Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
“Enhancing Safety and security aspects in Transport rEsearch in the EuroMediterranean region” (ESTEEM)

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,France,Algeria,Morocco,Spain,Tunisia
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2009-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 722877.0
EU funding (EUR): 648353.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

ESTEEM aims at contributing to the coordination of research activities and policies between the EU and the Neighbouring Countries on transport issues. More specifically, its aim is to strengthen and enhance the links between Maghreb and the neighbouring EU countries – namely Italy, France and Spain - in order to identify strategic priorities and topics for high quality researches on safety and security in transport system and infrastructure. The project has been outlined by a consortium consisting of seven organizations with different but complementary field of expertise related to transportation. Each partner represents a country of the selected area of intervention, which means a well-balanced geographical distribution and a consequent higher number and range of potential beneficiaries to be reached. The proposal is structured according to the following method: • the state of the art on safety and security related research in the selected region will be analyzed; • specific sub-areas will be identified according to the main needs in the domain of transport system safety and security; • surveys will be conducted on each sub-area in order to identify priority research actions to be undertaken; • a series of workshops will be organized in order to validate the surveys’ results, with the aim of identifying specific topics and defining potential guidelines and roadmaps for future research; • an ad hoc network will be set up with the aim of fostering collaboration among the participant and disseminating the project’s results to an as wide as possible range of stakeholders. Relevant stakeholders and other interested entities will be invited to join the network, hence improving collaborations at all levels. Co-ordination of research activities and policies on transport related topics will be in this way ensured across the whole Mediterranean area as well as a long lasting impact and sustainability.

Keywords: transports,safety,security,eu-mediterranean policies,research coordination,network
Energy Efficient Vehicles for Road Transport (EE-VERT)

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,Sweden,Italy,Germany,Austria,Romania,Spain,Austria
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6566854.0
EU funding (EUR): 3617978.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Road transport is the second largest EU producer of CO2, one of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change. While some improvements in efficiency of road vehicles have been achieved, continued growth in traffic and congestion mean that CO2 emissions from road transport have grown overall. At the same time rising fuel prices and supply instability also give pressure for increased efficiency. The EC has set targets for the average CO2 emissions of new vehicles to be 120 g/km by 2012, with further reductions needed to achieve a 40% reduction in CO2 from light passenger vehicles by 2020. The EE-VERT project will develop technologies that will play a key part in achieving these goals. Despite improvements in individual areas of the modern vehicle such as powertrain, a considerable amount of energy is wasted due to the lack of an overall on-board energy management strategy. Further electrification of auxiliary systems (the "more electric vehicle") promises energy and efficiency gains, but there is a need for a co-ordinated and predictive approach to the generation, distribution and use of energy. In the state-of-the-art, power is generated with little knowledge of the actual loads, and some systems (both electrical and mechanical) consume power continually regardless of demand. The introduction of systems such as alternator set-point control and EPAS are first steps towards optimising energy use but such systems operate in isolation. This project will develop strategies in conventional vehicles, also applicable to hybrids, for overall energy management (thermal and electrical) to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Also, the need for the strategies to guarantee power supply to safety-related systems will be considered. It is estimated that EE-VERT technologies can reduce CO2 emissions by around 10% for a car. For a large vehicle savings of around 40% of the CO2 that is created by an auxiliary system such as climate control is possible.

Keywords: energy efficiency,fuel efficiency,co2 reduction,safety-related systems,road transport,road vehicle
European Network to Support the Sustainable Surface Transport SMEs (STAR-NET TRANSPORT)

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: Spain,Poland,Poland,Italy,Netherlands,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Slovakia,Belgium,Hungary,Portugal,United Kingdom,Romania,Slovenia,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1033701.0
EU funding (EUR): 923720.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The strategic objective of the Star-Net transport is to increase the participation of surface transport-related SMEs in the surface transport programe. The aim of the Star-Net transport project is to be the first step towards the formation and development of a consolidated structure for support of SMEs in Europe for participation in Sustainable Surface Transport activities, building on the knowledge, tools and services developed within some of the most relevant FP6-SUSTDEV support actions over the recent years (SURFACE NET, TranSMEs, AUTOIN, EURO-TRANS and HUN-POL-TRANS) and in future FP7-SST-SSAs projects. In this way the Star-Net transport project will build on 3 interconnected structures: • Star-Net transport Central Unit - The Star-Net project is built around a core group of service providers that gathers 4 experienced organisations in providing support services within the Sustainable Surface Transport field and that are currently coordinating successful SSAs (SURFACE NET, TranSMEs, AUTOIN, EURO-TRANS and HUN-POL-TRANS) for the provision of services and/or development of tools for European organisations in order to enhance their participation in Sustainable Surface Transport activities; • Star-Net transport Regional Nodes - a network of 17 local nodes, that will benefit from the core group services in order to develop and enhance the competences and skills in order to provide continuous support to organisations in their country. • Star-Net transport Advisory Council – a network of European key players that will disseminate and promote the project activities in political level, facilitating communication with the ETPs, future coordinators of FP7-SST-SSAs proposals will be invited for this group.

Keywords: support tools for smes,innovation for sst
Modular Urban Transport Safety and Security Analysis (MODSAFE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Hungary,Germany,France,France,Germany,Belgium,France,Canada,Spain,United Kingdom,France,France,Italy,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5180840.6
EU funding (EUR): 3469161.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The European Urban Guided Transport sector (Light rails, Metros, but also Tramways and Regional Commuter trains) is still characterized by a highly diversified landscape of Safety Requirements, Safety Models, Responsibilities, Roles, Safety Approval, Acceptance and Certification Schemes. While a certain convergence in architectures and systems can be observed the safety life cycle still differs from country to country and in some cases even within one country. Furthermore security items occur more and more as vital for the urban transport sector. In some cases these items are linked to the safety of the urban transport systems. In this context “safety” is seen as everything dealing with the methods and techniques to avoid accidents. “Security” is concerned with the protection of persons and the system from criminal acts. The state of the art will be analysed, merged into harmonized and agreed joint safety packages and extended by still missing elements to strengthen excellence of European surface transport. The MODSafe consortium aims at providing for the first time a coherent and agreed Hazards Analysis and Risk Analysis. Also, beyond today’s scattered landscape the MODSafe partners will for the first time define agreed safety requirements for the safety related functions of an urban guided transport system. In order to achieve such a safety requirements allocation it is necessary to construct a functional and Object Safety Model of an urban guided transport system. This model will be based on currently running and previous European projects. It will thereby utilise and test the existing knowledge and R&D results. Finally, MODSafe will develop an agreed process and layout for generic safety proofs for urban guided transport safety systems in order to improve future cross acceptances.

Keywords: urban guided transport light rails metros tramways regional commuter trains safety requirements risk models responsibilities roles safety approval acceptance certification security hazards analysis
Development of a Finite Element Model of the Human Thorax and Upper Extremities (THOMO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Czechia,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2655175.0
EU funding (EUR): 2065269.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

In 2004, in the European Union, there were 42193 road fatalities and 1213300 accidents involving injuries. The socio-economic cost of road crashes to the EU 15 is twice the EU’s annual budget. The number of casualties is so important that it shall be reduced by all the available ways. Presently, the vehicle safety devices used as prevention tools shall be improved, since they were developed in an outdated context, for a mean person and a limited area of application. Numerical human body models could be used instead of anthropomorphic dummies to assess injury risks in different accident scenarios, to adapt accordingly vehicles and then regulations. The present project proposes to give to passive safety players a tool capable of assessing real safety. It aims to create and maintain biofidelic finite element models of the human thorax including upper extremities based on the research, development, and validation of the models for the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentile of each gender. It is based on the following steps: * development and maintenance of a biomechanical database of post-mortem human subject tests at the segment (thorax) and organ (heart, lungs, aorta) levels with the necessity to define the mechanical validation criteria of the model and to improve the knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of the organs and of the mechanical and geometrical properties of the rib cage; * development of numerical models from the CAD data with the necessity to personalize these data, to define a model architecture allowing its validation at the mechanical and injury levels and to quantify the numerical and mechanical consequences at the fracture level; * mechanical and injury validation of the thorax and of the upper extremities with tests coming from the literature or performed during the project. This project fits into a worldwide project, called Global Human Body Model, which aims to create and maintain the world’s most biofidelic human body models.

Keywords: passive safety,biomechanics,phms tests,biomechanical criteria,injury mechanisms,numerical model,numerical injury criteria
European Bus System of the Future (EBSF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,France,Italy,France,Sweden,France,Spain,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Romania,Sweden,France,Portugal,Spain,Italy,France,Germany,Germany,Hungary,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25687247.65
EU funding (EUR): 15810606.0
Participants: 49
Project status: CLOSED

The European Bus System of the Future (EBSF) project is conceived as a driver to increase the attractiveness and raise the image of the bus systems in urban areas, by means of new technologies on vehicles and infrastructure in combination with operational best practices, in a system approach. For the first time in European research, these concepts are fully endorsed by all stakeholders, with all major bus manufacturers joining their industrial capabilities along with operators and authorities pooling together in this pre-competitive research project. This project is funded on the consideration that the bus still remains the most universal solution for balanced and sustainable urban development from an economic, environmental and social standpoint, serving 80% of the total European Public Transport. The research will conceive and develop an innovative high quality bus system which will demonstrate the full potential of a new generation of urban bus networks, using state of the art clean vehicular technologies. It will integrate all necessary elements and include a breakthrough design of vehicles, infrastructures and operations placing emphasis on system approach, and identifying the potential for technical harmonisation and standardisation. The project focuses on the bus system in urban and suburban areas. For this reason all the features of the traditional bus services will be examined and developed in conjunction with the relationships between itself and the other modes of transport, in order to concentrate the objectives of the project on the development and improvement of all the characteristics of the EU Bus System of the Future. During its 48 months lifetime, the project will produce several outputs of two main families: Practical and Theoretical deliverables. The former include the results of activities aiming at technology development, and their integration, whereas the latter include concepts, tools, simulations, specifications, and recommendations

Keywords: transport,vehicle,open it architecture
Benchmarking Logistics and Co-modality (BE LOGIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Greece,Lithuania,Netherlands,Austria,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-TREN-1_05June, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2754248.67
EU funding (EUR): 1998497.52
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Efficient use of transport modes and resources requires understanding the options and alternatives and being able to make the right logistics choices. Benchmarking is an instrument which can help to answer this question. Differences in the performance of various modes within the transport sector of a given country, and between the transport systems of different countries, imply that there is a significant potential for improvement. Ongoing technological advances and changes in economic and institutional approaches ensure that this potential is constantly evolving. The transportation sector is influenced and moulded by ongoing economic, environmental and political (usually in the form of public finances) pressures to realise its potential for improvement. BE LOGIC project vision In our opinion, the major improvement potential in logistics performance is among small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs’), including shippers with relative small transport volumes. Therefore, the focus in BE LOGIC lies on applying the logistics benchmark methodology on SME’s. Key objectives of BE LOGIC - Improve the efficiency within and across different modes of transport - Support the development of a quality logistics system Derived objectives and research questions: - Develop a methodology to assess transport logistics performance in quantitative terms at different levels in Europe and globally - Applying the benchmark methodology to assess logistics and intermodal policies of Member States and other countries - and to assess transport logistics choices and performance from shippers/LSP - and to assess transport logistics performance from transshipment points - Examine existing quality standards (e.g. ISO, CEN) for transport logistics - Consider the need for new quality standards for transport logistics Our approach includes 3 viewpoints: - Viewpoint from the policy maker . - Viewpoint from transport chains - Viewpont from transhipment points

Keywords: benchmarking logistics co-modality intermodal transport sme methodology efficient and sustainable transport policy
DIsmantling of Vessels with Enhanced Safety and Technology (DIVEST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Türkiye,India,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Sweden,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3370570.0
EU funding (EUR): 2442568.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Policy-makers are in dire need of up-to-date objective scientific data to support their decision making as applied to ship dismantling. The objective of the Project is to “define a integrated risk and economic framework” applicable to the optimisation of ship dismantling activities and infrastructure, from a social, economic and environmental point of view. The framework will apply across the life cycle of a ship and it will be developed using risk-based and economic modelling/value-based analysis. Particular emphasis will be on the dismantling value and competence chain. Implementation steps: 1.selection of the risk and economic analysis process that best fits the needs and constraints of the dismantling process 2. validation of the applicability of selected methods by case studies, with emphasis on dynamic combination of technical, environmental and human factors 3.organisation of the research output into a database to support risk management and decision making. The subjects of concern that have been identified for the call will be addressed as follows: 1.a process to answer safety concerns linked to ‘ecological processes for clean and safe dismantling &amp; clean and safe disposal’ 2.an analysis of ships, infrastructure, personnel, with focus on the dynamic interfaces between them, to support research on ‘vessels and infrastructure end of life analysis addressing industrial, ecological and economic criteria’ 3.economic analysis of the main risk drivers of identified ship/infrastructure/process combinations to answer questions on the cost effectiveness of ship recycling. The Project team involves partners from India. It will also play an active part in technology transfer and the betterment of human and environmental conditions in Asian countries through a dissemination and training program. The main deliverables: 1.validated risk and economic models 2.policy recommendations on the optimum dismantling facility and process 3.knowledge-exchange platform.

Keywords: shipdismantling,integrated risk and value based analysis,health-safety-environment-quality process improvement
2-WHEELER BEHAVIOUR AND SAFETY (2-BE-SAFE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Germany,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Austria,Greece,Portugal,Spain,Finland,Czechia,Belgium,Israel,Australia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5282341.21
EU funding (EUR): 3800000.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) users are greatly over-involved in serious and fatal crashes. They have between 5 and 25 times the risk of having a fatal crash compared to car drivers, depending on the country. The number of PTWs on European roads has more than doubled over the last two decades. The recent MAIDS (Motorcycle Accident In-Depth Study) study of PTW crashes in Europe found that behavioural and ergonomic issues were major contributing factors to PTW crashes: the primary accident cause for PTW crashes was the failure of drivers to perceive two-wheelers; and human error was a major contributing factor to most crashes, for both PTW and car drivers. The majority of PTW crashes involved a collision with a car. Many large-scale research programs have been undertaken to understand the behavioural and ergonomic factors that contribute to crashes involving 4-wheeled vehicles. These have been effective in informing countermeasure development, which has led to significant reductions in crashes. To our knowledge, no comparable human factors and behavioural research programs have been initiated in the PTW domain, in Europe or elsewhere. The high rate of motorcycle-related deaths and injuries calls for new and refined countermeasures, deriving from solid behavioural and ergonomics research. In this proposal we outline an innovative program of research, involving partners from Europe, Israel and Australia, that directly targets those behavioural and ergonomic factors cited in the MAIDS study as contributing to PTW crashes. This includes research on crash causes and human error, the world’s first naturalistic riding study involving instrumented PTWs, research on motorcycle rider risk awareness and perception, the development of new research tools to support the research program, in-depth research on the factors that underlie driver failures to see PTWs and their riders, and the development of recommendations for practical countermeasures for enhancing PTW rider safety.

Keywords: powered two wheelers,road safety,naturalistic driving,conspicuity,accidentology,hazard perception,human factors