Nokia's HERE maps is working with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment to evaluate the deployment of a cellular network-based Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System (C-ITS) for improving road safety and reducing congestion in the Netherlands. The evaluation focuses on a system utilizing standard commercial 3G and 4G/LTE cellular networks as well as location cloud technology and data analytics from HERE to connect smartphones and other devices, road infrastructure and traffic management centers.
According to Nokia, the system would serve as an efficient low latency data exchange mechanism, whereby targeted information - about, for example, an accident or black ice - could be communicated to the right people at the right time and location.
Caspar de Jonge, project manager for Beter Benutten
In particular, in 2016, we want to start deploying a road user messaging system that enables information to be gathered, processed and then distributed to the relevant road-users with quality, accuracy and at sub-second delivery rates.
Ogi Redzic, senior vice president of Automotive, HERE
HERE's solution can be built on existing Dutch networks, meaning that it wouldn't cost the earth, could be quickly rolled out across the whole country and would bring benefits to citizens relatively fast.
