INTELLIGENT ROAD SAFETY USING INFRASTRUCTURE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATION - A HOLISTIC SYSTEMS ISSUE

Intelligent road safety is more and more sustained by co-operative traffic management systems which are based on 12V (infrastructure to vehicle) communication. These systems are complex networks integrating sensors, actors, communication on different levels and humans as active part, consisting of road-side infrastructure coupled with advanced driver assistance systems and on-board data collection facilities. COOPERS has the objective of assisting these kind of co-operative traffic management by implementing intelligent services interfacing road infrastructure, highway operators, vehicles and drivers. These services have different levels of criticality and safety impact. Besides the technical aspect such as designing the components for the 12V communication it is important to create adequate business models for the market roll-out using so-called Value Chains. The paper presents the concepts of COOPERS based traffic management systems, the difference to conventional traffic management systems and the concept of respective Value Chains for safety critical services and convenience services.