Different realities are working on developing their autonomous driving solutions. This work, however, does not focus only on cars but also on the road infrastructure that when it can; constantly dialogue with the cars will be able to provide valuable information to make more safe travels with self-driving vehicles. In this sense comes the news that the first results achieved by the C-Roads Italy project, co-financed by the European Union which is co-financed, have been presented. was carried out by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport jointly with some partners including the research center of the Stellantis Group and Autostrada del Brennero.
THE PROJECT
The initiative that is part of a larger project wide European, aims to carry on the development and testing of & quot; smart roads & quot; with the implementation of harmonized and interoperable Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) that allow communication between vehicles and with the road infrastructure throughout Europe. It is a communication system also known as Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) .
The C-Roads Italy initiative guarantees continuity; cooperative services between member states and road operators, contributing to a sustainable transport system in terms of economic, environmental and social impact and, at the same time, improving road safety, increasing the efficiency of the use of road infrastructures and traffic management, improve interoperability; of transport services for both passengers and goods.
The tests have not yet finished and are being conducted at the Stellantis research center in Trento, on the motorway sections of the A22 near Trento, on the Venice ring road, on sections of the A4 and A28, as well as near the Brenner for cross-border scenarios between Italy and Austria. For the occasion, prototypes of Maserati Ghibli and Fiat 500X were set up equipped with an advanced system for the management of connected and autonomous vehicles called & quot; Highway Chauffeur & quot ;. These are solutions that allow you to enable level 3 autonomous driving . (Here we explain the different levels of autonomous driving).
L & # 39 ; main focus of the Stellantis research center & egrave; to test, verify and prove how i Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) cooperative systems can have a positive impact on safety, fluidity; traffic and the environment. The focus is; V2I communication, i.e. between vehicles and the intelligent road network so that the Highway Chauffeur can exploit information from outside to improve knowledge of the scenario in which it moves, for safe and comfortable autonomous driving (traffic, accidents , construction sites and more).
Information that will also be made available to the driver during manual driving through alerts and suggestions. V2X messages are geo-referenced, so that the vehicle can filter the content based on its position and trajectory.
The prototypes that are being tested on the road receive information on the road conditions; not only from the road infrastructure but also from other vehicles equipped with the same technology that will signal their presence and any problems. The cars used for the tests have been tested in a series of use cases, ranging from reporting unexpected road events, to cooperative scenarios between passenger cars, to the most severe scenarios; complex of cooperative maneuvers between passenger cars and heavy vehicles in exceptional conditions, such as the narrowing of the lane due to work in progress.
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