ERTICO Workshop: Interoperability testing for ITS Cooperative Mobility Services
On the 17th November 2011, the co-organisers of the first ITS CMS Plugtests, ERTICO - ITS Europe, ETSI, and the host TNO, invited the ITS Community to attend a workshop aimed at presenting to a wide audience the importance of Interoperability events for the deployment of cooperative systems.
Welcome session
During a welcoming session, senior managers from the organising entities introduced the event to the audience
Nico Zornig, Business Line Manager "Reliable traffic systems" and "Logistics" at TNO Mobility (.pdf)
Anthony Wiles, Director of the ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (ETSI - CTI) (.pdf)
Maxime Flament, Head of sector - SafeMobility, ERTICO - ITS Europe (.pdf)
Session 2: Cooperative Mobility Services Plugtests
Introduction to Plugtests
Sebastian Müller, Technical coordinator, ETSI - CTI
Karen Hughes, Plugtests coordinator, ETSI - CTI (.pdf)
Plugtest - Principles and comparison with Conformance test
Sebastian Müller, Technical coordinator, ETSI - CTI (.pdf)
Results analysis: feedback for the standardisation and the industry
Andras Kovacs, Research Manager, Broadbit (.pdf)
Sebastian Müller, Technical coordinator, ETSI - CTI
Session 3: tooling for the interoperability testing
Prepare and support interoperability tests with CANoe.Car2x tool
Thomas Löffler, Senior software development engineer, Vektor Informatik (.pdf)
HIL test bench for ITS interoperability testing
Jürgen Großmann, Project manager, Fraunhofer FOKUS (.pdf)
Ad-hoc network emulator
Jan de Jongh, ICT architect & senior scientist, TNO (.pdf)
Session 4: Benefit of interoperability events for the Field Operational Tests (FOTs)
François Fischer, DRIVE C2X Operations leader, ERTICO - ITS Europe (.pdf)
José A. Fernández, SISCOGA, R&D Engineer at Advanced Driving Assistance Systems area, CTAG (.pdf)
Gérard Segarra, SCORE@F, Telematics Research Unit manager, Renault (.pdf)
Round table discussion
A round table discussion, chaired by Maxime Flament, was organised to discuss the needs of the ITS Community in terms of interoperability testing, as well as conformance and performance testing.

Participants to the round table: Phil Pettitt - CEO of innovITS, Gérard Segarra - Telematics research unit manager at Renault, Igor Passchier - Senior consultant at TNO and Amira Horozovic - Functions technology group leader at Honda R&D Europe.
The workshop was hosted by TNO, on behalf of the consortium "Dutch Integrated Testsite Cooperative Mobility".
The final agenda can be downloaded here.
Final participants list: available soon.
For more information, please contact: Sébastien Mure s.mure@mail.ertico.com