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amid the real road traffic of the some 5 million plus inhabitants of the Frankfurt-Rhine-Main area of the state of Hesse, the country’s second largest metropolitan area. The simTD project (Safe and Intelligent Mobility Field Test Germany) results from collaboration among 18 project partners including major German automakers; suppliers Bosch and Continental; German Telekom; several research institutions and universities; as well as three government ministries. A 120-vehicle test fleet will begin six or seven months of field trials in the spring, said Christian Weiss, the project coordinator and Manager of Cooperative Systems for the Research and Advanced Development department at Daimler AG. Right now several passenger car models—Audi A4, BMW X1, Mercedes C-Class, Ford S-max, Opel Insignia, and Volkswagen Passat—are being fitted to communicate wirelessly with each other and with sensors in road beds and infrastructure via shortrange V2X links. The test zone includes hundreds of ITS roadside stations installed by the Hessian traffic center (VZH) and the Integrated Traffic Management Center Frankfurt (IGLZ) that will enable simTD test fleet vehicles to exchange data with traffic lights, road signs, and traffic control centers.

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The simTD field test near Frankfurt, Germany, will evaluate rapid local data transfer among vehicles and roadway infrastructure.

Next step in auto safety
“We are convinced that car-to-X communication represents an important step on the way to accident-free driving,” Weiss noted. European research
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A car with V2X can detect icy surface patches using ABS and stability control sensors and then warn nearby vehicles of the hazard.

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