EC call for proposals issued on cooperative transport management systems and eCall pilot

Date: 29/1/2010

Source: Europa

On 21 January 2010 the European Commission issued a call for proposals on projects in the Information Technologies Policy Support Programme 2010 (ICT PSP). Two of the objectives of the call are relevant to the HA:

• Objective 1.3 Energy efficient cooperative transport management systems – support for up to 3 pilots with an EU contribution of up to €4m.  Pilots should lead to a set of specifications for cities for procuring, testing, installing, operating and monitoring state of the art cooperative traffic management systems and services.  These should be based on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.  There will be a focus on energy efficiency in some of the following areas: eco-traffic management and control systems, eco-demand and access systems, eco-navigation and travel information systems, driver behaviour change and eco-driving. Pilots should involve public authorities and road operators responsible for network operations.
• Objective 1.4 Support to eCall implementation – support for one pilot with an EU contribution of up to €5m.  This pilot is intended to prepare for the deployment of the infrastructure needed for the pan-European eCall service. The pilot will involve upgrading Public Service Answering Points (PSAPs) so that they can handle the eCall messages and equipping vehicles which will be used to test the transmission of emergency messages to PSAPs, handling of those calls by the PSAPs and traffic management centres, and integration of other services within the eCall in-vehicle platform. The technologies used in the pilot will be based on eCall standards.

The closing date for the call is 1 June 2010.

More information about the call for proposals, including the work programme and the presentations at the recent information day, is available from the source link above. More information about eCall is available from the ITS Radar International eCall Fact Sheet.

HA to consider possible role in the programme

ITS Radar International will monitor the outcome of the call

Key words: Communications, Cooperative vehicle systems, Emergency, Environment, European Commission, In-vehicle systems, Policy, Project, Safety, Standard, Traffic information, Traffic management