17th ITS world Congress 2010

From October 25th to 29th, 2010 Busan, South Korea's second-largest city, will host the 17th ITS World Congress.

The  Congress, which will take place at the Busan Exhibition & Convention Center, will focus on the theme ' Ubiquitous Society with ITS.'

More info on the congress website.

Before the Opening Ceremony of the ITS World Congress, on Monday, 25 October 2010, TeleFOT INCO will join the Round Tables organised at FOT-Net.

More information and registration on the FOT-Net website.

During the congress TeleFOT will join the following Special Session:

SS 11 An International Perspective on FOTs for Nomadic Devices in Vehicles

Tuesday, 26 October, 16:00 – 17:30

Description of the Session

The increasing role of ICT supporting mobility makes it important to know the impacts of nomadic devices on driving.

The European project TeleFOT aims to assess the impacts of functions provided by aftermarket and nomadic devices in vehicles, and raises awareness of their traffic safety potential.

TeleFOT INCO project supports international cooperation between TeleFOT and the sister projects SafeTrip-21, (University of California and NAVTEQ, USA), VMC (ETRI, Korea) and Ubiquitous Transportation Systems (KOTI, Korea).

The main common factor that the involved countries share is the use of nomadic devices as one platform for informing drivers of events and conditions which have significance to their travel.

This session gives a detailed overview of the similarities and differences of FOT approaches in these three different parts of the world. The session will also provide a working example of hands-on cooperation across the Atlantic and Pacific - one that has been implemented despite challenges.

Organizer:

Petri Mononen, TeleFOT Project Coordinator, Senior Research Scientist, Technical Research Centre of Finland - VTT, Finland
 

Invited Moderator:

Maxime Flament, Head of Sector - SafeMobility, ERTICO - ITS Europe
 

Invited Speakers:

• Jim Misener, Executive Director, TeleFOT INCO Project, California PATH - University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Hyun Seo Oh, TeleFOT INCO Project, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea
• Youn-Soo Kang, Research Fellow, TeleFOT INCO Project, The Korea Transport Institute, Republic of Korea
• Petri Mononen, TeleFOT Project Coordinator, Senior Research Scientist, Technical Research Centre of Finland - VTT, Finland
• Friedemann Kuhn, euroFOT Project, Daimler AG, Germany