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Trace Deliverables On-Line

TRACE is now a STREP of the Sixth Framework Program funded by the European Commission (DG Infso). It brings together 21 institutes, full partners or sub contractors coming from 8 countries. The project started in January 2006 with a kick off meeting held in Paris. Six Steering Committees and a lot of technical meetings were also held during year 2006 and 2007.

First year of the project was devoted to its installation, the creation of liaisons between the WP’s, the literature review, the methodological researches (WP4, WP5, and WP7), the first runs on the databases, the first delivery of the data packages from WP8 to the operational WP’s, the first analysis on national data, and the first drafts of the planned deliverables.

TRACE delivered to the European Commission three quarterly reports (January-March; April-June; July-September) and an annual report (2006), as requested in the contract. A short leaflet, a TRACE poster and a Brochure presenting TRACE are available on the web site and distributed in conferences. A periodic two-paged Newsletter has been released since mid-2006

The TRACE web site is accessible from the internet at the following URL address: http://www.trace-project.org. Besides the public area, which is accessible to anyone connecting onto the internet, the site proposes three restricted areas: one for TRACE full members, one for observers and one for the eImpact project. Leaflets, brochures, posters, presentations, draft reports, final reports, documents … are uploaded on the different areas depending on their targets and levels of confidentiality.

The main concerning issue in 2006 was that all due reports were delayed. This came as no surprise and was more or less expected since the project is short and demands a quick and strong involvement, which is a big challenge is a research project asking for a strong coordination between partners. Furthermore, all reports had to be carefully validated by WP leaders before being submitted to the coordinator for a final validation. The delivery process really started in May 2007. Following deliverables are now available on the web restricted area and should be available soon for the public:

- D4.1.1-D6.2 - Review of crash effectiveness of Intelligent Transport Systems
- D4.1.3 - A priori evaluation of safety functions effectiveness – Methodologies
- D4.2.1 - A posteriori evaluation of safety functions effectiveness – Methodologies
- D5.1 - Analyzing 'human functional failures' in road accidents
- D5.2 - Which Factors and Situations for Human Function Failures? Developing Grids for Accident Causation Analysis
- D5.3.2 Typical failure-generating scenarios: a way of aggregation Part 2: In-depth accident analysis.

These are mainly reports about methodologies to be applied in the project from now on.
Enjoy!

The project has been extended to June 2008 and should deliver all results then

Yves Page
TRACE Coordinator