Sub-project 4 of TeleFOT deals with the evaluation and assessment of data collected during the various FOTs throughout the test-sites in the project. The prime aim is to ensure that appropriate and rigorous analyses can be conducted in order to identify the impacts of aftermarket and nomadic device/function use with confidence and validity. The deliverable contains the outline mobility assessment plan. The introduction lists the objectives of the deliverable and mobility assessment. Next, the mobility assessment related, 1st, 2nd and 3rd level research questions are listed together with the hypotheses linked to the research questions. After this, the key research questions were identified. This was done as all possible research questions are not feasible to be studied in TeleFOT with regard to the ITS functions in question, i.e. navigation (NAV), traffic information (TI), speed alert (SA), speed information (SI), and green driving (GD). Hence, the key research questions for TeleFOT mobility assessment were identified with an analysis of the importance of each research question with regard to the TeleFOT function as well as the feasibility of data collection. Data and the variables to be collected were then determined for each of the key research questions. The overall mobility impact assessment approach was described next. The assessment is focussing on travel diaries in the large-scale FOTs. The assessment approach description includes the tentative contents of the travel diaries, study design, variable transformations foreseen, testing of hypothesis and data collection responsibilities. Finally the primary risks were described along with solutions proposed to deal with these risks. The mobility assessment plan will be updated on the basis of the experience accumulated during the first analyses of the data from pilot tests and/or before studies. (Author/publisher) For more information on this project, see http://www.transport-research.info/web/projects/project_details.cfm?id=…
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