Aktiv - A German research initiative in Cooperative Systems

摘要

The paper gives an overview of German research initiative AKTIV -?Adaptive and Cooperative Technologies for the Intelligent Traffic". The four-year cooperation of 28 Partners will continue through 2010. With the goal of improving traffic safety and traffic flow the partners are working together in order to design, develop and evaluate innovative driver assistance systems, knowledge & information technologies as well as solutions for efficient traffic management. The Car2Car and Car2Iinfrastructure communication will be use as an important building block for future cooperative vehicle-infrastructure applications. The overall AKTIV research initiative is covering the following three projects: (1) Traffic Management, (2) Active Safety and (3) Cooperative Cars. The presentation is focused on Traffic Management subproject. In addition it contains also an overview of the two other subprojects.