Autók internete

Az intelligens közlekedés megvalósulásához közelebb vihet egy, az autók – és a közlekedés más szereplőinek – internet-szerű hálózatán dolgozó európai uniós kezdeményezés.

Your cooperative dashboard flashes a warning: “Emergency vehicle crossing at the next intersection!” You start slowing down. On cue, the lights on your route turn red, simultaneously turning green for a fire engine crossing at the intersection. That fire engine will surf a ‘wave’ of green lights all the way to the blaze further downtown. As the lights turn green, your display suggests a diversion that will skirt the scene of the accident, avoiding any risk of congestion. You take the suggested turn and your car advises you of a new speed limit. You slow down and gain some extra 'green miles', bonus points awarded to careful drivers, redeemable against a range of privileges, such as driving in the city centre without charge, or using bus lanes outside rush hour. The day started more or less as any other. Your mobile phone woke you a little earlier than usual because heavy rain meant traffic was less fluid than usual: the SafeRoute service you subscribe to estimated a 10-minute delay in your normal commute and so sent your mobile an earlier alarm. Now you are glad for the early start; an unhurried drive is a happy one. As you make the final turn on the way to work, your cooperative co-pilot reads a message from the car behind you. It’s your colleague, asking if you have time for coffee. Thanks to all the cooperative vehicle-infrastructure systems (CVIS), you are early for work so you catch a quick coffee with your friend. This is a future without road rage, a future of cooperative drivers using cooperative vehicle infrastructure systems. It is the vision of the CVIS project, which is itself part of a broader trend internationally with a focus on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). The USA, Japan and Europe are all thinking of cooperative systems like this, according to Paul Kompfner, Head of Sector, Cooperative Mobility at ERTICO – ITS Europe and coordinator of the CVIS project. “On every continent, part of the spectrum has been reserved for cooperative systems, 5.9 GHz in the States and Europe, and 5.8 GHz in Japan, so this subset of ITS is certainly coming. Right now, I’d say Europe has something of a lead in technology development and validation across a wide range of test sites,” suggests Kompfner.

IT3 komment: Egymással és a közlekedési infrastruktúrával kommunikáló járművek vízióját vetíti elénk a CVIS projekt. A megvalósulás azonban nem csak elképzelés és technológia kérdése, hanem nagyon komoly infrastruktúra fejlesztést és az ehhez szükséges anyagi forrásokat is igényli. Ha a járműpark cserélődési ütemét is figyelembe vesszük, akkor az tűnik valószínűnek, hogy csak az évtized vége felé fog mindez a mindennapok részévé válni. Viszont a fejlesztéseket már most el kell kezdeni ahhoz, hogy bármi is megvalósulhasson az elképzelésekből.

Forrás: cordis.europa.eu