PRE-DRIVE C2X Deliverable D0.3 Final report_20100929.pdf

Final Report PRE-DRIVE C2X 29.9.2010
5. Back end services provider (CMU)
6. Fleet management
It is assumed that these stakeholders are also willing to invest in the C2X
communication technology or are willing to pay for specific services. However,
during the course of this project, no detailed revenue assumptions were made,
which leads to the fact that the business case 1 only consists of investment costs
(RSU) and yearly CMU and RSU maintenance costs. Given the specific OBU
equipment scenario and RSU implementation scenario, the following project results /
conclusions are calculated (see table 5 for details);
The Net Present Value (i.e. of business case 1 is - 3,9 billion euro. The negative
NPV is due to the high investments which were made for the establishment of
the extensive infrastructure of Road Side Units.
Rem.: Net Present Value (NPV) is an indicator of how much value an investment
or project adds to the firm. Each cash inflow/outflow is discounted back to its
present value (PV). Then they are summed. Therefore NPV is the sum of all
terms
The yearly CMU costs seem extremely high and are responsible for more than
50% of NPV. The high CMU cost are based on estimations and are
recommended to be investigated in more detailed in the follow-up project.
Table 5: Calculation results for business case 1
Business case 2 (comfort and infotainment services)
The services offered in business case 2 are comfort and infotainment data services.
Examples of these services are; Insurance and financial services, media download,
local electronic commerce, parking assistance, point of interest information etc.
These services can be relevant for the following target groups:
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