Cooperative vehicle highway systems – demonstrations at the ITS World Congress in Stockholm, September 2009
Date: 9/12/2009
Source: HA CVIS project
The 2009 ITS World Congress included a number of demonstrations of cooperative vehicle technologies on public roads. Highlights from the CVIS project demonstration have been provided by the Highways Agency’s members of the CVIS (Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems) project team.
CVIS demonstrated 10 applications, including:
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Communications technology: seamless handover between a variety of communication channels based on CALM standards (Communications Architecture for Land Mobiles)
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Open service platform for service provision: enabling smooth and automatic downloading of applications while the vehicle is in use
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Positioning technology: enhanced positioning supports more efficient use of the road network using lane matching for example dynamic use of the hard shoulder, or flexible use of a bus lane
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Road charging: free flow tolling, with services from a variety of operators available simultaneously (e.g. for different regions)
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Travel information: provision of parking and public transport information to support multi-modal journeys
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Access control: access control rules prohibit access to an area (e.g. tunnels, bridges, low emission zones) by vehicles of specific characteristics (e.g. HGVs, dangerous goods) and drivers are provided with directions for an alternative route
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Enhanced driver awareness: car to car communications warn drivers in the vicinity of vehicles driving in the wrong direction, and provide information to the traffic centre which then warns vehicles approaching the area
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Dynamic safety warnings: safety information provided to the vehicle can alert the driver for example on approach to a dangerous junction or in the vicinity of schools at the start and end of the school day.
These applications had been developed in five different countries and demonstrated that open interoperable applications can be successfully written for a common hardware platform.
Highways Agency contact for more information on the CVIS project: graham.seaton@highways.gsi.gov.uk .
ITS Radar International will continue to report on the CVIS project
Keywords: Communications, Cooperative vehicle systems, Geographic information, Payment, Safety, Traffic information, Traffic management
