SIMBA II EU-Brazil ITS Workshop, 25 November 2009, São Paulo, Brazil

SIMBA II EU-Brazil ITS Workshop     Wednesday, 25 November 2009 São Paulo, Brazil

The meeting in Sao Paulo highlighted areas of future cooperation between the EU and Brazil

The SIMBA II project aims to increase RTD cooperation between the EU and its international cooperation partners: Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. In order to realise this objective, SIMBA II organises a number of expert working group meetings, the latest two of which were held on 18 November 2009 in Moscow, Russia, and 25 November in São Paulo, Brazil.

The workshop in Brazil was organised in conjunction with AEA (Brazilian Association for Automotive Engineering), and was opened by Frederic Sgarbi, Head of the "Surface Transport Unit” DG Research, European Commission. The objectives were to discuss Brazil’s ITS research needs and identify and prioritise cooperation areas between Brazil and the EU in the context of the Seventh Framework Programme.

After introductory presentations on the SIMBA II project and objectives by Irina Silva (Project Support Manager, ERTICO) and ITS standardisation by Vincent Blervaque (Director of Development and Deployment, ERTICO), the workshop explored the topics of urban mobility, fleet management tracking and improving ITS education, before moving on to a public session on future cooperation between the EU and Brazil and supply chain security.

The workshop came was well timed, being two days before the Meeting of the Committee for the Science and Technologic Cooperation between Brazil and the EU which included transport among its topics. The discussions of the SIMBA II workshop were highly relevant and helped to shape the research agenda in the ITS arena.

Agenda		.pdf (189.1 KB)
Participants		.pdf (196.1 KB)
Presentations:
SIMBA II overview and workshop objectives	Irina Silva, ERTICO-ITS EUROPE	.pdf (418.2 KB)
ITS Standardisation	Vincent Blervaque, ERTICO-ITS EUROPE	.pdf (769.3 KB)
Session 1: Urban Mobility    - Viajeo: Project implementation and vision for future deployment of open platform    - Best Practices in Urban Mobility    - STADIUM project (ITS for large events)	Irina Silva, ERTICO-ITS EUROPE    Antonio Lucio, Mobility Foundation, Madrid    Irina Silva, ERTICO-ITS EUROPE	.pdf (1.1 MB)    .pdf (526 KB)   .pdf (6.2 MB)     .pdf (320 KB)
Session 2: Fleet Management Tracking    - Security supply chain project    - Mobility Scenario	Prof. Eduardo Mário Dias / Caio Fontana, University of São Paulo    Vidal Augusto Zapparoli Castro Melo, University of São Paulo	.pdf (3.8 MB)     .pdf (1.6 MB)
Session 3: Improving ITS education and training local authorities, research centers    - Best Practices from Europe	Irina Silva, ERTICO-ITS EUROPE	.pdf (129.6 KB)
Future International Cooperation EU-Brazil	Frédéric Sgarbi, Head of Surface Transport Unit, DG Research, European Commission	.pdf (521.4 KB)
Supply Chain Security	Prof. Eduardo Mário Dias / Caio Fontana, University of São Paulo	.pdf (779.1 KB)
Minutes		.pdf (302.7 KB)