The project is divided into four activities as described below :

Activity 1 is dedicated to project management and communication : it defines the overall project organization, internal and external communication and relationships with the European Commission. Indeed, the project benefits from a 50% grant from the European Commission and is involved in the cooperative ITS platform of the European Commission, where various matters on cooperative ITS are discussed with all stakeholders at a European level : cost-benefit analysis, business cases, data ownership and privacy, security structure and liability, etc. The project is also involved in the Amsterdam Group, which promotes best practices among cooperative ITS corridors throughout Europe.

Activity 2 includes all studies needed to be carried out collectively in order to ensure interoperability of the various parts of the SCOOP system :

• Road Side Units (RSU) that might be different in each pilot site depending on the results of the public procurement processes,
• On-Board Units in Vehicles (OBU) for production vehicles (two types : Renault and PSA),
• On-Board Units in Vehicles (OBU) for road operators vehicles that include RSU functionalities, and might also be different for each pilot site,
• the SCOOP platform which aims to ensure the interface between the traffic management center of the road operator and roadside units (RSU),
• the security system, based on a public key infrastructure (PKI), which covers different aspects (integrity, confidentiality, traceability, private life protection, authentication).
  It involves common specifications, coordinated development, and a thorough validation of the components including interoperability tests. This testing phase is carried out in three steps : in-laboratory testing, test-track testing, open-road testing.

Activity 3 is decentralized. It includes public procurement and development activities on each pilot site, as well as deployment of the components on the pilot sites and in the cars once validated.

Checking that SCOOP system is interoperable with cooperative ITS projects in other countries is the aim of Activity 4. This activity involves partners from Spain, Portugal and Austria and includes cross-tests with test sites in these countries. Austria being part of another major European pilot deployment project involving three countries : the Rotterdam-Frankfurt-Vienna corridor, the cross-tests with Austria are a way to ensure that both projects are interoperable.

The management of the project is based on three principles :

• Collegiality : in the steering commitees of the 4 activities, all decisions are made on the basis of a consensus
• Subsidiarity : each sub-activity has a dedicated leader who reports to the corresponding steering commitee,
• Transparency : a collaborative working space makes it possible to share documents with all partners of the project.