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Projects 2018
Connecting AustriaAfter
presenting and discussing Connecting Austria to an international expert
group the Austrian Funding Agency FFG recommended funding Connecting
Austria to the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and
Technology. (bmvit/Innovationssektion: 9. Ausschreibung Program
Mobilität der Zukunft: Leitprojekt für automatisiertes Fahren, Frühjahr
2017). The project started January, 2nd 2018.Connecting
Austria's focus is on (semi)automated energy efficient truck convoys.
What are pre-requisites and accompanying measures to prepare the future
of energy efficient and safe (semi)autonomous truck convoys. Connecting
Austria researches, develops, demonstrates and evaluates on Use Case #5
"Gut versorgt" as listed in Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation
and Technology's Strategy (Automatisiert – Vernetzt – Mobil, June
2016). Key objective is evidence-based evaluation of energy-efficient
truck convoys as a prerequisite for competitive strength of two
Austrian lead industries (logistics and telematic supply) and related
research excellence. An Austrian lighthouse project 2018 to 2021 cannot
possibly repeat other international project designs in the field.
Connecting Austria focusses on specific topics from the perspective of
a small transit country with challenging topography and bundles
national innovation excellence. What is needed to safely and
efficiently set up an energy-efficient convoy, to maintain a convoy,
and to go back to a regular transport mode? Partners
in the Austrian Lighthouse Project Connecting Austria are Association
High Tech Marketing (consortium spokesperson), Swarco Futurit, Siemens
Austria AG, Andata, TRANSDANUBIA, Automotive Cluster Upper Austria,
Austrian Road Safety Board, Technical University Vienna (IMM),
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Center for
Global Change and Sustainability), Logistikum Steyr, Software
Competence Centre Hagenberg, IESTA – Institute for advanced Energy
Systems & Transport Applications, Virtual Vehicle Competence
Centre, Graz.LOI-Partner
in Connecting Austria are ASFINAG, representatives of Hallein and
Vienna as well as ZF Friedrichshafen AG. Project website
www.connecting-austria.at is currently set-up and will provide
detailled information soon. In case of any questions you can contact
the project manager Wolfgang Schildorfer (HiTec, connecting-austria@hitec.at, +43 1 718
25 30 17).
Projects
2017
WienZWA
- autonomous driving
lab Vienna
Consortium: HiTec
(Coordinator), Andata, Smart Safety Solutions - Kuratorium für
Verkehrssicherheit and Swarco Futurit.
WienZWA
– Zukunft Wird Automatisiert (Future will come automated) is currently
setting up an integrated, open innovation, real-world, mixed-traffic
testing environment for automated driving in Vienna, Austria. This is
designed to strengthen European competitive position by means of fast
forward learning how dynamic anticipation between pedestrians,
two-wheelers and (semi)-automated vehicles is rewired in our behaviour
every day anew.
DOWNLOAD:
WienZWA - Zukunft Wird Automatisiert. Information: "Wer
sind wir?"
DOWNLOAD: Press-Release:
The Austrian Test region for automated driving “WienZWA
– Zukunft Wird Automatisiert” achieves first project milestone: KFV –
conference on Automated Driving: Road Safety and the Human Factor at
Techgate Vienna.(March 23, 2017)"
Projects
2016
Living Lab Urban mobility
Vienna TWO=ZWA - "Future will be different"
The Living Lab urban mobility
ViennaTWO=ZWA
– "Future will be different" researches effective answers to emerging
challenges in urban mobility and intelligent traffic coordination
mechanisms –
using Vienna as case and real world example. Dynamic challenges will be
"fuelling" radically new innovation in the years to come: rapid
growth in population, increasing goods transport (online shopping),
residential
areas reaching and blending with industrial areas (harbors, railroad
terminals,
container terminals), rapidly increasing expectations into affordable
sustainable mobility as well as further differentiated innovative
lifestyles
around always-online-mobile-devices. Living Lab WienZWA aims at
bundling known Austrian strengths in telematics and urban mobility
solution
providers in order to proactively prepare the ground for future
economic
prosperity and valid development competences in Vienna-based
international
companies. Increasing international visibility of both – outstanding
Viennese
approaches as well as Vienna-based development knowledge on challenging
questions across company boundaries and traditional research approaches
is a
key element in this living lab: [radically new approaches to traffic
management
across transport modes; progressing towards vision zero, I2V
communication –
how could this shape urban mobility?, City logistic – what approaches
enable
innovation where trucks with highest ambition in delivering to highest
customer
expectations will not dominate newly emerging collaborative urban
mobility?]
Living Lab WienZWA establishes a framework
and safe space for the emergence of new knowledge by means of open
innovation
pooled over several international players. An entirely unique data-pool
on yet
emerging innovative real-world urban mobility and urban lifestyles
enables
proactively researching new approaches in pre-competitive development
stages.
Some 20000 pioneering expert users (empowered in self-reflecting
emerging
innovative mobility) will exchange with researchers and living lab
staff on a
non-hierarchical peer-to-peer basis. This lays the ground for
sustainable
social, technical and organizational innovation. Entirely in the truest
sense
of the best living labs these 20000 Viennese citizens will not receive
mere
questionnaires or being guinea pigs / laboratory rats but will be
empowered to
(self)reflect yet emerging urban mobility lifestyles. Intended
connotations of
the colloquial nick naming ZWA (two in English) are diversity issues
("The
other") as well as the high export orientation of all Austria-based
industrial knowledge base (small home market phenomenon).
This text, the preparatory work
as well as the living
lab management show clear signs of the specific style and approach of
two known
experts on urban living labs who currently evaluate large-scale German
Living
Labs on behalf of four German federal ministries. The consortium is
supported
by a steering board of distinguished international representatives
(including
the captain of the largest urban mobility living lab Stuttgart /
Baden-Württemberg). When some two thirds of cities worldwide are facing
severe
financial constraints and even the remaining wealthy group shows clear
signs of
hesitation in investing into new forms of urban mobility "solutions"
– entirely new approaches and concepts are needed: to enable and
address these
is the mission of this breeding ground and green house: Living Lab Wien
ZWA.
Evaluierung des deutschen Schaufensterprogramms
Elektromobilität
Germany will take a leading
role in electromobility – both industry and market. Germany’s
government has
funded four regional electromobility clusters from 2012 to 2016 with
180
million Euros cofounding supporting German electromobility activities. Those
clusters are: LivingLab BWe
mobil (Baden-Württemberg), Internationales Schaufenster
Elektromobilität
Berlin-Brandenburg, Unsere Pferdestärken werden elektrisch
(Lower-Saxony/ Niedersachsen),
Elektromobilität verbindet (Bavaria-Saxony / Bayern-Sachsen). In total all four clusters add up to some 90
projects as well as 334
associated projects.
The consortium of Wuppertal
Institut (Germany), Ernst Basler + Partner (Swiss) and HiTec Marketing
(Austria)
has been evaluating the programme in the period from 2014 to 2017. The
following topics are in the focus of HiTec's contribution to this
large-scale pioneering
programme evaluation:
- New mobility models and business models
- Knowledge flows between industry and science
- New challenges and impact on education and
qualification
- Exploitation of results (preparation for market
take-up)
- Impact on companys' innovation roadmap
- Contribution to innovation and efficiency of
German industry
MDM-Project Management
Support to identify and support key customers
Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) operates the
project ‚Metadatenplattform Verkehrsinformationen Individualverkehr‘
for the
German ministry of transport (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und
Stadtentwicklung und Infrastruktur). One key element in this
project, a technical platform for sharing traffic data called ‘MDM –
Mobilitäts
Daten Marktplatz‘ has been developed and was made available to the
general
public. BASt serves as the MDM operator during this start-up phase.
This
includes also the identification, support as well as the development of
strategic cooperation with MDM-customers.
The consortium of HiTec
(Vienna, Austria) and pwp-Systems (Germany) was contracted for the
following
tasks until 2017.
- Identification of existing MDM key customers
and prospects in close coordination with BAST
- Analysis and assessment of business processes
with identified key customers as well as analysing and increasing a
user’s benefits from collaborating with the MDM.
- Workshops and interviews with new MDM-customers in close
coordination with BAST
- Identification of (new) user requirements of
existing and new MDM-users
- Support of BAST in organising and leading
meetings of the MDM user boards
- Attending BAST meetings to further develop the
MDM as well as to develop a sustainable MDM business model for the time
after this start-up phase
ECo-AT
(European Corridor - Austrian Testbed for Cooperative Systems)
Cooperative
services will increase transport efficiency. This contributes to cope
with increasing mobility demand in the years to come. Austrian ITS
champions have shown their expertise in cooperative services in the
lighthouse project Testfeld Telematik. ECo-AT is the Austrian part in a
joint Dutch-German-Austrian-initiative preparing the launch of
standardised cooperative services from Rotterdam to Vienna. Eco-AT aims
at harmonising the last technical and organisational deployment
challenges between industry and road operators. The results will be
publicly available. Defined use cases can be tested by industry, city
representatives as well as road operators in a “living-lab”.
The
second phase of the project is the operation of real-world cooperative
services including goods transport as well as public transport modes.
The Project ECo-AT leverages and increases the impact of the
KLiEn-funded projects GIP, VAO as well as Testfeld Telematik.
The
project ECo-AT is co-funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund
(KLiEn) under the second call of the programme: Innovation on green and
efficient mobility: Implementation activities of the national ITS
action plans.
Hitec
contributes to the following four work packages:
- Dissemination
- User Involvement
- Use Case Definition
- Definition of Roles and
Responsibilitie
National Survey – Competence
Map of the Austrian Rail Industry and Austrian Rail Research
The
Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT, Unit
III/4) currently assesses Austrian Rail Industry competences and
Austrian Rail Research competences. A competence map will be generated
(Kompetenzatlas zu Forschung und Entwicklung in Österreich im Bereich
Eisenbahn). The survey includes railway industry, EVU, EIU as well as
research institutes (Universities, Research Associations, Universities
of Applied Science). HiTec is responsible for design, implementation
and analysis of the survey.
The following work packages are part of the survey:
- Design of the competence map
- Evaluation of competences of
selected key individuals (including research design)
- Quality assurance of
intermediate results with BMVIT as well as key individuals
- Evaluation of competences of key
individuals
- Online questionnaire based on
lessons learnt of key individuals‘ evaluations
- Stakeholder Workshops
- Documentation, Report
Projects
2015
Living Lab Urban mobility
Vienna TWO=ZWA - "Future will be different"
The Living Lab urban mobility
ViennaTWO=ZWA
– "Future will be different" researches effective answers to emerging
challenges in urban mobility and intelligent traffic coordination
mechanisms –
using Vienna as case and real world example. Dynamic challenges will be
"fuelling" radically new innovation in the years to come: rapid
growth in population, increasing goods transport (online shopping),
residential
areas reaching and blending with industrial areas (harbors, railroad
terminals,
container terminals), rapidly increasing expectations into affordable
sustainable mobility as well as further differentiated innovative
lifestyles
around always-online-mobile-devices. Living Lab WienZWA aims at
bundling known Austrian strengths in telematics and urban mobility
solution
providers in order to proactively prepare the ground for future
economic
prosperity and valid development competences in Vienna-based
international
companies. Increasing international visibility of both – outstanding
Viennese
approaches as well as Vienna-based development knowledge on challenging
questions across company boundaries and traditional research approaches
is a
key element in this living lab: [radically new approaches to traffic
management
across transport modes; progressing towards vision zero, I2V
communication –
how could this shape urban mobility?, City logistic – what approaches
enable
innovation where trucks with highest ambition in delivering to highest
customer
expectations will not dominate newly emerging collaborative urban
mobility?]
Living Lab WienZWA establishes a framework
and safe space for the emergence of new knowledge by means of open
innovation
pooled over several international players. An entirely unique data-pool
on yet
emerging innovative real-world urban mobility and urban lifestyles
enables
proactively researching new approaches in pre-competitive development
stages.
Some 20000 pioneering expert users (empowered in self-reflecting
emerging
innovative mobility) will exchange with researchers and living lab
staff on a
non-hierarchical peer-to-peer basis. This lays the ground for
sustainable
social, technical and organizational innovation. Entirely in the truest
sense
of the best living labs these 20000 Viennese citizens will not receive
mere
questionnaires or being guinea pigs / laboratory rats but will be
empowered to
(self)reflect yet emerging urban mobility lifestyles. Intended
connotations of
the colloquial nick naming ZWA (two in English) are diversity issues
("The
other") as well as the high export orientation of all Austria-based
industrial knowledge base (small home market phenomenon).
This text, the preparatory work
as well as the living
lab management show clear signs of the specific style and approach of
two known
experts on urban living labs who currently evaluate large-scale German
Living
Labs on behalf of four German federal ministries. The consortium is
supported
by a steering board of distinguished international representatives
(including
the captain of the largest urban mobility living lab Stuttgart /
Baden-Württemberg). When some two thirds of cities worldwide are facing
severe
financial constraints and even the remaining wealthy group shows clear
signs of
hesitation in investing into new forms of urban mobility "solutions"
– entirely new approaches and concepts are needed: to enable and
address these
is the mission of this breeding ground and green house: Living Lab Wien
ZWA.
Evaluierung des deutschen Schaufensterprogramms
Elektromobilität
Germany will take a leading
role in electromobility – both industry and market. Germany’s
government has
funded four regional electromobility clusters from 2012 to 2016 with
180
million Euros cofounding supporting German electromobility activities. Those
clusters are: LivingLab BWe
mobil (Baden-Württemberg), Internationales Schaufenster
Elektromobilität
Berlin-Brandenburg, Unsere Pferdestärken werden elektrisch
(Lower-Saxony/ Niedersachsen),
Elektromobilität verbindet (Bavaria-Saxony / Bayern-Sachsen). In total all four clusters add up to some 90
projects as well as 334
associated projects.
The consortium of Wuppertal
Institut (Germany), Ernst Basler + Partner (Swiss) and HiTec Marketing
(Austria)
has been evaluating the programme in the period from 2014 to 2017. The
following topics are in the focus of HiTec's contribution to this
large-scale pioneering
programme evaluation:
- New mobility models and business models
- Knowledge flows between industry and science
- New challenges and impact on education and
qualification
- Exploitation of results (preparation for market
take-up)
- Impact on companys' innovation roadmap
- Contribution to innovation and efficiency of
German industry
MDM-Project Management
Support to identify and support key customers
Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) operates the
project ‚Metadatenplattform Verkehrsinformationen Individualverkehr‘
for the
German ministry of transport (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und
Stadtentwicklung und Infrastruktur). One key element in this
project, a technical platform for sharing traffic data called ‘MDM –
Mobilitäts
Daten Marktplatz‘ has been developed and was made available to the
general
public. BASt serves as the MDM operator during this start-up phase.
This
includes also the identification, support as well as the development of
strategic cooperation with MDM-customers.
The consortium of HiTec
(Vienna, Austria) and pwp-Systems (Germany) was contracted for the
following
tasks until 2017.
- Identification of existing MDM key customers
and prospects in close coordination with BAST
- Analysis and assessment of business processes
with identified key customers as well as analysing and increasing a
user’s benefits from collaborating with the MDM.
- Workshops and interviews with new MDM-customers in close
coordination with BAST
- Identification of (new) user requirements of
existing and new MDM-users
- Support of BAST in organising and leading
meetings of the MDM user boards
- Attending BAST meetings to further develop the
MDM as well as to develop a sustainable MDM business model for the time
after this start-up phase
ECo-AT
(European Corridor - Austrian Testbed for Cooperative Systems)
Cooperative
services will increase transport efficiency. This contributes to cope
with increasing mobility demand in the years to come. Austrian ITS
champions have shown their expertise in cooperative services in the
lighthouse project Testfeld Telematik. ECo-AT is the Austrian part in a
joint Dutch-German-Austrian-initiative preparing the launch of
standardised cooperative services from Rotterdam to Vienna. Eco-AT aims
at harmonising the last technical and organisational deployment
challenges between industry and road operators. The results will be
publicly available. Defined use cases can be tested by industry, city
representatives as well as road operators in a “living-lab”.
The
second phase of the project is the operation of real-world cooperative
services including goods transport as well as public transport modes.
The Project ECo-AT leverages and increases the impact of the
KLiEn-funded projects GIP, VAO as well as Testfeld Telematik.
The
project ECo-AT is co-funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund
(KLiEn) under the second call of the programme: Innovation on green and
efficient mobility: Implementation activities of the national ITS
action plans.
Hitec
contributes to the following four work packages:
- Dissemination
- User Involvement
- Use Case Definition
- Definition of Roles and
Responsibilitie
National Survey – Competence
Map of the Austrian Rail Industry and Austrian Rail Research
The
Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT, Unit
III/4) currently assesses Austrian Rail Industry competences and
Austrian Rail Research competences. A competence map will be generated
(Kompetenzatlas zu Forschung und Entwicklung in Österreich im Bereich
Eisenbahn). The survey includes railway industry, EVU, EIU as well as
research institutes (Universities, Research Associations, Universities
of Applied Science). HiTec is responsible for design, implementation
and analysis of the survey.
The following work packages are part of the survey:
- Design of the competence map
- Evaluation of competences of
selected key individuals (including research design)
- Quality assurance of
intermediate results with BMVIT as well as key individuals
- Evaluation of competences of key
individuals
- Online questionnaire based on
lessons learnt of key individuals‘ evaluations
- Stakeholder Workshops
- Documentation, Report
Projects
2014
ECo-AT
(European Corridor - Austrian Testbed for Cooperative Systems)
Cooperative
services will increase transport efficiency. This contributes to cope
with increasing mobility demand in the years to come. Austrian ITS
champions have shown their expertise in cooperative services in the
lighthouse project Testfeld Telematik. ECo-AT is the Austrian part in a
joint Dutch-German-Austrian-initiative preparing the launch of
standardised cooperative services from Rotterdam to Vienna. Eco-AT aims
at harmonising the last technical and organisational deployment
challenges between industry and road operators. The results will be
publicly available. Defined use cases can be tested by industry, city
representatives as well as road operators in a “living-lab”.
The
second phase of the project is the operation of real-world cooperative
services including goods transport as well as public transport modes.
The Project ECo-AT leverages and increases the impact of the
KLiEn-funded projects GIP, VAO as well as Testfeld Telematik.
The
project ECo-AT is co-funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund
(KLiEn) under the second call of the programme: Innovation on green and
efficient mobility: Implementation activities of the national ITS
action plans.
Hitec
contributes to the following four work packages:
- Dissemination
- User Involvement
- Use Case Definition
- Definition of Roles and
Responsibilities
Projects
2013
PLATON
(Processing Light
- Advanced Technologies for Optical Nanostructures) photonics
collaborative project started in March 2012 the third phase of
its
seven years total duration. The Austria-wide collaborative project now
links 15 partners who cooperate intensively. Main objective of the
initial phase has
-
firstly been to prepare for and exploit
synergies
-
secondly to foster excellence and
-
thirdly to combine existing Austrian
scientific as well as industrial expertise in the area of photonics and
nano-technologies in order to increase visibility of Austrian
activities in these fields.
Testfeld Telematik:
The deployment project “Testfeld Telematik”
is the missing link for the national-wide roll-out of co-operative IV2
Services in Austria. This large scale field test including 3000 test
drivers in the Viennese region is realized by 13 partners – including
all Austrian technology leaders in the field of cooperative services –
in cooperation with the project leader ASFiNAG. For a duration of one
year test drivers can experience cooperative services in the test area,
such as:
• Display of important traffic signs in the vehicle
• Warning of dangerous situations, congestions, road work
• Weather warnings, etc..
The project (budget € 4.5 Mio) is co-funded by the Austrian Klima und
Energiefond KLiEn (Call December 2010, 2. Call Attraktivierung des ÖPNV
– Technische Grundlagen) (project duration: March 2011-May 2013).
Hitec
contributes to:
1) developing an intelligent methodological approach to assess the
impact of co-operative IV2 services. Especially for assessing
user-focused information, such as user acceptance or usability of
services.
2) supporting in the economic and scientific exploitation of results on
a national and international level, through exchange with the US DOT
and field tests in Asia, as well as through presenting the leading role
of Austria in the field of large scale field tests.
Projects
2012
Workshop:
"Elements of open Innovation in INNOVAL":
Project: INNOVAL L00103, Date: 27/08/2012, Location: WKO, Haus der
Bauwirtschaft, Schaumburgergasse 20, 1040 Vienna.
The
role of HiTec in this workshop was threefold:
(1)
brushing–up all consortium partners with the latest trends and actual
open innovation practices – all within the context
of AAL and support activities for
local SME.
(2) relate all new information to the consortium’s dedication to
bringing open innovation into daily work routines.
(3)
support project partners from different ‘project cultures’ to unveil so
far unarticulated expectations into the INNOVAL’s
results and activities.
Testfeld Telematik:
The deployment project “Testfeld Telematik”
is the missing link for the national-wide roll-out of co-operative IV2
Services in Austria. This large scale field test including 3000 test
drivers in the Viennese region is realized by 13 partners – including
all Austrian technology leaders in the field of cooperative services –
in cooperation with the project leader ASFiNAG. For a duration of one
year test drivers can experience cooperative services in the test area,
such as:
• Display of important traffic signs in the vehicle
• Warning of dangerous situations, congestions, road work
• Weather warnings, etc..
The project (budget € 4.5 Mio) is co-funded by the Austrian Klima und
Energiefond KLiEn (Call December 2010, 2. Call Attraktivierung des ÖPNV
– Technische Grundlagen) (project duration: March 2011-May 2013).
Hitec
contributes to:
1) developing an intelligent methodological approach to assess the
impact of co-operative IV2 services. Especially for assessing
user-focused information, such as user acceptance or usability of
services.
2) supporting in the economic and scientific exploitation of results on
a national and international level, through exchange with the US DOT
and field tests in Asia, as well as through presenting the leading role
of Austria in the field of large scale field tests.
Projects
2011
2DECIDE (Toolkit
for sustainable decision-making in ITS deployment) is a project funded
under the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and
Development. Its objective is to develop an “ITS Toolkit” to assist
transport authorities in the deployment of Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS), to help them solve traffic and transport problems and
address policy objectives and issues. The aim is to help authorities to
best exploit ITS to address problems such as congestion, accidents or
environmental pollution, as well as improve user services, promote
intermodality and access to information, enhance safety and security
aspects, etc. This toolkit will suggest different solutions, depending
on the problem or situation encountered by the user. Solutions include
the deployment of systems integrating telematics with transport
engineering in order to plan, design, operate, maintain and manage
transport systems in the road and public transport sectors.
Hitec’s contribution to the project has been the methodological support
related to the identification of user requirements for the ITS toolkit,
the identification of user acceptance and the financial assessment of
ITS, that builds the content of the database and the development of a
business model for the 2Decide toolkit.
Projects
2010
PLATON
(Processing Light
- Advanced Technologies for Optical Nanostructures) photonics
collaborative project started in March 2010 the second phase of its
seven years total duration. The Austria-wide collaborative project now
links 15 partners who cooperate intensively. Main objective of the
initial phase has
-
firstly been to prepare for and exploit
synergies
-
secondly to foster excellence and
-
thirdly to combine existing Austrian
scientific as well as industrial expertise in the area of photonics and
nano-technologies in order to increase visibility of Austrian
activities in these fields.
2DECIDE (Toolkit
for sustainable decision-making in ITS deployment) is a project funded
under the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and
Development. Its objective is to develop an “ITS Toolkit” to assist
transport authorities in the deployment of Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS), to help them solve traffic and transport problems and
address policy objectives and issues. The aim is to help authorities to
best exploit ITS to address problems such as congestion, accidents or
environmental pollution, as well as improve user services, promote
intermodality and access to information, enhance safety and security
aspects, etc. This toolkit will suggest different solutions, depending
on the problem or situation encountered by the user. Solutions include
the deployment of systems integrating telematics with transport
engineering in order to plan, design, operate, maintain and manage
transport systems in the road and public transport sectors.
Hitec’s contribution to the project has been the methodological support
related to the identification of user requirements for the ITS toolkit,
the identification of user acceptance and the financial assessment of
ITS, that builds the content of the database and the development of a
business model for the 2Decide toolkit.
Projects 2009
2DECIDE (Toolkit
for sustainable decision-making in ITS deployment) is a project funded
under the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and
Development. Its objective is to develop an “ITS Toolkit” to assist
transport authorities in the deployment of Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS), to help them solve traffic and transport problems and
address policy objectives and issues. The aim is to help authorities to
best exploit ITS to address problems such as congestion, accidents or
environmental pollution, as well as improve user services, promote
intermodality and access to information, enhance safety and security
aspects, etc. This toolkit will suggest different solutions, depending
on the problem or situation encountered by the user. Solutions include
the deployment of systems integrating telematics with transport
engineering in order to plan, design, operate, maintain and manage
transport systems in the road and public transport sectors.
Hitec’s contribution to the project has been the methodological support
related to the identification of user requirements for the ITS toolkit,
the identification of user acceptance and the financial assessment of
ITS, that builds the content of the database and the development of a
business model for the 2Decide toolkit.
AAS
(Integrated Airport Apron Safety Fleet
Management) targets
the enhancement of efficiency and safety on the apron. A decision
support tool for real time assignment of staff, tasks and equipment is
being developed. At the same time the technology used will enhance
safety by geo-fencing of restricted areas and by the implementation of
access control to ground service vehicles. Further, it provides open
interfaces towards existing airport operations systems, including
ASMGCS (FP7, 05/08).
As
a work package leader, HiTec was responsible for the initial user
requirement analysis and for establishing the validation strategy.
These tasks lay the foundation for system architecture and,
respectively, project validation. The HiTec team supported the
co-ordinator in dissemination activities at conferences and user
meetings, and edited and designed the first AAS newsletter.
PLATON
(Processing Light - Advanced Technologies
for Optical Nanostructures) photonics collaborative project started in
March 2007 with six sub-projects and is designed to run for seven
years. The Austria-wide collaborative project now links 15 partners who
cooperate intensively. Main objective of the initial phase has
-
firstly been to prepare for and exploit
synergies
-
secondly to foster excellence and
-
thirdly to combine existing Austrian
scientific as well as industrial expertise in the area of photonics and
nano-technologies in order to increase visibility of Austrian
activities in these fields.
Results out of PLATON in terms of
manufacturing and material science contribute to securing Austria
as a strong player in manufacturing
in a globalised supply chain.
The team of Hitec Marketing has supported the project coordinator and
all participating industrial partners in terms of early and concurrent
planning for exploitation and take-up as well as communication
(internal and external), reporting and dissemination events. Besides
these classical Hitec contributions the entire team has been determined
to successfully highlight the role of
Austria
’s photonics avant-garde within the international scientific landscape
and to merge PLATON's sub-projects to an Austrian photonics-roadmap.
Economic
analysis in relation to the establishment and operation of a laboratory
and testing area for location, navigation and communication issues in
the fields of traffic and logistics. As part of the regional initiative
“Angewandte Verkehrsforschung / Galileo-Transport Sachsen-Anhalt“ a
laboratory and testing area for location, navigation and communication
in the fields of traffic and logistics (Galileo-Testfeld
Sachsen-Anhalt) has been set up (in conjunction with the Ministry for
Regional Development and Transport, the Cultural Ministry, the Ministry
for Economics and Labour and the Otto-von-Guericke University of
Magdeburg).
Hitec addressed the following issues in
its study:
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What markets would be suitable for the
planned laboratory and testing area?
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What commercial potential would exist to
avail of such a facility in Sachsen-Anhalt, central
Germany and further
beyond?
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What potential for spin offs might there
be from universities and research institutes in central
Germany ?
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What benefit would there be for
Sachsen-Anhalt? What job creation potential could there be?
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How might the laboratory and testing area
become viable in the medium and long-term?
The study was conducted for the Ministry
of Regional Development and Transport in conjunction with MMC Mietsch
Mobility Consult.
Projects 2008
Lack of engineers and choice of degree.
This study illustrates possible motives and the context of the decision
whether to make an education in engineering (Mechanical Engineering and
Electrical Engineering) or another degree. It is an explorative study
with the research focus on the east part of Austria
. The study result is based on 54
interviews of a convenience sample. The customers of the study are the
trade associations Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
The field research was embedded in a marketing course of the Vienna
University of Economics. (Download)
Projects 2007
Potentials
of Photonics in Austria: In
co-operation with the NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft mbH,
HiTec is performing a study analysing the potentials of Photonics in
Austria .
As subarea of applied optics, photonics deals with optical
technologies, which today are already applied in different segments of
the economy (CDs, DVDs, Plasmabildschirme, LEDs, Drucker, …) and which
internationally receive increasing prominence with respective economic
implementation potential. Based on this basic assessment, photonics has
also been accepted as especially eligible from the European Union.
Further, the topic photonics is of special relevance:
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For the positioning of Austria against the
European technology platform Photonics21, which was founded in December
2005 in
Brussels . Its objective is
amongst others to better fine-tune European research programs and –
strategies.
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For the integration of Austria in the
international ERA-SPOT program (Strengthening Photonics and Optical
Technologies for Europe
); as well as
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For the development of a strong strategy
2009+ of the Austrian Nanoinitiative, where Photonics can also be an
integral element. This is especially true, because internationally the
cross-section between Information Technology and Nano Technology is
monitored very closely due to its widely accepted potentials.
As
a basis for the further strategic positioning in the above mentioned
areas, the Austrian situation is analysed in-depth in the frame of a
study of the Austrian potential. It is shown, which research groups and
organisations work in this area in
Austria
. The as-is analysis of the Austrian activities shall be performed in
regard to the in the European Technology Platform Photonics21 defined
Working Groups (Information & Communication; Industrial
Manufacturing & Quality; Life Science & Health;
Lighting and Displays; Security, Metrology, Sensors; Optical Components
& Systems; Research, Education and Training). Further,
overlapping areas to other initiatives, such as ERA-SPOT (Strengthening
Photonics and Optical Technologies for
Europe ) and ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics
Initiative Advisory Council) are identified.
SANOWA
– satellite-based emergency call system for lumbermen: This
economic study is part of both the Austrian Space program and the
project SANOWA.The project focuses on the development of an emergency
call system for lumbermen. HiTec’s contribution includes:
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Market analysis: The market analysis
focuses on two areas. First of all, the structure of forestry in
Austria and some neighbouring countries are assessed and the market
potential of emergency call systems is evaluated. Subsequently, an
analysis of the competition illustrates the current market situation.
Topics such as which emergency call systems are available at the
moment, what are their advantages and disadvantages, who are the users
and what costs are related to such systems are evaluated.
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Evaluation of user needs: An assessment
of user needs for emergency call systems concerning general and special
system requirements is carried out.
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Analysis and documentation of the
demonstration results from the perspective of the end user.
Study of the motives that drive or
hinder the foundation of Nano-companies in Austria:
In the frame of the Austrian Nano
Initiative, the program responsibility of the Ministry of Transport,
Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and the program management of the
Austrian Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG) innovative research
and development, training and advanced training, improved networking
and trust-building measures as well as accompanying research topics in
the area of Nanosciences and Nanotechnolgies are supported.
As a basis for the further strategic alignment for the program, the
Austrian start-up community in the area of Nanotechnologies is analysed
in depth. A study of motives shows the hindering and driving factors in
the Austrian environment that have an influence on company foundations
in this area. HiTec performs problem-centred interviews with selected
founders in the Nanotechnology area to investigate their motives.
In-depth case studies of international best-practice examples such as
for example the CSEM in Switzerland
show possible ways and potentials for the Austrian responsible persons.
The result is an in-depth analysis of the current situation, which will
serve as a basis for possible actions for the Austrian Nanoinitiative.
MENTORE (implementation of GNSS tracking
& tracing technologies for EU regulated domains) is a two-year
project co-financed by the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA)
which began on 9 July 2007. The key objective of MENTORE is to
demonstrate the added value of EGNOS and GALILEO for of tracking and
tracing applications, with a long term view to:
- supporting
the application of National and European regulations already in place,
- accelerating the process of set-up of
regulations presently under development in support of EU policies,
- triggering the development of a new
European regulatory framework that integrates national trends and
strategies.
Capitalising
on the results of previous European initiatives and using
existing tracking technologies MENTORE will help achieve a shared
understanding of the regulatory and technological enablers supporting
the widespread usage of GNSS as a tool to monitor and control the
position of objects for safety, efficiency and traceability purposes.
(GSA, since 07/07).
HiTec's
contribution in MENTORE is broad. HiTec is
responsible for setting-up and managing an interdisciplinary
application & regulation observatory group of experts from
inside and outside of the project team. Based on this input HiTec
monitors the innovation environment including user requirements
dynamics, changing market opportunities and user segments, regulation
processes and project initiatives. Furthermore HiTec is responsible for
performing a preliminary market analysis and cost benefit study for all
five relevant project pilot candidate fields. After this HiTec conducts
a detailed market research for one of the project pilots, namely
tracking and tracing for livestock management.
„Exploitation prospects
and barriers for adoption for Smart Eye in the telematic market“:
The ARCS group smart systems developed
a Smart Eye, which collects dynamic objects with a new optical sensor.
The result is an abstract computer representation and no figure. The
data analysis will be done locally in an embedded system with a digital
signal processor. Both the sensor and the signal processing are
integrated in this chip. Thus Smart Eye has the potential for a compact
and cost efficient product.
Focus of the study of Hitec Marketing is a qualitative evaluation of
potential use cases in the telematic market and also a description of
the market from the perspective of a supplier and buyer of Smart Eye.
Furthermore Hitec identified potential barriers for adoption as well as
urgent business development activities from the perspective of the
Hitec study team. Within the study interviews with experts and relevant
users were made, documented and analysed. HiTec’s know-how and network
in this area supported the fast and serious assessment of the market.
AWIS
– Alpines Wegeinformationssystem (alpine hiking network information
system): This study for the Austrian Bundesministerium
für Wirtschaft und Arbeit (BMWA) deals with the Austrian network of
hiking trails and their digital acquisition. Special focus is the
realisation of an information system, enabling standardised national
wide data acquisition. This guarantees on the one hand the comfort and
the safety of hikers and on the other hand the future maintenance of
the Austrian network of hiking trails. HiTec analyses the Austrian and
German market for information systems dealing with networks of hiking
trails and future market scenarios. Further options for future
activities of the BMWA are developed.
„Imagination
– Strategy development, positioning and business development“:
Imagination offers virtual reality
services in the business segments culture, science, marketing and sales
and industrial planning since 1998. Hitec developed together with
Imagination the actual situation of Imagination in the face of
marketing and organisational strategy. Based on this analysis the
strengths, weaknesses, chances and risks are outlined.
The methodology contained an intensive
analysis of the products and segments of Imagination and a subsequent
workshop with the CEO of Imagination and 3 members of Hitec.
Designtool for „young
elderlys“:
In
the scope of a Departure project, together with Danklhampel Design, an
ethnography-based design-tool is developed. This design-tool is a
modular, adjustable tool that supports user involvement in the design
process. The techniques and combination of methods proposed shall
support the visualisation of products under development, and foster the
transfer of imagination, perception and knowledge between users and
designers.
Based on the question “Which form of input is especially helpful for
the designer?”, HiTec develops in close co-operation with Danklhampel a
first prototype for a design-tool. These tools are subsequently tested
and adapted respectively with representatives of the target group
“young elderlys”. Using a specific research topic the developed variety
of the design-tool is shown in practice.
Projects
2006
COOPERS
(CO-OPerative SystEms for Intelligent Road Safety) considers the two
main parts of the road transport system - the vehicle and the
infrastructure - as co-operating parts of the system. It focuses on the
lack of so far neglected developments in the field of innovative
telematics applications for road infrastructures with the long-term
goal to achieve "co-operative traffic management" between vehicle and
infrastructure. COOPERS will provide vehicles and drivers with
real-time individual/local situation-based, safety-related traffic
status and infrastructure status information distributed via dedicated
Infrastructure to Vehicle Communication (I2V). The approach extends the
concepts of vehicle-autonomous systems and vehicle-to-vehicle
communication (V2V) with tactical and strategic traffic information to
be provided by the infrastructure operator in real time (EU, DG INFSO,
since 02/06).
HiTec's
contribution in COOPERS is broad. As Sub-workpackage Leader, HiTec is
responsible for the definition of user groups, the gathering and
analysis of user needs and requirements, the analysis of the relevant
market, including the assessment of market sizes and the identification
of early candidates for adoption, and the identification and
description of the value chain and actors involved. Later in the
project, HiTec manages the business development and roll-out strategy
of the project. Further HiTec contributes to various tasks, such as the
definition of a methodology for socio-economic analysis, assessing the
market impact of services, documentation of and recommendations on user
aspects, development of an external communication strategy, reporting
on panel results and joint achievements, definition of the HMI
guidelines for operators, recommendation and guidelines for planning
and validating safety systems, assessment of user acceptance, and the
pooling of data of services and demo sites.
eMOTION
(Europe-wide multi-Modal On-trip Traffic InformatiON): the projects
aims at analysing the organisational, legal, economic and technical
framework of a Europe-wide multimodal traffic information service
(eMOTION) that offers real-time information to road and public
transport users, dynamic (and multimodal) routing services, additional
travel-related services such as tourist information or hotel
reservation via on-trip-devices like PDA/Smart Phones or in-car-systems
(EU, DG TREN, since 05/06).
HiTec’s task within this
project consists in reviewing the current practice in European
multi-modal real time traffic information services, analysing the roles
and requirements (organisational, operational, technical, etc.) of the
main actors within service chains;· setting up a reference framework to
address barriers, facilitate content integration and prepare the
operation of the service chain from a policy requirements point of
view; establishing and quantifying financial business cases in
inter-modal settings investigating the elements of a typical value
chain; supporting the project management.
REACT
is a project (STREP) co-fundet under the 6th Framework Program
(IST-2005-033697). The project consortium including three emergency
service is developing a system that can be used for clustering and
prioritisation of emergency calls as well as interoperability between
different PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point). This is realised by
using semantic technologies, automatic speech recognition and secure
XML data exchange (EC, IST, since 09/06).
HiTec is responsible for the analysis of the user
requirements and supports other partners in tasks such as e.g.
dissemination.
Projects
2005
GIROADS
(GNSS Introduction in the ROAD Sector) will aggregate the road
community’s proposals to facilitate the technical and commercial
introduction of Europe’s satellite navigation programme to the road
transport sector. The underlying philosophy behind the project is that
a number of key applications have the potential to become enablers of
transport policy as a whole, while giving rise to commercially viable
service provision schemes of interest to a wide range of stakeholders.
These applications will be individually analysed to understand user
requirements, assess the existing regulatory framework and build a
realistic market study that can serve as a reference to the sector
(GJU, since 09/05).
HiTec’s task within this
project consists in analysing the existing
market for such applications, e.g. road tolling, pay-per-use insurance,
e-call, transport (including livestock), and traffic information, and
to identify future market trends in this domain. Against the background
of this information, HiTec will support the analysis of potential
business models for these applications.
GIGA
(Galileo Integrated Georeference Applications): High-precision (+/-2
cm, 3D level) measurement of pipeline networks with DGPS and its
achieveable improvements with Galileo. The main aim of the project is
the evaluation and further development of application areabrs as well
as the identification of new promising application segments. In the
first phase of the project the focus of the analysis is on five main
areas: 1) Routine surveying of supply lines 2) First-time measurement
of existing supply network 3) Network expansions and modifications 4)
High-accuracy maintenance tasks and 5) Time Synchronisation (GJU, since
09/05).
HiTec’s task within this
project consists in analysing the existing
market for such applications in the energy domain. Furthermore, the
user requirements, drivers and barriers to adoption, willingness to pay
and future market trends will be identified. In this first phase
HiTec’s task is also to identify lead user candidates and validate
study results with them. In the last phase of GIGA, HiTec is also
responsible for Economic Results Assessment. This includes the analysis
of economic impacts with emphasis on GIGA’s applications and GNSS
applications within the special User Community “Energy”, awareness
building and business development by means of bilateral interviews,
workshops and interactions with opinion leaders and leading experts,
assessment of the technology acceptance for GIGA and GNSS applications
and last but not least assessment of the societal impacts.
M-Trade:
The project aims at promoting the introduction of GNSS-based
positioning technologies (EGNOS and future GALILEO) in the field of
multimodal freight transport. A real life pilot will be developed in
order to validate and verify the impacts and differentiators of EGNOS
and GALILEO use for container remote monitoring and asset management.
The demonstrative system will be set-up along a typical freight chain,
combining maritime-road-rail-river stretches (GJU, since 09/05).
HiTec’s task within the
project consists in performing a market and cost/benefit analysis for
the user community (road, rail, water transport), providing for an
efficient user integration during the demonstration campaign, setting
up recommendations and guidelines for a successful market introduction
of M-Trade as well as defining the value added chain and innovative
business models.
CHARPAN
(CHARged
Particle Nanotech): focuses on the research and development of a new
production technology for nanotechnology devices. In particular,
CHARPAN will enable low cost engineering of complex 3D surface
structures with nanometre precision. No such accurate fabrication
technology exists to date. This scientific breakthrough will be
achieved by the development of equipment for projection focussed
charged particle multi beam patterning. This will generate a massively
parallel beam which can be manipulated for dynamic pattern generation.
With this innovative technology different ion sources including noble
gasses can be used, and the 200fold reduction optics permit direct
structuring power at high throughput. A prototype equipment will be
developed and tested, improved and validated by large industrial users,
which are partners in the project (EC, since 04/2005).
Identification and
analysis of potential fields of application and
respective user requirements, of adoption barriers and Unique Selling
Proposition; selection and design of appropriate methods for a market
analysis including market segmentation and analysis of the market
potential, support of networking-activities and establishment of an
exploitation plan.
go.hiking:
national research project in line with the program ARTIST that aims at
developing an interactive, satellite navigation based Web-GIS-platform
as supporting tool for the route monitoring of alpine associations, the
co-ordination of mountain rescue services and individual route planning
(since 09/05).
HiTec's contribution may
be summarised as follows: analysis of the socio-economic context;
elicitation of user requirements and acceptance indicators; development
of a closed motivative chain for all participants; support of potential
co-operations.
GUSTAV:
national research project in line with the program ARTIST aiming at
developing a prototype of a system platform serving as information hub
in case of disasters to support disaster management as well as event
documentation (since 05/2005).
Analysis of the
innovation context such as organisational, legal and competitive
conditions; identification of user requirements, acceptance indicators
and adoption barriers for both application scenarios; evaluation of
project results from an economic perspective.
EASE:
(Enhancing Agriculture by Satellite navigation systEms): national
research project in line with the program ARTIST aiming at developing
and testing a satellite-based surveying and mapping system for funding
purposes and optimising asset and acreage management in agriculture
(since 05/2005).
Description of the current
situation and of related problems in terms
of the whole production chain; analysis of the competitive environment
including strategic development trends; identification and analysis of
user requirements; cost / benefit analysis; identification of adoption
barriers; establishment of possible implementation and exploitation
strategies.
Projects
2004
LIAISON
(LocatIon bAsed servIceS for the enhancement of wOrking enviroNment):
The project (IP 6th Framework program) aims to develop
location-based-services for mobile professionals. In this context,
different applications (police, fire brigade, garbage collection,
utilities / power authorities, taxi fleets) are targeted. An integrated
solution is developed taking the whole value chain into account. To
this end, existing navigation technologies (i.e. GPS) are applied and
connected by advanced interfaces with different communication
technologies (GPRS, UMTS, W-LAN, TETRA). This enables the provision of
new, reliable value-added services that are based on continuous
positioning and location-based transfer of information (EC
09/2004-11/2005).
Identification and
analysis of problem setting and potential barriers from an
organisational point of view; efficient user involvement by analysis of
user behaviour, needs and attitudes; formulation and analysis of
appropriate method for market analysis; analysis of current and future
market environment; analysis of the market potential and market
segmentation, formulation of business models and exploitation plans
SCORE
(Service of Coordinated Operational Search & Rescue using
EGNOS):
GJU (EC & ESA) project aiming to develop an end-to-end location
based application for 112 Emergency Assistance and to launch a first
prototype service. The basic concept consists in automatically
forwarding information about the actual, accurate position (GPS, EGNOS)
of an emergency caller (using a mobile phone) to the emergency call
centre. The technological solution will be tested in field trials with
special focus on improving the intervention management of fire brigades
during forest fires by reducing the time of arrival at persons in
distress (GJU since 02/04).
Identification and
analysis of problem setting and potential barriers from an
organisational point of view; efficient user involvement by analysis of
user behaviour, needs and attitudes; formulation of Use Cases; analysis
of market potential as well as possible export opportunities taking
EGNOS and Galileo into consideration; evaluation and quantification of
the value added as well as formulation of a cost / benefit analysis and
dissemination strategy; execution of dissemination in cooperation with
project partners.
ISMAEL
(Intelligent Surveillance and Management Functions for Airfield
Applications Based on Low Cost Magnetic Field Detectors): EU research
project aiming at the development of an innovative detector based on
recent advances in magnetic sensors providing for reliable surface
movement surveillance at airports. ISMAEL will improve existing surface
movement guidance and control systems (ASMGCS) at large airports as
well as enable the installation of appropriate ASMGCS at small and
medium airports in Europe. Thus, ISMAEL will be a major contribution to
overcome existing operational limits of small and medium airports and
strengthen their competitiveness by improving safety standards and
capacity. Large airports will also benefit from ISMAEL, by gaining
flexibility for the augmentation of existing A-SMGCS to raise their
capacity. (EC, since 02/2004)
Identification and
analysis of user requirements; economic and marketing support of the
research team; socio-economic evaluation of the developed combined
navigation receiver; compilation of an implementation plan and related
next steps.
PosiTec:
market analysis for PosiTec (co-financing: RIZ, 12/2004-06/2005).
Analysis of the market
and establishment of an exploitation strategy for the positioning
solution of PosiTec including an assessment of the success prospects;
with focus on ultra- sensitive A-GPS; identification of promising
fields of application; analysis of willingness-to- pay for an
application domain.
OECD Futures Project:
project named 'Futures Project – Commercialisation of Space' carried
out by the OECD aiming at providing a survey of the opportunities and
challenges in the space sector for the next 20-30 years (BM:VIT,
05/2004 - 12/2004).
Support in elaborating
an Austrian position that will serve as input to the discussion of the
preliminary insights and results of the OECD; presentation of learning
experiences from the Austrian participation and identification of
exploitation potentials for the OECD results.
Projects
2003
EMMFOR
(Einsatz
Moderner Messmethoden in der FORstinventur / Deployment of modern
measurement methods in forest inventory): national research project in
line with the program ARTIST
aiming at developing an innovative satellite-based application
supporting forest inventory, proving its technical and economic
feasibility and in the following developing a sustainable service
(BM:VIT/Galileo Contact Point, 09/2003 - 09/2004).
Identification and analysis of the problem setting and of potential
barriers from an organisational point of view; analysis of user
behaviour, expectations and attitudes for securing efficient
user-integration; determination of the socio- economic potential;
description and examination of potential supplier / demander
constellations; estimation of potential value; securing the
connectivity and visibility of project activities.
FLEET
(Fleet
Logistics service Enhancement with Egnos & galileo satellite
Technology): national research project in line with the program ARTIST
aiming at generating valid traffic information via Floating Car Data
(FCD). In order to demonstrate the functionality of FCD in combination
with satellite navigation an "initial fleet" on a proving ground is
involved. (BM:VIT/Galileo Contact Point, 02/2003 - 07/2004).
A supporting accompaniment of the research consortium in order to
enhance social and economic effectiveness; extensive description of the
innovation project; analysis of the market system for revealing the
current situation of the market, including competition and forthcoming
trends; intelligent user- involvement during the whole development
phase; analyses of technology acceptance and adoptions barriers,
creation of a valid basis for continuative development and realisation
activities.
HOLMES
(Forest Management
optimised by deploying satellite navigation): national research project
in line with the ARTIST
program aiming at developing, testing and disseminating a
self-contained logistics system by means of satellite navigation in
order to optimise the dispositive and administrative logging logistics
(BM:VIT/Galileo Contact Point, 09/2003 - 12/2004).
Identification and analysis of the problem setting and of potential
barriers from an organisational point of view; provision of efficient
user integration by analysing user behaviour, expectations and
attitudes; determination of the socio-economic potential, description
and examination of potential supplier / demander constellations;
determination of the utility potential; securing the connectivity and
visibility of project activities.
MEDNAV
(Management of Emergency Devices based on
NAVigation technologies): national research project in line with the
program ARTIST
aiming at optimising the rescue chain in the context of abrupt cardiac
arrest by satellite navigation and other localisation technologies,
such that the time to reanimation via heart defibrillator can be
minimised. Technically speaking the project mainly deals with the
combination of GPS/Galileo Services and WLAN solutions for localisation
inside buildings (BM:VIT/Galileo Contact Point, 06/2003 - 12/2004).
Innovation
context – legal, organisational, competitive and individual ancillary
conditions; user requirements and user acceptance with respect to
different usage scenarios within the scope of demonstrator operation;
project assessment from an economic and innovation-political point of
view; recommendations for the further exploitation of project results.
National Industrial Policies:
study on effective practices of European industry and innovation
policies with the focus on space and space-related industries as well
as stimulation programmes – the Austrian situation (ESA subcontractor,
01/2002-05/2003).
Generation of information by means of expert interviews
to evaluate the design and effectiveness of Austrian programmes and
instruments in the space sector and to identify potentials for
improvement. Result: Austria is considered as precursor amongst the
small member states and two national stimulation programmes are
documented as best-in-class examples in the European final report.
International Charter -
Space and Major Disasters:
investigating study as basis for an Austrian action plan to integrate
the "International Charter: Space and Major Disasters" (BM:VIT, 07/2003
- 07/2004).
Analysis
and presentation of user perspectives; description of the current
situation and related problems; identification of information
requirements; analysis of the generated added value and identification
of adoption barriers.
CORPORATE MANAGEMENT
TRAININGS of the HiTec Marketing Ausbildungs OEG:
Philips Speech Processing, EADS (2003).
Execution of several-day management trainings in the field of business
to business and business to government settings as well as software and
high- technology marketing.
Projects
2002
IU-GMES-Practice
(Increased
User-Involvement in EO/GMES Practice): study on ways of increased
involvement of potential users in the development of applications and
markets within the scope of GMES research projects (ESA, 01-09/2002).
Changes in the research culture due to enforcement of active user
involvement by means of innovative methods and approaches; as well as
support of knowledge and technology transfer.
COMPOSE
(Composition Of Mobile Pre-trip,
On-trip Services): EU research project with the purpose to develop and
market innovative information services for the pre-, on- and post-trip
phase based on GPS, GPRS and S-UMTS (EC, 08/2002-11/2004).
Collection
and analysis of user requirements by means of literature research and
interviews with selected potential user organisations; analysis of the
market environment as well as development of business models including
quantified cost/benefit analyses; support in the dissemination and
exploitation of generated findings, products and services.
ARTIST 2
(Austrian
Radionavigation Technology and Integrated Satnav Testbed): accompanying
measures for the start of the ARTIST programme (ASA, 04-06/2002).
Networking activities and promotion of community
building by means of innovative presentation and event concepts.
Projects
2001
EGNOS TRAN
(EGNOS
Terrestrial regional Augmentation Network): development of
safety-critical application based on EGNOS and terrestrial
communication networks (transport management of dangerous and valuable
goods, personal safety, civil aviation, object management on airports)
(ESA, 08/2001-09/2003).
Preparation of an application analysis concerning usage
situations, current and emerging problems as well as ways to solve them
with the developed services. Development of tailored, monetary
quantified business cases. Dissemination of the developed concept in
European user communities by means of promotion material, co-design of
public demonstrations, collection and analysis of user feedback and its
translation for the development team.
FIT-IT
1 :
identification and description of priority themes of information
technology – forefield research for the national impulse programme for
embedded systems (BM:VIT, 02-06/2001).
Support of the decision-making process on the selection
of priority themes
with respect to target-group fit, alignment with EU measures and
promotion of
young researchers by means of exhaustive literature research,
qualitative expert
interviews and innovative workshop concepts.
FIT-IT
2 :
design of tender
documents and preparation of the start of the programme FIT-IT Embedded
Systems (BM:VIT, 07-12/2001).
Support in the development of programme rationalities
and elaboration of
recommendations on the co-operative design of funding schemes and
programme conceptualisation
with special focus on national and international best-practices with
active participation
of the client during the whole project duration.
Mifare
: elicitation
of customer
satisfaction and concept acceptance for the services of the Mifare
testcentre
(Arsenal Research, 06-09/2001).
Representation of benefits, bottlenecks and acceptance
of the offer from
customer and non-customer point of view by means of comprehensive
qualitative
interviews.
ARTIST 1
(Austrian Radionavigation
Technology and Integrated
Satnav Testbed): workshops for the preparation of the programme and for
the promotion
of consortium building (ASA, 10/2000-07/2001).
Event series for the
active involvement of all parties of the value-added
chain to promote consortium building and pre-identification of
potential priority
themes for the call for proposals. Development of a comprehensive set
of rules
for project evaluation on a technical, economic and legal scale.
Projects
2000
GLORIA
(Gnss and LOran-c for Road
and rail Applications): EU research project aiming at an increased
market penetration of positioning services based on a combination of
GNSS and the terrestrial Loran-C positioning system (EC, 09/2000-
11/2002).
Identification and
analysis of user requirements; economic and marketing support of the
research team; socio-economic evaluation of the developed combined
navigation receiver; compilation of an implementation plan and related
next steps.
GEMINUS
(Galileo European Multimodal Integrated
Navigation User Service): study serving as input for revenue models in
the context of the European satellite navigation system GALILEO (EC,
01-09/2000).
Analysis of market
segmentation, market size and competitive environment; assessment of
the price behaviour in the competitive environment of navigation and
navigation-related communication services; identification and analysis
of existing as well as potential future co-opetition relations,
sensitivity analysis; quantification of potential user benefits.
Projects
1999
EU-VAST (Value Added Services for Transport):
study on the estimation of the expected benefits of commercial GNSS
applications in the transport sector with focus on road and multimodal
transportation (EC, 01/1999 – 08/2000).
Identification of current
and future commercial fields of application referring to satellite
navigation services; assessment of the market potential and of pricing
strategies and the willingness-to-pay of potential user groups;
financing models including an exhaustive treatment of the Public
Private Partnership model.
GNSS
2 :
study on the development of strategic recommendations for Austria
within the scope of the European satellite navigation system GALILEO
(BM:VIT, 10/1999 - 03/2000).
Development of a Galileo
data base and of a portfolio for the field of satellite navigation
under especial consideration of value-added services; resulting
recommendations for action referring to an intensification of Austrian
activities, search for EU co-operation partners for certain niche
topics, active participation in defined committees, enforcement of
skills / know-how (= creation of prerequisites), etc.
GNSS
2 Cluster Austria : Feasibility Study GNSS-Cluster Austria
(BM:VIT, 02- 06/1999).
Support
in the creation of an Austrian cluster for satellite navigation; market
needs and requirements for selected applications of satellite-based
value-added navigation and positioning services; description of
value-chains, description of risks and opinion-leader strategies.
COST
(European CO-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical
research): inventory of current COST actions with Austrian
participation (BM:VIT, 07/1999- 10/2000).
Documentation
and analysis of the research network COST from the viewpoint of
Austrian researchers currently participating in COST, based on
qualitative expert interviews. Main focus was put on the development of
an operative information system (presentation of participating
researchers and of current COST actions with Austrian participation),
the identification of Austrian participants' motives and satisfaction
as well as the analysis and structuring of these findings and the
estimation of the relevance of COST for the Austrian research policy.
EU-SPIRIT
(European System for Passenger services with Intermodal Reservation,
Information and Ticketing): EU research project aiming at the
development and test of a door-to-door travel information system for
the European region (contract Number: TR 5002, 1999).
Development
of an evaluation methodology based on the Extended Technology
Acceptance Model (ETAM), the Task-Technology Fit concept and other
empirically proven concepts; quality assurance during implementation of
the methodology developed; analysis and interpretation of evaluation
results; generation of reliable data on users' appraisal of the
applications; identification and characterisation of prospective user
segments.
DIS
(Distributed Innovation
Systems): study on distributed innovation systems (ESA, 02-10/1999).
Review and assessment of
existing distributed innovation systems, such as science parks,
interdisciplinary research centres and spin-out companies, with respect
to their qualification to generate, transfer and commercialise
innovative technological developments and know-how of universities.
Identification and compilation of trends, best-practices and
experiences from existing programmes as well as elaboration of a
technical and institutional framework for the promotion of stronger
connections between academia and industry.
Result: Five of the 20 documented examples of European Effective
Practice in
the co-operation between academic research and space industry are
Austrian cases.
Projects
1998
Empirical investigation of satellite navigation market in Austria for
freight (1998).
Empirical investigation of remote earth observation satellite data
market in Austria (1998).
The Role of
High-Tech-Marketing to stimulate SME-Participation in the satellite
data marketplace (ESA 1998).
EGNOS-Migration Study (HiTec Marketing, Teleconsult OEG and Trust
Consult Unternehmensberatung
GesmbH).
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