4th International Workshop on Vehicle Communications, 28th November 2008

Agenda

 
08:00 - 08:15
Registration
08:15 - 08:30
Welcome and Opening of the Workshop
 
08:30 - 09:30
Session 1:
Safety Applications (Asia/Pacific)
Session Lead:
Hironao Kawashima, Keio University
Moderator:
Hideto Hatakenaka, Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Panelist:
Europe:
Roberto Brignolo (Fiat, Italy)
Cornelius Menig (Audi, Germany)
Japan:
Akio Hosaka (Advanced Cruise-Assist Highway
System Research Association)
USA:
Luca Delgrossi (Mercedes)
Issues:
  • What do you see as the most critical vehicle safety issues and what are the most important active safety applications you need to address these issues?
  • Since there seems to be similar safety application R&D activities, what can be done to coordinate development of various safety applications?
  • Are Field Operational Tests (FOTs) effective at estimating the safety and traffic impacts of these applications? Are there other alternatives to estimating the safety and traffic impacts and what are the tradeoffs?
 
09:40 - 10:40
Session 2:
Vehicle Communications and Technology (EC)
Session Lead:
Juhani Jaaskelainen (European Commission)
Moderator:
Matthias Schulze (Daimler, Germany)
Panelist:
Europe:
Timo Kosch (BMW, Germany)
Knut Evensen (Q-Free, Norway)
Japan:
Takaaki Sugiura (Mitsubishi Research Institute)
USA:
Farid Ahmed-Zaid (Ford)
Issues:
  • What are the critical technical issues that have to be overcome to support the development and deployment of active vehicle safety systems?
  • What can be done to coordinate and share message protocols? Would it be useful to develop experimental/ preliminary protocols that can be used in R&D?
  • What are the issues concerning vehicle communications security and what needs to be done to facilitate vehicle communications security via the private sector, the government sector, or both? Will current security proposals
  • (describe proposal(s) associated with your answer) address these issues and what are the pros and cons?
  • What needs to be instituted to facilitate collaboration and sharing of message and security protocols?
  • What are the benefits of local and short range communication (mainly IEEE802.11p) over other wireless technologies (esp. cellular)?
 
10:50 - 11:50
Session 3:
Deployment Scenarios (US)
Session Lead:
Ray Resendes (US DOT/NHTSA)
Moderator:
Mike Schagrin (USDOT/ITSJPO)
Panelist:
Europe:
Christian Weiss (Daimler, Germany)
Ulrich Dietz (Vodafone, Germany)
Japan:
Masao Fukushima (Nissan)
USA:
Scott Geisler (GM)
Issues:
  • Is DSRC required for active safety systems and what other technology would support the deployment of other vehicle communication applications?
  • What is your vision for the deployment of active safety system? What are the next steps that need to be taken to realize this vision? What are the barriers to this vision? Whatwill the markets look like? Who will be the players? What will the customer pay for? What roles will aftermarket and retrofitting play in this vision?
  • In relation to your vision, what role will Field Operayy tional Tests (FOTs) play in facilitating deployment? Will the information obtained from FOTs foster quicker deployment of vehicle communication technology and associated applications? What issues will there be if FOTs are not conducted?
 
12:00 - 13:00 Session 4:
Vehicle Communications Coordination and Cooperative R&D (US)
Session Lead:
John Harding (USDOT/NHTSA)
Moderator:
John Harding (USDOT/NHTSA)
Panelist

Europe:
Rudy Mietzner (COMeSafety, Germany)
Soeren Hess (Hess Consult, Denmark)
Japan:
Masayuki Shima (Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
USA:
Mike Shulman (Ford)
Issues:
  • What are the most promising vehicle communication areas that would benefit from cooperative research and development activities?
  • How can we establish a cooperative vehicle communications R&D effort and what would it take to sustain this cooperation? What would be the overall goals and objectives of the cooperative R&D?
 
13:00 - 13:15
Workshop Summary and Closing
13:15 - ...
Get Together