Towards More Safety, Efficiency and Environmentally Friendly Mobility in the Austrian Road Network

Cooperative services are telematics services that bring together a wide range of different static and dynamic traffic infrastructure information (e.g. road sensors) – information from public transport operators, road operators and vehicles – and use such information to help motorists right there and then in their vehicles to reach their destinations more safely, more efficiently and in a much more environmentally friendly way.

The research project “Testfeld Telematik” (telematics testing field) was formed by a consortium of research institutions, industrial and public companies to test how such cooperative service have to be designed and employed to be able to contribute to more safety, efficiency and environmentally friendly mobility in the road network in the best possible way. At an international level, Austrian telematics players held leading positions in several European pilot projects focusing on cooperative services, where they successfully demonstrated the technology’s technical feasibility. Testfeld Telematik builds on the strength of these Austrian experts and, for the first time, bundles the competences of all Austrian industrial companies to work out internationally recognised answers for Europe-wide implementation and for Austria to obtain a head start. To achieve a sustainable improvement of Austria’s competitive position, an international study team will certify the experiences gained by the consortium and the cooperative services’ effects on road operators and cities. This will enable Austrian technology to be quickly employed by other European pioneers to successfully overcome the major challenges presented to transport policy. 

The test field essentially covers the motorway intersection A2/A23-A4-S1 as well as the link to public transport (“co-modal”) in the Vienna area. Test drivers in this area will be given a chance to experience and test the developed cooperative services for about one year.