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Final Report PRE-DRIVE C2X 29.9.2010
nevertheless leave the PRE-DRIVE C2X partners the possibility to be in the lead of
exploitation and to benefit from the efforts that have gone into the project.
PRE-DRIVE C2X results will also be fed gradually into the development processes
of the participating vehicle manufacturers, which are somewhat restricted by long
product life cycles that to some extend dictate the time schedule for innovations.
Therefore, even if this appears to be relatively late considering the time schedule of
the project, fully working cooperative systems will be seen in European vehicles not
before 2015, when the automotive partners of PRE-DRIVE C2X are expected to
start deployment more or less at the same time. However, working together on
common use cases for vehicular communications in PRE-DRIVE C2X gave the
necessary certainty to European vehicle manufacturers about the future of
cooperative systems that is needed to justify the decision for product development.
System suppliers such as Delphi, Hitachi, Renesas or NEC, on the other hand, need
certainty about the willingness of the vehicle manufacturers to introduce vehicular
communication to the market. They have gained this certainty through PRE-DRIVE
C2X as well because of the close collaboration with vehicle manufacturers. This will
push development of communication hard- and software considerably and it can be
expected, that commercial communication modules based on PRE-DRIVE C2X
results are available for certain applications such as infotainment in due time before
the Europe-wide roll out of the full blown C2X communication system specified and
prototyped by PRE-DRIVE C2X. This gives system suppliers some early return on
investment and ensures that systems are mature, when vehicle manufacturers start
equipping their vehicles.
With regard to deployment of the simulation model developed in WP2000
“Simulation” it can be said, that after the end of PRE-DRIVE C2X the model will be
used by the PRE-DRIVE C2X partners during product development but will also
deliver important input for the preparation of deployment decisions on industry side
as well as for potential infrastructure providers such as authorities or road operators.
Furthermore, it can be expected, that parts of the simulation model or the model as
a whole will be commercialized pretty soon after the end of PRE-DRIVE C2X by the
partners who have developed it for instance as additional feature of the VISSIM
traffic simulation tool of PRE-DRIVE C2X partner PTV.
Besides this, the knowledge gained during the development of the simulation will be
used by the partners also for other activities in that field, so that it can be expected,
that PRE-DRIVE C2X results can be found soon in other commercial software
products, even if these are not directly related to cooperative systems. Examples for
this are the various tools for traffic simulation on the market, which have
permanently benefited from the involvement of their developers into common
research activities. In this context also the involvement of the software company
SAP in PRE-DRIVE C2X needs to mentioned. They developed software solutions in
the project that enable innovative commercial services on the basis of data
generated by a future vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
system. Economic studies in PRE-DRIVE C2X WP5000 have shown that these
applications can be the key enabler for large scale introduction of cooperative
systems technology into vehicles, because it will enable automotive manufacturers
as well as system operators to benefit from introduction of this technology by
creating additional revenue.
Deployment of the various tools and methodologies for test and evaluation
developed in PRE-DRIVE C2X can be expected in so far, that application of these
tools and methodologies is not limited to test and evaluation of vehicular
communication. The partners will use these tools also for other activities not only in
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