Mobility and Logistics

Major Challenges and Research Activities

traffic Mobility is a crucial part of our daily life; mobility and transport is also the bloodstream of our economy. Globalization has created enormous amounts of traffic of goods and services. The growth in transport will most likely continue for the coming decades. The growing demand for mobility, of goods in particular, and the limited growth of the necessary infrastructure put permanent pressure on reachability and throughput of the road system, while the reliability is at stake. Traffic congestion, road unsafety, noise, pollution, and CO₂ emission are also responsible for high societal costs, which for the Netherlands only are estimated to be more than 10 billion euro's a year. So there is great concern about the impact of mobility problems on our economical and social well being.

ICT can make a contribution in solving these problems by providing systems and techniques for traffic management, traffic information, safety guidance, camera control, communication, road pricing and context-aware services. For example, networks of cars in which sensors provide local information on position, speed, etc. of neighboring cars, can help to optimally control the local behavior of drivers (e.g. driver assistance). Cars interconnected and connected to the infrastructure via e.g. an ad-hoc network, will allow for optimal route allocation mechanisms for reliable reachability. Both on the national and European level there is great need for such innovative techniques.

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CTIT activities address many of the above mentioned challenges via research on new and innovative communication infrastructures such as adhoc wireless networks and sensor networks, and by developing intelligent data processing techniques for control, data fusion and data management. Research groups develop models and simulations to understand the behavior of traffic participants and traffic flows, and to come up with better prediction techniques. To develop useful and realistic techniques there is much emphasis on cost reduction, business models, and the societal and legal context. Practical implementations, experiments and pilots play an important role in making these technologies reliable. This all is done in close cooperation with state agencies, construction companies, road management agencies and traffic controllers, both on the national level as on the European level, such as within the EU eSafety Forum and the EU CALM (Communication Air-interface Long and Medium range) initiative.

SROs involved:

- IE&ICT (logistics and healthcare processes)

- WiSe (smart medical surroundings)

- ASSIST (service architectures)

- NICE (human machine interfaces and bio-informatics)

- ISTRICE (security & privacy aspects)

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Home CTIT symposium 2013 About CTIT News NIRICT Research Meet the PhDs Working at CTIT Internal Information Conferences Open Calls (updated May 3, 2013) Library and Videos Knowledge Transfer Links Sitemap Search	Mobility and Logistics Major Challenges and Research Activities Mobility is a crucial part of our daily life; mobility and transport is also the bloodstream of our economy. Globalization has created enormous amounts of traffic of goods and services. The growth in transport will most likely continue for the coming decades. The growing demand for mobility, of goods in particular, and the limited growth of the necessary infrastructure put permanent pressure on reachability and throughput of the road system, while the reliability is at stake. Traffic congestion, road unsafety, noise, pollution, and CO₂ emission are also responsible for high societal costs, which for the Netherlands only are estimated to be more than 10 billion euro's a year. So there is great concern about the impact of mobility problems on our economical and social well being. ICT can make a contribution in solving these problems by providing systems and techniques for traffic management, traffic information, safety guidance, camera control, communication, road pricing and context-aware services. For example, networks of cars in which sensors provide local information on position, speed, etc. of neighboring cars, can help to optimally control the local behavior of drivers (e.g. driver assistance). Cars interconnected and connected to the infrastructure via e.g. an ad-hoc network, will allow for optimal route allocation mechanisms for reliable reachability. Both on the national and European level there is great need for such innovative techniques. CTIT activities address many of the above mentioned challenges via research on new and innovative communication infrastructures such as adhoc wireless networks and sensor networks, and by developing intelligent data processing techniques for control, data fusion and data management. Research groups develop models and simulations to understand the behavior of traffic participants and traffic flows, and to come up with better prediction techniques. To develop useful and realistic techniques there is much emphasis on cost reduction, business models, and the societal and legal context. Practical implementations, experiments and pilots play an important role in making these technologies reliable. This all is done in close cooperation with state agencies, construction companies, road management agencies and traffic controllers, both on the national level as on the European level, such as within the EU eSafety Forum and the EU CALM (Communication Air-interface Long and Medium range) initiative. SROs involved: - IE&ICT (logistics and healthcare processes) - WiSe (smart medical surroundings) - ASSIST (service architectures) - NICE (human machine interfaces and bio-informatics) - ISTRICE (security & privacy aspects)