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• GOOD ROUTE 6th Newsletter
  Sixth newsletter published, 30 January 2009 Inside...
• ICT in Transport Logistics International workshop successfully realized!
  The international workshop ICT in Transport Logistics, jo...
• GOOD ROUTE 5th Newsletter
  Fifth newsletter published, 30 September 2008 Insi...

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Sixth newsletter published, 30 January 2009

Inside this issue:

• Brief presentation of the final GOOD ROUTE system
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE Pilot tests
• The potential of the GOOD ROUTE system and interviews from the main stakeholders
• Presentation of the ICT in Transport Logistics workshop results

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The international workshop ICT in Transport Logistics, jointly organized by the GOOD ROUTE and EURIDICE EU funded project was successfully realised. The workshop took place near the heart of Switzerland in Lucerne, at the Hotel Schweizerhof.

The event attracted more than 60 participants from various companies and authorities involved in the transportation and logistics sector, but also people from research institutions. The aim of this international workshop was to bring together different stakeholders in the area of transport logistics, ranging from developers to senior representatives of various organisations and companies, to discuss how recent ICT development could help the logistic sector to face the current crucial challenges of sustainability and economic efficiency.

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Fifth newsletter published, 30 September 2008

Inside this issue:

• GOOD ROUTE Navigation module
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE HMI story board
• Presentation of the Logistics Support System
• Invitation to the ICT in Transport Logistics workshop

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Fourth newsletter published, 14 January 2008

Inside this issue:

• GOOD ROUTE System Architecture
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE On Board Unit
• Presentation of the Logistics Support System
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE Core; the DSS module
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE Local Node
  

In October 2007 the last of the three major story books depicting the HMI was realised. These story books contain the information needed to program the Human-Machine-Interfaces of the GOOD ROUTE System.

Each of the following user groups will be given a specific User Interface, allowing the GOOD ROUTE system to fit optimally into different work routines:

• The dispatchers at the logistics companies
• The operators at local infrastructure elements (such as tunnels, bridges).
  
• The drivers
• Customers (consignors and consignees)
  
• Mitigation bodies (such as local fire-fighters)
  

Based on the previously gathered needs of the different user groups and the technical outlines of the GOOD ROUTE system it was possible to define the user actions that would be necessary to complete the use cases. Additionally, a warning and information strategy was developed for each user group. Those user actions and the warning and information concept were transformed into a consistent HMI concept, while taking into account existing usability guidelines.

In February 2008, the HMI concepts will be tested by representative users. The test results will be used to optimise the Human-Machine-Interfaces before the field test of the GOOD ROUTE system.

The next meeting was initially planned for 27 and 28 of November 2007 in Alba (Italy), while a technical workshop was also scheduled in Turin on November 26.

The GOOD ROUTE Project Plenary Meeting was held December 13th & 14th in Alba, Italy. The meeting he meeting was designated to plenary presentations about past and ongoing tasks within the Work Packages and focused especially on the integration activities of GOOD ROUTE.

The workshop held on the first day, focused on the integration aspects and testing of the GOOD ROUTE system. Turin was chosen as the meeting place as it is close to the Frejus tunnel, that is one of the GOOD ROUTE test sites.

Third newsletter published, 26 September 2007

Inside this issue:

focusing on the three different GOOD ROUTE pilot sites and the pilot plan for the final evaluation of the integrated GOOD ROUTE system.

• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE Pilot Site in Finland
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE Pilot Site in Switzerland
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE Demonstrator
• Presentation of the GOOD ROUTE Pilot Plans

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The GOOD ROUTE Project 6th Plenary Meeting was held May 31st & June 1st 2006 at DESTIA premises in Helsinki, Finland.

After the fifth and the sixth Project Plenary Meetings held at the Italian and the Swiss GOOD ROUTE test sites, the GOOD ROUTE consortium visited the third GOOD ROUTE test site, located at Finland. DESTIA is one of GOOD ROUTE's test site partners.

The GOOD ROUTE Project 5th Plenary Meeting was held March 13th & 14th 2006 at GST premises in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The meeting focused on the visit of the Gottard Tunnel and on plenary presentations on past and ongoing tasks within the WPs. The GOTTHARD-STRASSENTUNNEL (GST) is one of GOOD ROUTE's test site partners.

Second newsletter published, 15 January 2007

Inside this issue:

• The project’s achievements per WP;
• Presentation of the Simulator Demo
• The results of the 1st Pan-European workshop
• The GOOD ROUTE Contacts and Consortium synthesis.

The GOOD ROUTE Project 4th Plenary Meeting was held December 18th & 19th 2006 at SITAF premises in Bardoneccia, Italy.

The meeting was not only designated to plenary presentations about past and ongoing tasks within the Work Packages. The main focus was the visit of the Frejus Tunnel. The Società Italiana Traforo Autostradale del Frejus (SITAF) is one of GOOD ROUTE's test site partners.

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More than 30 key actors in the Dangerous Goods Road transportation area met at University of Stuttgart Premises within the framework of the 1st GOOD ROUTE Pan-European Workshop, titled “Taking the safest route; The GOOD ROUTE initiative”. The workshop aimed to communicate the objectives of the GOOD ROUTE Research Project to the external experts and with all experts’ assistance, to refine and finalise GOOD ROUTE application scenarios.

The workshop successfully accomplished its objectives; GOOD ROUTE project concept as well as the first outcomes of the GOOD ROUTE project were presented and discussed during the workshop.  Plenary and keynote presentations and a round table discussion were realised.

The workshop was organized by the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and specifically its participating institutes, namely the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), which is the project Coordinator and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), which is the Technical Manager of the project, the University of Stuttgart (USTUTT), which hosted the workshop and the Institute for Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), which is the Dissemination manager of the project. 

The GOOD ROUTE Project 3rd Plenary Meeting was held on September 6th & 7th 2006 at University of Stuttgart (USTUTT) premises at Stuttgart, Germany. The meeting was designated to plenary presentations about past and ongoing tasks within the Work Packages and focused especially on the refinement of the GOOD ROUTE Use Cases.

The meeting successfully achieved its objectives; addressed the management and technical issues that have been scouted according to the plan, and established the detailed workplan for the following period. In addition to this a technical workshop on GOOD ROUTE System Architecture and specifically on the Architecture of the On Board Unit of the vehicle (OBU), was held in conjunction with the plenary meeting.

First newsletter published, 19 July 2006

Inside this issue:

• GOOD ROUTE objectives
• The challenge
• GOOD ROUTE Use Cases
• Pan-European workshop
• The GOOD ROUTE system

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The GOOD ROUTE consortium is pleased to announce the realization of the GOOD ROUTE Pan-European workshop “Taking the safest route; The GOOD ROUTE initiative” that will be held at the University of Stuttgart premises, in Stuttgart, Germany, on Friday the 8th of September 2006. More information can be found at the Events section.

The GOOD ROUTE Project 2nd Plenary Meeting was held May 25th & 26th 2006 at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) premises at Madrid. The meeting was designated to plenary presentations about past and ongoing tasks within the Work Packages.

Also two technical workshops were held in conjunction with the plenary meeting

• Workshop on Telecom Architecture and Standards and
• Workshop on Conflict Resolution

The meeting successfully achieved its objectives; addressed the management and technical issues that have been scouted according to the plan, and established the detailed workplan for the following period.

GOOD ROUTE's next project meeting will be held in Madrid at the 25th and 26th of May in Madrid.

The meeting is orgnized by Universidad Politecnica De Madrid/Life Supporting Technologies (UPM/LST)

Life Supporting Technologies (LifeSTech) is a group for research, development and innovation, belonging to the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) and dedicated to design, development and evaluation of services and applications based on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), in order to create and promote new ideas, methods and technological solutions in every aspect of organizations value chain.

GOOD ROUTE project has the aim to inform all interested persons about the project, its goals and achievements.
Therefore, this website has been created to give an overview about the project itself as well as up-to-date information.

While developing the website great effort has been invested to follow general usability guidelines to make GOODROUTE's website accessible for a wide range of different users

The website development was done in cooperation between the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and the University of Stuttgart (USTUTT).

The Greek workshop was held in the offices of ELPA in Athens, organised also by ELPA. The aim of the workshop was the identification of the GOOD ROUTE project user groups' needs. Prior to the workshop realisation, questionnaires aiming to track user needs were disseminated to a number of experts, including the workshop guests.

The workshop was attended by 8 external experts coming from several key actors sectors, including dangerous goods vehicle owners and public authorities such as the fire brigade and the traffic police.

The outcomes of the Greek workshop, consolidated with the other national workshops ones, will provide feedback for the identification of the priority application scenarios of GOOD ROUTE project; thus are considered highly valuable for the project progress.

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The GOOD ROUTE project kicked off!

The GOOD ROUTE (Dangerous Goods Transportation Routing, Monitoring and Enforcement) project has officially started its activities with a kick-off meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece 27-28 February

The ambition of GOOD ROUTE is the development of a system that will minimize the societal risks related to the movements of vehicles that transport dangerous goods, while it will still generate the most cost efficient solution for all actors involved in the logistic chain.

GOOD ROUTE will develop one demonstrator vehicle to show its concept. The prototype will be tested in three pilot sites Europewide in order to evaluate the reliability, usability, successfulness and cost-efficiency and thus estimate the potential safety impact and viability.

Main results from the kick-off meeting are:

• a detailed planning of the first workpackage on system requirements, scenarios of use and user needs
• the establishment of two working groups:
  1) the Architecture Task Force
  2) Pilot Sites Task Force
• overview of the project and its workplan

For more information, please contact the project coordinator: Dimitrios Tzovaras, CERTH/HIT (Dimitrios.Tzovaras@iti.gr)