Wolfgang Schildorfer

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria | fh-ooe · Transport Logistics and Mobility

The growing number of connected vehicles has led to an increased focus on Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication in the field of transport research. This communication paradigm facilitates cooperation between vehicles and infrastructure to address traffic challenges such as efficiency, sustainability and safety. The development and standardisati...

Zusammenfassung Die Einführung hybrider automatisierter Flotten bietet großes Potenzial für die Verbesserung der Mobilitäts- und Transportsysteme. Der vorliegende Artikel zeigt die wesentlichen Dimensionen und Herausforderungen auf, die bei der Integration dieser Technologien zu beachten sind. Die Multidimensionalität der Einsatzszenarien – Anwendu...

Die Entwicklung und Einführung des automatisierten Fahrens schreitet wesentlich langsamer voran also noch vor wenigen Jahren geplant und erhofft. Aber auch die bestehenden Fahrer-Assistenzsysteme weisen noch deutliches Potential für Verbesserungen auf. Einer der Hauptgründe dafür ist, dass wesentliche Informationen für kooperative Fahrentscheidunge...

Changing mobility behavior is a dynamic process that involves a combination of individual choices, technological advancements, and policy interventions to create a more sustainable and efficient transportation system. Efforts to change mobility behavior often focus on creating a multimodal transportation system that offers a variety of options for...

This study investigates the complex interplay between environmental concerns, urban mobility challenges, and legal intricacies associated with car ownership with a focus on Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Carsharing (CS) emerges as a key element in transport systems, particularly in residential areas, aiming to reduce car dependency, reduce park...

Am Beginn des Projekts DIGEST stand die Herausforderung, wie ein Straßenbetreiber in Zukunft mit dem zunehmenden Aufkommen von automatisierten Fahrzeugen – und der so steigenden Komplexität des Gesamtverkehrs – einen sicheren und effizienten Betrieb gewährleisten können. Die Kernfrage der Ausschreibung war dabei, wie ein digitaler Zwilling des Verk...

Autonomous vehicles will be a key ingredient of future road transport solutions. Even if significant progress has been made in technological developments and autonomous transport vehicle demonstrations, there are still challenges to be addressed before widespread adoption can occur, e.g., 24/7 availability in harsh weather conditions. Quantifying t...

The prediction of future traffic conditions represents a main building block for traffic management. With the advent of multiple traffic and environmental sensors, diverse data for predictions are available and models may incorporate not only traffic data but also additional aspects such as local weather conditions. A review of the state-of-the art...

Driving requires continuous decision making from a driver taking into account all available relevant information. Automating driving tasks also automates the related decisions. However, humans are very good at dealing with bad quality, fuzzy, informal and incomplete information, whereas machines generally require solid quality information in a form...

p>Driving requires continuous decision making from a driver taking into account all available relevant information. Automating driving tasks also automates the related decisions. However, humans are very good at dealing with bad quality, fuzzy, informal and incomplete information, whereas machines generally require solid quality information in a fo...

p>Driving requires continuous decision making from a driver taking into account all available relevant information. Automating driving tasks also automates the related decisions. However, humans are very good at dealing with bad quality, fuzzy, informal and incomplete information, whereas machines generally require solid quality information in a fo...

In the original version of the Chapter 5 (Truck Platoon Slipstream Effects Assessment) and Chapter 6 (Validation of Truck Platoon Slipstream Effects), the author “Dr. Christoph Irrenfried” name was not included as a co-author. This has now been rectified and the author’s name has been included.The chapters and the book have been updated with the ch...

Nach der Reduktion der Kollisionsfolgen durch Insassenrückhaltesysteme und der Vermeidung von Kollisionen mit autonomen Notbremsen und Warnsystemen steht gerade der nächste technologische Schub durch die Einführung der Fahrzeug- und Infrastruktur-Vernetzung an. Dadurch soll vor allem auf die Vermeidung von gefährlichen Situationen am Weg zur Vision...

Emerging technologies may trigger rethinking existing business models, clearly highlighting economic benefits and analysing effects on innovation systems. Truck platooning as one emerging technology in the area of road freight transport promises to improve efficiency and safety and requires different stakeholders (e.g. road operators, freight forwa...

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...

Truck platooning represents a promising means to enhance efficiency of freight transport. Developments of truck platooning date back to the early 1990s, starting with projects to illustrate the technical feasibility followed by projects investigating the potential of fuel savings up to feasible business models and multi-brand and multi-fleet platoo...

Road damage on highways and freeways lead to numerous construction sites and maintenance activities every year, causing congestion, increased environmental pollution and costs. In addition, road damage exposes road users to an increased risk of accidents. The EU project ESRIUM aims to help reducing both the number of road works and the associated p...

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 validation of automated, connected driving is a complex issue. A lot of intrinsic conflicts will make it difficult to fulfill and prove all expected and promised benefits and advantages for automated driving. Hence sophisticated methods and procedures are necessary for the safe and effective implementation of traffic automation. Scenario, data...

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...

Rather different views on the state of the art in truck platooning have seen some significant public activity earlier in 2019. Is it that complex to achieve real world bottom line fuel savings on public highways or public roads? What role do users – truck drivers – play when it comes to truck platooning acceptance? Acceptance issues are vital for s...

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-...

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...

Vorwort Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Fahrerassistenzsysteme und insbesondere automatisches Fahren definieren die Mobilität der Zukunft in erheblichem Maße. Zahlreiche Systeme sind heute fest im Markt etabliert. Studien belegen, dass durch deren Einführung nicht nur der Fahrkomfort, sondern vor allem die Sicherheit des Fahrers und seiner Umgebung...

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...

The cross-border region between Bratislava and Vienna is one of the fastest growing regions in Europe – especially concerning the high-tech industry (www.contor-analyse.de). One success factor of commercially effective high-tech start-up companies is the early identification of user requirements and selling arguments. The basis for commercial innov...

Advanced traffic-related telematics applications contribute towards making traffic safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly. European road operators and the automotive industry consider cooperative systems as the future information channel to the vehicle, due to the possibility to pass on real-time information accurately and directio...

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...