Vehicle-to-X test drive to demonstrate communications technology

The Electronica exhibition in Germany this week sees the start of a large-scale practical test of vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication technology, according to a report in EE Times. NXP, Cohda Wireless, Siemens and Honda, along with safety validation company TÜV Süd will depart from NXP’s booth for a communicating cars test drive along the projected Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) corridor between Vienna and Rotterdam, travelling through Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
November 10, 2014 Read time: 2 mins

The Electronica exhibition in Germany this week sees the start of a large-scale practical test of vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication technology, according to a report in EE Times.

5460 NXP, 6667 Cohda Wireless, 189 Siemens and 1683 Honda, along with safety validation company TÜV Süd will depart from NXP’s booth for a communicating cars test drive along the projected Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) corridor between Vienna and Rotterdam, travelling through Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

The event is part of a V2X technology showcase to test the communications between vehicles and the C-ITS Corridor, and improve the data exchange between the systems through the IEEE 802.11p standard wireless network.

C-ITS is a joint project of the governments of Netherlands, Germany and Austria to test V2X technologies by implementing numerous roadside installations that exchange data with cars.

The test drive will implement two V2X applications: roadworks warning, using traffic information centres and mobile traffic signs to transmit warning signals to the vehicles; and traffic situation detection, where vehicles communicate with each other, exchanging data on the traffic situation. The data is also forwarded to the traffic information centre, from where it can be fed into navigation systems capable of processing real-time information.

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