CTAG has been granted funding to conduct the research project called ” Desarrollo de nuevos sistemas y aplicaciones cooperativas para la mejora de la seguridad en entornos interurbanos basados en la comunicación v2x y fcd (floating car data)” – Development of new systems and cooperative applications to improve safety in intercity environments based on v2x communication and fcd (floating car data) – with reference number SPIP2014-01517 and call decision dated 19/12/2014. This project is funded by the Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT), Ministerio del Interior of Spain.
Based on the vision of the great potential of cooperative communication systems in the increasingly booming field of smart vehicles, connected not only to other vehicles but also to the road infrastructure, the DGT has included in the projects funded by its Área de Movilidad, with reference SPIP2014-01517, the new approach proposed by CTAG on the use of vehicles as traffic information mobile sensors, using the communication channel specified by ETSI for such purpose -G5-.
CTAG’s project uses such innovative technologies as C2X, cloud computing or FCD to achieve the “detection” of events that are potentially dangerous for driving where conventional sensors do not exist to that end.
The evaluation of the technical feasibility of the proposed idea with a view to leave an open door to a real use of this information by conventional systems and services has also been studied within this initiative.
