Cities & Areas
FRONTIER will be validated in three pilot sites, namely Oxfordshire (UK), Athens (Greece) and Antewerp (Belgium), focusing on three main themes:
- Smart Infrastructures and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) integration
- Multimodal mobility for passengers and freight cross-stakeholder collaboration
- Network performance analysis for planning and policy making
Oxfordshire, UK
Oxfordshire is located on the North Sea Mediterranean TEN-T Corridor. It consists of the city of Oxford and four other boroughs and has approximately 683,200 residents.
Expected outputs:
- Trials for CAVs at UKAEA RACE using communications systems linked to traffic management systems, as well as dissemination of key learnings.
- Review of key factors affecting CAV-to-traffic management interfaces, including cybersecurity considerations
- Digitalisation of communication between vehicles and local authority-led Traffic Management (currently aimed at the manual driver)
- Stronger international partnerships and a unified approach between partners for future network management to optimise the way people and goods move in cities and regions
Attiki Odos motorway, Greece
Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. The Athens pilot will be featuring the deployment of the FRONTIER platform along the Attiki Odos toll road and motorway, along with key interchange points with links to urban multimodal infrastructure.
Expected outputs:
- Quantitative and qualitative impact assessment for new forms of mobility
- Roadmap for V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure) and V2N (vehicle-to-network) functionality for future traffic management applications
- Assessment of interconnected, integrated and interoperable network of systems and organisations
Port City of Antwerp
The port of Antwerp is the second busiest Port in Europe and is have for freight trips from all over Western Europe.
Expected outputs:
- Roadmap for future freight traffic management applications
- Assessment of interconnected network of organisations
- Arbitration models for dealing with private conflict of interests
The FRONTIER Team
FRONTIER is bringing together partners from five universities and research institutes, nine companies, and five transport authorities from all over Europe, namely Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, to empower a seamless transition towards a new era in transport management.
This consortium boasts a multidisciplinary team of academics, traffic and transport operators, local authorities, traffic management companies, intelligent transport systems and autonomous vehicle solutions. It includes partners from several universities and research institutes, as well as companies, organisations and authorities in transport, infrastructure and information technology providers
