The aim is the prototypical realisation of the common European architecture for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication for system demonstration and functional verification. It includes also the integration of the prototype components for the test and demonstration phases.

A working prototype of the common European architecture for a vehicular communication system based on the COMeSafety definition is provided by PRE-DRIVE C2X. At first the necessary hardware and software components as well as the testing, management and monitoring tools needed for system development are identified. Functional prototypes of these components are then realised and functionally verified on a suitable test bench. After they have successfully passed this functional verification all components are replicated in sufficient numbers in order to set up a test site and to equip a small vehicle fleet for demonstration and test of the PRE-DRIVE C2X vehicular communication system.

Particular focus is put on the robustness of the system with particular view on the envisaged test and evaluations in field operational trials. These require systems that exceed pure demonstrator status.