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

Final Report PRE-DRIVE C2X 29.9.2010
a tight cooperation with related standardization bodies to support the standardization
process. The following results are significant:
The three PRE-DRIVE C2X workshops led to the establishment of a task force
on the deployment of cooperative systems that will continue to be active and
operate on the definition of a sustainable deployment roadmap well beyond this
project time frame. During PRE-DRIVE C2X the task force has defined priority
applications that are candidate to be firstly deployed on the market and has
initiated the task to define stakeholders’ roles and actions for a successful
deployment.
PRE-DRIVE C2X has completed the specification for the common European
C2X communication system and fed it into the standardization process of ETSI
TC ITS and thus also in the activities in the context of the EC standardisation
mandate. This activity placed its ground on the COMeSAFETY Support Action
task force results, namely on the document produced by this task force on the
common European architecture for cooperative systems.
Direct involvement of PRE-DRIVE C2X in the EU-US Task Force that has been
set up in 2009 between the EC DG InfSo and US-DOT/RITA. The Task Force is
focused on deploying cooperative systems in light of a EU-US harmonization.
Deliverable D6.6 “Document entitled: “Towards Europe-wide implementation of
cooperative systems technology” that will include also the definition and analysis of
all relevant enabling and disabling factors for the market introduction of cooperative
systems, a list of actions to create users’ awareness and relevant inputs to
standardisation bodies” explains in more detail the progress PRE-DRIVE C2X has
made with regard to users´ awareness and market introduction of cooperative
systems.
2.4 Impact and use of the final results
PRE-DRIVE C2X created a prototype of a common European C2X communication
system based on the architecture description created by COMeSafety that has been
functionally verified in a series of tests and goes beyond a research system. It is
robust enough to sustain future large scale field operational test on relevant ITS test
sites in Europe as they are envisaged for a potential follow-up activity to PRE-
DRIVE C2X.
It is expected, that product development based on the prototype system realised in
PRE-DRIVE C2X commences during the envisaged field operational trial, so that
system implementation can start without too much delay when the field operational
trial has finished. This is supported by the fact that the results of PRE-DRIVE C2X
were fed continuously into ongoing standardisation processes at ETSI and CEN and
level through the PRE-DRIVE C2X partners and through the Car-2-Car
Communication Consortium. This will enable other companies, who are not
necessarily partners of the Car-2-Car Communication Consortium to develop
systems and components that fit to the PRE-DRIVE C2X/COMeSafety
specifications. This will speed up market introduction considerably but will
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