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Automated driving video at ITS Europe congress
Earlier we already posted a vlog at this website showing the open road demo and the infrastructure presentation at the ITS Europe demo. The vehicle used in this video is manually driven, but thanks to the HMI we could show the whole scenario intuitively. In this post we want to share the footage from the
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Video: green wave for automated vehicles
At the stand on the ITS Europe congress, the green wave system of MAVEN was also demonstrated with a video. Thanks to the integration with speed and lane advice, platoons can be formed efficiently upstream of the first intersection. This is a major advantage compared to traditional green wave systems, where typically over 90% of
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Final results for policy makers
During the course of the MAVEN project, stakeholder involvement was always among our top priorities. With several workshops we discussed with road authorities and other external stakeholders what was most important to them in the context of automated driving. With this input and the knowledge resulting from the technical work, a transition roadmap was made.
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Demo video released
As already announced we were working on editing the video material we collected when filming the demo setup we used at the ITS Europe congress last June. In the video below you will see the demo ride of the Dynniq vehicle, which was available on the days with an open road. Since this is a
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Impact of MAVEN exceeds expectations!
After several months of hard work dedicated to impact assessment, the MAVEN project is proudly presenting its final results. With a total CO2 emission reduction of up to 12% and a 34% higher throughput, the expectations were exceeded by far! These numbers are a direct result of putting all systems from the technical work packages
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Final event photo impression
On the 6th of June the final event of MAVEN took place at the ITS Europe congress in Helmond/Eindhoven, The Netherlands. During the congress we’ve had 3 hours of total demonstration time on the closed road. Visitors had the opportunity to take a ride in the fully automated Hyundai vehicle and experience the MAVEN use
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Braunschweig integration video
The final field tests in Braunschweig were succesfully completed. Platooning between Hyundai and DLR was demonstrated in open roads together with the interaction with the infrastructure running AGLOSA control algorithms. The video below gives a good overview of the achievements and conclude the integration phase of MAVEN!
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MAVEN final event
As the MAVEN project enters its final straight, it will hold its final event in Helmond on 6 June, taking advantage of the ITS congress, to share its main findings and conclusions. Join the MAVEN final event to learn about the main project findings and to take part in a demonstration ride of some MAVEN
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Succesful final integration tests in Helmond
In the week from the 18th to 22nd of February 2019, an important MAVEN test event took place in Helmond. The Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center team responsible for the MAVEN project tested, for the first time on real roads with the support of Dynniq, the MAVEN infrastructure-assisted automated driving through urban intersections. In these
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Workshop report released and upcoming events
The workshop report of the London event last year has been finalized and can be found here. Additionally, the MAVEN project will be present at three upcoming events. The EU CAD conference on 2nd and 3rd of April, the ITS European congress from 2-6th of June with our final demonstrations and the IEEE IV congres
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Consultation on EC draft delegated act on C-ITS is open
Draft European legislation relating to the implementation of cooperative ITS has been published. The proposed delegated regulation does not mandate the deployment of C-ITS, rather it sets out the technical and legal specifications that must be adopted should C-ITS stations and services be implemented. The main purpose of this regulation is to avoid a fragmentation
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Start of 2019 & Final infrastructure deliverable published
First of all, the MAVEN team would like to wish you a fruitful and happy 2019! This will be the final year for the project as its end is in August 2019. During the last stage of the project the focus will be on activities like impact assessment, final event (at the European ITS Congress
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4th Newsletter released
The 4th newsletter of MAVEN has been uploaded to the website and can be found here.
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3rd MAVEN stakeholder Consultation Workshop with expert meeting
Last week at the 23rd and 24th of October the MAVEN consortium organized an expert meeting and stakeholder consultation workshop in cooperation with the TransAID, CoEXist and INFRAMIX projects. A report with the main findings is currently under development, but in the meantime the presentations of the expert group can already be found on our
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Third newsletter and updated deliverables
The 3rd newsletter of MAVEN has been uploaded to the website and can be found here. Additionally, the project has received feedback from experts involved in the H2020 review process which resulted in valuable suggestions to clarify the documentation of the project deliverables. Updated versions have been uploaded under documents – deliverables. Of course your
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DLR tests Car2X communication in real traffic
– DLR is testing automated driving in the MAVEN project. – Cooperative automated vehicles cross signalised intersections in Braunschweig. The Institute for Transportation Systems of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will be testing the crossing of a traffic light intersection with cooperative automated vehicles in Braunschweig in the beginning of October 2018 in the MAVEN
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MAVEN at ITS World congress and Big Data Expo
The week of 17-21st of September was a busy week for the MAVEN consortium when it came to dissemination. First of all the project was present at the year ITS World congress with several papers. Xiaoyun Zhang presented papers about cooperative queue data for adaptive traffic control and a joint paper with the XCycle project
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Successful field tests in Helmond
The MAVEN team has successfully tested the integration of the traffic control algorithms with the vehicle message extensions at the Helmond site. The tests were already performed in simulation, as was demonstrated here. However, a real world environment can always introduce unexpected challenges. Therefore, a cooperative vehicle was upgraded to support the MAVEN standards and
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Save the date: MAVEN workshop – 24/10/18 in Greenwich, London
The next MAVEN stakeholder workshop targeting local authorities will take place in Greenwich (London) on 24 October 2018. The workshop’s aims are to: explore in more detail how increasingly instrumented vehicles are likely to behave on urban roads and how this may affect the traffic management task and wider transport goals provide insight to the
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EC publishes its plans regarding connected and automated mobility
The recently launched Third Mobility Package of the European Commssion includes a communication on connected on automated mobility. The communication sets out the EC’s agenda for connected and automated mobility, which is essentially about building an apt legal framework with due regard for ethics and society and providing financial support to move this agenda
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MAVEN Workshop at the 4th IEEE SCSP 2018 in Prague
The MAVEN workshop on “Autonomous vehicles for smart cities” was held on 25th May 2017 at the fourth IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Smart Cities Symposium Prague (SCSP 2018), organized by the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University (CTU). SCSP 2018 is an international scientific conference with over 180
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Milestones for V2X communications reached and presented at ETSI ITS workshop
MAVEN has developed V2X communication schemes and message sets for infrastructure-assisted automated driving. For the cooperative infrastructure, an I2V Lane Change Advisory service and a dedicated profiling of the SPaT (Signal Phase and Time) and MAP (topology) for lane-specific GLOSA were developed. For the cooperative automated vehicles, extensions of standard CAM (Cooperative Awareness Message) messages
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Vehicle milestones for communication and platooning reached
MAVEN has completed vehicle automation developments, which allow the reception of Signal Phase and Timing (SPaT) messages from the infrastructure. The vehicle automation takes the desired speed sent by the Road Side Unit (RSU) for the upcoming traffic light into account when planning the correct behavior. As the MAVEN vehicle is longitudinally and laterally automated
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Infrastructure simulation video released
As the MAVEN project is reaching the halfway point, intermediate results are becoming available. The workpackage dealing with innovations on the infrastructure side has prepared a video to explain the main concepts to the general public. An additional video was prepared for the expert audience showing actual footage from the system coupled to the traffic
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MAVEN considered in the C2CC forum
On 28-29t of November 2017, the Car-to-Car Consortium (C2CC) forum took place in Braunschweig, Germany. At this event with approximately 250 visitors, the project coordinator, Robbin Blokpoel (Dynniq), held a presentation during one of the plenary sessions. The presentation was well received by an interested audience. The MAVEN project has also made a second appearance
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MAVEN-TransAID-CoEXist workshop for city and regional authorities
MAVEN teamed up with the TransAID and CoEXist projects for a workshop aimed at gathering input from local authorities on various items of work underway within each of the projects. Some 50 people attended this workshop, including nearly one half from city or regional government and the public transport sector. The plenary session in the
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Helmond pilot
The pilot site in Helmond offers a state of the art infrastructure with all major intersections equipped with cooperative roadside units. Furthermore, the adaptive control algorithm ImFlow traffic control provides the opportunity to implement many different policies. Hyundai vehicle facts: · Based on a series production Hyundai Ioniq (Hybrid) · Front Sensing: Mono-Camera, Long-Range-Radar, LiDAR
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Braunschweig pilot
This pilot site offers the latest with respect to infrastructure detection as part of the Application Platform for Intelligent Mobility (AIM) test site. Stereo video detection combined with radar and hemispherical dome camera’s enable the infrastructure to enhance the safety of automated driving. The demo site Tostmannplatz in Braunschweig has four approaches which are controlled
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Prague, Braunschweig and Helmond simulations
Simulations are essential for impact assessment of scaling up the MAVEN solutions. Therefore, in addition to simulations of the pilot sites, there are dedicated simulation networks of Prague, Helmond and Braunschweig. Each network has their own specific challenge and thus provides a good environment to evaluate MAVEN use cases such as platoon orchestration (e.g. initialisation,
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Automation capable Local Dynamic Map (LDM) released
The MAVEN project has achieved its first milestone in development of the next generation Intelligent Transport Systems. Automation features have been added to the infrastructure Local Dynamic Map (LDM). This will facilitate more information sharing between the roadside and vehicles, enabling new use cases related to traffic safety and efficiency. The vehicles will share intended
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MAVEN Special Session at IEEE SCSP 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic
A MAVEN Special Session on “Autonomous vehicles for smart cities” was held on 26 May 2017 at the third IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Smart Cities Symposium Prague (SCSP 2017), organised by the Czech Technical University (CTU). SCSP 2017 is an international scientific conference with over 150 participants from 13 countries. The
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First stakeholder consultation with cities in Barcelona
MAVEN (Managing Automated Vehicles Enhances Network) organised its first stakeholder consultation meeting with local authorities and urban road stakeholders in Barcelona on 15 November 2016. The meeting was attended by nearly 35 participants, of which some two-thirds were representing local government. Local authorities and other urban road stakeholders were invited to share their views on
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MAVEN Kick-off meeting in Brussels
The MAVEN project held its kick-off meeting on 20-21 September 2016 in Brussels. MAVEN (Managing Automated Vehicles Enhances Network) was launched on 01-09-2016. This 3-year project, under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme of the Euro-pean Commission (Grant Agreement No. 690727), has nine partners with a total budget of EUR 3,149,661.25. The project
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