Vtrek affiliated with new EC-funded project on security in public transport

The PREVENT (PRocurEments of innoVativE, advaNced systems to support security in public Transport) Project kickoffed on May 1, 2019, and has been awarded €1.89 million in EC funding.

PREVENT focuses on pre-empting attacks in public transport by:

• enabling earlier detection of terrorists activities and potentially dangerous objects;
• tracking of detected individuals or potentially dangerous situations; and
• coordinating the response of security forces.

PREVENT aims to:

• Analyse the existing processes and practices in public transport infrastructures (existing technologies, legal regulation, etc.);
• analyse and assess the threats and the vulnerabilities;
• build the scenarios through use cases highlighting the gaps between the existing and what would be needed;
• analyse the technologies in order to address the process and solutions gaps;
• analyse the data protection, legal and economic aspects of the technologies;
• determine the overall need and prioritise it, to prepare one Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP).

Vtrek is Linked Third Party to the project through its parent company Corvers, which is a formal partner with PREVENT. The consortium consists of 16 Partners, 8 Countries, 9 Practitioners (public transport operators and law enforcement), and 5 Public Buyers. 

The project will run over 15 months, and is coordinated by ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA. For more information, visit the PREVENT project website.