Research Projects in Inter-Vehicular Communications (IVC)

FleetNet - this "Internet on the Road" project was set up by a consortium of six companies and three universities in order to promote the development of inter-vehicle communication systems. FleetNet started on September 2000 and ended on December 2003.

CarTALK 2000 is a 3-year project started on August 2001. The project focused on developing new driver assistance systems which are based on inter-vehicle communications for safe and confortable driving.

The research initiative INVENT consists of eight component projects. These projects each deal with different investigations into issues concerning driver assistance systems for safer driving, traffic management systems to relief traffic jams and traffic management in transport and logistics, using user-friendly technologies.

WILLWARN - "Wireless Local Danger Warning" is one of the subprojects of the Integrated Project PReVENT which contributes to road safety by developing and demonstrating preventive safety application and technologies. WILLWARN is a 3-year project aimed at developing, integrating and validating a safety application that warns the driver whenever a safety-related critical situation is occuring beyond the driver's field of view. Among the key research areas expored in this project are vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.

Car2Car Communication Consortium was founded by six Europeon car manufacturers. One of its main objectives is to create and establish an open European industry standard for Car2Car communication systems based on wireless LAN components and to guarantee European-wide inter-vehicle operability.

NOW - "Network On Wheels" is a German research project started in 2004. The main objectives of NOW are to solve technical key questions on the communication protocols and data security for car-to-car communications and to submit the results to the standardization activities of the Car2Car Communication Consortium.

ADASE, the "Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in Europe" project, has a mission to increase the road and traffic safety in Europe not only by reducing accidents but by avoiding collisions before they occur. This is achieved by providing active safety systems in conjunction with infrastructure based roadside equipment and measures.

COMCAR - short for "Communication and Mobility by Cellular Advanced Radio", the COMCAR project targets at the conception and prototypical realisation of an innovative mobile communication network. With its main focus on asymmetrical and interactive movile IP-based services, one of the key issues being tackled is communication to and in vehicles.

DRiVE - one of the main objectives of the project DRiVE - "Dynamic Radio for IP-Services in Vehicular Environments" is to produce in-vehicle multimedia services that allow information to be easily accessible anywhere as well as provide support for education and entertainment.

CHAUFFEUR 2 is an extension to the CHAUFFEUR 1 project. This research project is on platooning of vehicles whereby a leading vehicle which is physically steered by a driver electronically tows more than one vehicle behind it.

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