URCA

Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Presentation

The University Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) is a higher education institution with 5 centres of activity: Reims, Troyes, Charleville-Mézières, Châlons en Champagne and Chaumont. The University has a total of 28,450 students in 4 major fields:

  • Art, Literature and Languages
  • Law, Economics and Management,
  • Human and Social Sciences,
  • Technology and Health Sciences,

Its second mission is research. URCA has 31 research units.

The LabI* laboratory, due to be created in January 2024, brings together URCA members involved in the field of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS). Since SCOOP@F, URCA has been recognised as a site for bench testing equipment. Since then, it has been involved in drafting validation, evaluation, safety and various POC (proof of concept) deliverables. It is the leader of the tabletop unitary test sub-activity (GT-TUT), where it writes the plans and details of the tabletop tests before developing and performing them, and then supplying the corresponding reports. It is also in charge of the safety FR on the study of the criteria that C-ITS equipment must meet.

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Projects / Use Cases

The University Reims Champagne-Ardenne is responsible for the table-top validation of all use cases concerning the Roadside Units (RSU) and the Operator On-Board Units (OBUo). In addition, all use cases can be validated off-line. It was the host site for the 2018 (safety) and 2019 (final) TestFests of the Intercor project.

The University Reims Champagne-Ardenne validates the following use cases:

  • Road works warning (B): lane closure, carriageway tilting
  • Signage applications (C): dynamic speed, virtual signs and electronic tolls
  • Hazardous location notifications (D)
  • Alert extreme weather conditions (E6) and traffic jam ahead (E7)
  • Information on parking lots location, availability and services in urban area (F1)
  • Traffic light management (G1, G5, G6),
  • Dynamic traffic ban to specific vehicles (H2), dynamic lane management – reserved lane (I2V) (H4) and HGV overtaking ban (H6)
  • Level crossing (K)

At the same time, URCA is developing a number of tools for verifying, testing and evaluating C-ITS systems:

  • A C-ITS stack
  • C-ITS certificate loading protocols
  • An Open Street Map-based navigation tool
  • Development of speed advice algorithms for the GLOSA service
  • An extension of the OMNET++ platform to include several algorithms for changing pseudonymous certificates
  • Development of systems for sending C-ITS messages using the BLE protocol

Find out more about the projects:

Timeline

URCA will host the COCSIC on 24 and 25 May 2023.

URCA will take part in the Cross-Border Tests 2023 in Dublin.

Generic contacts - services

Hacène FOUCHAL (hacene.fouchal@univ-reims.fr), university professor, contact person at URCA