Online tool for cities to develop urban transport roadmaps
Many cities across Europe do not currently have access to the resources or expertise required to develop coherent and challenging Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPS), needed to tackle mobility problems such as congestion, air quality, ambient noise, accidents and urban sprawl. The urban transport roadmaps tool has been developed to help cities develop sustanable mobility strategies.... Continue reading→
Industry 4.0, Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles: highlights from the NuMe
The University of Udine (Italy) is at the forefront of interdisciplinary research on robotics and autonomous technologies, particularly thanks to the activities organised by the Research Laboratory for New Media (NuMe) led by Prof. Leopoldina Fortunati. On 3 April 2017, the NuMe laboratory organised the workshop “Smart robots and Industry4.0 – Concerns and perspectives between law and... Continue reading→
Spotlight on Dr Ghadir Pourhashem
Our first spotlight is on Dr Ghadir Pourhashem, who joined the ERAdiate team in early March 2017. Given the broad scope of the ERAdiate project, which looks at enhancing the research and innovation dimensions of the University of Žilina in ITS, researchers in the team have complementary knowledge and competences, notably in project management, technology... Continue reading→
ERAdiate contributes to the BigSkyEarth COST Action Workshop on Big Data
The COST Action TD1403 “Big Data Era in Sky and Earth Observation” (BigSkyEarth) is a trans-disciplinary network involving researchers, scientists and representatives of some companies involved either in the observation of the sky or in the observation of the Earth. Although the nature of their research differs significantly, these two communities share a common interest towards the application... Continue reading→
Report on the Symposium on The Future Networked Car
On 9 March 2017, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) convened the Symposium on The Future Networked Car within the 87thGeneva International Motor Show. The international symposium brought together representatives of vehicle manufacturers, the automotive and ICT industries, researchers, governments and their regulators to discuss the status and... Continue reading→
Conference on Opportunities for a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC)
The conference on KIC in Urban Mobility was organised by the European Commission, DG MOVE, in Brussels on 29 March 2017. The event brought together city representatives, academics and entrepreneurs to discuss how to work together in the field of urban transport in Europe. The main focus of the conference was to discuss the bottom-up and... Continue reading→
“ITS: a tool or a toy” Conference report released
This report, now available on the ERAdiate and COST Association websites, is based on the Working Group discussions at the Conference “ITS: a tool or a toy” held in Žilina on November 22-23, 2016. This publication presents the key elements and main conclusions from the two parallel Working Groups on Autonomous Driving and MaaS. The report first highlights the main challenges identified... Continue reading→
Paper accepted for IEEE – 2017 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP)
The paper ”Travel Time, Resource Reachability and Quality of Living in Urban Contexts: a Case Study from Slovakia”, co-authored by Giuseppe Lugano, Martin Hudák, Karl Ernst Ambrosch and Tatiana Kováčiková, has been accepted to be presented at the IEEE – 2017 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP) to be held on 25-26 May 2017. Continue reading→
Written evidence submitted in response to UK inquiry on electric vehicles
In March 2017, the UK House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee launched an inquiry into the role of electric vehicles in the transition to a low-carbon economy and as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy. In response to this inquiry, a consortium of researchers working on the charging of electric vehicles from Durham, Žilina... Continue reading→
Paper accepted for ITST 2017 – 15th International Conference on ITS
The paper authored by ERAdiate team member Giuseppe Lugano entitled ”Virtual Assistants and Self-Driving Cars: To what extent is Artificial Intelligence needed in Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicles?” was presented at ITST 2017 – 15th edition of International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Telecommunications held in Warsaw, Poland on 29-31 May 2017. Continue reading→