overview
The CIMEC project (Cooperative ITS for Mobility in European Cities), as a Coordination and Support Activity (CSA), aims to facilitate the take-up of C-ITS by increasing the alignment of technological solutions with user needs, thereby reducing perceived barriers and risks in deployment. CIMEC focuses especially on this urban C-ITS context.
CIMEC brings together key collaborative institutions, supported by a panel of core cities and by the European city network Polis and members of multiplying organisations represented in the consortium. These meta-networks have extensive experience in bringing together cities and suppliers to optimise ITS.
Firstly, the project will identify the cities’ main transport challenges and associated strategies, and barriers towards take-up of C-ITS solutions, providing insight into internal and external conditions which guide the choices and priorities of cities in employing C-ITS solutions for solving transport challenges. This will be done through the organisation of individual workshops with the cities.
The purpose of the workshops is for cities to present their transport challenges, their strategies for dealing with these challenges and the role that ITS/C-ITS (potentially) plays in both strategy and practice. The workshops will particularly emphasise the cities’ barriers and obstacles towards greater use of C-ITS solutions, related to costs and benefits, compatibility and interoperability with existing infrastructure, and effectiveness.
At a second stage, the project will identify potential (current and future) markets for cooperative ITS solutions with specific benefit in the urban environment. The project will create a meeting place for suppliers of C-ITS infrastructure and OEMs (car manufacturers) to discuss the product emergence, their commercial expectations and C-ITS standardisation.
The principal output will be a roadmap for city deployment of C-ITS which has been validated against user needs and technology maturity, captured in meaningful project descriptions. By developing a single, coherent narrative and communicating it effectively to all relevant stakeholder groups, this will ensure that standards, product development, project management, and policy goals are fully aligned across the European urban C-ITS context.