simTD

Project description

The research project 'simTD' will shape tomorrow's safe and intelligent mobility through research and testing of car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure (together, car-2-x) communication and its applications. The project started in September 2008 and will run for four years. simTD will put the results of previous research projects into practice. For this purpose realistic traffic scenarios will be addressed in a large-scale field test that includes the infrastructure around the Hessian city of Frankfurt. The project will also pave the way for the political, economic and technological framework to successfully set up car-to-x networking.

To achieve those objectives, several automotive and telecommunication companies, the Hessian state government and renowned universities and research institutions are working together. The Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, the Ministry for Education and Research as well as the Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Affairs are funding and supporting the project.

simTD is pursuing the following main objectives:

• Increased road safety and improved efficiency of the existing traffic system through the use of car-to-x communication
• Definition and validation of a roll-out scenario for the identified functions and applications through practice-oriented experiments and field operational tests
• Definition, analysis, specification and documentation of the functions to be developed and tested, as well as the resulting requirements for the overall system for selected functions and tests
• Development of test and validation metrics and methods in each phase of the overall system development in order to allow measurement and evaluation of the results
• Consolidation and harmonization of feasibility and performance requirements as well as ensuring their compatibility
• Verification of functions and requirements within the context of individual milestones