Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SETO (Smart Enforcement of Transport Operations)
Reporting period: 2023-06-01 to 2024-11-30
SETO aims to provide an innovative digital solution that allows authorities to access all relevant information required for enforcing transport and safety legislation in real time and with a one-click-away approach. The SETO platform also intends to be useful for transport operators, simplifying their administrative processes and facilitating the monitoring of their assets to ensure compliance with regulations. SETO seeks to solve the significant challenge of handling unstructured transport data from different streams (paper or digital), sources, and languages, reducing the administrative burden while achieving increased control, efficiency, and consistency.
For this purpose, SETO utilises state-of-the-art information exchange technologies implemented by its partners in trucks (road transport). Furthermore, the project intends to expand the system to multimodal transport, e.g. inland waterway vessels to road transport to last-mile delivery vehicles. The project will validate its comprehensive ecosystem technically and economically in a Pilot Living Lab designed for future pan-European scaling. These living labs are taking place in France (A63 highway), focusing on weight enforcement of road traffic, and Belgium (Gent), testing SETO’s solutions in a multimodal environment. The Living Labs will serve as a proof-of-concept for the SETO platform and the enforcement cases that will be more deeply explored correspond to the overweight of trucks and the positioning of trucks and vessels.
The main objectives of the SETO project are:
1. Develop a digital solution for the realisation of SETO’s smart enforcement system,
2. Directly enforce vehicle load regulations to ensure safety and reduce the impact on the environment and infrastructure,
3. Enforce positioning regulations based on reliable GNSS data.
4. Validate and roll out the SETO system in the Living Lab.
5. Create an ecosystem of stakeholders with a realistic pathway for SETO's impact, and
6. Maximise SETO outcomes and analyse the technological, economic, social, and environmental impacts of the foreseen solution.
The pathways toward impact of the SETO project encompass scientific, societal, technological and economic aspects. From the scientific point of view, SETO brings together several innovations in a single open-source digital secured data platform that utilises state-of-the-art technologies. Also, SETO expects to provide innovations in the accurate positioning and weight estimation of vehicles. In the societal dimension, the SETO project intends to increase transparency and discourage corruption through its secure and tamper-proof technologies. Moreover, the SETO partners will explore the acceptance of its developed solution by relevant stakeholders, with special focus on raising awareness of the needs of under-represented stakeholders. Finally, in the technological/economic domain, SETO aims to play a key role in Europe’s transition to smart enforcement, delivering greater compliance at less cost, with fewer interventions for operators and a reduced need for enforcement personnel. The overall impact will be safer, cheaper and less environmentally damaging transportation across all modes.
For this purpose, SETO utilises state-of-the-art information exchange technologies implemented by its partners in trucks (road transport). Furthermore, the project intends to expand the system to multimodal transport, e.g. inland waterway vessels to road transport to last-mile delivery vehicles. The project will validate its comprehensive ecosystem technically and economically in a Pilot Living Lab designed for future pan-European scaling. These living labs are taking place in France (A63 highway), focusing on weight enforcement of road traffic, and Belgium (Gent), testing SETO’s solutions in a multimodal environment. The Living Labs will serve as a proof-of-concept for the SETO platform and the enforcement cases that will be more deeply explored correspond to the overweight of trucks and the positioning of trucks and vessels.
The main objectives of the SETO project are:
1. Develop a digital solution for the realisation of SETO’s smart enforcement system,
2. Directly enforce vehicle load regulations to ensure safety and reduce the impact on the environment and infrastructure,
3. Enforce positioning regulations based on reliable GNSS data.
4. Validate and roll out the SETO system in the Living Lab.
5. Create an ecosystem of stakeholders with a realistic pathway for SETO's impact, and
6. Maximise SETO outcomes and analyse the technological, economic, social, and environmental impacts of the foreseen solution.
The pathways toward impact of the SETO project encompass scientific, societal, technological and economic aspects. From the scientific point of view, SETO brings together several innovations in a single open-source digital secured data platform that utilises state-of-the-art technologies. Also, SETO expects to provide innovations in the accurate positioning and weight estimation of vehicles. In the societal dimension, the SETO project intends to increase transparency and discourage corruption through its secure and tamper-proof technologies. Moreover, the SETO partners will explore the acceptance of its developed solution by relevant stakeholders, with special focus on raising awareness of the needs of under-represented stakeholders. Finally, in the technological/economic domain, SETO aims to play a key role in Europe’s transition to smart enforcement, delivering greater compliance at less cost, with fewer interventions for operators and a reduced need for enforcement personnel. The overall impact will be safer, cheaper and less environmentally damaging transportation across all modes.
The main activities and achievements of the SETO project so far are:
• Development of a testing version of the SETO platform, i.e. the digital one-click solution that is the cornerstone of the project and that will be tested in the Living Labs during the second half of the project.
• Progress towards technologies that will allow the direct enforcement of vehicle load regulations. These include the use of cameras, image analysis and vehicle classification data for the identification of lifted axles, which is a relevant problem for weigh-in-motion (WIM), as well as the development of a novel algorithm for the self-weight of trucks based on acceleration measurements.
• Extensive activities have been conducted to set up the Living Labs, including the installation of hardware in trucks and vessels for the Living Lab in Gent.
• Creation of an extensive stakeholder ecosystem, which will be engaged in the second part of the project to gather feedback and insights regarding the SETO technologies.
• Research on the resilience assessment of connected, cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM) technologies, leading to the publication of four journal papers.
• Development of a testing version of the SETO platform, i.e. the digital one-click solution that is the cornerstone of the project and that will be tested in the Living Labs during the second half of the project.
• Progress towards technologies that will allow the direct enforcement of vehicle load regulations. These include the use of cameras, image analysis and vehicle classification data for the identification of lifted axles, which is a relevant problem for weigh-in-motion (WIM), as well as the development of a novel algorithm for the self-weight of trucks based on acceleration measurements.
• Extensive activities have been conducted to set up the Living Labs, including the installation of hardware in trucks and vessels for the Living Lab in Gent.
• Creation of an extensive stakeholder ecosystem, which will be engaged in the second part of the project to gather feedback and insights regarding the SETO technologies.
• Research on the resilience assessment of connected, cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM) technologies, leading to the publication of four journal papers.
The main results so far of the SETO project focus on the development of a testing version of the platform, the advancements in assistive technologies (mostly around overload enforcement, but also in terms of positioning), and the research insights around CCAM technologies. All of these results have the potential for significant impact, aligned with the pathways outlined in the overall description of the project. However, at this stage of the project, it is important to keep in mind what is needed to ensure the delivery of that impact. In particular, the SETO platform and the assistive technologies have to be tested in the Living Labs, not only to ensure that the technical components perform properly but also to gather insights from stakeholders that allow the SETO partners to produce the best possible version of these technologies, i.e. the one that most clearly aligns with the need of stakeholders. In terms of new developments in CCAM, the research insights need to be further tested in the field.