F2010E022
TeleFOT: Field Operational Tests for Higher Quality Driving
Significant research and development in Europe in recent years have been focused on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), since they are contributing to a change in mobility. The market penetration of portable navigators and smart phones is considerably increasing, but no standards directly related to the use of aftermarket and nomadic devices in vehicle exist and almost nothing is known about their safety and impacts yet. The full paper will present the status and early results achieved in TeleFOT (Field Operational Tests of Aftermarket and nomadic Devices in vehicles), a Large Scale European research project within the 7th Framework Programme. In the core of TeleFOT is to conduct FOTs (Field Operational Tests) based on a large number of drivers using nomadic devices on their own vehicles and to raise wide awareness of the functions and the potential these devices offer. In-field testing allows to assess impacts of such functions in a real environment, while it would be difficult to obtain the same results by internal testing. The full paper will describe in detail Field Operational Tests (FOT) to be developed in TeleFOT, focusing on the impacts of driver support functions on the driving task, including future interactive traffic services that will become part of driving environment systems within the next five years. TeleFOT takes also in careful account the impacts of functions, such as speed- and traffic- related information and navigation support, on traffic emissions, traffic congestion and on energy efficiency. Tests will involve about 3000 drivers and are organized in three test communities in Northern (Finland, Sweden), Central (Germany, UK) and Southern (Greece, Italy, Spain) Europe. They are planned in two phases: first, short and long term testing will involve a large number of vehicles. In the second phase, detailed testing with a limited number of subjects driving instrumented cars will be carried out. Amongst TeleFOT scientific and technological objectives is to study different levels of impacts on drivers and society, including usability and User acceptance, behavior and Safety, efficiency, Green Driving and socio-economic impacts on the transport system. Started in June 2008, in fact, by 2012 TeleFOT will reach a comprehensive assessment of the efficiency, quality, robustness and user friendliness of mobile in-vehicle ITS systems for smarter, safer and cleaner driving.
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Session: Intelligent Traffic Systems