A safer road is one that talks. Vehicles that communicate with each other, as well as with the road infrastructure, transport agencies and others, can warn drivers of upcoming hazards and ultimately prevent accidents and keep traffic flowing more smoothly.
Finland saw the potential and, following the European Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) directive, is the first to implement a pilot scheme that seeks to enable vehicles to communicate safety hazards such as black ice or animals on the road.
The Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) asked HERE to lead the pilot, called Coop, in collaboration with Trafi, and traffic information management specialists InfoTripla.
The pilot will involve volunteers sharing information from their vehicles to others via a smartphone. However, the end goal is to lay the foundation for automated cloud communication on mobile networks with data generated by vehicles’ on-board sensors and the surrounding road infrastructure to other vehicles and smart devices on the road.
In that scenario HERE plays the role of conductor orchestrating and analysing the volume of sensor data in its location cloud and sending messages to the right place within seconds or eventually even milliseconds.
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