C-ITS Communications using Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies

Wireless communications and pervasive technologies are fundamental entities needed to make a transport system "cooperative" and "smart". This transport system, known as a Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS), is aimed to enhance the safety of road users, driving comfort as well as to reduce the CO2 emissions. Industry and academic communities all-over the world is continuously performing research and implementing field measurements to bring C-ITS technology to life. Both 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) have been working on respective standards (3GPP V2X and ETSI ITS G5 in Europe) to provide seamless connections in C-ITS communications. In this poster paper, we discuss the pilot C-ITS use-case scenarios conducted on a test-track in Northern Finland. The pilot measurements are planned by using heterogeneous wireless communication technologies (ITS-G5 and 5GTN) to provide C-ITS service alerts. The C-ITS service alerts are used to avoid road traffic collisions as well as to improve traffic efficiency with CO2 reduction. The C-ITS pilot service alerts proved that the heterogeneous network considerably improves the communication link availability between vehicles and road-side-infrastructure to make it more secure, eco-friendly and efficient.