Autonomous emergency manoeuvring and movement monitoring for road transport security

Objective

The TransSec project addresses a new danger in European countries, the increasing number of terror attacks. Recent terror attacks with trucks in Nice and Berlin have shown drastically the damage a heavy truck can cause, how easy it is to misuse a truck for attacks and that newest safety systems cannot prevent these attacks. As a consequence road transport safety has to be supplemented by road transport security. TransSec aims to initiate the development of this Security Truck.
The project objective is:
Development and evaluation of systems built-in or to be used by trucks for secure road transport of (dangerous) goods.
Preventing trucks and transport of goods to be misused for other purposes such as terror attacks.
Specific objectives are:
• Precise vehicle positioning and navigation on road (lane) and off road
• Vehicle movement monitoring for dangerous goods with critical area alarm/eCall
• Vehicle communication security for critical information exchange
• Onboard precrash environment detection of vulnerable objects on/ off road
• Non-defeatable autonomous emergency manoeuvring for crash prevention on/off road
The implementation is done in an explorative and incremental development cycle with early prototypes adding functionality step by step. Demonstrations with a truck on and off road will show solutions after 12, 24 and 36 months. Testing and pilots on public roads and public areas will prove a higher level of security.

Field of science

• /social sciences/social and economic geography/transport

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.3.4.2.2. - Substantial improvements in the mobility of people and freight
• H2020-EU.3.4.1.2. - Developing smart equipment, infrastructures and services
• H2020-EU.2.1.6.3. - Enabling exploitation of space data
• H2020-EU.2.1.6.1.2. - Boost innovation between space and non-space sectors

Topic(s)

• GALILEO-1-2017 - EGNSS Transport applications

Call for proposal

H2020-GALILEO-GSA-2017-1
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Funding Scheme

Coordinator

Participants (4)