CityMobil: advanced road transport for the urban environment. Final results
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CityMobil is an Integrated Project in the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union. The project addresses the topic “Advanced Road transport for the Urban Environment.” The project started in May 2006 and will run until December 2011. The project is carried out by a group of 29 partners led by TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. The goal of this research project is to make significant steps forward towards realisation of automated traffic solutions for the city of tomorrow. The total project budget is roughly 40 million Euros, of which 11 million is funded by the EU. The paper describes the final results of the project. In addition to the large number of detailed conclusions and learning points presented in this paper and in the CityMobil deliverables some general conclusions can be drawn: The process of setting up a full-scale implementation of an advanced transport system is a very difficult and time consuming one. There are many barriers of various natures to overcome. Contrary to the believe of many of the project partners at the time the project started, most of these barriers are not of a technological nature. Barriers relating to legal, administrative financial and political issues and safety, security and privacy appear to be more important and need to be addressed urgently. Although further technological developments are indeed required, the present state of the art allows implementations of automated transport systems under certain well-defined conditions.
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TNO Identifier
490374
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10 p.
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590-597
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