Invitation to the SARTRE-project final workshop and demonstration
SARTRE is a FP7 European project that performs transportation research, namely road train on public roads – also called platooning. A road train, according to SARTRE, is a collection of vehicles led by a manually forward heavy lead vehicle, and where several following vehicles (truck and passenger cars) follow the leader automatically, both lateral and longitudinally. The vehicles communicate wirelessly to form a cooperative system. Benefits expected are increased comfort, reduced fuel consumption, greater safety, efficient transportation, etc.The SARTRE project will hold the final workshop and platooning demonstration on the 11-12th of September, 2012 in Borås (close to Gothenburg) Sweden. You are invited to participate in this event!
The results of the SARTRE project will be presented on the morning of the first day. The demonstration of the SARTRE platooning technology will take place in the afternoon at the Hällered test track near Borås. We will demonstrate five vehicle platooning and a platooning simulator. The second day will be a workshop where the needs and agendas of various stakeholders will be addressed.
Tentative agenda
· 11th September: SARTRE presentations and Platooning demonstration
o 08:30 Coffee / Workshop
o 09:00 Introduction / Presentations
§ Technical overview of SARTRE
o 10:30 Coffee and sandwich
§ EU-presentation on the “big issue”, funding, ITS, Horizon 2020.
o 11:20 Bus to Hällered
o 12:00 Lunch, presentations, posters and platooning demonstration
§ Presentations from the SARTRE partners
o 17:00 (Latest) Bus back to Borås
o 19:30 Evening informal reception “walk-in buffet”
· 12th September: Workshop
o 08:00 Coffee
o 08:30 Start second day (workshop)
§ Non-technical invited talks: legal, insurance, stakeholders, business case, exploitation
· Carl-Johan Almqvist, Volvo Group, Truck Business case
· Stefan Myhrberg, Ericsson AB, Communication business case,
· Marcus Rothoff, VCC, Automated driving, advantages, possible business cases and customer offers
· TBD
§ Group seminars with stakeholders: legal, insurance, road-operator etc. lead by SARTRE personnel
o 12:00 Lunch
§ Presentation of results from the group seminars
§ Road map, technology roll out, achieving commercial viability, infrastructure and the environment, how to achieve a wider impact,
§ Panel discussion
o 15:30 Summing up, Coffee and End
Location: Borås First Grand Hotel and Hällered for the demonstraion.
Host: Carl Bergenhem, SP – Technical Research Institute of Sweden, partner in SARTRE
SARTRE project manager: Eric Chan, Ricardo, [email protected]
Discussions will be held in English. No external media will be invited.
Deadline for registration: 24th August
Indicate your wish to participate via email to [email protected], or [email protected]. You can also contact Paviter Jootel from Ricardo [email protected] if you have questions about the SARTRE project.