• Publikation: METOKIS – Towards a Seamless Content and Knowledge Exchange Infrastructure.

    ABSTRACT: The building of interoperable knowledge based multimedia information systems requires a dialog between those research communities that make advances in content classification through e.g. image analysis, those working on standardisation of multimedia meta data, e.g. the MPEG community and those working on advanced knowledge-based end user applications that can feed and use the emerging Semantic Web. We present the working hypothesis of a new European research project which aims at developing a seamless exchange infrastructure between different data, knowledge and content management architectures and applications. The ultimate goal of the research is to demonstrate ways in which distributed information systems can manipulate complex information objects at a level of abstraction which is close to a conceptual model as it would be used by humans. We illustrate the motivation for the research and present the building blocks of the overall system whose status is work in progress.

  • Publikation: SaBi3d – A LiDAR Point Cloud Data Set of Car-to-Bicycle Overtaking Maneuvers.

    […] planners how to reduce these risks by better understanding these maneuvers. Drawing from the fields of sensor-based cycling research and from LiDAR-based traffic data sets, this paper provides a step towards addressing these safety concerns by introducing the Salzburg Bicycle 3d (SaBi3d) data set, which consists of LiDAR point clouds capturing car-to-bicycle overtaking maneuvers. The data set, collected using a LiDAR-equipped bicycle, facilitates the detailed analysis of a large quantity of overtaking maneuvers without the need for manual annotation through enabling automatic labeling by a neural network. Additionally, a benchmark result for 3D object detection using a competitive neural network is provided as a baseline for future research. The SaBi3d data set is structured identically to the nuScenes data set, and therefore offers compatibility with numerous existing object detection systems. This work provides valuable resources for future researchers to better understand cycling infrastructure and mitigate risks, thus promoting cycling as a viable mode of transportation.

  • Publikation: The OFSE-Grid: A Highly Available and Fault Tolerant Communication Infrastructure based on Openflow

    http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en99/ri/the-ofse-grid-a-highly-available-and-fault-tolerant-communication-infrastructure-based-on-openflow

  • Projekt: UVAR_Austria – Upgrading the Austrian ITS landscape to implement the EU requirements for Urban Vehicle Access Regulations

    […] already exist, but there is still room for development in their application, data availability and quality, and the sharing of information with road users—including automated vehicles. This need has also been recognized at the EU level, with recent European regulations highlighting the importance of making digital information accessible through standardized interfaces via National Access Points (NAPs) for traffic data. Building on this diagnosis, the UVAR_Austria project aims to identify ways to enhance Austria’s intelligent transport system (ITS) infrastructure in line with EU requirements for Urban Vehicle Access Regulations. The project focuses on determining which vehicles or road users should—or must—face access restrictions, how this data can be made uniformly available in digital formats, and how process and data quality can be ensured. Submitted as part of the 2023 call for Digital Transformation in Mobility and strategically aligned with the task of ensuring the availability of mobility-relevant data in connection with the national implementation of […]

  • Publikation: Towards a Grid infrastructure for Services and Intelligent Content Objects
  • Publikation: Knowledge Content Objects and a Knowledge Content Carrier Infrastructure for ambient knowledge and media aware content systems
  • Publikation: MINER – A Measurement Infrastructure for Network Research
  • Publikation: KiWi and the Linking Open Data Cloud.
  • Projekt: EVIS.AT – Real-time traffic information Austria

    Actors in the Austrian road transport mobility landscape combine their data in EVIS.AT to create a high-quality national traffic situation overview.

  • Post: Winter service tests more climate-neutral fuel

    […] power development, exhaust behaviour and other parameters in a comparison between HVO and the standard fuel. In addition, the pollutant emissions of the HVO test vehicle and the comparison vehicle with diesel fuel will be examined with a portable measuring device. The companies involved The client is Leikermoser Energiehandel GmbH. Salzburg Research brings many years of experience in the recording, storage, processing and analysis of vehicle data (e.g. FCD model region Salzburg, Austria-wide processing of vehicle data as part of the road data platform EVIS.AT). The research institute also has background knowledge of winter road maintenance and operational data collection. Questions on fuel consumption and fuel engine performance are answered by the Forschungsgesellschaft für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen und Thermodynamik mbH (FVT) at Graz University of Technology. Consilio Information Management GmbH contributes data from the telematics-supported operational data collection of the winter road maintenance service for the province of Salzburg. Straßenmeisterei Lungau tankt HVO100-Treibstoff HVO100-Kraftstoff an der Tanksäule

  • Publikation: ARIADNE: A Research Infrastructure for Archaeology.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3064527

  • Publikation: Enabling European Archaeological Research: The ARIADNE E-Infrastructure.

    https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.43.11

  • Publikation: Dependable communication infrastructure for power systems
  • Publikation: What is an archaeological research infrastructure and why do we need it? Aims and challenges of ARIADNE.

    http://www.chnt.at/wp-content/uploads/Aspoeck_Geser_2014.pdf

  • Projekt: CarSense

    […] proposes a system architecture for seamless integration of vehicle-originated sensor data into the ASFINAG system landscape. Being equipped with 80 to 100 sensors, modern vehicles offer enormous potential for different use cases in the context of intelligent transport systems. Commercial services al-ready gain sensor information from vehicles for detecting delays in travel times or adapting routes to the current traffic situation. The goal of the CarSense project is to raise the potential of vehicle-originated sensor information for infrastructure operators. Effective and efficient operation and maintenance of infrastructure raises a high demand foroperators to continuously collect qualitative and quantitative information on the status of thespatially distributed road infrastructure. Until now, data collection, if automated, is done with road side sensor units as well as controlled test runs of measurement vehicles. Beside high costs for acquisition, operation and maintenance of measurement equipment, measurements are commonly bound to single positions or single time periods. The CarSense project […]

  • Publikation: agINFRA – Building e-infrastructure and services for the agricultural research community.

    http://www.gil-net.de/Publikationen/25_107-110.pdf

  • Publikation: Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower Agricultural Research Communities.

     http://online.agris.cz/files/2012/agris_on-line_2012_4_geser_jaques_manouselis_protonotarios_keizer_sicilia.pdf

  • Projekt: OFSE_Grid – Open Flow Secure Grid

    The potential of Open Flow for becoming a next generation Smart Grid communication infrastructure will be explored. Both the energy domain and the classical IP networking get their own router stack sharing the physical and L2-VPN layer. The project analyses the relevance of the scientific open questions, evaluates the modelling methods and performs validations with a rapid prototype. Problem to solve and initial solution: Recently the progress in the development of Smart Grid communications infrastructure is hampered by contradictory positions of the EC at one side „explore the possibility of deploying dedicated services on shared telecoms infrastructure, rather than entirely new infrastructure” and the requirement of energy provider (DNP’s) to manage their own communication infrastructure  „Es ist jedoch davon auszugehen, dass zumindest für eine Übergangszeit .. der (IKT-) Betrieb beim Verteilnetzbetreiber liegen wird… da er die Verantwortung für einen zuverlässigen Netzbetrieb trägt“ . The main argument of the energy provider is „the existing telecom […]

  • Post: Urban C-ITS Contest Award: Salzburg is Forerunner

    […] Salzburg C-ITS pilot project is to transmit traffic information, such as traffic incidents, strategic routes, traffic light conditions and parking information to C-ITS-enabled vehicles. In addition, the prioritisation of public transport and emergency vehicles at traffic lights and the communication of emergency vehicles with other road users is being tested. A special feature of the Salzburg C-ITS pilot project is that the C-ITS functionality is used as an independent system that is connected to the existing traffic management centre and ITS via standardised protocols. Salzburg Research supports the procurement of the road and vehicle infrastructure, develops and operates the C-ITS centre for the province of Salzburg and tests and evaluates the use cases. The C-Roads Austria projects are funded by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme of the European Commission. More information: Press release (in German): Mit C-ITS-Technologie mehr Sicherheit für Einsatzfahrzeuge Picture: Karl Rehrl, Salzburg Research und Verkehrslandesrat Stefan Schnöll. © Rotes Kreuz Salzburg

  • Projekt: RADBEST – Cycling guidance in confined road conditions

    A transnational consortium led by Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft is investigating in objective safety and the subjective perception of safety and is developing evidence-based recommendations for the future planning of cycling infrastructure at bottlenecks. The rapid expansion of cycle path networks in the DACH region is a prerequisite for increasing the share of cycling, which is absolutely necessary to achieve the European and national climate targets. In daily planning practice, the routing of cycling traffic in confined spaces is often a particular challenge. Although the regulations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland contain some recommendations for the guidance of cyclists on such stretches of road, there are great differences in the regulations and also in practice. A cross-border consortium from Germany, Austria and Switzerland is now developing evidence-based recommendations for cycling guidance, especially in congested road conditions, as well as professionally sound evaluations of various alternative solutions. For the first time, this research work also creates […]