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Key operational aspects for the

organisation of large scale field

operational tests

Maxime Flament, Head of Sector SafeMobility

Brussels, June 2010

ERTICO – ITS Europe

Summary of Deliverable D5.1 (Public)

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Content

• FOT Operations

• Step-wise preparation

• Common VMC guidelines

• Piloting status

• Next steps

• Conclusions

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FOT OperationsOrganisation

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4 Vehicle Management Centres (VMC)

5 Operation Centers (OC)

11 Operation Sites (OS)

Total 460 vehicles equipped with Data Acquisition Systems

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FOT OperationsOperation sites

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Step-wise preparation

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Common VMC guidelines

3 main aspects to be defined

1. Definition of responsible persons and

responsibilities

2. Definition of Vehicle related procedures

3. Definition of Driver related procedures

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MaintenanceMaintenance SalesSalesOperation

Center

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Operation Center

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Vehicles Drivers

Data pick-up

method

Data storage

method

Data ServerData Server

Data pick-up

method

Data storage

method

FOT Operations

Data

FOT Operations

Data

Data storage

method

Driver liaison

during FOT

Data/Operational Quality Assurance

ContractConsent formIncentivesInsurance

Questions / support

Training

Objective data Subjective dataIntervention logging / Documentation

VMC Responsible(or operation center)

Installation and

maintenance resp.

Sales and Marketing resp.

Dissemination

resp.

Data Quality

resp.

Driver

Liaison

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Vehicle related procedures

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Vehicle selection (types, fleet...)

Data acquisition systems

Data pickup and handling

Vehicle Rotation among drivers

Vehicle preparation

Vehicle status

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Driver related procedures

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Driver selection (type, etc...)

Consent Form

Video recording inside and outside the vehicle

Incentives

Insurance

Driver training/briefing

Questionnaires and interviews

Hotline

Data Quality Insurance

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Importance of piloting phase

Objectives of the piloting phase:Ensures correct equipment adaptation on the vehicles,

Verifies the technical operation of the installed DAS on the vehicles,

Tests the integrity of the data collected

Tests data collection and transmission in real driving conditions,

Tests the data quality insurance processes in place

Tests the relevance of the collected data to compute the performance indicators

Tests the relevance of vehicle and driver related procedure and the distribution of the different responsibilities

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Piloting and ramping up status

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VOLVO Trucks30 trucks running (NL+UK)

VW:FOT Start 7 Jun1 pilot car

FORD: 2 cars running 52 cust. contracts

CEESAR - Renault:FOT start 26 May5 fully equipped carsramping up in 7 waves

Daimler Mercedes-Benz:All 15 cars are running

FIAT – Lancia:141 cars running

MAN: 6 fleets – 26 trucks running

AUDI (depending on VW): no cars availble

VOLVO cars:100 cars running since May (ramping up final)

BMW: 1 car still piloting

15 cars are available

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Lessons learned

Follow and exploit FESTA handobook especially its Implementation plan (Annex)

Distribute early the responsibilities (marketing, maintenance, etc..)

Enforce harmonisation of data loggers and data formatsWhen selecting vehicles and drivers: Be carefull of creating

biased experiments or at least document them to take them into account in data analysis

Do not underestimate the piloting time Plan on vehicle and installation delays

Expect dirver drop outs and plan to interact with them Be carefull of bad publicity – clear information is key

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ConclusionsMore than 1000 vehicles are planned

Vehicle and driver recruitment have gained some delays

but are progressing

12 months operations have started for some VMC

Some have finalised their ramp up

All operational procedure are documented in the

VMC description

Each OEM has different internal organisation which were

taken into account

Piloting is seen as crucial phase before the launch

of the FOT operations

Some pilots are still running

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Thank you for your attention!

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