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

PRE-DRIVE C2X 9/29/2010
With the potential benefits of vehicular communication proven, next steps
were the specification and prototypical realisation of a common European
architecture for cooperative systems that does closely follow the definitions set
up by COMeSafety. In order to get a realistic idea of the benefits that can be
expected, this needed to be accompanied by an a priori estimation of the
impact on road safety and traffic efficiency employing tools for impact
assessment that are commonly agreed and allow for reproduceable and
comparable results.
For the aforementioned reasons the overall goals of the PRE-DRIVE C2X
project proposal were to:
establish a pan European architecture framework for cooperative systems,
that ensures interoperability of all different applications of vehicle to vehicle
and to infrastructure communications for safety and mobility.
perform a consistent a priori estimations of the impact on traffic safety and
mobility of cooperative systems for road safety and traffic efficiency
pave the road for the forthcoming field operational tests on cooperative
systems
identify the key enabling and disabling factors to plan the future market
introduction.
In order to design, develop and demonstrate the envisaged common
European architecture for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure
communication and to prove the proper functioning and the expected benefits
PRE-DRIVE C2X brought together all relevant European actors in that field
that had to do the step forward for the common architecture, namely the
vehicle makers and the relevant automotive and technology suppliers in the
field.
This step was done by implementing the architecture designed jointly by
COMeSafety together with the projects on cooperative systems running at the
time of COMeSafety. In this way the vehicles can now become the key to
really enable the interoperability that is needed to obtain a sustainable
deployment ramping up in short term.
However, involved actors, at all levels, did not only set up a prototype system
that can easily be replicated for future activities such as field operational tests
but did also provide a dedicated simulator for cooperative systems allowing
comprehensive system evaluation from a technical as well as from a safety
and a traffic impact related viewpoint and develop the necessary tools and
methods for future evaluation in real environments.
The PRE-DRIVE C2X work was organised as follows:
2.1.1 WP1000 System architecture development
Based on the relevant scenarios and the resulting applications the European
communication architecture that was drafted by the COMeSafety support
action was transferred into a working prototype that made use of existing
systems and components wherever possible in order to guarantee easy
implementation and quick market introduction. This prototype was verified and
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Final Report