Enhanced real time services for an optimized multimodal mobility relying on cooperative networks and open data
Objective
The main objective is increasing the safety, sustainability, flexibility and efficiency of road transport systems by taking advantage of cooperative communication and by processing open data related to travel through a cooperative open web based platform and mobile application, developed with the purpose of delivering information and services to drivers, businesses and Vulnerable Road Users in real time.
The operative objectives will be to:
- Analyse stakeholder’s needs incorporating them in the specification of the transport services delivered by the platform;
- Identify transport open data sources of information and harmonizing this data to be used as real-time information;
- Define and implement and fully distributed global architecture to enable cooperative sensing in ITS;
- Leverage the information gathered from vehicular communications, GNSS and open data by means of artificial intelligence techniques;
- Develop hybrid networks, supporting 802.11p and mobile communications, which will allow assuring a stable communication channel between vehicles and VRU (usually bringing smartphone).
- Empower drivers to deliver data to the platform by leveraging the information generated by their mobile phones exponentially increasing the information available on traffic status.
- Implement ITS services arranged in the following main areas: driver assistance, vulnerable users and multimodal dynamic commuter, enhanced real time traffic information API and TIMON collaborative ecosystem;
- Design two validation environments, a test bed site and another located in an (inter)urban area;
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation action
Coordinator
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA IGLESIA DE DEUSTO ENTIDAD RELIGIOSA
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Avenida De Las Universidades 24
48007 Bilbao
Spain
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
EU Contribution
€ 943 750
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FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
Germany
EU Contribution
€ 657 000
CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA
Spain
EU Contribution
€ 500 088
TECHNOLABS srl
Italy
EU Contribution
€ 241 250
THE SENSIBLE CODE COMPANY LTD
United Kingdom
EU Contribution
€ 575 000
GEOX TERINFORMATIKAI KFT
Hungary
EU Contribution
€ 367 875
XLAB RAZVOJ PROGRAMSKE OPREME IN SVETOVANJE DOO
Slovenia
EU Contribution
€ 278 375
ISKRA ELEKTRO IN ELEKTRONSKA INDUSTRIJA DD
Slovenia
EU Contribution
€ 750 625
JAVNO PODJETJE LJUBLJANSKA PARKIRISCA IN TRZNICE DOO
Slovenia
EU Contribution
€ 413 000
CONFEDERATION OF ORGANISATIONS IN ROAD TRANSPORT ENFORCEMENT AISBL
Belgium
EU Contribution
€ 353 250
TASS INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY CENTER BV
Netherlands
TASS INTERNATIONAL
Netherlands
EU Contribution
€ 525 000
Project information
TIMON
Grant agreement ID: 636220
Status
Closed project
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Start date
1 June 2015
-
End date
30 November 2018
Funded under:
H2020-EU.3.4.
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Overall budget:
€ 5 605 213
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EU contribution
€ 5 605 213
Connecting road users and infrastructure in the cloud for increased safety on the ground
DIGITAL ECONOMY
TRANSPORT AND MOBILITY
Traffic accidents, resulting from human factors, are the predominant cause of congestion in cities. This not only adds to the emission of greenhouse gases but increases travel time as well. Solving these challenges The TIMON project worked to address these different transport challenges. Leire Serrano, project coordinator, notes: “Our project partners believe that the persisting problems related to congestion, traffic safety and environmental challenges could be solved if people, vehicles, infrastructure and businesses were connected into a cooperative ecosystem.” For this reason, the project proposed a cloud-based system that consumes data from users (cars, pedestrians, cyclists), open and closed data, and V2X hybrid communications (cars, motorbikes, infrastructure). This system then processes this data using artificial intelligence and provides real-time and planning services to users through a smartphone app. V2X stands for vehicle-to-everything, a technology enabling vehicles to communicate and exchange data with their surroundings. Key services “The services delivered by TIMON can be classified as alerting services on road status and planning services for road users,” explains Serrano. The core objectives of these services are to identify transport open data sources of information and harmonise this data so that it can be used as real-time information for implementing the TIMON services in cities. Further, they aim to increase accuracy on the position of vehicles and vulnerable road users through cooperative positioning techniques. “The creation of a highly efficient data processing engine based on fuzzy-evolutionary techniques in artificial intelligence and the development of hybrid networks were also key objectives,” says Serrano. The goal is to empower drivers to deliver data to the platform by leveraging the information generated by their mobile phones, exponentially increasing the information available on traffic status. TIMON app and platform “The key result of the project has been the TIMON app and platform which is capable of delivering information services classified in alerts or planning services,” notes Serrano. The alerting services provide real-time alerts during the navigation of the different users and are delivered through the mobile app developed in the project. “These services are: collision alert, emergency vehicle approaching and road hazard warning,” she adds. The planning services on the other hand can be used in advance to plan a route or check the traffic status at a particular place or at some point in time. The main planning services are vehicle density awareness, dynamic route replanning for cyclists and dynamic route solutions applied to drivers. “The TIMON solution produces a cooperative ecosystem by connecting people, vehicles, infrastructure and businesses,” reports Serrano. Two pilot projects have been deployed with satisfactory results in Helmond in the Netherlands and Ljubljana in Slovenia. TIMON has achieved great success in the city of Ljubljana with 238 end users providing very useful feedback as well as being instrumental in fine-tuning the final system. TIMON’s future “Currently we are looking for opportunities to exploit the results. We are also studying the feasibility of scaling-up the TIMON solution to other EU cities,” states Serrano. In this process the minimum requirements for the system deployment have been defined, especially in terms of data sources needs and road infrastructure. Different contacts have been initiated with potential clients, especially in the domain of administration.
Keywords
TIMON, vehicles, planning services, road users, congestion, cooperative ecosystem, traffic safety, V2X, alerting services, traffic status, road transport
Project information
TIMON
Grant agreement ID: 636220
Status
Closed project
-
Start date
1 June 2015
-
End date
30 November 2018
Funded under:
H2020-EU.3.4.
-
Overall budget:
€ 5 605 213
-
EU contribution
€ 5 605 213
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Project information
TIMON
Grant agreement ID: 636220
Status
Closed project
-
Start date
1 June 2015
-
End date
30 November 2018
Funded under:
H2020-EU.3.4.
-
Overall budget:
€ 5 605 213
-
EU contribution
€ 5 605 213
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Project information
TIMON
Grant agreement ID: 636220
Status
Closed project
-
Start date
1 June 2015
-
End date
30 November 2018
Funded under:
H2020-EU.3.4.
-
Overall budget:
€ 5 605 213
-
EU contribution
€ 5 605 213
Project information
TIMON
Grant agreement ID: 636220
Status
Closed project
-
Start date
1 June 2015
-
End date
30 November 2018
Funded under:
H2020-EU.3.4.
-
Overall budget:
€ 5 605 213
-
EU contribution
€ 5 605 213
