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Coopers Co-operative Systems for Intelligent
Road Safety
Asia-Pacific Weeks Berlin 2009, THURSDAY, October
8, 2009 COOPERS Cooperative Systems for
Intelligent Road Safety Thomas Meissner / Lars
Holstein, TSB-FAV
Co-funded by the EC, FP6 ICT-Programme
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Basic Cluster Management Services

• Development, implementation and moderation of
  qualified networks between science, industry and
  politics/administration
• Development of innovative projects improving the
  direct transfer of ideas, knowledge, technologies
  and applications from science to industry
• Technology transfer
• Innovative projects along the value added chain
• Acquisition of initial funding
• Cluster management Transport and Mobility -
  important part of the joint innovation strategy
  for Berlin and Brandenburg
• European service for enterprises as a partner in
  the Enterprise Europe Network Berlin-Brandenburg
  incl. EU-programmes, technology partner search,
  and innovation management

• Intensification of the cooperation between
  science and industry active networking
• Internationalisation of the region

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ClusterTransport Mobility - Characteristics
in Berlin
Areas of Excellence
Players 450 Companies 115 Research Institutes

• Railway technology,
• Road transport / Automotive Industry,
• Intelligent Transport Systems,
• Logistics and
• Aerospace

Jobs 50.000 in Industries 48.000 in Transport
Operators 56.000 in Logistics Service Providers
1.800 in Research Institutes
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COOPERS profile

• COOPERS Co-operative Systems for Intelligent
• Road Safety
• Integrated Project of the 4. IST Call, FP6
• Project with roughly 40 partners, coordinated by
  AustriaTech
• Project Budget 16,8 Mio EURO, 9,8 Mio EURO EC
  contribution
• Start on 1. February 2006
• Duration of 4 years

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COOPERS Partners
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Focus Infrastructure-vehicle communication link
Vehicle to vehicle research projects (e.g
Car2Car consortium..)
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COOPERS

• VISION
• Vehicles are connected via continuous wireless
• communication with the road infrastructure on
• motorways, exchange data and information
• relevant for the specific road segment to
• increase overall road safety and enable co-
• operative traffic management.

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Project Vision
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Long Term Vision
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What does the vision mean in practical terms?

• For Road Operators
• Send VMS content into the vehicle, reinforce
  impact of dynamic traffic information, diversion
  advice and driving regulation (speed, lanes)
• Access data from probe vehicles (event triggered
  FCD / XFCD), reduce costs for road sensors (e.g.
  induction loops, cameras)
• Ultimately aim for a virtual VMS, reduce
  necessity of steel gantries and costs
• For Road Safety
• Faster exchange of safety related information
  from I2V
• Precise and situation related real time
  information improves safety of driving
• Identification of violations
• For Traffic Management
• Precise dynamic advice, related to traffic,
  weather and road infrastructure status
• Faster response in emergency situations and
  improved reaction from TCC

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Information Services

• S1. Accident/incident warning
• S2. Weather condition warning
• S3. Roadworks information
• S4. Lane utilization information
• S5. In-vehicle variable speed
• limit information
• S6. Traffic congestion warning
• S7. ISA with links to infrastructure
• S8. International service handover
• S9. Road charging to influence demand
• S10. Route navigation estimated journey time
• S11. Route navigation recommended next link
• S12. Route navigation automatic road map
• update

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Driving simulator results

• Mean speed - Fog
• more than 90 of drivers reacted to the warning
• reduced their driving speed up to 14 after a
  warning

Read at 500 m distance average speed (90 km/h
with system on 110 km/h with system off)
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I2V Communication

• Broadcast Media
• DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast)
• DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast Handheld)
• Cellular Communication Media
• GPRS (2.5G Cellular Networks)
• WiMAX (Metropolitan Area Networks)
• Short-range Communication media
• Infrared (CALM IR)
• Microwave (5.9GHz)

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COOPERS - Test Sites
Focus on user behaviour and acceptance changes
in user compliance rate effects on traffic flow
and safety physiological effects / driver
distraction and stress
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I2V Communication in Berlin
Technical Specification for Section Stations
(TLS) SOAP-XML / FTP Interfaces according TLS2002
specification FG1 traffic data - short/long
term, single vehicle data FG3 environment data -
brightness, weather FG4 data of displays -
variable message signs, switching status,
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Online Traffic Data in Berlin

• Traffic Management Centre (VMZ) provides
  information about the current traffic situation
  from various sources and of various qualities
  (e.g. VKRZ Berlin, VRZ Stolpe)
• Sensors along the city motorway deliver
  continuous measurements of traffic status
  variables, the transmitted values are averaged
  over 1 to 5 minutes intervals
• about 460 radar detectors
• 124 induction loops
• 68 Traffic Eye Universal (TEU)
• 5 meteorological stations
• Information on current status of Variable Message
  Signs (VMS) of different manufacturers (e.g.
  SIEMENS or Dambach)
• About 72 bridges
• Event based messages from TMC and INCO
  (Information system on roadworks) providing
  information about accidents, traffic jams,
  roadworks, etc.

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COOPERS at Broadcast, Berlin

• Transmitter for DAB-Transmission
• Public broadcaster rbbRundfunk Berlin
  Brandenburg
• DAB channel 8C
• Covering the whole city
• Data Characteristics
• 32 kBits
• Transparent streaming service
• COOPERS Service Generation in the FIRST
  laboratory
• Broadcast Characteristics
• Multiple services in one channel
• Individual bandwidth and robustness configuration
  per service
• Reception of all services in parallel possible
• Ideal for one content to many users in one
  direction
• No limitation of number of users
• No relevant speed limitation even at highest
  speed on motorways

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COOPERS at Roadside, e.g. Austria

• CALM-IR Transceiver CALM-M5 (WLAN) hotspots
  (short-range communication)
• Situated on the A12 in Tyrol from km72 at Ampass
  extending to km52 at Vomp (length 20 km)
• One transceiver covers one lane, placed centered
  above the lane
• maximum lateral deviation 1m, recommended
  installation height 6 meters
• Transceivers require a front-fire position at the
  passing traffic
• Most gantries will cover the first lane.
  Additional infrared installation for a second
  lane is provided on 3-5 selected gantries to
  ensure proper testing of lane specific COOPERS
  service messages

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Test Vehicle Equipment TU Berlin
Lidar - Camera - System
Front Camera

• distances measurement to the side lines and
• verification of the distance data to the vehicle
  in front

Rear Camera

• verification of the distance data to the lag
  vehicle

In-vehicle camera

• driver observation, rough indication

Mobile Computer

• Driver observation

External eSATA

• Harddisk for data recording

APC

• For video and data processing

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Information services, e.g. Berlin
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Tue Feb 17 094517 CET 2009 Service message
s / minute Accident Warning (S1a)
6 Incident Warning (S1b) 15 Weather
Condition Warning (S2) 0 Roadwork
Information (S3) 67 Lane Keeping (S4b)
0 Lane Banning (S4a) 0 Variable Speed
Limit Information (S5) 19 Traffic Congestion
Warning (S6) 108 Estimated Journey Time (S10)
260 Recommended Next Link (S11) 0
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Perceived Usefulness
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Intention to Use
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How to implement cooperative traffic management
on European motorways?

• Role and competences of road operators change
• perceive traffic management as integral service
• provide service quality rather than road
  infrastructure
• requirement to inform on network traffic status
• In-vehicle traffic management information is a
  key part of co-operative systems and operators
  are willing to invest
• Deployment to push X2X communication standards by
  motorway operators
• For dangerous scenarios simulator study has
  confirmed the validity of concept
• No interference with existing VMS or tolling
  equipment
• High sensitivity to liability issues
• Difficulty to negotiate service level agreements

• Current system design for V2I I2V communication
  looks promising, but needs systematic validation!
  

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Contact Information
Thomas Meissner, Lars Holstein TSB-FAV TSB
Innovationsagentur Berlin GmbH Forschungs- und
Anwendungsverbund Verkehrssystemtechnik (FAV)
Berlin Fasanenstraße 85, 10623 Berlin Tel 49
30 46302 561 / Fax [phone] Email
tmeissner_at_fav.de Internet www.fav.de www.coopers
-ip.eu