D2.3 – FIRST RELEASE OF KPI ACHIEVEMENT

The present document constitutes the Deliverable D2.3 “First release of KPI achievement” in the framework of the Task 2.3 of the WP2 of FP6 – FutuRe project.
This document has the following goals:
• to collect and sort the SEOs and KPIs relevant for the FutuRe project which are reported in several tables of the Grant Agreement and in the Multi Annual Work Plan (chapter 2)
• to define a methodology aiming to measure the achievement of the KPIs once the solutions developed within the project are implemented (chapter 3)
• to define a measurable criterion for each KPI (chapter 4)
• starting from the current state-of-the-art of the solutions under development, to provide a preliminary qualitative justification about the confidence that the solutions under development within the project are going to contribute to the achievement of the KPIs (chapter 5).
Since the main target is to define rules which allow the quantitative measure of the achievement of a KPI by the solutions intended to be developed within the project, the main challenge which has been taken up is the identification of:
• the link between FutuRe items/solutions and the relevant most significant KPIs
• the significant parameters linked to the FutuRe items/solutions and to the KPIs
• the current reference figure for those parameters; such parameters, and their reference figures, define a reference baseline scenario which reflects the current situation not implementing yet the solutions under development within the project
Typically, the measurable criterion is given as the comparison of the values of the parameters before and after the implementation of the innovative solutions.
Chapter 3 reports the description of the reference baseline scenario for both trackside and the vehicle.
Not all FutuRe items/solutions have been considered to provide a measurable contribution to the achievement of the KPIs: for items/solutions which have been excluded, a justification is provided in chapter 3.
This document does not provide the result of the application of the quantitative evaluation criteria to the items/solutions intended to be demonstrated within FutuRe; this is the main target of a second document (or version 2 of the current document) foreseen by Task 2.3 at the end of the project.

This second document will also offer the possibility to adjust/consolidate the value of some reference parameters which, in the current document, have been defined as “educated guess”. Also, the definition of new parameters will be possible provided the relevant quantitative figures are determined.
This document has been edited by RFI having the role of task leader. However, due to its transversal nature, it is the results of the contributions produced by all FutuRe task leaders and the involved experts.