1. Improving road safety and the safety of road operating agents

This technology is likely to improve safety by allowing vehicles to "talk" to each other and to the infrastructure so that many crashes can be avoided by exchanging basic safety data.
Moreover, through I2V information on roadworks, rescue and recovery actions, winter maintenance, etc. directly given to the driver inside his/her vehicle, it should reduce the number of casualties among road maintenance agents.

2. Making traffic management more efficient and contributing to the reduction of emissions

Through the collection of data from vehicles and/or infrastructure, cooperative ITS allow better management and efficiency of traffic information in real time.
This in turn will contribute to the reduction of emissions of the transportation system. Moreover, as the possibility of crossing information relative to Park and Ride sites (locations, availability of parking spaces) with information relative to public transportation systems (such as locations of the railway stations, bus stations or multimodal areas) arises, it will allow the creation of new multimodal services for a sustainable mobility (such as dynamic carpooling). In this paradigm shift, cooperative ITS will therefore play the key role of major facilitator for modal transfer.

3. Optimizing infrastructure management costs, making vehicles fit for the future and developing new services

Interoperable and integrated deployment of cooperative ITS fits into a logic of optimisation of overall costs related to road safety and the management of existing infrastructure, while offering new and more pleasant services whose business models have yet to be tested. In fact, the industry linked to the development of cooperative ITS has significant potential for job creation across Europe and could enhance the ITS sector’s economic growth.