Transport projects & future technologies synopses
The following table contains information of projects that have been reviewed under the INTEND project D 2.1 ” Transport projects & future technologies synopses handbook”. It offers a brief review of the technologies that have been researched under each project and other relevant information categorised into thematic areas.
wdt_ID | Transport Mode | Thematic Area | Technology theme | Sector | Technology identified | Acronym | Project Name | Project brief results | Funding programme |
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1 | Road | Competitiveness | Vehicle design | Passenger & Freight | CAD of external modular bus and design of coupling-decoupling system | EBSF | European Bus System of the Future | The study considered an articulated bus with a modular structure in order to permit a complete flexibility. The whole vehicle system is composed by one tractor and two trailers with two axles and is provided with a steering system, acting on all the wheel | FP7 |
2 | Road | Competitiveness | CAE and real life crash tests | Passenger | Design, crash simulations and real life simulation of an lightweight body designed for EV powertrain | WIDE-MOB | Building blocks concepts for efficient and safe multiuse urban electrical vehicles | WIDE-MOB designed building block concepts for future EVs based on lightweight architecture, distributed drivetrains and low aerodynamic drag. The design was tested by a prototype for crash worthiness | FP7 |
3 | Road | Competitiveness | Electric vehicle design | Passenger | Design, simulation and crash test of lightweight EV | ALIVE | Advanced High Volume Affordable Lightweighting for Future Electric Vehicles | ALIVE designed and manufactured an vehicle frame in order to be lightweight and for high volume production | FP7 |
4 | Road | Competitiveness | Electric vehicle design | Freight | Vehicle design using a modular structural architecture for electric light trucks or vans (ELTV’s) focusing on the improvement of passive safety | OPTIBODY | Optimized Structural components and add-ons to improve passive safety in new Electric Light Trucks and Vans (ELTVs) | OPTIBODY developed new structural concept of ELTVs which is composed of a chassis, a cabin and a number of specific add-ons focusing on new market segments | FP7 |
5 | Road | Competitiveness | Electric vehicle design | Passenger | 1) Vehicle design and development of a 4 seater small lightweight hybrid metal composite chassis electric vehicle. 2) Hybrid composite chassis using carbon fiber sillbeams with steel tubular trusses and folded metal sheets | AMBER-ULV | Automotive Mechatronic Baseline for Electric Resilient Ultra Light Vehicle | AMBER-ULV project aimed to close the gap between heavy quadricycles and M1 category vehicles in terms of safety and performances, while maintaining a convenient and affordable price to quality ratio by designing a prototype 4 WD EV | FP7 |
6 | Road | Competitiveness | Electric vehicle design | Freight | Design of an EV van using a sandwich chassis | DELIVER | Design of Electric LIght Vans for Environment-impact Reduction | DELIVER designed and constructed of an EV van for lower environmental impact | FP7 |
7 | Road | Competitiveness | Vehicle hybridisation | Freight | Hybrid electric truck using energy saving intelligent cruise control and electrified systems | CONVENIENT | Complete Vehicle Energy-saving Technologies for Heavy-Trucks | CONVENIENT demonstrated on 2 prototypes trucks the use of hybrid powertrains for long haul usage including 40 tone trailer | FP7 |
8 | Road | Competitiveness | Autonomous vehicles | Passenger | Design and real life pilot trial of an EV autonomous small bus | CITYMOBIL2 | Cities demonstrating cybernetic mobility | CITYMOBIL2 designed and tested in real life an autonomous small bus without driver and capacity of 10 people capable of speeds up to 20kmh | FP7 |
9 | Road | Competitiveness | Electric vehicle design | Freight | Design of a modular electric Light Delivery Van for lightweight, 24 hour operation and loading and unloading goods | V-FEATHER | InnoVative Flexible Electric Transport | V-FEATHER designed a modular light weight light commercial vehicle that would be capable of running 24 hours either through on road charging or fast charging based on a in-hub electric motor concept. The concept also envisages battery size reduction and l | FP7 |
10 | Road | Competitiveness | Electric vehicle design | Passenger | Design and modelling of third generation passenger EV | ELVA | Advanced Electric Vehicle Architectures | ELVA evaluated criteria that third generation EVs should have and based on a public contest design and a secondary ELVA vehicle design sketched and modelled an EV that met these requirements | FP7 |