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| CARTRE - Coordination of Automated Road Transport Deployment for Europe | 10/1/2016 | | | Automated Road Transport (ART) is seen as one of the key technologies and major technological advancements influencing and shaping our future mobility and quality of life. The mission of CARTRE is to accelerate development and deployment of automated road transport by increasing market and policy certainties.... |
| IN LIFE - INdependent LIving support Functions for the Elderly | 5/1/2014 | | | IN LIFE aims to prolong and support the independent living of seniors with cognitive impairments, through interoperable, open, personalised and seamless ICT solutions that support home activities, communication, health maintenance, travel, mobility and socialisation tasks, with novel, scalable and viable business models, based on feedback from large-scale and multi-country pilot applications.
IN LIFE will offer 19 different services, which will be further optimised and adapted to the particular... |
| ISABELLE - Integrated SAfety Benefit Estimation tooL for 2-wheeLErs | 1/1/2012 | | | The goals of ISABELLE are to develop deeper understanding of the injury mechanisms of motorcycle accidents and to create a new framework for the assessment of safety of all 2wheelers. This project will be realized with focus on motorcycles but the developed methodology, and tools will be applicable to all other 2wheelers. The main objectives of the project are: (1) to investigate the control behaviour of motorcycle riders, (2) the better understandings of injury mechanisms of motorcycle accident... |
| MOBILITY4EU - Action Plan for the future of Mobility in Europe | 1/1/2016 | | | The MOBILITY4EU project will develop such an action plan for the coherent implementation of innovative transport and mobility solutions in Europe taking into account all modes of transport as well as a multitude of societal drivers.
Mobility4EU “Action Plan for Future Mobility in Europe” aims to:
o identify and assess societal challenges that will influence future transport demand and supply
o establish a future vision of a transport system in 2030 that ref... |
| Prosperity4All - Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders | 2/1/2014 | | | Over 2 billion people worldwide have different types, degrees, or combinations of disability, literacy, digital literacy or aging related barriers that impede or prevent use of ICT. Not long ago you could live without access to ICT quite well. However today access to ICT is required for most education, employment, and commerce, and is increasingly required for travel, health, safety, daily living and participation in most of our society. Yet we currently only reach 3 to 15% of these - in develop... |
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| 2-BE-SAFE - 2-Wheeler Behaviour and Safety | 1/1/2009 | | Funded By: European Commission_FP7, Theme 7 -Sustainable Surface Transport. | www.2besafe.eu |
| | Up to 2008, the research relating to PTWs safety focussed mainly on sociological aspects, training, accidentology and primary safety systems design. These aspects were critical due to an over-involvement of PTWs riders in fatal crashes, this in a context of a strong increase of the number of PTWs on the road. The PTW related research was however poor compare to car ones, and undertaken with delay. One can consider that the car related research was far in advance, with several researches fo... |
| 2DECIDE - Toolkit for sustainable Decision Making ITS deployment | 10/1/2009 | | | The project 2DECIDE came to life as a response to the need for an ITS Decision support Tool on European Level. The need for such a tool was identified in an action of the European ITS Action plan which was adopted in 2008. The project was funded in the EU FP7 framework programme. The main objectives of the project were the development of a single point of access to existing European evaluations of ITS services and applications and the delivery of such evidence through a web based tool – th... |
| ACCESS2ALL - Mobility schemes ensuring accesibility of public transport for all users | 12/1/2008 | | | The main aim of proposing the ACCESS 2 ALL coordination action was to encourage Public Transport operators belonging to the project target group to adopt innovative technological concepts and mobility schemes that enable high quality mobility and transportation services for all, as well as to provide their personnel with the necessary knowledge on the particularities of specific user groups, such as the elderly and disabled, ICT-illiterate, dyslexic and illiterate people, etc. ACCESS 2 ALL aimed... |
| ACCESSIBILITY PASS - ACCESSIBILITY PASS | 2/1/2013 | | | The purpose of the ACCESSIBILITY PASS project is development of products by the company concerning the assessment and certification of touristic facilities (e.g. hotels) and meeting/conference areas in relation to their accessibility for people with disabilities (motor, visual, hearing, cognitive).
The role of CERTH / HIT in this project is the implementation of the pilot tests for all individual products ACCESSIBILITY PASS, counseling regarding product optimization based on the results of th... |
| ACTIBIO - Unobtrusive Authentication Using ACTIvity Related and Soft BIOmetrics | 3/1/2008 | | | ACTIBIO researched and developed a completely new concept in biometric authentication: the extraction of multi-modal biometric signatures based on the response of the user to specific stimuli, while performing specific but natural work-related activities. The novelty of the approach lies in the fact that the biometric measurements correspond to the response of the person to specific events being however, fully unobtrusive and fully integrated in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure.
ACTIBIO &... |
| ADHRITO - A Human Network For The Powerful Promotion Of Road Safety In Greece. | 5/10/2003 | | Funded By: General Secretariat for Research and Technology(GSRT) | |
| | This specific Human Network aimed the growth of suitable communication channels and collaboration between academic institutions and enterprises of Public and Private Sector. In order to be achieved an important reduction of road accidents in Greece, the introduction of new and modern methods of education for new drivers, already existing drivers, and other special categories of drivers, such as elderly or disabled people, becomes a necessity. These methods and training curricula have already bee... |
| AEGIS - Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards | 9/1/2008 | | | With the recent emergence of a 3rd generation accessibility approach, mainstream (Information and Communication Technologies) ICT companies and the regulatory bodies that address ICT accessibility have now begun to recognise the importance of a formal division of responsibilities in ICT accessibility: tasks done by the ICT “platform”, tasks done by ICT “applications”, and tasks done by AT. This 3rd generation approach is also in service of a shift towards Universal Design... |
| AGILE - AGed people Integration, mobility, safety and quality of Life Enhancement through driving. | 4/1/2002 | | | AGILE aimed to develop a new set of training, information, counselling and driving ability assessment and support tools for the elderly, evaluating their full range of physical, cognitive, behavioural and interactional abilities and not just checking a few sensory and motor functions (as is currently the case).
This is approached through a number of intermediate objectives:
• To establish a clear identification of elderly problems in relation to various driving tasks and an aetiological c... |
| AIDE - ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED DRIVER-VEHICLE INTERFACE | 3/1/2004 | | | Today, a wide range of new in-vehicle technologies are being introduced on the market, including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and In-vehicle Information Systems (IVIS). Moreover, the in-vehicle use of nomad devices (e.g. mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other portable computing devices) is increasing rapidly. These new technologies have great potential for enhancing road safety, as well as enhancing the quality of life and work, e.g. by providing in-vehicle access to n... |
| ASK IT - Ambient Intelligence System of Agents for Knowledge-based and Integrated Services for Mobility Impaired users | 10/1/2004 | | | Mobility Impaired (MI) people have a wide variety of functional limitations, from different types of physical impairments to activity limitations. ICT systems following the \"design for all\" ethos and adequate content are required, so as to take advantage of both internet and mobile-based services.
ASK-IT integrated project aimed to establish Ambient Intelligence (AmI) in semantic web enabled services, to support and promote the mobility of Mobility Impaired people, enabling the provision of p... |
| AWAKE - System for effective Assessment of driver vigilance and Warning According to traffic risK Estimation. | 9/1/2001 | | | A major focus of research over the last few years has been “driver hypovigilance” as a cause of road accidents. 10-20% of all accidents are related to driver fatigue. More precisely:
• Fatigue and/or drowsiness of the driver caused around 30% of accidents in French highways in the period 1979-1994, whereas about 40% of fatal accidents on US Highways are sleep-related.
• 1% to 10% of all accidents in the U.S.A. seem to be directly related to sleepiness.
• Regarding h... |
| BOB-campaign - BOB-campaign in Greece“BOB”-campaign in Greece | 8/1/2001 | | | HIT implemented the BOB campaign in Greece, designed by BIVV and successfully applied since 1995 in Belgium. The objective of this was to enhance public awareness of the problem of drunk driving and gain public acceptance in a series of measures to aver this phenomenon.
This campaign has been realised in Greece according to the specifications for implementing the BOB-campaign in European Union countries (developed by BIVV). HIT cooperated with the Non-profit Association of Greek Driving Schools... |
| CATER - Computerized Automotive Technology Reconfiguration System for Mass Customization | 9/1/2006 | | | Automotive enterprises are becoming more customer-centric to meet today’s challenging market demands. Mass customization adds industrial value to the enterprise in order to gain competitive advantage. This calls for a restructuring of B2C relations and related new technologies. The automotive industry has furthermore become highly networked and requires improved communication on products and components in relation to its B2B relations. In this context, CATER was specially tailored to bridg... |
| CONSENSUS - Promoting CONSENSUS in Assessing Driving Ability of PSN through Common Methodologies and Normative Tools | 9/1/2002 | | | CONSENSUS aimed to develop a Network of Excellence to systematically exchange information on driving ability assessment of Disabled people, promote relevant technology transfer within EU and provide access to expertise and resources of highly specialised Centres by other less specialised country authorities, using state of the art Telematics tools and procedures and experimenting with new IT support tools.
The main objectives of the project were:
• Agreement on a concise pan-European adap... |
| CREDIT - VALUING KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES ACQUIRED THROUGH EXPERIENCE AND THEIR ACCREDITATION FOR ELDERLY WORKERS | 10/1/2003 | | | This project aimed to develop a system for creating and valuing non-formal and informal re-training schemes for elderly workers and the necessary indicators, tools and databases for their cost efficient and user-friendly implementation. All these have been realised through several activities, starting with a survey of the inter-generational learning and re-training needs of elderly workers, followed by the development of lifelong modular and easily personalized training schemes, of acquired know... |
| DaCOTA - Road Safety Data, Collection, Transfer and Analysis | 7/1/2010 | | | The DaCoTA EU Project Team gathered and analysed data from 30 European countries on a wide range of road safety topics. The aim is to share the benefits of this leading-edge research and the decision-making tools with the international Road Safety Community in an effort to reduce casualties worldwide through data and knowledge-based policy-making.
The main areas of work include
Developing the link between the evidence base and new road safety policies
Establishing a Pan-E... |
| DETRA - Developing a European Transport Research Alliance | 6/1/2010 | | | Developing the European Transport Research Alliance (DETRA) was a strategic project between key transport research organisations to make an analysis of the state of the European Research Area (ERA) development within the transport domain. The DETRA partners had previously committed themselves to work together on the deepening of the ERA objectives in transport, in order to address the Grand Challenges. From this commitment, the objective grew to create the European Transport Research Alliance (E... |
| DRUID - Driving under the influence of Drugs, Alcohol and Medicine | 10/15/2006 | | | The Integrated Project DRUID (Driving under the Influence of Drugs, Alcohol and Medicines) dealed with the scourge of drink-driving and went to find answers to questions concerning the use of drugs or medicines that affect people’s ability to drive safely. DRUID brought together the most experienced organisations and researchers throughout Europe, involving more than 20 European countries. The aim was to gain new insights to the real degree of impairment caused by psychoactive drugs and th... |
| ETNA - European Thematic Network on Assistive Information Technologies | 1/1/2011 | | |
ICT-based assistive technology products - as well as accessibility solutions for mainstream ICT products and services - are powerful drivers for inclusion and quality of life of people with disabilities and elderly people. They helped compensate for functional limitations and tackle barriers in all types of environment, thus playing a central role in equalizing opportunities. Ensuring access to ICT assistive equipment, systems and services is not straightforward. Information on existing produc... |
| EXCROSS - Exploiting safety results across transportation modes | 10/1/2011 | | | EXCROSS is a Supporting Action (SA) to enhance cross-fertilization and synergies between research initiatives dealing with safety in the different transport modes (e.g. road transportation, aviation, etc.), reducing the fragmentation that exists in Europe between these initiatives. In particular, the objectives of this SA are:
1) Identify synergies and opportunities for cross fertilization between different transport modes;
2) Identify potential cross cutting researches between different trans... |
| FOTSIS - European Field Operational Test on Safe, Intelligent and Sustainable Road Operation | 4/30/2011 | | |
FOTsis (European Field Operational Test on Safe, Intelligent and Sustainable Road Operation) is a largescale field testing of the road infrastructure management systems needed for the operation of seven close-to-market cooperative I2V, V2I & I2I technologies (the FOTsis Services), in order to assess in detail both 1) their effectiveness and 2) their potential for a full-scale deployment in European roads.
Specifically, FOtsis will test the road infrastructure’s capabi... |
| GOOD ROUTE - Dangerous Goods Transportation Routing, Monitoring and Enforcement | 1/1/2006 | | | GOOD ROUTE aimed to make European road transportation safer by providing Dangerous Goods Vehicles (DGV) with a validated and integrated Dangerous Goods Transportation Routing, Monitoring and Enforcement cooperative system for (DGV) driver support, based upon dynamic data to generate cost efficient solutions, while minimizing the Societal Risks associated with DGV movements, instead of the current arbitrary and unguided practices.
To achieve its goals, the project developed:• A class... |
| HAPPY TOURIST - Holistic application to effectively train touristic services staff in accessibility issues. | 2/1/2006 | | | HAPPY TOURIST aimed to offer equal opportunities to people with disabilities at the touristic sector, either as tourists or staff, based upon the combination of innovative, modular and cost-effective ICT tools, e-learning concepts and on-the-job-training schemes.
ICT tools developed include a Multimedia tool for remote training of hotel staff on accessibility issues, an on-line database of accessibility aids in use in hotels, an e-learning platform with appropriate user interface for hotel staf... |
| HERMES - Evaluation and Assessment of the Effect of Nomadic Devices in Driving through Field Tests in Actual Conditions | 12/14/2010 | | | HERMES was a Greek pilot project, co-funded by the European Regional Development fund (ERDF) of the European Union and by national resources, under the 2007-2013 National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) and the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (OPC II) framework. The project investigated the impact of use of nomadic devices for professional drivers that are involved with sensitive transportations (e.g. transportation of dangerous goods). More specifically, th... |
| HILAS - Human integration into the lifecycle of aviation systems | 6/1/2005 | | | The HILAS project contains four parallel strands of work: the integration and management of human factors knowledge; flight operations processes and performance; the evaluation of new flight deck technologies, and the monitoring and assessment of maintenance operations.
A knowledge management system linking all the strands of the project will facilitate the use of the project s knowledge both inside and outside the project. It will also examine how to transform operational knowledge to stimulat... |
| HUMABIO - Human monitoring and authentication using biodynamic indicators and behavioural analysis | 1/1/2006 | | | HUMABIO was a STREP where new types of biometrics have been combined with state of the art sensorial technologies in order to enhance security in a wide spectrum of applications.
Several shortcomings in biometric authentication have been addressed in the course of HUMABIO which provided the basis for improving existing sensors, developed new algorithms, procedures and applications, towards creating an Ambient Intelligence Space in security sensitive, controlled environments with increased secur... |
| HUMANIST - HUMAN CENTRED DESIGN FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY TECHNOLOGIES | 3/1/2004 | | | The goal of the HUMANIST NoE was to create a European Virtual Centre by setting up strong connections between partners inside the NoE, in addition to exchanges with Universities and Academic World outside the NoE through training programmes and welcoming young researchers.
Outputs from NoE have also been targeted toward other relevant stakeholders such as National and European public authorities, Standardisation Bodies, National and European RTD Projects. Diffusion and transfer of knowledge, in... |
| HyWays - The Development and Detailed Evaluation of a Harmonised “European Hydrogen Energy Roadmap” | 4/1/2004 | | | HyWays was an integrated project for the development of the European Hydrogen Energy Roadmap. Τhe HyWays partners closely interlink with the European Commission to investigate the techno- and socio-economic conditions for introducing hydrogen as a future energy carrier and fuel. A toolbox from well known, widely accepted and tested simulation tools with well defined interfaces has been used for the consensus process to identify the technical, macro-, meso- and micro-economic and policy frame... |
| IDEA - An Innovative vocational training scheme for assessing the Driving ability of Elderly and disΑbled. | 12/15/2002 | | Funded By: European Commission - Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme (2000-2006) | www.idea.upv.es |
| | IDEA aimed at developing a flexible, continuing and standardised vocational training scheme for the personnel assessing the driving ability of elderly and disabled (E&D) people. This personnel included medical doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, engineers checking car adaptations, etc. Through this training scheme this personnel has been able to use common, ICT-based assessment tools, such as Internet databases, psychomotor test batteries, driving simulators and expert knowledge tools.... |
| IM@GINE IT - Intelligent Mobility AGents, Advanced Positioning and Mapping Technologies, INtEgrated Interoperable MulTimodal location | 1/1/2004 | | | IM@GINE IT project aimed to develop one and single access point, through which the end user can obtain location-based, intermodal transport information (static and dynamic), mapping and routing, navigation and other related services everywhere in Europe, anytime, taking into account personal preferences of the user. Thus, IM@GINE IT targeted the facilitation of seamless travel in Europe.
Key innovative features included the design of a user preference and context of use, issue of guidelines tow... |
| INFORMED - INtegrated system FOR an advanced and life-long training MEthodology of Dangerous goods drivers and trainers. | 12/30/2002 | | |
INFORMED was a Pilot project aiming exactly at the targets set by the European Commission with regard to road safety during the transport of dangerous goods, i.e. the development of a new training curriculum and innovative multimedia tools, to support the training of drivers and their instructors on transporting dangerous goods and handling them efficiently in case of an accident. The new curriculum was intended to extend to a wider training content, in order to meet the increased demands for ... |
| IN-SAFETY - IΝfrastructure and SAFETY | 1/1/2005 | | | Road safety engineering measures may reduce casualties by 6.5%. However, the rather high cost of traditional infrastructure construction / adaptations is a prohibiting factor. The combination of new technologies with existing infrastructure may lead to much more cost-efficient solutions.
IN-SAFETY project aimed to use intelligent, intuitive and cost-efficient combinations of new technologies and traditional infrastructure best practice applications, in order to enhance the forgiving and self-ex... |
| INTERSTRESS - Interreality in the Management and Treatment of Stress-Related | 1/3/2010 | | |
INTERSTRESS aimed to design, develop and test an advanced ICT based solution for the assessment and treatment of psychological stress. The system aimed at (1) objective and quantitative assessment of symptoms using biosensors and behavioral analysis; (2) decision support for treatment planning through data fusion and detection algorithms; and (3) provision of warnings and motivating feedback to improve compliance and long-term outcome. To reach its goals the project has use... |
| INTUITION - Network of Excellence on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments Applications for Future Workspaces | 9/1/2004 | | | Virtual Reality (VR) technology is still a rapidly evolving and diversifying field. The massive research and development process has reached a degree which makes a pan-European structuring and integrating effort an absolute necessity. In addition, VR technology has started being used to an extent in industrial applications; this has been processed though an unorganised way, lacking of long-term vision and dealing with case-by-case scenarios. Thus, a critical milestone is facilitate the adoption ... |
| ISLANDS - System for Long distance psychiatric Assistance and Non-conventional Distributed health Services. | 1/1/2003 | | Funded By: European Commission_FP5 | |
| | The need for health services rises because of the ageing in Europe as well as in other industrialised regions and because of the citizens’ health services quality expectancies. Demographic factors and technological progress lead to higher costs for health services. But at the same time there is a need in reducing those costs because of lower public budgets. Therefore, it is very important to use all possible resources to bring together divergent interests. Prevention and supporting healthy... |
| KRIPIS - Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (CERTH) in the field of Energy and Environment | 5/1/2013 | | Funded By: Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs: General Secretariat for Research and Technology(GSRT) | |
| | The project objective is the practical approach of the "holistic energy chain” research and implementation processes of production and distribution of “clean” raw materials and energy, through the implementation of selected pilot plants and their uses in a realistic environment.
In this context, the project will:
a) test innovative production technologies for "clean" fuels from environmentally friendly raw materials
b) implement selected pilot units of such technologies (th... |
| NOBEL - Neighbourhood Oriented Brokerage Electricity and monitoring system | 1/1/2010 | | |
The NOBEL project will build an energy brokerage system with which individual energy consumers can communicate their energy needs directly with both large-scale and small-scale energy producers, thereby making energy use more efficient. The brokerage system will use a middleware system to communicate energy consumption data and will use IPv6 technology to interconnect the middleware with sensors and energy meters on individual devices.
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| NOVEL - CeNtre of Excellence On Driver BehaViour Issues in the CEntre for Research and TechnoLogy Hellas (CERTH) / Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) | 5/1/2002 | | Funded By: Ministry of Development_Excellence in the Research Institutes Supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology | |
| | CeNtre of Excellence On Driver BehaViour Issues in the CEntre for Research and TechnoLogy Hellas (CERTH) / Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT)
NOVEL aimed to develop a Centre of Excellence on driver behaviour issues, which is a key element of road safety. In order to achieve this goal, the Centre will be equipped with a series of sophisticated research tools, such as:
• A Virtual Enviroment tool, for simulation of car systems and the surrounding environment.
The general configuration i... |
| OASIS - Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardization | 1/1/2008 | | | OASIS aimed at an open and innovative reference architecture, based upon ontologies and semantic services, that would allow plug and play and cost-effective interconnection of existing and new services in all domains required for the independent and autonomous living of the elderly and their Quality of Life enhancement.
Both the open reference architecture and the related tools have been made available as open source.
User friendliness and acceptability was a top priority for the project and a... |
| PEPPER - Police Enforcement Policy and Programs on European Roads | 3/1/2006 | | | The objective of the PEPPER project was to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the police enforcement of road traffic.
The project looked critically at all relevant aspects of enforcement, such as target behaviours, the detection of infringements, administrative and legal handling after infringement, decisions concerning the volume, location and timing of enforcement, effects of enforcement on road user behaviour and accidents, enforcement methods and tools, collection of enforcement da... |
| PERSONA - Perceptive Spaces promoting indepented Aging | 4/2/2007 | | | Translated to a more practical level PERSONA developed a scalable open standard technological platform to build a broad range of AAL Services. It demonstrated and tested the concept in real life implementations, assessed their social impact and established the initial business strategy for future deployment of the proposed technologies and services.
To enable AAL to realy empower senior citizens to live at home with greater autonomy, independence and safety, four challenges have been identifi... |
| PREVENT - LATERAL SAFE - Preventive and Active Safety Applications - Lateral support and driver diagnostics | 2/1/2004 | | Funded By: European Commission_FP6 | |
| | LATERAL SAFE has been one of the Subprojects of PReVENT IP, that focused on lateral support and driver diagnostics applications. Technological objectives of LATERAL-SAFE were to meet e-safety priorities for active safety applications in European roads for lateral safety functions. The target application (functions) for LATERAL-SAFE was threefold, developing:
a) A Lateral and rear area monitoring system
b) A Lateral collision warning system and
c) A lane change assistance system with i... |
| PREVENT - PReVAL - Preventive and Active Safety Applications - PReVENT Evaluation of Safety Functions | 2/1/2004 | | Funded By: European Commission_FP6 | |
| | The PReVAL project was a Subproject of the PReVENT IP, which aimed at the development and application of a complete and comprehensive assessment framework for IVS systems, that would produce comparable and reproducible results for all kinds of active safety functions.
This framework took the experience gained in the technical and HMI related evaluation activities in the various PReVENT subprojects – all of these were conducting evaluation activities, which, obviously,were designed w... |
| REMOTE - ICT based solutions for Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions of Elderly People | 7/7/2009 | | | REMOTE was a pan-European research project that dealt with the needs of elderly and individuals with chronic conditions. REMOTE attained this goal by introducing an innovative, ontology-driven, open reference architecture and platform that will enable interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content among the different services. The focus has been especially on those living in geographical or social isolation whose independent life is at risk with chronic conditions or lifestyle ri... |
| ROSE - 25 - INVENTORY AND COMPILING OF A EUROPEAN GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE ON ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION TARGETED AT YOUNG PEOPLE | 4/7/2004 | | | In September 2003 the European Commission has tendered a project (project lead: KfV) to investigate the situation of Road Safety Education (further on RSE) in all 25 Member States. With this project the European Commission emphasises the need to collect and exchange good practice in order to launch the discussion on RSE Guidelines at European level. This effort to strengthen European RSE networks as well as to create synergies in RSE research and development is an important investment for the be... |
| SAFERIDER - Advanced telematics for enhancing thew SAFEty and comfort of motorcycle RIDERs | 1/1/2008 | | | SAFERIDER started in January 2008. It is a specific targeted project co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies
RELEVERNCE
European statistics show that Powered-Two-Wheelers (PTW) road accidents are extremely high. Motorcycle and moped fatalities account for 17,8% of the total number of road accident fatalities in 2003, in EU-14 member countries.
Moreover, compared to a passenger car occupant, a motorcycle rider is 26 times more likely to die in a crash. It is there... |
| SAVE ME - System and Actions for VEhicles and transportation hubs to support Disaster Mitigation and Evacuation | 10/1/2009 | | | SAVE ME developeded a system that detects disaster events in public transport terminals / vehicles and critical infrastructures (i.e. tunnels and bridges) and supports quick and optimal mass evacuation guidance, to save the lives of the general public and the rescuers, giving particular emphasis to the most vulnerable travellers. The focus group are all passengers, including elderly, disabled, children, and, in general the most vulnerable traveller groups.... |
| SENSATION - ADVANCED SENSOR DEVELOPMENT FOR ATTENTION, STRESS, VIGILANCE & SLEEP/WAKEFULNESS MONITORING | 1/1/2004 | | | Sleep loss, excessive fatigue, stress and inattention constitute the social diseases of our century. Within the \"24 hour society\" people tend more and more to exchange sleep and serenity for gain or pleasure. This gradually leads to an excessive rate of sleep disorders, roughly 20% of the population suffer from one, at least mildly or temporarily, as well as to a boom of stress and anxiety related diseases. In addition, a significant percentage of severe traffic and industrial accidents seem t... |
| SPORT4ALL - Provision of Telematic Services to the Disabled for the Diffusion of Information on Athletics Events. | 9/1/2002 | | | Sport is one of the most widely practiced human activities that entail the development of skills and competencies along with pleasure for the sports people and their audience. Sport is considered by the EU, an integral part of education and culture and accordingly, the EU uses its resources to encourage sporting activities, as these denote economic growth, employment, bridging people from a variety of backgrounds, and most importantly integrating people into society.
There exist a lot of limita... |
| SUPREME - Summary and Publication of best practices in Road Safety in the member states | 1/1/2006 | | | The goal of SUPREME is to collect, analyse, summarise and publish best practices in road safety in the Member States of the European Union as well as in Switzerland and Norway, with a view to implementation in as many partner states as possible.
By making the study results available to a broad target audience across Europe – and thereby encouraging the take-up of successful strategies – the project will contribute to reaching the 50% reduction target of road fatalities, which the Eu... |
| TELEFOT - TELEFOT-Field Operational Tests of Aftermarket and Nomadic Devices in Vehicles | 6/1/2008 | | | The objectives of the TeleFOT project were to assess the impacts of functions provided by aftermarket and nomadic devices in vehicles and raise wide awareness of their traffic safety potential. These devices can provide different types of driver support functions and almost nothing is known about their safety and other impacts yet. The market penetration of portable navigators and smart phones was exploding. The functions tested covered two broad areas: Functions promoting (i) safe driving and (... |
| TRACE - TRaffic Accident Causation in Europe | 1/1/2006 | | Funded By: Technical University of Patras | |
| | Introduction to TRACE
This dual context (the Integrated Safety program and the eSafety
initiative) stresses that the development of Intelligent Transport
Systems in vehicles or on roads (and especially in the safety field)
must be preceded and accompanied by a scientific accident analysis
encompassing two main issues:
The identification and the assessment among the possible
technology-based safety functions of the most promising solutions (in
terms of lives saved and accide... |
| universAAL - UNIVERsal open platform and reference Specification for Ambient Assisted Living | 2/1/2010 | | | UniversAAL aims to promote the development and widespread uptake of innovative Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions, but also to reduce barriers for their adoption. It will benefit end-users (i.e. elderly people and people with disabilities, their carers and family members) by making new solutions affordable, simple to configure, personalise and deploy. universAAL aims to produce an open platform that provides a standardized approach making it technically feasible and economically viable to d... |
| VERITAS - Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions To achieve Embedded Accessibility Designs | 1/1/2010 | | | The core concept of VERITAS EC project was to research and develop an open framework for providing built-in accessibility support at all the stages of realisation of mainstream ICT and non- ICT technologies. The project aimed at delivering to product/software developers ‘generic’ instructions - embedded in an empowering virtual reality platform, for exploring new concepts, designing new interfaces and testing interactive prototypes that will inherit universal accessibility features, ... |
| VIRTHUALIS - Virtual Reality and Human Factors Applications for Improving Safety | 5/1/2005 | | Funded By: European Commission_FP6 | |
| | The overall objective of the VIRTHUALIS project was to reduce hazards in production plants and storage sites by addressing End Users’ practical safety issues through the development of an innovative technology and related tools. The new technology was achieved by merging Human Factors (HF) knowledge and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. The safety issues addressed included: training control room operators, designing proper alarm systems, training teams to cope with emergencies, assessing ... |
| WATCH-OVER - Vehicle-to-Vulnerable road user cooperative communication and sensing technologies to improve transport safety | 1/1/2006 | | | WATCH-OVER started in January 2006. It was a project co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies
in the strategic objective eSafety Co-operative Systems for Road Transport.
The goal was the design and development of a cooperative system for the prevention of accidents involving vulnerable road users in urban and extra-urban areas.
The innovative concept was represented by an on board platform and by a vulnerable user module. The system was based on short range commun... |
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