Aigner Walter

HiTec - an independent non-for-profit research institution into innovation · Vienna Austria Europe

Maybe we would need a convincing narrative how innovation and our innovation system contribute to societal wealth—a new kind of Adam Smith equivalent. European road transport is part of a wider ecosystem where significantly increasing levels of digitalisation, automation and innovation will re-shape the world as we have known it. Ambitious politica...

In 2017, the core team of the Connecting Austria project faced the challenge of leveraging previous research results on cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) into the logistics domain—namely into the domain of truck platooning. Quite a lot of ideas and topics were evaluated, potential research partners explored, and funding opportunitie...

Inhalt Pitch der Innovationen – Impulsvorträge im Plenummit anschließender Poster-Session Manipulation von Sensordaten aus Testfahrten zur Analyse und Bewertung implementierter Rückfalllösungen . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Sensortechnologien und Perzeption Radar Target Simulator – Key Technology for AV Development . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Künstlich...

The report provides actions recommended for road authorities and operators to adapt their core business to utilise and facilitate connected and highly automated driving. The road map in this deliverable consists of tables describing actions in different areas of the national road authority core business areas up to 2040. The 92 actions of the roadm...

Low automation-level truck platooning is a first commercial C-ITS use case. Benefits like fuel consumption reduction, efficiency improvements and safety increases are promising. However, NRAs concerns whether exact lateral track following will lead to increased pavement rutting need investigations. This study sets out to analyze the counter effects...

The report provides infrastructure recommendations to support the introduction of selected use cases of connected and highly automated driving (SAE Level 4). The consequences of highly automated driving attributes to the physical and digital road infrastructure are specifically investigated. While the expected impacts to infrastructure are manifold...

The development of automated driving functions in vehicles and road network operation automation is progressing steadily. However, research on effects to physical and digital infrastructure due to automated functions and vehicles is still limited. As amendments to infrastructure are costly and timely there is a strong need for research for them to...

Enhancing the efficiency of freight transport is one key question of logistics companies and has been a rather challenging task due to steadily increasing volumes of goods based on e-commerce and e.g. Amazon's same-day delivery services 1. One approach for setting-up a smart and sustainable logistics system is using some form of truck platooning co...

As stated in the ITF Call 2019 for Extended Abstracts, the role of connectivity is essential for global value chains and logistics will be key for maintaining sustainable transport solutions. Connectivity and sustainability are two essential aspects of truck platooning, one of the first close-to-market applications for semi-automated freight transp...

(Semi-)automated truck convoys have the potential of generating substantial reductions in energy use and emissions. Here we outline how infrastructure-based management (I2V) adds significant momentum. We present some of the rationale from our recently started national lighthouse demonstration project, link our project design to other ongoing truck-...

(Semi-)automated truck convoys have the potential of generating substantial reductions in energy use and emissions. Here we outline how infrastructure-based management (I2V) adds significant momentum. We present some of the rationale from our recently started national lighthouse demonstration project, link our project design to other ongoing truck-...

While connected and automated driving has seen broad attention in the ITS community, automation of processes in traffic management has not yet been studied widely. A new and revolutionary approach to analysis and automation of traffic management processes comes from the field of Quantitative Complexity Management. We here introduce approaches and a...

Traffic automation and automated driving is expected to bringing major advantages for traffic with respect to comfort, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness. In fact, all these benefits are conflicting aims. Therefore, some advanced development approaches for balancing the features and coping with trade-offs are necessary. One cornerstone for this...

How do we overcome governments' difficulty in quickly implementing C-ITS? How can Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and Market Readiness Level (MRL) contribute to overcoming this gap? C-ITS deployment in Europe has seen significant hesitation from several actors. Some reasons are related to unresolved risks & the chicken and egg issue of who deliver...

A joint effort in cross-industry research and development has brought significant achievements in the field of connected driving. In this paper we evaluate recent achievements in connected driving and outline next-level challenges in bringing connected driving and automated driving to metropolitan areas. Based upon our lessons learnt and our assess...

* Issue (50%): What specific innovation management issue are you focussing on and what are you proposing? How do you overcome western governments' difficulty in quickly implementing innovative buying / infrastructure investment decisions (with rapidly changing technologies and societal expectations)? How can a small country like Austria secure some...

This paper responds to the explicit question "We need a new, 'smarter', approach to address the C-ITS deployment challenges." In 2014 the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation, and Technology selected the authors of this paper with their new urban mobility C-ITS focussed living lab addressing this question. In Bordeaux we will share what we ha...

How can targeting co-operative I2V services to the so called climate-conscious urban mobility avant-garde contribute to broadening the co-operative systems user base? Service idea is to support drivers in their practice of greener decision making in those cases where they feel they need to ride a car. By driving individualization of cooperative ser...

CVIS, Safespot and COOPERS - the three IPs on co-operative services and integrated systems in Europe's Framework Programme 6 - have successfully accomplished significant progress in terms of sounding- out what is technologically feasible and valued by selected European drivers. In a next step, EC has successfully called for large-scale FOTs on co-o...

This paper presents climate-related target impacts from simulation studies in two complementary large-scale regional initiatives on cooperative systems (I2V) within the currently emerging European context. The innovative value-added is to share early results and approaches from rather complementary regional initiatives – in a level of detail that w...

Wie lassen sich die Erfolgsaussichten akademischer Forschung mit dem Adressatenkreis "Wirtschaft" verbessern? Im Zentrum dieser Fragestellung steht der Einfluss von Organisationsform, Funktionsaufteilung, Rollenerwartung, Rollenwahrnehmung und dem, was die Forschungspartner wirklich tun ("Practice"), auf den Kooperationserfolg. Ausgangspunkt ist di...