PRE-DRIVE C2X designs, develops and demonstrates the envisaged common European architecture for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. It proves the proper functioning and the expected benefits. The PRE-DRIVE C2X consortium performs a substantial step forward from the current research systems to a system prototype based on a common architecture. The prototype must be robust enough to sustain a real life field trial.

This step will be done by implementing the architecture designed by COMeSafety together with all running projects on cooperative systems. Here the vehicles that can be seen as moving nodes of a network. This is the key to really enable the interoperability with all needed communication means, and it is prerequisite for a sustainable deployment ramping up in short term.

The project sets up a prototype system that can easily be replicated for future field operational tests. It also provides a dedicated simulator for cooperative systems that allows a comprehensive system evaluation from a technical as well as from a safety and a traffic impact related viewpoint. It further develops the necessary tools and methods for future evaluations in real environments.