Political and industry leaders confirmed to speak at the Cooperative Mobility Conference, 24-26 March in Amsterdam

19 January 2010

As part of Europe’s first Cooperative Mobility Showcase 2010 (see below for details) in Amsterdam, a high level Conference will take place from 24 -26 March. The opening day features VIP speakers including Camiel Eurlings (Dutch Minister of Transport), Helmut Matschi (Member of Board, Continental), Alessandro Coda (EUCAR Research Coordinator), Giovanni Colombo (European Institute of Technology), Gilles Vesco (Vice-president for Mobility, Communauté urbaine de Lyon), who will all address future visions of cooperative mobility.

Three days of inspiring presentations, challenging debates and high-level discussions will bring you:
• The latest developments in the field of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies, applications and services.
• The key final results of the COOPERS, CVIS and SAFESPOT projects.
• Insight into cooperative mobility's contribution to road safety, efficiency and mobility as well as reduced environmental impact.
• How Europe is mobilizing to create a market and implement cooperative mobility.
• Ideas and solutions for overcoming the barriers created by liability and privacy issues, regulation and standardization.

Please download the preliminary programme

This conference is co-organized by the European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, the leading cooperative mobility projects COOPERS, CVIS and SAFESPOT, as well as Amsterdam RAI.

Cooperative Mobility Showcase 2010
Leading industry and service organizations such as Daimler, the Fiat Research Centre, Renault, Volvo Technology, Logica, Mizar Automazione, Peek Traffic, PTV, Q-Free, Robert Bosch GmbH, Magneti Marelli, Cofiroute, ASFA, Efkon, Asfinag, TomTom (Tele Atlas) and RACC will demonstrate the benefits of connecting smart vehicles with each other and with intelligent roads.

Delegates will see, hear and experience for themselves the very latest developments in cooperative ITS, such as:
• The cooperative intersection, intelligent routing, hazard & incident warning, truck parking and loading management, and frontal collision warning;
• How cooperative mobility contributes to quicker, safer and cleaner transport;
• Future visions of cooperative mobility;
• Roadmaps to widespread deployment and market growth;
• How international deployment barriers can be overcome.

The Cooperative Mobility Showcase 2010 consists of three interrelated events:
1) The high level Cooperative Mobility Conference detailed above (24-26 March)
2) Extensive live on-road demonstrations 
3) The i&CDrive exhibition.