The FISITA 2008 Scientific & Technical Committee invite abstracts on any of the following topics:
Mobility concepts
- Contribution by vehicle intelligence (C2C)
- E-Safety
- Car to infrastructure (C2I)
- Integration in mobility concepts
Man-Machine-Interaction
- Human capabilities and driving
- Driver assistance
- Human acceptance of driver assistance
- Human and information systems in automobiles
Chassis development for passenger cars, trucks and buses
- Vehicle dynamics including driver assistance
- Chassis system integration
- Suspension for trucks
Body design for passenger cars, trucks and buses
- Product development methods
- Modularisation
- Weight reduction
- Production
- Design
- Comfort and convenience
Electronics
- Innovative electronics for powertrain, chassis, driver assistance and hybrids
- Energy management
- System architecture and bus systems
- Soft- and hardware development trends
- Process chains and quality
- International standardisation
- Production solutions
- Diagnosis, service and recycling
Future powertrain solutions
- Strategy and engines for future fuels
- Fuel and CO2 efficient powertrains
- Innovative engine and transmission systems
- Strategy for future ultra low exhaust emission limits
- Advanced fuel efficient and cost effective hybrid systems
- Fuel cell progress
- Downsized powertrains with high specific power
- Integrated systems for powertrain and vehicle electronics
Vehicle concepts
- Vehicle conceptsand requirements for passenger cars (package, material, assembly, modularisation)
- Vehicle conceptsand requirements for trucks and buses (truck design in Europe/Asia/USA, city buses and coach buses, transportation efficiency)
Vehicle safety
- Accident analysis
- Methodology and analysis tools
- Assessment and analysis for accident causation
- Injury pattern
- Effectiveness of safety measures - Driver assistance
- Accident avoidance
- Car to car information
- Electronic co-driver - Advanced safety systems
- Occupant and partner protection
- Advanced occupant protection in all accident modes
- Pedestrian protection
- Compatibility improvement
Resources and ecology
- Alternative fuel, CNG, synfuel
- Biofuels
- Hydrogen
- Well to Wheel analysis for different alternatives
Process challenges in changing economics
- Lifecycle evaluations including manufacturing, service and recycling
- Customer acceptance and revenue opportunities
- Comparison of different transportation systems
- Future challenges in Supply Chain Management
- Logistics and flexibility as the supplier´s key competencies
- OEMs and suppliers facing new challenges such as road pricing, globalisation, fuel and taxes
- New solutions for the global supply base
- Build to order
- Taking the Dell-principle into SCM
Virtual reality
- New fields of application for engineers
- High-end techniques for visualisation in the product development process
- Tools for interdisciplinary work
Simulation & testing
- Strategies for application and interaction of innovative tools in the product development process
- New methodologies and tools for simulation and testing (e.g. objectivising of evaluations of subjective aspects such as NVH or comfort)
- Harmonisation of different test procedures
- International legislation
- Between suppliers and different OEMs - Holistic data management for simulation and test data from planning stage to the documentation of results
- Virtual testing as a bridge between simulation and testing
- Special applications and future topics