Connected vehicles will enhance traffic safety and efficiency

Connected vehicles will enhance traffic safety and efficiency

et’s be quite clear about this, European road traffic safety policy is a success story!

Road accident related fatalities have more than halved (2001- 2017), despite increasing traffic volumes. However, with 25,300 fatalities in 2017 a greater coordination of policy effort is needed for further significant reductions.

Today’s advanced driver assistance functions have the ability to further reduce accidents by 30% in our estimation.

Those functionalities include forward collision warning, emergency braking, crossroads warnings or the usage of night vision devices, just to name a few.

While introducing such innovations and increasing levels of automation the BMW Group and the automotive industry fully supports the strategy of the EU Commission to encourage the deployment of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS).

C-ITS uses connectivity technologies to enable road vehicles to communicate with other vehicles, road users and roadside infrastructure. Communicating information such as approximate position, speed, direction of travel or time remaining on green for a traffic light can improve traffic efficiency by providing added value information to vehicle drivers.

Aggregated C-ITS information also helps drivers optimize their journey and in some cases can warn of imminent collision thereby improving safety.

The transmission of C-ITS messages should be done via the license-free frequency band around 5,9GHz which is reserved for this purpose.

Read more : https://www.europeanfiles.eu/digital/connected-vehicles-will-enhance-traffic-safety-efficiency