Cooperative Vehicle Localization for Efficient Urban Mobility

Results from perspectives of precise positioning for sustainable mobility Workshop

The workshop was hold at 17th of November 2011 in Torino.  Here you can find more information.

CoVeL - Cooperative Vehicle Localization for Efficient Urban Mobility

The steadily increasing traffic density in Europe is causing enormous negative effects such as accidents or CO2 emissions. Especially in urban areas, traffic jams and other disturbances are daily phenomena. As the capacity of traffic infrastructure can only slowly be further increased, a much more efficient traffic management is necessary to mitigate the negative impacts of road traffic.

The aim of the CoVeL project is to develop and commercialize the Lane Navigation Assistant (LNA) – an in-vehicle device which will enable lane-level navigation and lane-level traffic management especially in urban areas. The LNA will use satellite positioning as its primary source, whereas these data will be augmented by correction information coming from the EGNOS system. The EGNOS data will be obtained from EDAS and broadcasted to the vehicles using standard Vehicle2Vehicle- / Vehicle2 -Infrastructure-communications, for which standards are under development. Furthermore, the satellite positioning will be enhanced by innovative algorithms for cooperative localization and map matching. The resulting lane-level vehicle positioning will bring navigation and traffic management to a new level of detail and effectiveness.

CoVeL started in January 2010 with the duration of 24 months.