A holistic, scenario-independent, situation-awareness and guidance system for sustaining the Active Evacuation Route for large crowds The dynamic capture of situational awareness concerning crowds in specific mass gathering venues and its intelligent enablement into emergency management information systems, using smart communication devices and spaces is critical for achieving rapid, timely guidance and safe evacuation of people out of dangerous areas. Humans could be overwhelmed by fast changes of potentially dangerous incidents occurring at confined environments with mass-gathering. They could fail to make objective decisions to find their way to safety. This condition may lead to mass panic and make emergency management [...]

Public Protection and Disaster Relief – Transformation Center One of the main requirements of a major disaster relief operation is the availability of robust and reliable communication infrastructure.  In order to meet the sudden surge in demand, the communication infrastructure needs to offer considerable network capacity throughout disaster areas and, at the same time, to operate after partial destruction of infrastructure and lack of power-sources.  In addition to the capacity offered, the support for mobility is also highly desirable.  In terms of applications, a support for voice communications is critical at the initial response stage.  A capability of handling multimedia applications [...]

Networking in Automation VRA is a Support action for networking and international cooperation on Vehicle and Road automation addressing in particular the deployment needs. Highly or full automation of vehicles will contribute to the enhancement of traffic safety by reducing the driver‘s workload, and minimizing the human errors and incidents due to the driver‘s distraction or reduced vigilance. Vehicle and Road Automation will also significantly impact the traffic efficiency with the reduction of congestion, by minimizing speed variations and avoiding cases of stop and go. Furthermore, the resulting reduction of vehicle emissions and fuel consumption will have a positive impact on [...]

European Smart Mobility Resource Manager For many decades, urban planning and transport evolved around the private car, which has resulted in problems such as congestion, noise, pollution, etc. To tackle these adverse impacts and improve the livability of Europe’s cities, citizens today can benefit, next to the private vehicle, public transport and non-motorised modes, from a variety of new sustainable and complementary mobility schemes, including dynamic vehicle sharing, real-time carpooling, demand-responsive transport, Electric Vehicles (EVs) sharing, etc. The interaction between users and the transport environment prior to and during travel has also greatly improved. More and more, travellers are able to [...]

Manufacturing of high investment, long service life, one of a kind or highly customized products such as working machines, cranes, ship, trains, power plant equipment, aircraft and spacecraft is important for Europe. Thus, the EU27 export of machinery and transport equipment is €0.65 trillion, which is 42% of the total €1.55 trillion exports of goods. This industry employs over 7.4 million people in 872 thousand enterprises with a production value of €0.98 trillion (5.5% of EU’s GDP) . This project investigates new business models, methodological and technical grounds of such services. In the Use-it-wisely project, we propose to investigate the business [...]