Cooperative services: User acceptance assessment in the Austrian FOT testfeld telematik

Advanced traffic-related telematics applications contribute towards making traffic safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly. European road operators and the automotive industry consider cooperative systems as the future information channel to the vehicle, due to the possibility to pass on real-time information accurately and direction-based to the respective transport user. Based on the vision of enabling intelligent transportation the Austrian road operator ASFiNAG initiated the large scale FOT Testfeld Telematik with 13 industrial and scientific partners in 2011. The FOT with external test drivers will be performed from summer 2013 onwards to evaluate user acceptance of cooperative services provided by the Austrian infrastructure operator. This paper presents the methodological approach of this large scale field test with foreseen 3.000 test drivers. At the ITS World Congress in Tokyo we will present test driver expectations and experiences with an innovative cooperative system.