Advanced In-Car Telemetry for Commodity Vehicles

Abstract

The road sector represents one of the largest mass markets for ICT technology applications both in terms of number of users and business volume with a continuous growth in the last years. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are an important component of the global answer to the challenge raised by increased personal and freight mobility. The capabilities provided by ICT technologies open the possibility of reducing the negative impact of road transport while at the same time offer new services to a wide range of transport actors such as infrastructure providers, fleet operators, insurers, etc. GMV and the University of Valladolid are developing a system which collects various measures (speed compliance, fuel economy, CO2 emission, route choice, incident detection) in order to study the driving behaviour. Thanks to this system, it will be possible to know the effect of certain behavioural interventions (e.g. variable speed limits, driver training) on various measures (speed compliance, fuel economy, CO2 emission, route choice, incident detection). Additionally, it will be feasible to study the effect of feedback on driving behaviour via on-board displays, text messaging, etc.