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optiTruck is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and
Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 713788
D8.2: Proceedings of the 1st Stakeholder Forum
Work package WP8: Communication, Dissemination and Liaison
Task Task 8.4 Engage with stakeholders and Liaison activities
Authors Jean-Charles Pandazis (ERTICO)
Dissemination level Public (PU)
Status Final
Due date 31/08/2017
Document date 27/02/2018
Version number 2.0
File Name optiTruck-D8.2-Proceedings 1st Stakeholder Forum-v2.0-Final
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Control sheet
Version history
Version Date Main author Summary of changes
1.0 04/12/2017 Jean-Charles Pandazis
(ERTICO)
ToC and introduction
1.1 01/02/2018 Jean-Charles Pandazis
(ERTICO)
Updated with preparation meeting and
webinar invitation
1.2 21/02/2018 Jonathan Benton
(ERTICO)
Updated with Webinar participants,
results and next steps, ready for
review
2.0 27/02/2018 Jean-Charles Pandazis
(ERTICO)
Final version including review
comments ready for submission
Name(s) Organisation(s) Date
Main author/ editor Jean-Charles Pandazis ERTICO 27/02/2018
Peer reviewed by Core Management Team Project partners 26/02/2018
Authorised by Jonathan Benton
Jean-Charles Pandazis
ERTICO (Quality Manager)
ERTICO (Coordinator)
28/02/2018
Submitted by Jean-Charles Pandazis ERTICO (Coordinator) 28/02/2018
Abstract
This document presents the proceedings of the optiTruck Stakeholder Forum webinar, which
took place on 6 February 2018 and was the first event for the Stakeholder Forum. Three
Horizon2020 projects and one USA NEXTCAR project were presented, followed by
discussions about the common challenges relating to the optimisation of powertrain control
to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
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Table of contents
Executive Summary .................................................................... v
1. Introduction ........................................................................ 6
Project objectives ............................................................................. 6 1.1
Purpose of this document ..................................................................... 6 1.2
2. optiTruck Stakeholder forum ................................................... 7
3. Webinar organisation, results and proceedings ............................. 9
optiTruck webinar organisation .............................................................. 9 3.1
optiTruck webinar results and proceedings .............................................. 10 3.2
4. Conclusion and next steps ...................................................... 14
Annex1: Invitation to the webinar ................................................ 15
Annex2: List of Webinar registrations & participants.......................... 23
Annex3: Webinar presentations ................................................... 24
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Index of figures
Figure 1 Webinar insights and statistics ............................................................ 10
Index of tables
Table 1: Interested Parties contacted for webinar and plan for Stakeholder Forum 2018 .... 7
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Glossary of terms
Acronyms / terms Description
ARPAE Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (US Department of Energy)
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
HDV Heavy-Duty Vehicles
IMPERIUM IMplementation of Powertrain control for Economic, low Real driving emIssions and fuel ConsUMption
ORCA Optimised Real-world Cost-Competitive Modular Hybrid Architecture for Heavy Duty Vehicles
POPD Protection Of Personal Data
VPRO Vehicle Powertrain and Routing Co-Optimization
H2020 Horizon 2020 EU Research and Innovation programme
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Executive Summary
The optiTruck project is developing ten innovation elements to optimise powertrain control
with the objective of reducing CO2 emissions by more than 20%. Other activities in Europe
and across the world have set similar targets.
In order to share approaches, results and to discuss common challenges with these
activities, the optiTruck project is building a Stakeholder Forum.
The first step in building this forum was to bring stakeholders together by organising a one
hour webinar to present current activities and discuss common challenges. optiTruck and
two other H2020 projects participated in the webinar:
IMPERIUM (IMplementation of Powertrain control for Economic, low Real driving emIssions
and fuel consUMption), http://www.imperium-project.eu/, coordinated by AVL
(Austria);
ORCA (Optimised Real-world Cost-Competitive Modular Hybrid Architecture for Heavy
Duty Vehicles); http://h2020-orca.eu/, coordinated by TNO (The Netherlands)
and one project from the US programme NEXTCAR:
VPRO (Vehicle Powertrain and Routing Co-Optimization); https://vpro.umn.edu,
coordinated by the University of Minnesota (USA)
This document presents the proceedings of the webinar, its preparation, results and all
presentations.
The main outcome from this first Stakeholder Forum event was the identification of the
following common challenges::
Predictive future, what data do we really need?
How important is Data Quality?
Do we have issues with Data Security?
How to assess the real impact of proposed solutions?
The discussion also looked at the relationship between powertrain control optimisation and
its impact on air quality. This will be one of the main topics, in addition to those listed
above, to be discussed at the physical Stakeholder Forum workshop meeting planned for
September 2018.
The webinar had 43 registered people and finally 30 participants from Europe and USA.
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1. Introduction
Project objectives 1.1
The goal of optiTruck is to bring together the most advanced powertrain control and
intelligent transport system technologies in order to optimise global fuel consumption (a
20% reduction at least), as well as other energy sources and consumables, while achieving
Euro VI emission standards for heavy duty road haulage (40t).
In order to realise this overall objective, optiTruck will:
1. develop predictive intelligent modules based on predictive navigation and other
environmental data
2. develop software components to collect and integrate these different data sources
3. develop software for the fusion and the optimisation of engine calibration mapping
and powertrain control
4. develop demonstrators to be tested in real environment: i.e. trucks equipped with
real-time emission monitoring (kit) connected together with other sensors or data
sources to the powertrain control unit of the truck for further processing (data
fusion/predictive module) (to be in-line with Euro VI)
5. carry out real-world trials with two demonstrators:
a. One truck equipped with the current state-of-the-art techniques to collect
the fuel and other consumables consumption data to be used as a baseline;
b. One truck equipped with the proposed system to demonstrate on real roads
the reduction of fuel consumption and emissions while performing different
transport missions.
6. undertake validation and impact assessment to show the minimum 20% fuel
reduction
7. develop strategies for larger deployment of the proposed system within and beyond
the project
Purpose of this document 1.2
The ambition of the optiTruck project is to be the leading activity in the field of innovative
powertrain control solutions, especially those aimed at reducing fuel consumption and CO2
emissions as a result.
As part of Work Package 8 Task 8.4 "Engage with stakeholders and Liaison activities" the
project initiated contact with the main stakeholders as presented in deliverable D8.1
"Communication, Dissemination and Liaison Plan”.
This document presents the proceedings of the optiTruck Webinar, starting with the
creation of the Stakeholder Forum (Chap. 2), the organisation and proceedings (Chap. 3)
and the conclusion with next steps (Chap. 4).
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2. optiTruck Stakeholder forum
The goal of optiTruck to create a stakeholder forum during year one of the project was
more difficult than expected, in particular due to the technical topic of the project and
because industrial stakeholders are not ready to share related innovations.
Therefore the coordinator, with the support of project partners, decided on a three step
approach:
1. identify and bring together relevant activities, first by proposing a webinar to
introduce one another and to identify common challenges;
2. organise a first physical stakeholder forum workshop in 2018, taking into account
feedback of the proposed webinar on the common challenges;
3. involve other stakeholders in the optiTruck final event to present project results and
updates on the identified common challenges.
The Stakeholder Forum includes organisations from the ITS, automotive and related
industries, fleet and logistics operators, the public sector, etc.
So with this stepwise approach, optiTruck has developed, at different stages of the project
and when necessary, cooperation with interested parties as listed in the following table.
Table 1: Interested Parties contacted for webinar and plan for Stakeholder Forum 2018
Interested Party Contacted for
EU PROJECTS
IMPERIUM (H2020 project) Webinar
CO-GISTICS (CIP project) Webinar
FOSTER-ROAD / ERTRAC (H2020 project) Webinar
ORCA (2020 project) Webinar
BigDataEurope (H2020 project) Stakeholder Forum 2018
PLATFORMS
ADASIS Forum for the standardisation of predictive data from digital maps Webinar
SENSORIS (standardisation of vehicle sensor data uploaded to the cloud) Webinar
ITS Nationals Stakeholder Forum 2018
ERTICO Public Authorities Platform Stakeholder Forum 2018
ORGANISATIONS
ACEA – European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association Webinar
ERTRAC - EGVI Webinar
IRU Webinar
CLEPA - Automotive supply industry in Europe Webinar
CLECA (European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics & Customs Services)
Webinar
POLICY
UN – GRPE (The working Party on Pollution and Energy) Stakeholder Forum 2018
DG-CLIMA Directorate-General for Climate Action Stakeholder Forum 2018
DG-RTD Stakeholder Forum 2018
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In particular, optiTruck has established cooperation with the Communication/Dissemination
Managers of these organisations so that optiTruck announcements, press releases, events,
etc. are promoted in their networks, and key players are invited, potentially as speakers, to
optiTruck events.
GDPR
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data
privacy regulation in 20 years.
The introduction of GDPR regulation (https://www.eugdpr.org/) in May 2018 requires that
dissemination and communication activities of projects change the way they build forums.
Therefore, we took this regulation into account when we addressed the aforementioned
groups. As such, we specifically asked whether they would consent to participating in our
webinar and Stakeholder Forum.
This approach is following the optiTruck deliverable D9.1 on Protection Of Personal Data
(PODP).
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3. Webinar organisation, results and proceedings
optiTruck webinar organisation 3.1
When planning the Webinar, we agreed upon the following format:
duration: 1 hour maximum
introduction: 5min
activities presentations: 40 min
15 min discussion at the end
Along with the presentation of optiTruck, we chose two other H2020 projects which look at
powertrain optimisation:
IMPERIUM (IMplementation of Powertrain control for Economic, low Real driving
emIssions and fuel consUMption), http://www.imperium-project.eu/, coordinated
by AVL (AT);
ORCA (Optimised Real-world Cost-Competitive Modular Hybrid Architecture for
Heavy Duty Vehicles); http://h2020-orca.eu/, coordinated by TNO (NL)
We also established contact with and invited a major US project closely related with our
project goals: VPRO (Vehicle Powertrain and Routing Co-Optimization);
https://vpro.umn.edu, coordinated by the University of Minnesota (USA) and under the
framework of the US NEXTCAR programme.
All three projects were invited to a preparatory phone conference in order to present each
other and to agree on the webinar format and talking points. The preparatory telco agenda
was as follows:
1. ARPAE describes NEXTCAR program (see presentation in Annex 1)
2. UMN describes VPRO project (see presentation in Annex 1)
3. ERTICO present H2020 framework related to Powertrain control
4. optiTruck describes consortium and research activities
5. IMPERIUM describes consortium and research activities
6. ORCA describes consortium and research activities
7. Proposal for webinar objective(s) and agenda
8. Next steps
At the end of the discussion, the webinar agenda was agreed and communicated with the
invitation to the webinar (see links hereafter). During the discussion, the following common
challenges were identified as talking points for the open discussion at the end of the
webinar:
Predictive future, what data do we really need?
How important is Data Quality?
Do we have issues with Data Security?
How to assess the real impact of proposed solutions?
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Below is a link to the webinar invitation including registration and social media posts:
Webpage:
http://optitruck.eu/2018/01/23/challenges-facing-predictive-powertrain-technologies/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ERTICO/status/956158167104327681
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1123877/1123877-6361924600472879107
optiTruck webinar results and proceedings 3.2
The webinar took place on 6 February 2018 and was organised and performed using the
GoToWebinar tool, which also provided the following statics at the end:
Figure 1 Webinar insights and statistics
This figure shows clearly that:
of the 63 clicks on the registration link, 18 organisations registered representing 43
registrants while 30 of these attended the webinar (see Annex 2 for the registration
and attendance table)
the session started 10 min in advance, but the webinar itself started on time with
most attendees staying until the end of the session.
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A news article including feedback was drafted after the webinar and made available to all
participants at the following link on the optiTruck website:
http://optitruck.eu/2018/02/23/webinar-highlights-challenges-facing-predictive-
powertrain-technologies/
It includes a recording of the webinar (slides + sound) on YouTube:
http://optitruck.eu/2018/02/23/webinar-highlights-challenges-facing-predictive-
powertrain-technologies/
A snapshot of the presentation can be found in Annex3.
Below is the webinar agenda:
Webinar attendees did not use the GoToMeeting feature to ask questions, so no questions
were put to the speakers. But one question was asked to each speaker after their
presentation, these included the following:
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optiTruck
Q: optiTruck is developing its es on Ford trucks. To develop strategies for larger deployment
of the proposed system, will optiTruck explore how its innovations might be used on other
trucks?
A: This is true that optiTruck has only one OEM in its consortium, but the principles of the
innovation elements being developed and assessed in this project will be available,
although detailed information regarding their implementation will not. It will be the
responsibility of the optiTruck industrial partner to decide what they are ready to share.
IMPERIUM
Q: How does the approach of IMPERIUM support different powertrain configurations e.g.
hybrid strategies?
A: We see on the road different kinds of hybridisation taking place, but there are still
many trucks with conventional powertrains. The challenge is to have on one hand generic
strategies that can work with all kinds of powertrain configurations and on the other hand
making best use of the existing powertrain elements.
ORCA
Q: What challenges have you encountered when assessing the functional performance of
predictive powertrain control, especially when looking at vehicles crossing city boundaries?
A: For HDVs there are various components and tools for assessing and optimising geo-
consumption and emissions, but when considering plugin hybrid powertrains there is still a
lot to be defined. Considering predictive control strategies, like determining when a
vehicle reaches a city boundary and enters into a zero emission functioning mode, there is
a lot that can be done to optimise powertrain control.
VPRO
Q: How does the VPRO traffic prediction algorithm take into account the effect of mixed
fleets (i.e. connected vehicles versus non-connected)?
A: Our strategy is to optimise our vehicle independent of what the other vehicles are
doing. So it should not matter if we have a mixed fleet or whether we have only the
vehicle we are dealing with. We try to the best of our knowledge to predict what the other
vehicles will do on the road, for example, by looking at traffic patterns from data sources,
we can gather and use that information to optimise individual vehicles.
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The question part of the webinar was then dedicated to discussing the common challenges
indicated in the previous presentations, in particular:
Predictive future, what data do we really need?
When using any of the prediction methodology currently available, it seems that the
sensitivity to the cycle becomes critical. Therefore we need to understand how this
prediction will function in extreme circumstances. So many applications use predictive
technologies, like bus routing, but to understand from where and when uncertainty comes
from, and what it means in terms of the functionality of the predictive control, will be a
big research challenge.
How important is Data Quality?
First, it is important to define and agree upon which information is needed, like the
estimation of the speed the vehicle should maintain and for how long. The cause for a
reduction in speed ahead is not really important but the prediction of this drop is what
matters, the impact on the powertrain control will be the same.
How to assess the real impact of proposed solutions?
All speakers agreed that this is an important topic to understand what is behind the
assessment results, how fuel consumption and CO2 are measured in order to demonstrate
the benefit of the proposed solutions.
This could be one of the topics to be discussed at the physical Stakeholder Forum planned
for September 2018.
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4. Conclusion and next steps
The webinar brought together three H2020 projects and one NEXTCAR project to share their
experiences in developing innovative solutions for powertrain control in order to reduce
fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as a result.
The link with the NEXTCAR program is promising and was of great interest for all of the
participating activities.
To build upon the work achieved by this webinar, we have planned the following next steps:
Further discussions will take place between these activities to share information on
the identified common challenges
Efforts will be made to increase the membership of the Stakeholder Forum, in
particular by distributing optiTruck brochures with flyers about the Forum at events
with dedicated sessions to this topic at conferences such as TRA 2018 in Vienna
(April 2018), but also in the US through the NEXTCAR program. Similar programmes
in Asia will also be investigated.
All registered participant and new Forum members will be invited to a physical
Stakeholder Forum in September 2018 to share our results, identify research needs
on this topic as well as address assessment methodologies.
We will also need to make sure that the organisation of the Stakeholder Forum Workshop
meeting will comply with the GDPR regulation entering into force in May 2018.
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Annex1: Invitation to the webinar
Below is the webinar invitation:
http://optitruck.eu/2018/01/23/challenges-facing-predictive-powertrain-technologies/
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1) ARPAE presentation by Chris Atkinson (FASME, Advanced Research Projects Agency
–Energy, US Department of Energy ([email protected]))
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2) VPRO project presentation by Will Northrop (University of Minnesota, USA)
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Annex2: List of Webinar registrations & participants
Eighteen organisations registered at the webinar representing 43 registrants.
Finally eleven organisation participated to the webinar representing a total of 30
participants.
Table 2: List of webinar registration and participant per organisation
Organisations # registered # participants
ALTAIR (USA) 2
ANSYS 1 1
AVL 16 16
ERTICO - ITS Europe 1 1
Honeywell (USA) 3 1
ICCT - International Council on Clean Transportation 1 1
INFINEUM 1
IRU 3 3
Mahindra Automotive (India) 1
MATRIX engineering (USA) 1
Penn Engineered Solutions (UK) 1
Scania 1 1
Seznam (CZ) 1
University of Minnesota (USA) 2 2
University of OKAN 1 1
US DOE 1 1
VOLVO 1
VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1 1
Unknown 4 1
43 30
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Annex3: Webinar presentations
Here is an overview of all webinar presentations that can be found here:
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Disclaimer:
This document reflects the views of the author(s) alone. The European Union is not liable
for any use that may be made of the information herein contained.
For more information:
optiTruck Project Coordinator
Mr Jean Charles Pandazis
ERTICO – ITS European
Avenue Louise 326
1050 Brussels, Belgium
http://www.optiTruck.eu