EU Digital Transport Corridors - 5G, Platooning, ITS and MaaS

Abstract

The greatest hopes today in the development of an economy based on data in the EU are connected with the coming transition of their countries to a new generation of communication - 5G. It is estimated that 5G will not only expand the user capabilities of the customers' people of this connection, but, even more significantly, 5G will be able to support 1000 times more electronic devices per square meter than 4G. The article discusses examples of how this potential emerges and changes the economy of the industries associated with the development of digital transport corridors of the EU, which form the basis for supplying European cities and the development of the entire continent. Europe has set ambitious targets for the deployment of 5G in the 5G Action Plan since 2016, as well as for the 5G pan-European corridors for connected and automated mobility. 5G networks will be multiservice infrastructures and, therefore, will offer the benefits of joint investment, improving the profitability of each service (sector) using a common infrastructure. For real-time testing of 5G connectivity, ten “digital cross-border corridors” were installed in the Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility projects. As a flagship use case in the framework of the European vertical strategy 5G, the question of connecting and automatic control for the deployment of 5G along European transport routes is currently being considered. The long-term goal is to create holistic ecosystems around vehicles.