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Dear reader,
We are delighted to publish the second INFRAMIX newsletter. INFRAMIX is a three-year project, funded by the European Commission, under the Horizon 2020 programme. The main objective of INFRAMIX is to prepare the road infrastructure with specific affordable adaptations and to support it with new models and tools, to accommodate for the step-wise introduction of automated vehicles.
The scope of the newsletter is to provide regular updates on project progress and inform you about highlights as well as INFRAMIX and other relevant events. It is envisioned to have four e-newsletters per year following the seasonal model.
In this second issue you will be able to find out more about:
- INFRAMIX participation during 25th ITS World Congress in Copenhagen;
- An interview with Dr. Panagiotis Lytrivis, Technical and Innovation Manager of INFRAMIX, Senior researcher, ICCS;
- Two additional public deliverables;
- The INFRAMIX presence at the European Road Conference;
- The INFRAMIX presence on ASECAP DAYS;
- The updated INFRAMIX dissemination material;
- The new INFRAMIX channel on YouTube;
- The 1st version of the INFRAMIX video;
- The upcoming events.
If you wish to find out more INFRAMIX news and cannot wait for the next newsletter, visit our INFRAMIX website.
Have a nice winter!
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INFRAMIX participation during the 25th ITS World Congress in Copenhagen
The INFRAMIX project was part of the 25th ITS World Congress, the most important congress regarding intelligent transportation system (ITS) on the world. The event took place in Copenhagen from 21th to 24th September at the Bella Center.
About ITS World Congress 2018
ITS World Congress is an ERTICO – ITS Europe initiative. This congress is the greatest platform for all ITS stakeholders to create new relations and seek business and partnership opportunities. The ITS World Congress rotates between Europe, the Asia Pacific region and the Americas, returning to Europe every three years.
The Congresses provides the ideal opportunity for all stakeholders to come together, discuss and make the necessary contacts to move initiatives forward and to develop their business by exhibiting and demonstrating state of the art ITS solutions. The Congresses also showcase the latest ITS achievements from the city and region hosting the Congress, and can help increase awareness of ITS in the host region itself.
The ITS Congresses consist of three main areas:
- Congress programme sessions and presentations of the latest developments in ITS
- Demonstrations – showcases of current ITS technology being developed and deployed throughout the world)
- Exhibition – exhibition booths and dedicated sessions/events
Participating in these three areas offers a unique opportunity to show and explain the latest technologies and services, with a slightly different focus for each.
During the Congress, participants also have the opportunity to arrange more focused ancillary events before, during and after the Congress, as well as having access to meeting rooms, lounge areas and hospitality rooms. ERTICO develops specific mobile applications, networking facilities, webinars, videos, interviews and articles on both topics in focus at the Congress but also on the different companies participating. This provides the ERTICO Partners with yet another means to promote their technologies and services (https://itsworldcongress.com/congress/about-the-its-world-congress/).
INFRAMIX participation
The INFRAMIX project was presented by its partners ICCS, Abertis Autopistas and AustriaTech during joint sessions and workshops. In addition, a special presentation took place together with related projects as CoExist and TransAID at the European Commission stand. INFRAMIX obtained a notable presence and attracted the interest of the conference participants.
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An interview with Dr. Panagiotis Lytrivis, Technical and Innovation Manager of INFRAMIX, Senior Researcher, ICCS
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We talked with Dr. Panagiotis Lytrivis, Technical and Innovation Manager of the INFRAMIX project and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) in Greece. Dr. Lytrivis highlighted the main problems and ambitions faced by INFRAMIX. “The challenges that will arise in the initial phase of the introduction of automated vehicles on our roads are how these automated vehicles will be integrated smoothly in current traffic, consisting of conventional vehicles, with the support of road infrastructure without jeopardising traffic safety and efficiency”, says Lytrivis.
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Two additional INFRAMIX public deliverables
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Two more INFRAMIX deliverables have already been accepted by the European Commission.
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D2.1 REQUIREMENTS CATALOGUE FROM THE STATUS QUO ANALYSIS
The EU project, INFRAMIX, aims to prepare the road infrastructure to support the coexistence of conventional and automated vehicles, targeting to the transition period when the number of automated vehicles will gradually increase. A “hybrid” road infrastructure concept will be the project outcome after defining the necessary upgrades and adaptations of the current road infrastructure as well as designing and testing novel physical and digital elements. In order to ensure an uninterrupted, predictable, safe and efficient traffic, novel technologies are designed, diverse components are incorporated, and different technologies are combined, making the definition of the requirements for such a system, a complicated rather crucial step to the concept design and to the project workflow. An indispensable part of this process is the status quo analysis that sets the baseline of the technological level.
This deliverable is prepared at the starting phase of INFRAMIX in order to set the scene, where the project will actively contribute. It begins with a detailed status quo analysis for the highways as well as for the traffic simulation environment and goes from target traffic scenarios and their use cases to the definition of functional, feasibility and non-functional requirements. The defined requirements will serve as an input to the following project work such as specification and definition of its architecture, and consequently to the development work.
Chapter 1 presents the project's scope and the purpose of this document. Chapter 2 describes the methodology of the requirements capture. Starting from a detailed status quo analysis (Chapter 3) that includes the highways technological level as well as the current state of the traffic simulation tools, the methodology is based on high importance traffic scenarios, in terms of traffic safety and performance, which are described in detail in Chapter 4. Several use cases are defined for each scenario in order to assist the process of requirements capture. Chapter 4 also includes, the functional, the feasibility as well as the non-functional requirements for each use case. In Chapter 5, the requirements are clustered per INFRAMIX major component in order to convenient the next steps of the project for defining the specifications of the technical parts.
Through the specific high value (in terms of importance with regard to traffic efficiency and safety) traffic scenarios: dynamic lane assignment, roadworks zones and bottlenecks and the related use cases, the required upgrade of the current highways infrastructure in physical and digital equipment is detected. The important aspect of vehicles categorization in a mixed traffic situation is highlighted through this document. The most important criteria, in matters of “hybrid” infrastructure design, for this categorization are the vehicle’s level of automation along with the Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication. Finally, the required extension of the needed wireless messages between infrastructure and vehicles, the need for new visual signs regarding automated driving as well as several safety critical issues for the transition period consist important results of the analysis presented in this document.
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D2.2 ARCHITECTURE AND INTERFACE SPECIFICATION OF THE CO-SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
INFRAMIX EU project aims to prepare the road infrastructure to support the coexistence of conventional and automated vehicles, targeting to the transition period when the number of automated vehicles will gradually increase. A “hybrid” road infrastructure will be the project outcome after defining the necessary upgrades and adaptations of the current road infrastructure as well as designing and testing novel physical and digital elements. In order to ensure an uninterrupted, predictable, safe and efficient traffic, novel technologies are designed, diverse components are incorporated and different technologies are combined, making the definition of the requirements for such a system, a complicated rather crucial step to the concept design and to the project workflow. An indispensable part of this process is the status quo analysis that set the baseline of the technological level.
This deliverable is created in the starting phase for INFRAMIX and presents the INFRAMIX co-simulation environment to be used validating the proposed use cases before entering the field test. The main goal is to simulate realistic traffic on the test sites, the detailed behavior of either automated vehicles or vehicles with human drivers, and the communication among vehicles, infrastructure, and traffic management services. Furthermore, the presented simulation framework is prepared to work in hybrid testing scenarios, where real vehicles and real road situations interact with the co-simulation and vice versa.
In Chapter 1, the scope of the co-simulation environment and the purpose this document is shown. Chapter 2 describes the simulation methodology and the simulation frameworks used to achieve this task. In Chapter 3 an overview of the requirements on the simulation environment is given, which mainly derive from deliverable D2.1 [1], which served as an input document for this task. Chapter 4 gives a detailed list of all simulation models to cover all required aspects. Additionally, all input and output parameters, that each simulation model needs or produces, are given. Finally, in Chapter 5 the architecture of the INFRAMIX co-simulation environment is presented, as well as challenges to be solved during this task.
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ICCS presented the INFRAMIX project at European Road Conference
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Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) team leader Panagiotis Lytrivis presented the INFRAMIX project at the European Road Conference held in Dubrovnik from 22th – 24 th October. Organized by key representative organizations of the roads & mobility sector, the European Road Conference “Corridors for Shared Prosperity & Sustainable Mobility” is an essential platform to deepen the understanding of regional mobility challenges, and achieve consensus on key policy, investment and planning measures.
Dr.Lytrivis presentation entitled as “Preparing road infrastructure for mixed vehicle traffic flows” focused on the main project features and outlined the main project features with a brief overview.
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Abertis presented the INFRAMIX project on ASECAP DAYS
Xavier Daura from Abertis presented the INFRAMIX project during the ASECAP DAYS in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 6-8 of June 2018. More information about the event are available here.
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The dissemination material of INFRAMIX
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The INFRAMIX project has a brand new brochure! Click in the picture below, check and download the updated INFRAMIX dissemination material.
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INFRAMIX project launched its new channel on YouTube.
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This platform will deliver new audio visual materials to the public audience.
Subscribe and share HERE ➤ INFRAMIX project Youtube channel
Visit our video section HERE ➤ INFRAMIX video section
And sign up to the INFRAMIX newsletter to keep updated about our latest NEWS ➤ INFRAMIX newsletter
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Watch the first version of the INFRAMIX video. More updates will follow.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 723016.