Abstract: The SAFESPOT European Integrated Project is co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies and started its activities on the design and development of cooperative systems for road safety in February 2006. The project, promoted by EUCAR (the research association of the Car Manufacturers), will last four years, it is coordinated by Centro Ricerche Fiat, it includes 51 partners from 12 different European countries (Italy, Germany, France, UK, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Hungary) among car makers, suppliers, road operators, service providers and research centers. The main aim of the project is to understand and assess, through tests in real conditions, the potential of a cooperative approach in terms of road transport safety improvement.

This paper is an overall description of the project aims and objectives and reports the basic results of the first phase of the SAFESPOT project activities, namely the definition of the relevant use cases, scenarios of applications and requirements.

The SAFESPOT Integrated Project: an overview
The SAFESPOT Integrated Project Presentation

Giulio Vivo is a senior researcher of the Electrical and Electronics Department of Centro Ricerche FIAT. He is graduated in Information Science (1986); in the period 1986-1989 he worked at Tecnopolis (Bari) dealing with advanced machine vision applications, knowledge based vision systems, stereo, 2D and 3D scene reconstruction. After the acquisition of an application and technological background in the fields of process automation and industrial robotics, Dr Vivo started his research experience in the participation and co-ordination of both National and International projects. At the National level the most significant exploitations are related to different projects in the frameworks of the Finalised Strategic Programmes on Robotics and Transports; at the International level it is worth to mention his participation to some of the projects funded in the Eureka-Prometheus programme and to many other European projects in the context of the 4th, 5th and 6th framework programmes. For someone of these projects (i.e. AcAssist, Chauffeur, LACOS, REOST) he acted as a co-ordinator and due to the growing relationship established with the major Scientific and Industrial Institutions (Universities, Public and Private research Institutions), Dr. Vivo is actually acknowledged as a key person in the fields of the machine vision, in the applications of the preventive safety and in the opto electronics sensing. Dr. Vivo is actually carrying out activities of management and technical co-ordination in the ADAS department of CRF.