Cooperative systems
Traditionally the individual traveller tries to find his or her way in the mobility network using limited information. Individual travellers optimise their trips according to their own preferences. The network manager aims to get the entire network in good shape. The network has to be safe and reliable and give good average performance to anonymous travellers.
New mobile communication technology enables continuous interaction between the individual user (or the user’s vehicle) and the systems provided by network managers and other service providers. Cooperative systems can use Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I and I2V) and communication to service centres. The physical and logical communication for communication between vehicles and infrastructure is currently subject of standardisation.
Peek Traffic is involved in the following programmes that research and test cooperative systems.
- CVIS, the large European research project that is setting the norm for cooperative systems and experiments with cooperative applications. www.cvisproject.org
- Safespot, the large European research project that explores cooperative systems technology for safety. www.safespot-eu.org
- FREILOT, a pilot project that explores the possibilities of cooperative systems to make goods transport more fuel-efficient. www.freilot.eu
- iTetris, a research project that explores the possibilities to do large scale simulations of the effectiveness of cooperative systems and the necessary communication infrastructure. www.ict-itetris.eu
- SPITS (Strategic Platform for Intelligent Traffic Systems), a large Dutch national project that aims to develop second generation cooperative technology and explore new cooperative systems applications.
- eCoMove, a new large European research project – starting April 2010 - that explores innovative strategies for fuel-efficient driving and fuel-efficient network management and traffic control.
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