R&D needs
Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication is expected to become a powerful means to improve road safety, reduce congestion and enable more efficient systems for managements of mobility and transport, in single and multi-modes. Further research on co-operative systems is needed in order to enable evolution from basic conceptual models and prototypal components to integrated systems that enable functional testing and validation, followed by the development and deployment of a common European architecture for co-operative systems.
Extensive testing of this common European architecture for co-operative systems through validations and field tests will promote inter-operability of different applications of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication for a safe and efficient mobility and transport system of the future.
To address these goals, a concerted action of the relevant stakeholders is needed at the European level, involving OEMs, automotive and technology suppliers, road and traffic operators, service providers and public authorities.
The industry sees the need for greater co-operation and integration in other related mobility and transport areas. The following R&D topics reflect the industry’s priorities:
Efficient traffic management and reliable real-time traffic information
- Reliable, real-time multi-modal travel and traffic information that can be accessed anytime and anywhere, and
- Development of open ITS frameworks that allow for system compatibility and inter-operability that lead to efficient area-wide traffic management within urban areas and across jurisdictional boundaries to interurban roads and adjacent urban areas.
Efficient use of all modes of transport through improved interfacing of transport hubs
- Improved interfacing of transport infrastructures and services for different transport modes (road, rail, waterborne, and air) and increased accessibility to improve co-modality, and
- Efficient car-use, advanced forms of car sharing in urban areas through new ICT-approaches.
Energy efficient transport of goods and improved logistics
- Development of complementary modularisation principles and architectures for goods carriers and vehicles in order to facilitate an improved transport and energy efficiency, and
- Development of open ITS frameworks for goods logistic systems and cost and time data bases for different modes.
Efficient use of all modes of transport through improved interfacing of transport hubs
- Improved interfacing of transport infrastructures and services for different transport modes
(road, rail, waterborne, and air) and increased accessibility to improve co-modality, and - Efficient car-use, advanced forms of car sharing in urban areas through new ICT-approaches.
Next generation driver assistance systems and impact assessment
- Development of ITS-technology platforms that facilitate in-vehicle systems integration, e.g. vehicle-to-vehicle communication, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication,
- Impact assessments of advanced driver assistance systems, and
- Impact assessment of advanced active on-board driver support on traffic efficiency and traffic flow.
Graphic: Co-operative systems - vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
