SARTRE is a FP7 European project that performs transportation research, namely road train on public roads (also called platooning). A road train, according to SARTRE, is a collection of vehicles led by a manually forward heavy lead vehicle, and where several following vehicles (truck and passenger cars) follow the leader automatically, both laterally and longitudinally. The vehicles communicate wirelessly to form a cooperative system. Benefits expected are increased comfort, reduced fuel consumption, greater safety, efficient transportation, etc.

The SARTRE project will hold the final workshop and platooning demonstration on the 11-12th of September, 2012 in Borås (close to Gothenburg) Sweden. You are invited to participate in this event!

The results of the SARTRE project will be presented on the morning of the first day. The demonstration of the SARTRE platooning technology will take place in the afternoon at the Hällered test track near Borås. We will demonstrate five vehicle platooning and a platooning simulator. The second day will be a workshop where the needs and agendas of various stakeholders will be addressed.

Discussions will be held in English. No external media will be invited.

Host: Carl Bergenhem, SP – Technical Research Institute of Sweden, partner in SARTRE
SARTRE project manager: Eric Chan, Ricardo, Eric dot Chan at ricardo dot com

Discussions will be held in English. No external media will be invited.
 

For agenda and more information about the project, please visit: www.sartre-project.eu

Tentative agenda (please visit the project's website):

11th September: SARTRE presentations and Platooning demonstration

         08:30 Coffee / Workshop
         09:00 Introduction / Presentations
                    - Technical overview of SARTRE
         10:30 Coffee and sandwich
                    - EU-presentation on the "big issue", funding, ITS, Horizon 2020
         11:20 Bus to Hällered
         12:00 Lunch, presentations, posters and platooning demonstration
                    - Presentations from the SARTRE partners
         17:00 (Latest) Bus back to Borås
         19:30 Evening informal reception “walk-in buffet”

12th September: Workshop

         08:00 Coffee
         08:30 Start second day (workshop)
                    - Non-technical invited talks: legal, insurance, stakeholders, business case, exploitation
                             > Carl-Johan Almqvist, Volvo Group, Truck Business case
                             > Stefan Myhrberg, Ericsson AB, Communication business case,
                             > Marcus Rothoff, VCC, Automated driving, advantages, possible
                                 business cases and customer offers
                             > TBD
                    - Group seminars with stakeholders: legal, insurance, road-
                       operator etc. lead by SARTRE personnel
         12:00 Lunch
                    - Presentation of results from the group seminars
                    - Road map, technology roll out, achieving commercial viability,
                       infrastructure and the environment, how to achieve a wider
                       impact
                    - Panel discussion
         15:30 Summing up, Coffee and End