Objective One of the most important aims in today’s transport systems is the security they provide. Even-though in air and rail transports we have managed to have extremely low accident and death rates this is not the case with road transport. The majority of the EU countries are now heading towards “the Vision Zero philosophy” in which road deaths become as unacceptable as they are in a factory, in the air or on a railway. However in order to reach this aim several improvements are needed in numerous area including cars, drivers and roads.The HERMES project aims at improving this last factor, the road, by proposing a novel road quality measurement solution based on a pioneering approach. The proposed system enables, for the first time, measurements of both the longitudinal and transversal profiles of a road to be simultaneously undertaken from a specially equipped vehicle travelling at normal road speeds and at a low infrastructure cost. This approach represents a significant advancement in the state of the art by eliminating the requirement for an inertial reference level whilst, additionally, improving accuracy of measurements by providing a solution for resolving errors otherwise resulting from the dynamics of a moving vehicle, Moreover, within HERMES the road profile measurements will be integrated with their precise geographical location while an innovative toolset for data analysis will be developed so as to allow the efficient processing of the huge amounts of data collected by the HERMES vehicles.In general, HERMES augments the traditional road roughness indices by additionally identifying and pinpointing locations requiring urgent repair to result in improved safety for road users, while those locations can be identified with very high accuracy, low-cost and at normal road speeds.This latter is very important since in large countries the national road network requires the measuring and maintenance of thousands of kilometers per year. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata scienceengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemssocial sciencessociologydemographymortalitysocial sciencessocial geographytransporthumanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophy Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2012-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2012 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 Address Atomistilor street 409 RO77125 Magurele Romania See on map Region Macroregiunea Trei Bucureşti-Ilfov Ilfov Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Dan Savastru (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all WING COMPUTER GROUP SRL Romania EU contribution € 224 054,25 Address Str blandesti 24c 042077 Bucuresti See on map Region Macroregiunea Trei Bucureşti-Ilfov Bucureşti Administrative Contact Cosmin Banica (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data MOBILE MEDIA AE Greece EU contribution € 240 898,73 Address Vlachernon 8 15124 Marousi athina See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Antonis Hatzistamatiou (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data PROMETEO INNOVATIONS SLNE Spain EU contribution € 280 930,00 Address Calle ada byron 107 parque cientifico y tecnologico 33203 Gijon See on map Region Noroeste Principado de Asturias Asturias Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Moises Gonzalez (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data ARDORAN OU Estonia EU contribution € 445 073,78 Address Heltermaa, puhalepa vald 92312 Hiiumaa See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Douglas Reid Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL Estonia EU contribution € 11 315,68 Address Ehitajate tee 5 12616 Tallinn See on map Region Eesti Eesti Põhja-Eesti Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Alvar Kurrel (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data Electronics Design Ltd Estonia EU contribution € 11 054,40 Address Tuulemae 5 11411 Tallinn See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alexander Girfanov (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO TILEPIKONONIAKON SYSTIMATON Greece EU contribution € 6 541,56 Address Kounoupidiana akrotirio tuc campus 73100 Chania See on map Region Νησιά Αιγαίου Κρήτη Χανιά Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ioannis Papaefstathiou (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
