Speculate to accumulate: Andras Kovacs looks at how the historical focus of cooperative infrastructure on safety can be oriented to aid emerging environmental aims

摘要

Europe has given deployment of vehicular communications systems the green light with the allocation of a frequency band at 5.9GHz. This is for ITS and specifically road safety applications. This highly positive move came after a long period of preparatory work which included discussions of system plans within the Car-2-Car Communications Consortium, technology development within European Union (EU)-sponsored cooperative systems projects and a carefully articulated application of frequency involving CEPT (the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations). However, positive as it is this window of opportunity is open only for a few years; without ensuing deployment, CEPT will take back the unused frequency band.