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CONNECTED CARS
ISSUE 03 2014
10 Tier I suppliers across Europe are expected to deploy V2X applications by 2015. “Vehicular communication systems are becoming popular as countries across Europe look to minimise the huge losses in time and related costs incurred due to traffic congestion,” says Frost & Sullivan automotive and transportation industry analyst Neelam Barua. “Traffic jams in Germany for instance, lead to a macroeconomic loss of more than €17 billion annually.
Roberto Baldessari, manager of the intelligent transport systems group at NEC Europe
He adds: “NEC’s been developing Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) solutions for the last 13 years as part of the Car2Car Communication Consortium and many other national and European projects. Initially, this technology will be introduced by the automotive industry for driver assistance systems. However, in a second phase immediately following the initial rollout, we expect V2X to become part of the telematics communication system integrating with LTE interfaces. Further, we expect smart city champions to offer local information and services to optimise road traffic, like green light optimal speed advisor (GLOSA) or parking guidance for partly autonomous vehicles. This will make the whole technical environment even more complex.”
Car-to-car communications A recent report from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the European Market for V2V and V2I Communication Systems, predicts that more than 40 per cent of vehicles will use V2V communication technologies by 2030, with Daimler and Volvo anticipated to lead the implementation of V2V communication systems among vehicle OEMs across Europe. V2I communication systems have also been finding significant traction in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Germany, and France and 15 OEMs and
The report also shows that crowd-sourced V2X information from the connected car space is also generating activity with a number of telematics service providers looking to enable V2X through tethered and embedded connectivity interfaces that allow vehicles to send and receive data that could serve as the nascent stage of V2X. Here, they expect that global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and infrared modes will augment DSRC solutions, while mobile-based technologies such as LTE form a futuristic platform for cooperative-intelligent transportation systems (C-ITS) in the region.
Cooperative systems prove to be more useful than advanced driver assistance systems and telematics, particularly when situations like construction site warnings and traffic congestion in highways caused by an accident or road damage are encountered. Projects such as the simTD, DriveC2X, eCoMove will catalyse the pilot-launch of C-ITS in Europe, but automotive OEMs and road users must coordinate with road operators for the success of the initial deployment, concludes the report.
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