Tag Archives: C-ITS

New insights on the feasibility of C-ITS service provision in the Nordic countries

Posted on May 20, 2024 by nradmin
The Nordic countries have developed C-ITS in a series of NordicWay actions, conducting also evaluation to assess the feasibility of C-ITS service provision in the Nordic countries. Overall, the results showed that the feasibility seems promising. However, work remains in building optimal...

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Acceptance and need of real-time traffic information services in the transport industry

Posted on June 2, 2021 by nradmin
C-ITS services offering real-time traffic information are estimated to have a large potential to improve road safety, traffic flow, and energy efficiency. For freight traffic, these improvements could result in cost-benefits. Photo: Shutterstock NordicWay 2 and 3 (www.nordicway.net) projects...

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Feasibility of C-ITS service provision in the Nordic countries

Posted on April 19, 2021 by nradmin
The NordicWay 2 project, co-funded by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme, was set up to support the deployment of cooperative intelligent transport system (C-ITS) services in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). In addition to piloting, NordicWay 2 assessed the...

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Defining criteria that affect the importance and significance of cooperative road works warnings

Posted on March 4, 2020 by nradmin
Maintaining operability of the road network requires regular maintenance and improvement works, which can pose harm to traffic. A recent study produced background for an implementation and usage strategy for cooperative road works warnings in the Finnish road environment. Cooperative road works...

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VTI’s simulators are being used for emergency vehicles 

Posted on March 11, 2019 by nradmin
Better accessibility and shorter response times for emergency vehicles – this is something that standardised, directed, traffic messages, transmitted over the 5G network can contribute. Within the EU project Nordic Way 2, a functioning prototype of such a service is being developed. This is being...

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