One of the existing challenges for mobility is the temporal and spatial extension of driving safety through the use of wireless Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication technologies. The European Commission considers road safety and effective traffic management to be high-priority issues and, as such, has given significant support to various research projects focused on the development technologies and applications based on collaborative systems. Three large projects (SAFESPOT, CVIS and COOPERS) and numerous others co-financed by the European Commission are developing technologies and an integrated, interoperable architecture for the development of information exchange network which will enable sustainable mobility for the future.
C.R.F. coordinates Europe’s largest collaborative vehicle project, SAFESPOT, which is a partnership of 52 companies from all over Europe. The objective is to develop technologies to create an interoperable communications network connecting vehicles and road infrastructure. In partnership with the Car- 2-Car Communication Consortium, the SAFESPOT project has identified technologies and communication protocols that meet specific requirements for application to solutions that will improve road safety.