ECOMARK | An ecological road striping system

Summary
Despite significant progress in reducing traffic accidents over the last decade in Europe, more than 27,000 people die every year and a relevant amount of public money is spent on managing the consequences of these accidents. Improving horizontal road stripes would be one solution for enhancing road safety. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach involving green technologies, new materials and nanotechnologies, our project will place on the market an innovative, fully electric road striper for outdoor use: it will offer low operating costs, high operational performance, zero emissions and zero vibration, so it can contribute to enhancing road safety.
The innovative characteristics of the new machine will make the following possible:
• improved operating efficiency of the new safety systems installed on the latest cars (Lane Departure Warning System - LDWS), which can read road stripes and increase safety during driving;
• up to 50% lower cost of applying horizontal stripes, with clear benefits to the budgets of the agencies responsible for the stripes;
• the ability to apply horizontal road stripes in urban centres at night, since the machine is fully electric and does not produce annoying noise that would disturb people;
• elimination of the negative effects on workers' health that are caused by the release of paint particles, vibration, noise and exhaust fumes.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/734328
Start date: 01-08-2016
End date: 30-11-2016
Total budget - Public funding: 71 429,00 Euro - 50 000,00 Euro
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Despite significant progress in reducing traffic accidents over the last decade in Europe, more than 27,000 people die every year and a relevant amount of public money is spent on managing the consequences of these accidents. Improving horizontal road stripes would be one solution for enhancing road safety. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach involving green technologies, new materials and nanotechnologies, our project will place on the market an innovative, fully electric road striper for outdoor use: it will offer low operating costs, high operational performance, zero emissions and zero vibration, so it can contribute to enhancing road safety.
The innovative characteristics of the new machine will make the following possible:
• improved operating efficiency of the new safety systems installed on the latest cars (Lane Departure Warning System - LDWS), which can read road stripes and increase safety during driving;
• up to 50% lower cost of applying horizontal stripes, with clear benefits to the budgets of the agencies responsible for the stripes;
• the ability to apply horizontal road stripes in urban centres at night, since the machine is fully electric and does not produce annoying noise that would disturb people;
• elimination of the negative effects on workers' health that are caused by the release of paint particles, vibration, noise and exhaust fumes.

Status

CLOSED

Call topic

SMEInst-10-2016-2017

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
H2020-EU.2.1.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
H2020-EU.2.1.1.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - ICT - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
SMEInst-10-2016-2017 Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-10-2016-2017 Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.1. Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
SMEInst-10-2016-2017 Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-10-2016-2017 Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility
H2020-EU.3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
H2020-EU.3.4. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport
H2020-EU.3.4.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
SMEInst-10-2016-2017 Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-10-2016-2017 Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility