Overview
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.
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.