Three European cities to test cooperative moblity

The cities of Salerno, Vienna and Gothenburg, working within the Cosmo project, have agreed to implement a test bed for various cutting edge technologies developed in recent research European programmes (Cvis, Coopers, Safespot). The pilots will mainly focus on eco-traffic management, but other types of services such as eco-driving support, co-modality, traffic sensitive street lighting, and access management will also be addressed within the project.
April 20, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
RSSThe cities of Salerno, Vienna and Gothenburg, working within the Cosmo project, have agreed to implement a test bed for various cutting edge technologies developed in recent research European programmes (Cvis, Coopers, Safespot). The pilots will mainly focus on eco-traffic management, but other types of services such as eco-driving support, co-modality, traffic sensitive street lighting, and access management will also be addressed within the project.

Although these services have the potential to make road transport safer, smoother and less damaging to the environment, information regarding their practical deployment and impact is still limited. The Cosmo project is running real life demonstrations of these services with the aim of quantifying their impact on fuel consumption and CO2 emission reduction, as well as to produce detailed specifications covering technical, legal and organisational implementation issues.

The project is adopting a system-wide approach to energy efficiency measurement, considering vehicle fuel consumption as well as the energy used by the infrastructure equipment and in the complete product life-cycle. Impacts on safety, traveller comfort and behaviour change are also part of the assessment.

Tests in all three cities will run between now and December 2012, with intermediate results in April 2012.
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