Personal Intelligent City Accessible Vehicle System
Projet description
The proposal presents a new mobility concept for passengers ensuring accessibility for all in urban pedestrian environments. The transport system will ensure accessibility for everybody and some of its features are specifically designed for people whose mobility is restricted for different reasons, particularly (but not only) elderly and disabled people.
Ergonomics, comfort, stability, assisted driving, eco-sustainability, parking and mobility dexterity as well as vehicle/infrastructures intelligent networking are the main drivers of PICAV design.
The innovative electrical vehicle will present new frame-suspension structure, new seating sub-assembly, new efficient power supply module. The PICAV transport system will provide an efficient and rational service to citizen within urban traffic restricted areas: the application fields of PICAV are outdoor pedestrian environments where usual public transport services cannot operate because of the width and slope of the infrastructures, uneven pavements and the interactions with high pedestrian flows.
This transport system is on-demand and it is based on the car-sharing concept.
To overcome the barriers of traditional car-sharing systems, the following specific services will be provided: instant access, open-ended reservation, one-way trips.
The single units are networked and can communicate each other, with city infrastructure, public transport on the surrounding area and emergency services allowing high level of intermodal integration.
Project details
| Project Acronym: | PICAV |
| Start Date: | 2009-08-01 |
| End Date: | 2012-07-31 |
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Project Status: | In execution |
| Project Cost: | 3.94 million euro |
| Project Funding: | 2.78 million euro |
Partners
| Partners N° | Partners name | Partners short name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (coord.) | DIMEC – University of Genova | DIMEC | Italy |
| 2 | INRIA | INRIA | France |
| 3 | University College London | UCL | United Kingdom |
| 4 | University of Pisa | UNIPI | Italy |
| 5 | Serviços Municipalizados de Transportes Colectivos do Barreiro | TCB | Portugal |
| 6 | ZTS VVÚ KOŠICE a.s. | ZTS | Slovakia |
| 7 | Mazel Ingenieros, S. A. | MAZEL | Spain |
Tasks
Control and Communication requirements and architecture, Control algorithm, HMI.
