CVIS Requirements Workshop lives up to expectations

Date: 03 November 2006

18-19 October Brussels event validates interim results and gets ideas for the future.

The CVIS Integrated Project – supported by the EC and coordinated by ERTICO - organised its first Open Workshop on 18-19 October 2006 in Brussels.

Nearly 80 people from the cooperative systems community – including stakeholders external to the project - participated in the event, including vehicle manufacturers, automotive, traffic system and digital map suppliers; road operators, government authorities, and even the banking sector - whose presence is significant of the commercial interest already displayed for cooperative systems. Other EU-funded research projects such as SafeSpot and Coopers were represented to ensure the mechanisms of close cooperation between those liaison projects and CVIS.

Raising awareness of cooperative systems
The workshop was a great opportunity for CVIS to raise awareness about the project and meet new and interesting stakeholders. The latter provided some excellent input on CVIS use cases and requirements, influencing the direction of cooperative systems development in Europe. Feedback from the workshop will help set the standards needed for full interoperability for all vehicle makes and all equipped roadside infrastructure.

The first day of the Workshop was dedicated to general presentations about CVIS and its sub-projects, while the second day’s break-out sessions took a closer look at each sub-project. The final session was dedicated to feedback and conclusions from the morning break-out meetings, as well as an interactive Q&A session with the CVIS consortium members panel.

The CVIS Consortium is now analysing the input received at the Workshop and will include some of the feedback into the project's Consolidated Use Case and System Requirements.  The next CVIS Open Workshop on reference architecture will take place in May 2007.

For more information about the Workshop, including observations and copies of the presentations, please visit the CVIS website