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

Final Report PRE-DRIVE C2X 29.9.2010
2.5.2.2 Electronics industry/automotive suppliers
At the first sight, automotive suppliers and electronics industry should benefit the
most from introduction of C2X communication technology. If cooperative systems
are implemented, they are supposed to deliver onboard units as well as road side
equipment.
But the electronics and supplier industries will be faced with considerable
investments in mass production when cooperative systems technology is introduced
to the marketplace. They need to prepare for production of systems and
components in sufficient numbers at low costs. This is possible only if there is a high
possibility that the technology path chosen will not be abandoned in the foreseeable
future because only then they are able to recover their investments in this
technology considering the relatively small profit margins that can be expected from
this kind of system.
For the same reasons, the electronics and supplier industries are in particular
interested in systems and components that are common for most if not all parts of
the world and should push this through active participation in worldwide ITS
standardisation activities. Only this enables the realisation of significant scale
effects, which are necessary to make production of components for vehicular
communication systems profitable considering the relatively low profit margins that
can be expected from the fact, that OEMs will make no or only very little profit with
the installation of onboard units.
2.5.2.3 Research and Academia
The role of academic partners has changed in C2X communication based projects
over time from partners responsible for the provision of working research prototypes
of communication equipment to partners responsible for evaluation and validation of
implemented complete systems that have left pure research status.
Consequently, academic partners led the PRE-DRIVE C2X work packages WP2000
and WP4000, which dealt with tools for evaluation. In the simulation work package
WP2000, know-how from different domains, communication technology, traffic
engineering and environmental science was brought together to form a combined
simulation tool set. By doing so, a major step for future evaluation procedures has
been taken. It is now possible to easily combine and integrate simulation related
methodologies and tools that were isolated before. This provides new possibilities
for an impact assessment of C2X communication technologies at a unprecedented
level of quality. For research this is vital in itself. For academia it forms the basis not
only for higher education but also for further development. Such development will
mainly concern the individual domains like communication development or
simulation but also the research into further possibilities for joining different knowhow
domains and their modelling techniques.
In work package WP4000, methodologies for test and evaluation of cooperative
systems as well as all relevant tools to support the test preparation and execution
were developed. Gained experiences and implemented tools are not only of value
for PRE-DRIVE C2X but can also be employed for any other ITS field operational
test. This offers the possibility to academia and research involved in PRE-DRIVE
C2X to broaden their scope and to open up new areas of activity.
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