C-Roads Antwerp-Helmond

Description

C-Roads Antwerp-Helmond has the ambition to integrate C-ITS with

• Advanced driving assisting systems (ADAS) by linking ISA and C-ITS Day-1 services
• Urban vehicle access regulations (UVAR)
• (Urban) mobility services like Truck-buffering (traffic information and smart routing), light prioritisation (for emergency vehicles, trucks and bikes) and multimodal information (P+R)

The combination of these services should lead to better road safety and liveability. To ensure these services, the following goals have to be achieved:

• Cross-border and interoperability testing of the services between Antwerp and Helmond available
• Establishment of cross-site tests with other C-Roads pilots
• Evaluation of the different services functional and impact assessment as well as user acceptance
• Development of scalability strategies (going to market) for the different services

The project setup focusses on:

• the deployment of combined Day-1 and Day-1.5 C-ITS services in Antwerp and Helmond
• Test and deploy 40 OBUs for ISA and UVAR
• Test with 250 professional drivers equipped with the C-ITS truck services, including traffic light priority
• 500 private drivers testing the C-ITS services on an application in combination with multi-modal mobility and (temporarily) UVAR information
• 350 active users (bicyclist, micro-mobility, and shared bike users) testing the application on UVAR and green light priority

Implementing Bodies

The consortium consists of the following partners:

• Be-Mobile
• Gemeente Helmond
• Hogeschool PXL
• lantis
• Stad Antwerpen
• Tractebel ENGIE
• Transport & Mobility Leuven
• V-tron
• Yunex Traffic

Schedule

• July 2023: Backend developed, installations finalised
• August 2023: Validation of the services ended
• October 2023: Final On-Board Unit built in
• September 2023: Antwerp pilot started
• October 2023: Helmond pilot started
• May 2024: Pilots ended
• August 2024: Evaluation activities end

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