HORIZON 2020 - Cutting congestion with connected driving

'Connected driving' technologies will enable vehicles to connect and share information with one another, as well as with infrastructure and other parts of the transport network. Eventually this will facilitate decision-making, reducing the likelihood of collisions and helping improve traffic flow. But for this to happen, more accurate positioning information is needed - which is where the EU-funded HIGHTS project comes in.

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Innovation Transport Smart, green and integrated transport France Germany Luxembourg Netherlands Sweden

date: 12/08/2016

Project: High precision positioning for cooperati...

acronym: HIGHTS

See also: CORDIS

Cooperative intelligent transport system (C-ITS) applications rely on knowledge of the geographical positions of vehicles. Unfortunately, today’s satellite-based positioning systems are unable to provide position information that is sufficiently accurate for some applications. Current technologies also struggle in certain environments, such as in tunnels.