This report provides an overview of the on-going research into vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication in Europe. It considers the most likely technology to be adopted, the key players who are involved in making this decision and the timescales that they are working to.
The report continues by examining the safety, traffic management and entertainment-based applications that could be enabled by V2V and V2I solutions. It concludes by looking at the various scenarios for deploying such technology and the key factors that will determine their eventual take-up rates.