Connected Corridor
for Driving Automation

The Project

CONCORDA contributes to the preparation of European motorways for automated driving and high density truck platooning with adequate connected services and technologies.

Launched in October 2017 and funded by the Connecting Europe Facility, CONCORDA has been working on providing adequate connected services and technologies in terms of interferences and interoperability to help overcome fragmentation and ensure backwards interoperability between Cooperative-ITS services and the services harmonized by C-ROADS under real traffic situations. 

Technologies

CONCORDA combines 802.11p and LTE-V2X connectivity without affecting existing services in terms of interferences and interoperability to ensure backwards C-ITS service interoperability with the services harmonized by C-ROADS under real traffic situations.

Interoperability
& Testing

CONCORDA has been conducting tests at sites in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain, with an aim to improve the interoperability of the test sites. The interoperability is developed along three lines:

system architecture
and technologies

services

implementation

The objective of the cross-border activity is to identify interoperability issues on paper and also in practice, and to quantify the foreseen interoperability issues, while also identifying new practical issues. These will be used further as input for the re-development of the profiles and specifications.

The Consortium

26 partners, representing all relevant areas of the automotive and telecom ecosystem, are working together towards CONCORDA goal:

Connected Corridor for Driving Automation