University Gustave Eiffel

Projects / Use Cases

C-Roads France is a project to deploy intelligent transport systems in France. It is the local version of a wider European project, C-Roads Platform, aimed at harmonising techniques and services across Europe. Eight Member States (Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and France) are participating in this convergence, in partnership with other countries that are gradually joining the process (Spain, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Sweden).
In France, the project brings together road and/or mobility infrastructure operators, vehicle manufacturers, universities, research institutes and IT security experts.
University Gustave Eiffel is involved in assessing the impacts (traffic, safety, environment, etc.) inherent in the deployment of C-Roads services, as well as the technical specifications. The C-ROADS project involves several laboratories at University Gustave Eiffel, where the ERENA team is coordinating this activity within the institute.ERENA is also heavily involved in the work of the C-Roads platform, in particular on the harmonisation of specifications and evaluations.

InDiD: INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITALE DE DEMAIN (DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF TOMORROW)
InDiD aims to continue deploying Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) at new road test sites in order to extend the coverage of services offered by the infrastructure.
University Gustave Eiffel is involved in assessing the impacts (traffic, safety, environment, etc.) inherent in the deployment of C-Roads services, as well as the technical specifications.

HIGH-LEVEL SERVICE TEST AREA FOR AUTOMATED AND CONNECTED MOBILITY
On 16 October 2020, the Regional Council of Nouvelle Aquitaine announced its financial support for the project to create a High Service Level Test Area (ZEHNS) for communicating, cooperative and automated vehicles. The test area will be developed on the A63 between Saugnac-et-Muret and Labouheyre. The aim is to set up a test area on the motorway, under real operating conditions and within the European C-Roads/C-Mobile technical framework, in order to understand and quantify the impact of these new forms of mobility.
The project, led by NeoGLS, a company specialising in cooperative intelligent transport systems, brings together Atlandes, the concession-holder for the A63 motorway in the Landes region, GEOSAT, a company specialising in regional engineering, and University Gustave Eiffel. With an overall cost of €1.5m, 50% of which is funded by the Nouvelle Aquitaine Region, the project is part of the European research and innovation drive to support new forms of mobility and their pre-deployment. It addresses the strategic challenges facing the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in terms of innovative and sustainable mobility. The region is heavily involved in these issues, and in 2015 hosted the ITS World Congress in Bordeaux. It has also launched the LUNA (“Laboratory of Uses in Nouvelle Aquitaine”), spearheaded by the ZEHNS, and supports ERENA.
The project to create the ZEHNS includes installing connectivity equipment, producing a high-definition map of the test site, developing traffic analysis, monitoring systems, and defining the methodological and organisational framework and tools and methodologies for evaluation.
The first phase of the project will validate the technical and economic feasibility of an area that is spatially larger and more comprehensive in terms of use cases, dedicated to the evaluation of equipment, technologies and services underpinning tomorrow’s mobility in Nouvelle Aquitaine. It also provides the basis for a steering structure.
As a genuine research and innovation tool for tomorrow’s more connected and autonomous mobility, the ZEHNS will provide entities wishing to conduct tests on connected, cooperative and automated mobility (autonomous vehicle manufacturers, academics, third parties, etc.) with high-level service environments (connected / cooperative, high-definition mapping, radio amers, etc.) and evaluation methodologies. It will help them set up tests and facilitate the development of new on-demand use cases.
Link to video presentation of the ZEHNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu8RtXbfY9A

Scale:

• Task 1.2 SCALE Technical Harmonization. University Gustave Eiffel is the french representative in dedicated working groups (WG): WG Parking Information, WG Modal Transfer and Low Emission Zones, WG Logistics, WG Vulnerable Road Users, WG Blue light priority and WG End users’ instructions. Researchers are involved in all WG.
• Task 1.3 SCALE Strategic Harmonization
• WG 2 : Technical design and Specifications
• in charge of the deliverable 2.4.1M on Functional and technical
• lead the GT EM exposure
• involved in  GT UEV-A, GT architecture, GT veille technologique, GT technical Evaluation, impact on road operators, GT formation, GT communication, GT traffic evaluation, GT behaviours impact.

Find out more about the projects:

• C-ROADS France
• InDiD
• SCALE