITS 2008 World Congress
New York, November 16th to 20th, 2008
04.09.2008
The continuing goal of the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is to promote awareness and deployment of ITS technologies. With a focus on practical deployment, as well as on education and innovation, the World Congress on ITS enhances our ability to work together to provide users of the world’s transport systems new levels of safety, reliability, convenience, accessibility, and choice. Transport executives and ITS professionals from around the globe will come together at the World Congress & Annual Meeting in New York. [more]
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
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.
Internal
Subprojects
- SP 1 SAFEPROBE
In-vehicle sensing and platform - SP 2 INFRASENS
Infrastructure sensing and platform - SP 3 SINTECH
Innovative technologies - SP 4 SCOVA
Cooperative systems applications vehicle based - SP 5 COSSIB
Cooperative safety systems infrastructure based - SP 6 BLADE
Business models, legal aspects, and deployment - SP 7 SCORE
SAFESPOT core architecture - SP 8 HOLA
Horizontal activities
