Co-operative emissions reduction technologies to be developed at innovITS ADVANCE
13 Jan 2011
The innovITS city circuit will be used by a major three-year research program that aims to develop next-generation technologies for the reduction of motor vehicle emissions.
The innovITS ADVANCE city circuit offers an ideal environment for the potential innovations of the CoNCERTO programme to be tested and developed. This comprehensive network of roads, combined with an open architecture of multi-zoned Wi-Fi and GSM mobile telecoms systems, can be configured according to the precise needs of testing and can effectively replicate in a highly controlled manner almost any urban scenario world-wide.
“We were particularly keen to use the innovITS ADVANCE city circuit for the initial testing programme of CoNCERTO,” said Dr Robin North, Lecturer in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London. “This facility provides us with exactly the type of highly controllable, repeatable and measurable environment that we need for this form of research.”
Initial testing in the first phase of the project at innovITS ADVANCE has already proven highly successful. Over a period of three days, the research team from Imperial College London was able to connect their test equipment and monitoring systems to the innovITS ADVANCE control centre. A pedestrian crossing scenario was simulated with a total of three instrumented vehicles running over sixty tests, with comprehensive data sets captured for detailed analysis. This was the first such visit by the CoNCERTO researchers who will continue to use the ‘city circuit’ of innovITS ADVANCE as their research progresses.
Co-operative emissions reduction technologies to be developed at innovITS ADVANCE
13 Jan 2011
The innovITS city circuit will be used by a major three-year research program that aims to develop next-generation technologies for the reduction of motor vehicle emissions.
The innovITS ADVANCE city circuit offers an ideal environment for the potential innovations of the CoNCERTO programme to be tested and developed. This comprehensive network of roads, combined with an open architecture of multi-zoned Wi-Fi and GSM mobile telecoms systems, can be configured according to the precise needs of testing and can effectively replicate in a highly controlled manner almost any urban scenario world-wide.
“We were particularly keen to use the innovITS ADVANCE city circuit for the initial testing programme of CoNCERTO,” said Dr Robin North, Lecturer in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London. “This facility provides us with exactly the type of highly controllable, repeatable and measurable environment that we need for this form of research.”
Initial testing in the first phase of the project at innovITS ADVANCE has already proven highly successful. Over a period of three days, the research team from Imperial College London was able to connect their test equipment and monitoring systems to the innovITS ADVANCE control centre. A pedestrian crossing scenario was simulated with a total of three instrumented vehicles running over sixty tests, with comprehensive data sets captured for detailed analysis. This was the first such visit by the CoNCERTO researchers who will continue to use the ‘city circuit’ of innovITS ADVANCE as their research progresses.