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Man and the Aktiv research partners develop a more effective and safe road traffic
12/06/2009
June 12, 2009
Man nutzfahrzeuge and companies participating in the research CoCar project presented in Munich on 14 may the results of two years and a half of his research work. One of the central questions of researchers was how to organize the road traffic of the future more securely and efficiently with the help of the mobile radio communication technologies available. This transmission was studied real-time information on traffic from vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure.
Within the margin of the CoCar project of Aktiv (adapted and helper technologies for intelligent traffic) research initiative, were studied, in everyday scenarios, different situations such as timers, obstacles to the leadership, assistance to the driver and traffic management. The objective of this research was to provide the vehicles nearby security information important, as, for example, the warning of a traffic jam or a braking for emergency of a preceding vehicle in the same lane. These warnings of danger enable to avoid serious accidents by clashes of scope and increase the security significantly.
Within the scope of the initiative of research Aktiv CoCar project, different situations such as alarms, barriers were studied for driving, etc.
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