News from FOTs

A record high number of contributions to Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV16)

date 02/17/2016
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A record high number of contributions to Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV16)

The Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV16) is a premier forum sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS). It will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 19-22, 2016, and researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students, […]

SHRP2 – the most re-used NDS dataset worldwide

date 01/20/2016
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SHRP2 – the most re-used NDS dataset worldwide

The world largest Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) dataset SHRP2 has been open for data re-use since one year now. In January 2015, the project entered into a new phase, when the original project that collected […]

Finland joins a Nordic connected vehicle pilot

date 07/15/2015
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Finland joins a Nordic connected vehicle pilot

The Finnish Transport Agency, Trafi and Nokia HERE have signed an agreement on June 29, 2015, on a three-year pilot project, NordicWay, Coop. During the project, cars will utilize the mobile network to share specific […]

FOTSIS project finishes, exploitation plans don’t

date 07/14/2015
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FOTSIS project finishes, exploitation plans don’t

After four years of activity, the FOTSIS final event marked the end of the project. It was held on 27-28 April 2015 at the OHL Concesiones premises in Madrid and it attracted around 70 people […]

Report on PRESERVE Final Event released

date 07/03/2015
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Report on PRESERVE Final Event released

On 17th and 18th of June, 2015, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, was hosting a unique event on security and privacy of cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (cITS). Not only was the […]

New book on “Vehicular ad hoc Networks” published

date 06/09/2015
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New book on “Vehicular ad hoc Networks” published

Claudia Campolo (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy), Antonella Molinaro (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy) and Riccardo Scopigno (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy) have published the book: “Vehicular ad hoc Networks. Standards, Solutions, and Research”. This book presents vehicular […]

FOTsis FOT’s show promising results

date 05/11/2015
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FOTsis FOT’s show promising results

The FOTsis project has successfully concluded its Field Operational Tests and has a series of promising results at its disposal. Over the last few months, the FOTsis project tested seven close-to-market services (Emergency Management, Safety […]

Re-use of FOT Data to Assess the Frequency and Impact of Distracted Driving

date 12/04/2014
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Re-use of FOT Data to Assess the Frequency and Impact of Distracted Driving

The presentation “Re-use of FOT Data to Assess the Frequency and Impact of Distracted Driving” was given on the occasion of the Fourth International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research held at Virginia Tech and Skelton […]

Data sharing and re-use: The Center for Data Reduction and Analysis Support at VTTI

date 10/08/2014
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Data sharing and re-use: The Center for Data Reduction and Analysis Support at VTTI

It has been more than a decade since the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) ran the 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study. The 100-Car project captured unobtrusively the real-world driving behaviours of 109 primary drivers and 132 […]

New issue of the FOTsis Newsletter

date 09/26/2014
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New issue of the FOTsis Newsletter

FOTsis has recently issued a Newsletter in which the project consortium explains the successfull emergency services tests carried out in Spain and Greece. To download the full document, click:    About FOTsis FOTsis (European Field Operational Test […]