| This EC-supported initiative is a 24-month multi-partner Coordination Action that intends to promote and support RTD cooperation between EU and China on digital broadcasting technologies - especially the convergence with mobile communications. MODIBEC will bring European and Chinese key players in digital broadcasting / mobile convergence areas closer to concrete business opportunities and make recommendations for future actions. Its main activities will be to organise events in both regions that will serve as a means for fostering closer ties between Europe and China and exchanging knowledge in these fields. It plans two workshops in Europe and three regional priority workshops in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong in China, at which European and local stakeholders will meet to discuss and define both research and implementation priorities that are in line with their national policies and identify areas and themes suitable for international cooperation. Its main outcome will be the creation of trans-national networks of key stakeholders that can help define the priorities, research needs and future cooperation areas for mobile broadcasting. These activities will be carried out by a consortium consisting of both European and Chinese members, including ERTICO partners PTV, Siemens, Blaupunkt as well as Motorola, WorldDMB Forum, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television / Academy of Broadcasting Science, Jolon Digital Media Broadcasting Co., Ltd, Shanghai Oriental Pearl (Group), China Satellite Navigation and Communications, China Radio & TV Equipment Industrial Association, Guangdong Mobile TV Media, Shanghai Autonavi Software and Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia. | ||
| Client | Europan Commission IST |  |
| Duration | 1/2007-12/2008 | |
| Contact person | Markus Kauber | |
| Role | Partner | |
| Homepage | http://www.ertico.com | |
| 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 aims to establish Ambient Intelligence (AmI) in semantic web enabled services, to support and promote the mobility of Mobility Impaired people, enabling the provision of personalised, self-configurable, intuitive and context-related applications and services and facilitating knowledge and content organisation and processing. Within it, MI people related infomobility content is collected, interfaced and managed in Sub-Project 1 (Content for All). To offer the content, a number of advanced tools are developed within Sub-Project 2 (Tools for All, Leader PTV AG), such as the Enhanced Accuracy Localisation Module (EALM) which will combine different localisation techniques, including first interfaces to GALILEO services. Content and tools are integrated within an Ambient Intelligent Framework (Sub-Project 3), by a Multi Agent System of Intelligent Agents and a self-configurable User Interface, that offer service personalisation according to user profile, habits, preferences and context of use. The integrated ASK-IT service and system will be tested in 7 interconnected sites Europewide in Sub-Project 4 (Accessible Europe), to prove that full travel accessibility for MI users can be achieved in a reliable, seamless and viable way using a range of available technologies and communications networks. | ||
| Client | Commission of the European Communities Research and Development (EU) |  |
| Duration | 10/2004-10/2008 | |
| Contact person | Markus Kauber | |
| Role | Partner | |
| Homepage | http://www.ask-it.org | |
| Cooperative vehicle-infrastructure systems will allow vehicles to cooperate directly with other vehicles and with the infrastructure in the vicinity sharing the latest traffic related data and information for greater safety, efficiency and a better environment. The vehicles and pieces of roadside infrastructure will be able to communicate via local ad-hoc networks and always-on network connections to support a wide range of services including real-time on-trip traffic information as well as routing and traffic management service based on the actual traffic situation. CVIS will provide an European technology platform allowing for a wireless communication between vehicles and infra structure and the implementation of cooperative applications in vehicles, road side infra structure and centres. To prove the feasibility of the developed concepts and technologies a set of selected applications, among others incident warning, speed information and cooperative traffic status determination, will be demonstrated in different environments. | ||
| Client | European Commission |  |
| Duration | 02/2006 - 01/2010 | |
| Contact person | Andreas Schmid | |
| Role | Partner | |
| Homepage | http://www.ertico.com/en/activities/projects_and_fora/cvis.htm | |
| Within the DIANA pilot project (Dynamic Information and Navigation Assistance) PTV places an emphasis on XTS, which stands for eXtended Traffic Services. DIANA is part of the research initiative „Congestion-Free State of Hesse 2015”. Its aim is to automatically create up-to-date traffic reports on the basis of different data sources. A specific characteristic of this kind of traffic information is that the traffic editorial office of Hesse’s broadcasting company (HR) evaluate the quality of the traffic reports before providing drivers with the latest high-quality traffic information via different channels. Data collection, editing and transmission is based on the PTV TrafficPlatform. Up-to-the-minute traffic information includes messages about traffic jams and other incidents provided by the police, Hesse’s traffic management centre, traffic alerts and FCD-vehicles (Floating Car Data). Apart from information about the current traffic condition they also provide information on possible delays and pinpoint the exact location of the incident. The aim of the pilot project is to provide drivers with high-quality traffic information including all route-related details and to improve road safety and road network efficiency. | ||
| Further participants | Hesse’s Traffic Management Centre Hesse’s Broadcasting Company | |
| Duration | 11/2004-1/2006 | |
| Contact person | Sibylle Nussbächer | |
| The aim of the DIANA project, which is part of the "Congestion-Free State of Hesse 2015" initiative, is to supplement and improve traffic data collection by using mobile sensors. Novel technology allows the offboard navigation system to be combined with a process which collects and evaluates FCD (Floating Car Data). As soon as the driver starts the navigation application the client-side FCD module evaluates the travel data and sends historical data as well as current information on traffic jams to the server of the FCD centre. Data which has been collected from other data sources, such as detectors, time series and traffic alerts, are complemented, verified and enhanced with the help of the information gathered from the mobile phone. The mobile phone is thus turned into a complete navigation system and a data supplier alike. 230 vehicles have been equipped with the latest technology required for OBN/FCD. More cars are gradually added to the current vehicle fleet in order to achieve a wider coverage and a larger amount of data. Each new user helps to create a more realistic view of the current traffic conditions. This means that there will be more data available to be used for the subordinate road network (federal roads, urban road network) | ||
| Client | The German Federal Government of Hesse | |
| Further participants | Traffic management centre of Hesse, Fraport, ADAC, AvD | |
| Duration | 01/2005 -12/2006 | |
| Contact person | Sibylle Nussbächer | |
| The DYNASTY project has been created in cooperation between the key Chinese authorities and a number of major European industry players. It is the first common European demonstration effort for ITS applications in China and it will strengthen the European technological presence in China through the raised awareness of European-developed ITS technologies as demonstrated and validated by the project participants. The project is a follow-up to the finalised BITS project which defined the DYNASTY activities as the best step in order to boost EU-China cooperation on ITS. DYNASTY has four main priority areas: traffic information and navigation services, digital mapping, traffic planning, and public transport management. In December 2005 PTV/Map&Guide successfully demonstrated in Beijing one of its mobile navigation systems with TMC message integration. | ||
| Client | Europan Commission EC Asia IT&C |  |
| Duration | 11/2004-1/2006 | |
| Contact person | Markus Kauber | |
| Role | Subcontractor of DLR | |
| Homepage | http://www.ertico.com/en/activities/projects_and_fora/dynasty.htm | |
| ITISS is a pilot project that aims at ultimately integrating the travel and tourist information of all the countries of the European Union. The final purpose of the project is therefore to allow planning your journey or finding information about any European country in the future. It aims to improve this content of and access to intermodal traveller information services across Europe in order to assist trip planning and facilitate more sustainable travel patterns. ITISS is an InterReg IIIB community Initiative project part funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Partner cities are: Cologne, Manchester, Dublin, The Hague, Pays de la Loire (Nantes) | ||
| Client | Europan Commission InterReg IIIB |  |
| Duration | 09/2003-08/2007 | |
| Contact person | Jan Körber | |
| Role | Partner | |
| Homepage | http://www.itiss-eu.com/ | |
| GOOD ROUTE aims to develop a cooperative system for dangerous goods vehicles routing, monitoring, re-routing (in case of need), enforcement and driver support, based upon dynamic, real time date, in order to minimise the Societal Risks related to their movements, whereas still generating the most cost efficient solution for all actors involved in their logistic chain. For this scope, a new classification scheme of the dangerous goods (according to ADR) with infrastructure based safety measures, context of transportation (i.e. level of loading) and vehicle characteristic, will be performed, dynamic data collection and fusion will be realised from I2V/V2V sources and a series of on-board sensors, risk calculation algorithms will be realised, leading to a new route guidance function, the “minimum risk route guidance”. The system will be integrated with an automatic, local node based, enforcement functionality and tested in 3 Pilots throughout Europe (in Finland, Switzerland and Italy), with emphasis in densely populated areas, tunnels and bridges. In addition, rerouting info and estimated delays will be communicated to the vehicles logistic chain, thus optimally combining safety with transportation efficiency enhancement. The task of PTV will be the development of the mobile navigation system for dangerous goods. In addition, PTV is leading WP2 "Minimum Risk Route Guidance system" | ||
| Client | Commission of the European Communities Research and Development (EU) |  |
| Duration | 12/2005-12/2008 | |
| Contact person | Markus Kauber | |
| Role | Partner | |
PRETIO | ||
| Whether for work or leisure, in today’s busy world, we spend a lot of time on the go. ITS technology is available and services are ready to facilitate much of our travel today and to make the information available while we are abroad. PRETIO as an eTEN funded project will assess the demand and market potential for a set of user-oriented services addressing the mobile environment.The main technology used is digital radio (DAB) as broadcasting technology. To enable services which require interaction (back-channel), mobile communication technologies are used as well. PTV is in charge of providing a hotel and restaurant guide and navigation capabilities to the system. Moreover, PTV is also strongly involved in the development of the project validation framework and the business plan. | ||
| Client | Commission of the European Communities Research and Development (EU) |  |
| Duration | 03/2003-08/2004 | |
| Contact person | Markus Kauber | |
| Role | Partner | |
| Homepage | www.ertico.com/activiti/projects/pretio/home.htm | |
DOM - Der Orientierte Mensch | ||
| The project aim is to create interlinked, mobility-related services. The user will have access to all services on a portal. The data is also available by using Internet-enabled end devices (location based services). DOM is particularly designed for B2C applications, but also companies, developing their individual services (B2B), will take advantage of this program. | ||
| Client | Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung -BMBF) |  |
| Duration | 08/2000-10/2002 | |
| Contact person | Dr. Ulrich Mehlhaus | |
| Role | Projektleitung und -koordination | |
| Homepage | www.der-orientierte-mensch.de | |