V2X Communications to support ITS services

Nowadays, vehicles are becoming increasingly connected, both to each other and to the outside world. V2X, i.e., ‘vehicle to everything’, is an umbrella term to refer diverse types of vehicle communications, including vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P), and vehicle-to-network (V2N) communications. Using all these technologies, cars may talk to other cars, to infrastructure such as parking spaces or traffic lights, to mobile applications used by pedestrians and to cloud-based services via cellular networks. Future intelligent transportation systems may take advantage of these technologies to offer completely new ITS services, not available today. This talk discusses the diverse technologies that support these types of V2X communications, the standards that are being proposed and some ITS services that have been envisioned based on these technologies.