Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems (CVIS)

The Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems (CVIS) Project is one of Europes flagship projects for cooperative mobility, providing a universal platform for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication and services. Co-financed by the EUs Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, CVIS brings together over 60 leading industrial, government, operator and research organisations from across Europe.

Test Site Sweden operates the Gothenburg test site of CVIS and is through Lindholmen Science Park a partner in the project. The main objectives of the Swedish CVIS test site has been to:

• Demonstrating Cooperative Systems, primary targeted at infrastructure to vehicle (I2V) communication.
• Targeting at adding cooperative elements to existing systems, i.e. the test site seeks the cooperation with other technologies.
• Evaluate and demonstrate the openness and scalability of the cooperative systems. In particular the FOAM (Framework for Open Application Management) concept will imposed onto the vehicles, Roadside equipment and Infrastructure Centers, including the applications that are built on FOAM.
• Use existing sources of information in the test area. These sources are already available and relatively easily accessible. The maps and data sources (sensors, loops, localization information) as well as the positioning technologies from EGNOS and Galileo are used.
• Demonstrate and validate the Cooperative aspects for Urban, Inter-Urban and Freight and Fleet applications

The CVIS project has been demonstrated at the Cooperative Mobility Showcase 2010. This demo (shown in the movie) features the worlds largest most varied and extensive demonstrations of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies and applications, held in and around Amsterdam 23-26 March 2010.