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.
