Project News: CVIS needs your opinion!

Date: 25 July 2008

The ERTICO-coordinated CVIS project aims to increase safety and efficiency on the road by designing, developing and testing the technologies needed to allow cars to communicate directly with the road side infrastructure. Whilst significant progress has been made on the development side, there are still many unanswered questions regarding deployment. Within CVIS, the DEPN (Deployment Enablers) sub-project team focuses on a deployment plan addressing risks, mitigation strategies, legal, business, market and user acceptance aspects.

A first user survey was carried out last year through automobile clubs from 12  European countries, to assess the level of knowledge and attitudes of motorists towards present and future e-safety systems. A second survey, aimed more specifically at manufacturers, has now been launched to obtain respondents’ detailed opinion on CVIS systems: What do they think about it? Why would they invest in this technology? What kind of implementation scenario is preferred? What are the main arguments for and against different CVIS applications and deployment scenarios?
 
This survey comprises about 30 questions and is exclusively targeted at:
• Car Manufacturers
• Truck Manufacturers
• Suppliers
 
We value your opinion!
If you work in one of those areas, your expert knowledge and vision would be very valuable to our work and would contribute to the deployment of cooperative systems. The survey comprises a web-based questionnaire to ensure anonymity. The results will be made accessible to all participants. However, participants' identities will not be revealed, neither to fellow participants nor to the administrators of this survey. All results will only be displayed in an aggregated view, individual responses will not be accessible.

The survey is available at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JktXlUORlCEWZ_2bG9_2f_2f7qIA_3d_3d