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Vehicle and Road Automation website launched

In order to promote the exchange of information and research on vehicle and road automation activities in Europe and beyond, the Vehicle and Road Automation (VRA) project has launched its website, together with other online tools to promote and expand the VRA community: The VRA wiki, www.vra-net.eu/wiki, is a user-edited shared resource for road vehicle automation activities around the world, containing details on around forty projects, with an abstract, contact point, website, sponsor, budget/funding an
February 18, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
In order to promote the exchange of information and research on vehicle and road automation activities in Europe and beyond, the Vehicle and Road Automation (VRA) project has launched its website, together with other online tools to promote and expand the VRA community:

The VRA wiki, %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal www.vra-net.eu/wiki http://vra-net.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page false http://vra-net.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page false false%>, is a user-edited shared resource for road vehicle automation activities around the world, containing details on around forty projects, with an abstract, contact point, website, sponsor, budget/funding and outcome.

The VRA website, %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal www.vra-net.eu Visit: vra-net.eu/ false http://vra-net.eu/ false false%>, contains comprehensive information about the project and its activities, with updates on relevant event and meetings.

Follow the VRA project on Twitter, @info_vra, for updates on vehicle and road automation news around the world.

A series of webinars on vehicle and road automation is also being organised; details will be available on the VRA website.

For more information on VRA activities, contact %$Linker: 2 Email <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkEmail [email protected] email : [email protected] false mailto:[email protected] true false%>.

The EU funded VRA project is a collaboration network of experts and stakeholders working on deployment of automated vehicles and its related infrastructure. The project acts as the interface between EC funded projects, international relations and national activities on vehicle and road automation.  It aims to maintain an active European network of experts and stakeholders, to contribute to the EU-US-Japan international collaboration on vehicle and road automation, to identify deployment needs for the different domains of vehicle and road automation and to promote European research on vehicle and road automation.

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