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The European Parliament has adopted regulation (EU) 2019/2144, which will make several ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) mandatory in new models from June 2022 onward and in all new vehicles from June 2024 onwards. However, due to the slow renewal of the vehicle fleet, it will take several years before a meaningful portion of the fleet is equipped with these lifesaving systems. To compensate for this, the safety of existing vehicles could be improved with retrofit ADAS systems. The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility, costs and benefits of retrofitting ADAS. This study examined the technical feasibility of various retrofit ADAS systems and assessed the following in greater detail: Forward Collision Warning, Lane Departure Warning, Advanced Driver Distraction Warning, Speed Limit Information, Reversing Detection, Tyre Pressure Monitoring system, Turn Assistant for trucks and 112 eCall. The study examines the potential safety impacts of retrofitting the vehicle fleet and presents a cost-benefit assessment for the measures. This report addresses voluntarily installable measures as well as mandatory measures.

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This deliverable presents the methodologies for the evaluation of the piloted use cases; for technical evaluation and the assessments of user acceptance, quality of life and the business impact."br/""br/"The FESTA methodology is applied and enhanced for evaluating the added value of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to improve Cooperative and Automated Driving (AD). The main research question to be evaluated is defined as “What is the added value of IoT for AD?” This central question is refined for all four evaluation perspectives in more detailed research questions, hypotheses and key performance indicators, measurements and log data from the pilots, and in evaluation methods. The methodologies provide the starting point for implementation and execution int he evaluation tasks in the next preparation and piloting phases."br/""br/"The evaluation methodologies are tailored for the scale and scope of the pilot sites and implementations of the use cases. The common research focus in the evaluation methodologies on the concepts and criteria that are most common among pilot sites and use cases maximises the synergy and coherence between the evaluation tasks. Potential improvements of IoT to accelerate, enhance or enable automated driving functions and services will be evaluated and assessed collaboratively from all four perspectives. The methodologies will be extended for additional use case or pilot site specific evaluation criteria during the coming phases."br/""br/"This deliverable provides guidelines, requests and requirements for pilot test scenarios and data provisioning that will be needed as input for evaluation. This is input for the specification and data management of the pilots.

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The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution of emerging technological paths in the automotive industry. Worldwide patent data from the years 1990-2010 was collected and utilised to define the technological life cycles of the electric and fuel cell vehicle technologies. The novelty of our study is practicing the patent analysis approach using text mining techniques to collect patents according to their concepts in the automotive industry. The patent analysis results are compared to existing literature and expert opinion studies in alternative fuel vehicles field. The findings suggest that the development of electric vehicles will be quicker with a higher R&D share, compared to hydrogen vehicles. By gathering data and insights, the paper also offers general views on future automotive technology trajectories.

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The markets around transport and mobility are undergoing significant changes. One of the central drivers for these changes is the deployment of information and communications technology throughout the transport system, which in turn enables a wide range of smart mobility services. At the moment, however, smart mobility services are rather fragmented and work in isolated silos. A key issue in future development is how these isolated systems will become interconnected and in general more open. In this article, we apply the framework introduced by Ali-Vehmas and Casey (2012) to model how the evolution toward an open value system for smart mobility services could occur in Finland. In particular, we apply analogies from the emergence of GSM-based mobile networks and the Internet where the former has followed a more centralized path and the latter a more decentralized path.