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Adaptive seat to reduce neck injuries for female and male occupants (ADSEAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Sweden,Germany,Austria,France,United Kingdom,Spain,France,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3471397.4
EU funding (EUR): 2498877.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The development of adaptive safety systems addressing vehicle occupant protection requires the use of in depth knowledge of various occupant features, specifically those related to the risk of injury. All occupants in passenger vehicles are at risk of sustaining whiplash injuries in a low severity crash. Whiplash associated disorders (WAD), so called whiplash injuries, resulting from car crashes, are a serious traffic safety issue, resulting in over 4 billion € costs to European society. Yearly more than 300 000 European citizens suffer neck problems from these injuries and 15 000 result in long terms consequences. In the population, the females are at higher risk of these injuries than the males. The difference in risk between the robust, male, population and the vulnerable, female, part of the population is between 40-100%. This has been reported from epidemiological studies from all over the world since the end of the 1960s until today. Yet still, when assessing the vehicle safety the only available occupant model for these impact scenarios is an average male. Adaptive anti-whiplash systems need to be evaluated for their benefits both for males and females. If there are no improved protective systems, further rising costs for the European Society can be expected. This project aims at establishing the properties for a model of an average female and to implement those in a computational model in order to provide an improved tool for the development and evaluation of adaptive systems with special focus on protection against whiplash injuries. The project will result in a computational model of a female, in addition to the male model that already exists, for low severity testing. In addition, the computational models will be used in the design and evaluation of adaptive seat systems in order to provide enhanced neck injury protection from the seat.

Keywords: adaptive seat,whiplash,neck injuries,occupant models,computational models,traffic safety,rear imapcts
Assessment of Integrated Vehicle Safety Systems for improved vehicle safety (ASSESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Spain,France,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5809253.4
EU funding (EUR): 3643648.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

ASSESS mobilises the European research community and car industry to develop a relevant set of test and assessment methods applicable to a wide range of integrated vehicle safety systems. Methods will be developed for driver behavioural aspects, pre crash sensing performance and crash performance under conditions influenced by pre crash driver and vehicle actions. The gained know-how will be implemented in proposals for test and assessment procedures that will be evaluated on the basis of actual systems currently offered to the market. ASSESS aims to stimulate the introduction of new crucial technologies in vehicles to further reduce road fatalities and injuries to car occupants in Europe and to make the traffic environment safer for road users. The project also aims to increase the level of competitiveness of the European automobile industry; safety is a proven selling point. This is underlined by a substantial involvement of European car industry (OEM's and suppliers) in this project and their willingness to provide systems and relevant know-how to this project. Specific project goals to develop harmonized and standardized assessment procedures and related tools for selected integrated safety systems. Procedures will be developed for driver behaviour evaluation, pre crash system performance evaluation, crash performance evaluation and socio economic assessment. To create acceptance and accelerate the implementation of the results in test and assessment procedures for type approval and consumer rating purposes, an advisory board consisting of leading EU OEMs, EuroNCAP and UTAC will be consulted on an annual basis or more often when needed. The direct involvement of EuroNCAP will raise the public awareness of the benefits of these new advanced safety systems by means of easy understandable rating systems. To provide and overview of legal barriers that obstruct the introduction of such systems and the potential socio-economic benefits of selected systems

Keywords: assessment methods integrated safety systems,adas,ada,ivss,iss,active passive safey,automotive
Research into effects on cognitive performance of maritime watch-keepers under different watch patterns, workloads & conditions, with reality usage of ships bridge, engine & cargo control simulators (HORIZON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Sweden,Sweden,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3821139.0
EU funding (EUR): 2841469.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The project will define and undertake scientific methods for measurement of fatigue in various realistic seagoing scenarios using bridge, engine-room and cargo simulators; will assess the impact of fatigue on decision-making performance and will determine optimal settings for minimising those risks to both ship and seafarer. Three simulator-equipped institutes will collaborate in ensuring that enough runs of sufficient duration are undertaken to replicate ship-board conditions of operation, with real-life scenarios of voyage, workload and interruptions. Specialist input from a stress research institute, skilled in transport operations research, will set the requirements for fatigue measurement and determining performance degradation of watch-keepers. Results will be analysed and recommendations made for application by interested parties, including ship owners, maritime regulators and those setting requirements for manning and operation of ships. Output will be a Management Toolkit with software and guidance notes. Involvement of a classification society, seafarer officers union and six stakeholder partners provide expert objectivity of the project and its results, as well as widening routes for dissemination and exploitation. The project addresses concerns over the increasing losses (human, financial and environmental) of maritime accidents which frequently cite fatigue as a contributory cause and thereby resonates with the objectives and impacts of the work programme. This is a major issue at a time when the high demand for shipping capacity has led to shortages of well-qualified and experienced seafarers. The project surpasses past subjective fatigue studies, highlighting the problem, and will produce validated, statistically robust results for use in decision making, using the toolkit of results and findings. HORIZON thereby impacts on the FP7 aims of increased safety and security, reduced fatalities, with a methodology for reducing human error.

Keywords: ship,simulator,watch-keeping,performance degradation,maritime safety,fatigue management.
Services for SMEs in collAborative tRansporT research projects (SMART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Hungary,Italy,Spain,Iceland
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 694226.2
EU funding (EUR): 479872.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The SMART project will realise services to support SMEs participation in RTD research projects under the Transport Work-Programme, including: a) services to connect Regional Clusters from different countries, facilitating networking, partnerships creations among SMEs and other organisations b) full-support for SMEs involvement in RTD own projects and participation in projects led by large organisations; c) awareness, and training actions on European funding opportunities and mechanisms; d) added value information including a database of qualified SMEs that will create “meta-clusters” where Large Enterprises could identify partners for their large-sized projects. The project will be based on the following pillars: - The SMART Consortium comprising Regional SMEs Clusters, Public Innovation Agencies, Private Technology Transfer companies, and Large Enterprises linked to Regional Clusters. - The SMART innovative approach based on the involvement of Large Organisations working with regional clusters, that will be engaged in supporting the SMEs innovation processes, starting from SMEs operating in their supply chain; the SMART approach will provide Large Organisations with: 1) the competitiveness improvement of their Ecosystem 2) the capability of benefit from SMEs innovations, and 3) Corporate Social Responsibility objectives. Nine large organizations already provided their formal interest in the SMART project - Optimisation of public-funded and private-funded initiatives in transport: SMART will exploit and create synergies with EC funded initiatives and private driven actions - Specific IT support tools and methodologies developed in precedent European-funded projects such as a database on funding programs (with data in exportable XML format), and a tailor-made IT systems to manage projects, partners, and competences

Keywords: transport,clusters,support smes,r&d
Transit via Innovative Gateway concepts solving European-Intermodal Rail needs (TIGER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Belgium,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17054428.2
EU funding (EUR): 10316063.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The recent EU Commission paper on the establishment of a “Primary European Rail Freight Network” is the confirmation that Europe wants to develop a long term freight sustainable mobility. Infrastructure investments are costly and take long time to come to fruition. Hence force the need to adopt a realistic mid term strategy for developing the use of freight trains to bridge the gap up to when the new infrastructure investments will be completed delivering the much needed capacity. These goals can be achieved by removing over time the conflict on the same rail tracks between freight and passengers by developing corridors oriented to freight and extracting the best productivity from each available modality or from the combination of them. The TIGER project Rationale is driven by the European need of achieving a greater degree of effectiveness, efficiency and competitiveness on the Rail Freight Network. This is now perceived as being key for a more sustainable freight mobility. The reduction of road congestion, accidents, emission on the atmosphere and the negative effects on climate changes are leading to a safer and better environment for improving the quality of life of European citizens. In particular the recent breaks in trends in global trades brought about by EU enlargement and by the enormous traffic flows with the Far- East and South East Asia, handled by giant container vessels, have highlighted the impossibility of road modality of sustaining by its own the future European need of freight mobility. Port congestion has become a common feature both in the North and South of Europe to the extent that only a new distribution system to/from ports to inland destinations based on industrial intermodal shuttle trains represents the solution of this problem. The challenge in TIGER is therefore to provide a solution to EU ports and road congestion reaching inland European destinations in an industrial and effective way leading to sustainable mobility

Keywords: european freight oriented network,port decongestion,containerised transport,inland transport,co-modality
A railway automatic track warning system based on distributed personal mobile terminals (ALARP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Italy,Israel,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3941877.2
EU funding (EUR): 2626610.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the ALARP project is therefore to study, design and develop an innovative more efficient Automatic Track Warning System (ATWS) to improve the safety of railway trackside workers. ALARP ATWS will able to selectively inform the trackside workers about approaching trains on the track, maintenance events on power lines and/or safety equipment in the concerned tracks that may put at risk workers’ safety (e.g. being hit by a train or by an electric shock) emergencies on tracks and tunnels nearby the workers (e.g. fires in a tunnel, toxic smoke, etc.), escape routes in case of emergencies; keep track of the status and localisation of the workers (and especially those at risk, not responding) and of the operating conditions of devices; The proposed ALARP concept) will be based on the following main components: the track-side train presence alert device (TPAD), able to sense an approaching train on the interested track without interfering with the signalling system; a set of distributed, low-cost, wearable, context-aware, robust, trustable and highly reliable, wireless Mobile Terminals (MTs) to inform the workers about possible approaching trains and/or other events that could put at risk their safety.

Keywords: atws,automatic track warning system,railway workers security,distributed mobile terminals,wireless communications
Promoting European - South African Research Cooperation in Aeronautics and Air Transport (AEROAFRICA-EU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: South Africa,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-02
End date: 2011-05-01
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 419754.32
EU funding (EUR): 363165.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The intention of this proposal is to create a platform for enhancing aeronautics and air transport research and development (R&D) cooperation between the EU and SA, and to explore the potential for and, where appropriate, to promote the participation of other African countries in such cooperation. The overall objectives for AEROAFRICA are: • To explore the potential for enhancing cooperation through an analysis (mapping) of aeronautics and air transport R&D cooperation between the EU and SA, as well as other African countries; • To develop and enhance networks and partnerships between EU, SA and other African researchers and organisations in identified technical themes ideally suited for mutually beneficial aeronautics and air transport R&D cooperation. • To promote SA and African participation in the aeronautics and air transport activities of FP7 through focused information and advisory services, and • To establish an aeronautics and air transport R&D policy dialogue between the EU and SA, as well as other African partners, so as to also support economic and development cooperation. The proposed AEROAFRICA initiative represents the first attempt to significantly capture the aeronautics and air transport capabilities and needs of the EU and SA in a complementary manner, useable as qualitative tools to enhance further co-operation. AEROAFRICA’s success and impact assessment will be based on: • An overall increase in participation in FP7 by the SA and identified African aeronautics research communities; • Success in bringing about increased networking and partnering in the aeronautics R&D community, measured by determining the greater extent of FP7 consortium arrangements, and range and number of EU partner organisations with which SA and identified African countries collaborate; and • The extent to which cooperative relationships are leveraged through joint identification of needs and priorities for collaboration.

Keywords: aeronautics,international cooperation,third country,icpc,air transport
imProved reliabIlity inspeCtion of Aeronautic structure through Simulation Supported POD (PICASSO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Sweden,Germany,France,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Poland
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7462969.0
EU funding (EUR): 4957469.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

With aging engines and the increase of air traffic in the next 20 years, a central challenge in the aeronautical industry will concern the increase of the efficiency of maintenance which still represents around 20% of an operator’s indirect operating costs. This challenge is particularly important for metallic parts within the engine aircraft industry, because of the criticity of rotative components and the high temperature environment. Maintenance is directly related to the concept of Probability of Detection (POD) curves which are obtained by expensive experimental campaigns. Within the PICASSO project, we propose to evaluate the concept of using Non Destructive Testing low cost simulations to obtain Probability of Detection (POD) curves. The aim of PICASSO is therefore to build a new and original way to get simulation supported POD curves and to establish basis and recommendations for a future European standard for Qualification and Reliability of inspection for aircraft industry. The main economic impacts will be to ensure savings in costs concerning aircraft maintenance and engine development, improvements of time maintenance and elimination of unscheduled maintenance.

Keywords: operating cost,engine,aircraft,non destructive testing,probability of detection,simulation
Community Oriented Solutions to Minimise aircraft noise Annoyance (COSMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Belgium,Italy,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Hungary,Germany,France,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,France,France,Germany,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5913949.6
EU funding (EUR): 4096034.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

COSMA aims to develop engineering criteria for aircraft design and operations in order to reduce the annoyance within airport communities due to aircraft exterior noise. By today, such criteria do not exist since aircraft noise engineering has historically focused on achieving ever lower noise levels for individual events and at close distance from the runway. Within the frame of a unique approach, COSMA will - improve the understanding of noise annoyance effects due to aircraft in the airport surrounding community through field studies and dedicated psychometric testing - use these findings in setting up optimised aircraft noise shapes - develop techniques for a realistic synthesis aircraft noise around airports - validate the optimised aircraft noise shapes and their associated engineering guidelines - put in place an efficient knowledge management for design practices and scientific information on aircraft exterior noise annoyance effects Through this comprehensive workplan, COSMA will ensure optimum exploitation of the scientific research results by reducing noise annoyance at source (whether by technological or operational means) through an improved understanding of the effects of aircraft noise in the airport surrounding community. Under the technical guidance of industry experts, COSMA will integrate contributions from research organisations and SME’s, bringing together the multi-disciplinary background that is required for achieving the project objectives. COSMA is involving 21 partners from 9 different countries: Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Hungary.

Keywords: aircraft exterior noise,airport communities,sound engineering,human annoyance,psychoacoustics