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The future of driving will change - seeing is believing!

The 'connected vehicle' is no longer a dream, and the 'intelligent transport infrastructure' is already appearing on Europe’s roads. Brought together through a new generation of mobile communication technologies, they make up the future world of 'Cooperative Mobility'.

The demonstrations consisted of 3 parts
  1. Public-road Demonstrations on a highway and regional and urban roads
  2. Safety Demonstration in a dedicated area
  3. A Traffic Management Center

See the demonstration Guidebook for detailed information.

Starting on March 24, a wide range of cooperative mobility applications were demonstrated on the public highways leading from Amsterdam RAI to Schiphol Airport, on the airport’s own road network and in a dedicated safety demonstration area. In addition, a fully operational “cooperative traffic centre of the future” was set up to visualize the demonstrations that went on outdoors, and to show the migration from existing systems to future applications.

The Traffic Management Centre
The cooperative traffic management centre was the nerve centre of the demonstrations and meeting place for the showcase event as a whole. Every hour, there was a 30 minute presentation with 2 actors, enacting the idea of cooperative systems, the traffic management operator's perspective, the driver's perspective, and the traffic management centre of the future.

Public Road Demo Route

Every hour, 11 mini vans drove the demo route, giving each a 1-hour demonstration of cooperative systems, because a live tour says more than a thousand words: seeing is believing! When driving between Amsterdam RAI and Schiphol, we showed cooperative systems for road transport efficiency and traffic safety. We had selected a special track on the public road which includes urban, inter-urban and regional roads so that all kinds of cooperative systems could be shown, each having its own characteristics. During this tour, the following applications of the CVIS, SAFESPOT and COOPERS integrated projects were demonstrated live:

Seamless Wireless communication
One of the key elements of cooperative systems is the seamless handover between various communication channels such as infrared (short range), M5 (medium range at 5.9GHz) and 3G (wireless internet) communication media.

Safety Demonstrations
The tour started at the premises of Amsterdam RAI and took approximately 1 hour to complete. Halfway the tour, the mini-VAN’s stopped at the P4 parking at Schiphol Airport, where safety applications were demonstrated. Click here for more information
Enhanced positioning and mapping
Cooperative technologies enable us to fix the car's position with a much higher accuracy than with ordinary GPS. You will see the car visualized in the very lane you are actually driving in.

Contact cars close-by
Characteristics were shown of the vehicles in the vicinity and valuable information was exchanged between vehicles (V2V) and between vehicles and the infrastructure (V2I).

The open environment
Cooperative systems enabled smooth and easy, automatic downloading of services. The tour showed how new services and applications were downloaded dynamically to the car's open platform.

Public-private cooperation
Existing legacy systems in the Netherlands have been made cooperative so that they became part of the cooperative world. Data which was collected by the public road administration was thus directly communicated to the cars.