Project: CVIS
Date: 2006-02 – 2010-01
The consortium consists of 60 partners, among which top vehicles manufacturers, suppliers and other industries, universities, research institutes, national road administrations and representative organizations from the European member states.
Intelligent Co-operative Systems are the next big challenge in automotive electronics and ITS. Intelligent Co-operative Systems that are based on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications hold the promise of great improvements both in the efficiency of the transport systems and in the safety of all road users. Indeed intelligent Co-operative Systems increase the "time horizon", the quality and reliability of information available to the drivers about their immediate environment, the other vehicles and road users, enabling improved driving conditions leading to enhanced safety and mobility efficiency.
Similarly, Co-operative Systems offer increased information about the vehicles, their location and the road conditions to the road operators and infrastructure, allowing optimized and safer use of the available road network, and better response to incidents and hazards.
Activities have been started in USA, Japan and Europe. Europe is well placed in the research on autonomous and stand-alone systems that have been researched in EU-funded programmes for over a decade, and have benefited from the support of political initiatives such as eSafety.
Makewave is deeply involved throughout the whole project and contributes with highly valuable and unparallelled knowledge of the telematics industry.
Check out the CVIS website for more information.