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EU government joins forces with industry to transform road safety

The first V2X for Auto Safety & Mobility Conference, to be held in Frankfurt on 20-21 February, will bring together expert speakers from ITS UK, European Commission, BMW, Renault and Scania to devise a unified commercialisation and deployment strategy for vehicle and infrastructure technology to accelerate safety and mobility. Telematics Update, organisers of the conference, say that vehicle to vehicle communication will transform automotive safety, enabling deployment of effective active safety features fo
January 16, 2013 Read time: 3 mins
The first V2X for Auto Safety & Mobility Conference, to be held in Frankfurt on 20-21 February, will bring together expert speakers from 288 ITS UK, 1690 European Commission, 1731 BMW, 2453 Renault and 570 Scania to devise a unified commercialisation and deployment strategy for vehicle and infrastructure technology to accelerate safety and mobility.

6224 Telematics Update, organisers of the conference, say that vehicle to vehicle communication will transform automotive safety, enabling deployment of effective active safety features for mass market adoption. This offers a huge business opportunity for the telematics, automaker and ITS communities as there is a chance to provide the technology and strategies to deploy this technology on European roads. The V2X for Auto Safety and Mobility Conference is the first opportunity for key stakeholders to come together to learn, debate and build new relations that will be fundamental to the monetisation of this new technology.

Shreya Ganapathy, project director for Telematics Update, stresses how fundamental this opportunity for these communities to converge really is. “To get this technology off the ground, the ecosystem - government, automakers, telematics providers, tier ones and road operators - must communicate to find standards for interoperability and share results from field operation tests (FOT). The proposed NHTSA mandate in the US is already having an impact. European players have been spurred into action. Never before has the entire ecosystem needed to come together and this conference will bring all the research and testing that’s out there under one roof.”

The independently researched agenda will focus on the following topics:

  • Commercialisation of V2X technology: Evaluate options such as e-tolling and platooning for the commercialisation of V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) and V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure) technology to deliver ROI for investors and stakeholders
  • Safety – The ultimate stimulus for V2X offerings: Hear which V2X (vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure) safety initiatives like Intersafe-2 are being  deployed by road operators and policy makers to improve intersection safety and rear-end collision warning amongst other features
  • Future-proof business models for V2V uptake: Examine the evolving value-chain and resulting V2V business models such as lifetime, subscription, service bundles, incentive-based (e.g. insurance discounts) models to understand how to boost ROI for mainstream deployment
  • Smartphones pave the way for V2X penetration: Establish how smartphones and aftermarket devices will be certified for V2X systems with traffic safety applications such as blind spot alerts to improve accuracy and reliability

Industry experts who will share their knowledge on this emerging sector include:

  • Markus Bauer, integrated vehicle safety, BMW
  • Gérard Segarra, engineering ITS innovation pilot, Renault SAS
  • Soren Hess, chairman, ETSI technical committee on ITS
  • Gert Blom, mobility adviser, Helmond FOT
  • Tim Leinmüller, information and safety engineering department, Denso International
  • Juhani Jääskeläinen, head of unit, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

The complimentary conference brochure, including full agenda and speaker line-up has can be accessed via the website: %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal http://www.telematicsupdate.com/vehicle-to-vehicle-conference-europe/conference-event-brochure.php Telematics false http://www.telematicsupdate.com/vehicle-to-vehicle-conference-europe/conference-event-brochure.php false false%>

Registration is open at %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal https://secure.telematicsupdate.com/vehicle-to-vehicle-conference-europe/register.php telematicsupdate. false https://secure.telematicsupdate.com/vehicle-to-vehicle-conference-europe/register.php false false%>. Telematics Update has advised that bookings should be made as soon as possible to take advantage of the early booking discount (available until Friday 25 January).
  

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