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TThe euroFOT project is a large-scale Field Operational Test (FOT) undertaken in Europe in order to evaluate a variety of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) with regard to traffic safety, efficiency and environment. In addition, usability and acceptance are evaluated. For this reason, test vehicles instrumented with data acquisition systems and equipped with different ADAS have been provided by different manufacturers to ordinary drivers for everyday driving. The FOT is organised via four operational test centres (vehicle management centres) across Europe: in Sweden, France, Italy, and Germany. The responsibility of subproject SP5 (Vehicle and Test Management Centre; VMC) is to prepare and guarantee both a smooth procedure for the execution of the FOT and the cooperation among the vehicle management centres. It also ensures the operation of the FOT in accordance with the other work packages of the project. It provides the operational platform for SP6 (Evaluation Impact Assessment, Socio-economic Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)) which conducts the evaluation of the specific ADAS under investigation with regard to the research hypotheses. This merged deliverable (combination of D5.4 and D4.3) gives a summary of the activities of subproject SP5 and combines that with annotations from SP4 (Methodology and Experimental Procedures). The reason for this approach is that the information reported and collected in SP5 is needed to reflect on what went different compared to the original experimental set-up plans that were developed in SP4 (deliverable D4.2 [7] specifically). Instead of reporting the same information twice, merging both documents aids the reader by providing an overall view instead of a fragmented one. A first general aim is therefore to report on the driver and vehicle recruitment, the instrumentation of the vehicles, while looking at the changes in the execution of the tests compared to the plans and also indicating the main implications through annotations. This deliverable further reports on the execution of the FOT operation and the follow-up actions, such as the de-installation of the data loggers. Furthermore user workshops were conducted to assess the perception of the project by the participating drivers. Thus the following questions and topics will be discussed in details. Some of these will be annotated from an SP4 perspective: •How were the vehicle management centres (VMC) organized? •What was the procedure to secure the provision of the logging and sensing equipment •How was the experimental design defined in SP4 actually implemented? •What was the procedure implemented to recruit the necessary number of drivers and vehicles? •How was the driver interaction organized to ensure smooth operation through the different design phases (equipment installation/de-installation, baseline/treatment period transition, equipment maintenance, error reporting and handling, subjective data gathering, incentives) e.g. description of the hotline? •What is the result of the user workshops that were organized? •What are the lessons learned from the FOT operation phase? The document covers the different VMCs. However, for practical reasons the different operation sites are discussed separately. This is due to the fact that in most of the cases they had major differences in terms of tested functionalities, driver and vehicle recruitment policy, logger and sensing equipment. The annotations of SP4 will be provided under specific headings. The document also highlights the various links to other subprojects of euroFOT.