COSMO - Co-operative systems for sustainable mobility and energy efficiency
Overview
Objectives:
COSMO is adopting a system-wide approach to the assessment of energy efficiency, measuring the effect of a range of innovative traffic management systems not only on fuel consumption and traffic emissions, but also the energy used to operate road-side equipment. The aim is to provide practical demonstration of the effectiveness of the systems and assess their impact in realistic conditions. The principal result will be a set of validated specifications covering their operational, technical, business and organisational characteristics.
Methodology:
The principal focus of COSMO is the area of environmentally sustainable traffic management. Experimentation will be carried out on:
- Environmentally sensitive traffic control strategies
- Eco-driving for private vehicle and for public transport
- Multimodal real-time information systems designed to maximize energy efficiency
- Advanced energy efficient technologies integrated in roadside equipment
- Dynamic City Access Management strategy
- Advanced Real-Time Congestion Management System Testing will be done in three Pilot Sites.
COSMO will be installing and testing a range of cooperative applications in three Pilot Sites. These are located in: Salerno (Italy), Vienna (Austria), Gothenburg (Sweden). Each site will implement a different set of systems, but these are complementary as they all involve traffic or fleet management strategies which are integrated with leading edge technologies developed in the recent EC-funded research projects COOPERS, SAFESPOT and CVIS.
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