Project McCoy Critical focuses on building skills to manage critical situations in two safety-critical areas, medicine and automotive driving. Critical situations refer to complex dynamic risk situations where both internal ( skills, fatigue , etc... ) and external factors to the individual (the environment, other involved actors, etc... ) deviate from the situations controlled by the subject on the basis of rules and procedures acquired during the initial stages of learning. The management of these situations require not only technical and procedural skills . They also mobilize a set of soft skills (e.g. communication, leadership, situational awareness , ... ). These skills will be studied and modeled during the course of the project in order to support the development of adaptive, simulated situations that are effective for elaborating non-technical skills. Project McCoy Critical aims to develop and evaluate a training platform for critical situations, supported by a simulator involving the management of a dynamic environment. Software agents will (1) receive and process information underpinning anticipation and decision making in the learner ; (2) dynamically adapt the complexity and criticality of the situation and (3) enable feedback to trainees. The project aims to (a) provide better knowledge of the soft skills related to the management of critical situations and (b) develop the tools to design simulation environments and virtual reality environments that are conducive to learning. To promote more generic tools, the project is working on two areas of learning (medicine , driving) . In order to achieve these goals, project McCoy Critical relies on a multidisciplinary consortium and multiple domains of expertise (Ergonomics , Psychology, Computer Science, Virtual Reality , medical training , training for driving... ), and several proven experience of successful collaboration between different partners. A SME specialized in medical simulations is associated to the project, in order to promote value creation from the project’s results.

ERSAT GGC is conceived for speeding up the certification process of EGNSS assets according to the ERTMS rules. It is a follow up of the ERSAT (ERtms + SATellite) program launched in 2012 by RFI in collaboration with Ansaldo STS for integrating satellite technologies on the ERTMS platform. Primary goals of ERSAT GGC are to allow RFI, recently nominated Game Changer for integrating satellite technology into ERTMS, to launch an operational line by 2020, the same year Galileo services will be operational and to accelerate the standardization process at European level for including the satellite requirements into the new ERTMS STI (Standard for Technical Interoperability). As a results of previous projects, EGNSS and ERTMS – both pillars of the European industrial policy - are becoming tightly intertwined and backed by a mutual-supportive business model - a pre-requisite to give birth to fast growing EGNSS applications and to the deployment of economical sustainable ERTMS solutions on local and regional market which today is dominated by legacy systems most of which old and still manually operated. ERSAT GGC will rely on the achievements of the most relevant EC and GSA funded projects such as NGTC, ERSAT EAV, STARS, RHINOS whose the individual coordinators are partners of the ERSAT GGC consortium. ERSAT GGC will exploit a fully operational Test bed located in Sardinia on the 50km double track line between Cagliari and San Gavino. This Test Bed includes the ERTMS main constituents, a fully equipped train, and the EGNSS/ Wireless assets to operate with the ERTMS system based on the Satellite based Location Determination System (LDS). Other facilities, such as those of the CEDEX laboratory, DLR and RFI will be exploited for the certification process. The ERSAT GGC consortium includes RFI, SNCF and ADIF as the main European rail stake-holders and two independent Notify body, Italcertifer and Bureau Veritas which are already supporting RFI for the certification process.

Goods, waste and service trips in urban areas impose negative traffic and environmental impacts, and there is a need for further roll-out of cost-effective and sustainable solutions. The CITYLAB objective is to develop knowledge and solutions that result in roll-out, up-scaling and further implementation of cost effective strategies, measures and tools for emission free city logistics in urban centres by 2030. The project focuses on four axes for intervention due to their present and future relevance and impact related to topic MG-5.2 objectives: 1) Highly fragmented last-mile deliveries in city centres; 2) Large freight attractors and public administrations; 3) Urban waste, return trips and recycling; 4) Logistics facilities and warehouses. CITYLAB will i) improve basic knowledge and understanding on areas of freight distribution and service trips in urban areas that have received too little attention; ii) test and implement 7 innovative solutions that are promising in terms of impact on traffic, externalities and business profitability and have a high potential for future growth; and iii) provide a platform for replication and spreading supported solutions. The core of CITYLAB is a set of living laboratories, where cities work as contexts for innovation and implementation processes for public and private measures contributing to increased efficiency and sustainable urban logistics. Linkages will be established between the different living labs for exchange of experiences and to develop methodologies for transfer of implementations between cities and between companies. This process will be supported by a strong research team. The outputs from the living labs will include best practice guidance on innovative approaches and how to replicate them. CITYLAB will lay the ground for roll-out, up-scaling and transfer of cost-effective policies and implementations that lead to increased load factors and reduced vehicle movements of freight and service trips in urban areas.