Agenda

10:00 – 10:15 Registration & Warm up

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10:15 – 11:45 Session 1
Current Vehicle Communication Based Cooperative System Research Activities

• Objective: Present and discuss current regional roadmaps (existing building blocks)
• Panel Representatives: Europe (Wolfgang Hoefs, EC), US (Ray Resendes, USDOT), Japan (Akio Hosaka, AHSRA)
  • Each panel member briefly present their region’s roadmap (10 min. each)
  • Discussion on current research efforts and existing building blocks
• Questions
  • Are the research areas comprehensive?
  • At a high level, do the various activities move us toward deployment?
  • Amongst the regions what is missing?

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11:45 – 12:45 Session 2
Initial Comparison of Cooperative System Research Activities

• Objective: Compare and contrast the various roadmaps to identify key common activities.
• Panel Representation: Europe (Timo Kosch, COMeSafety), US (Dick Bishop, Bishop Consulting), Japan (Takaaki Sugiura, Mitsubishi Research Institute)
  • Each panel member gives a brief summary of what they see as the key building blocks among the roadmaps. (refer to handout material or roadmaps hung on walls)
• Questions
  • What are the key existing research results?
  • What are the common research activities (building blocks) among the roadmaps?
  • What are the key differences among the roadmaps?
  • How do the technologies differ between the regions?
  • What items are opportunities for joint research activities?
    

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12:45 – 13:30 Lunch

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13:30 – 13:50 Stimulation Presentation
The road operators view (Robert Cone, JTF)

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13:50 – 14:50 Session 3
Characteristics of developing and globally harmonising vehicle communications / cooperative system standards

• Objective: Characterise and discuss current standard development processes and organisations and issues related to the harmonisation of cooperative system standards.
• Panel Representation: Europe (Soeren Hess, C2C-CC), US (Russ Shields, Ygomi; Brian Cronin, USDOT), Japan (Hironao Kawashima, Keio University)
  • Each panelist provides a perspective of standards development and possible harmonisation issues.
• Questions
  • Can harmonisation take place given the current nature of the system?
  • What actions can be taken to promote and facilitate standards harmonisation?
  • What issues must be addressed at the regional and then international levels?

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14:50 – 15:00 Break

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15:00 – 15:20 Stimulation Presentation
The role of cellular networks: the CoCar project
(Guido Gehlen, Ericsson)

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15:20 – 16:30 Session 4
Developing a Joint Cooperative Research Agenda

• Objective: Identify the elements and mechanisms needed to establish, sustain, and facilitate cooperative research that facilitates results.
• Panel Representatives: Europe (Juhani Jaasekelainen, EC), US (Mike Schagrin, USDOT), Japan (Hideto Hatakenaka, NILIM)
  • Each panelist provides a prospective on developing cooperative research activities, the benefits, and issues.
• Questions
  • Given the difference between regions, e.g. structure, what would be needed to establish and sustain cooperative research activities?
  • What role can the private sector play, e.g. OEMs?
  • Can cooperative research be cooperatively managed to serve multiple interests?
  • What are the necessary activities towards cooperatively managed research roadmaps?
  • In developing a cooperative research agenda, what specific projects and activities should be targeted as possible joint or link activities and which individuals (Points of Contact) would be required to conduct the activities?

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16:30 – 16:45 Summary and Closing
Moderator & Representatives from the regions

Reception