C-ITS Communications using Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies

Wireless communications and pervasive technologies are fundamental entities needed to make a transport system "cooperative" and "smart". This transport system, known as a Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS), is aimed to enhance the safety of road users, driving comfort as well as to reduce the CO2 emissions. Industry and academic communities all-over the world is continuously performing research and implementing field measurements to bring C-ITS technology to life. Both 3
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Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) have been working on respective standards (3GPP V2X and ETSI ITS G5 in Europe) to provide seamless connections in C-ITS communications. In this poster paper, we discuss the pilot C-ITS use-case scenarios conducted on a test-track in Northern Finland. The pilot measurements are planned by using heterogeneous wireless communication technologies (ITS-G5 and 5GTN) to provide C-ITS service alerts. The C-ITS service alerts are used to avoid road traffic collisions as well as to improve traffic efficiency with CO2 reduction. The C-ITS pilot service alerts proved that the heterogeneous network considerably improves the communication link availability between vehicles and road-side-infrastructure to make it more secure, eco-friendly and efficient.