5G Deployment for Connected Automated Mobility – 13th ITS Europe Congress

The 5G PPP partnership board has tasked the 5G PPP automotive working group in cooperation with key stakeholders such as the GSMA, 5GAA, 5G PPP V2X projects, Commission to develop a common Strategic Deployment Agenda(SDA), which defines the roadmap with implementation recommendations of deployment and geographical role out towards establishing pan-EU 5G Corridors for Connected Automated Mobility (CAM).

The European Commission has selected the pan-European 5G (cross-border) corridors as the initial digital transformation flagship project for Europe. The European Commission also aims at coordinating 5G launch in all EU Member States by the end of 2020. Full coverage in urban areas as well as along main transport paths (roads and railways) is expected by 2025.

n this context, Mikael Fallgren, Chairman of the 5G PPP Automotive Working Group took part of the 13the ITS Europe Congress in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on June 5, 2019.

Mikael Fallgreen presented cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) and needs to be met. He emphasized on his vision and on challenges to be overcome. He stressed three necessary conditions to face the deployment of 5G corridors infrastructure in Europe challenge:

• Common long-term vision by all members of the ecosystem, aligning political and business perspectives
• Clear understanding of the economics and business case for advanced Connected and Automated Mobility, including a proposal of future funding mechanisms (public-private partnerships) and innovative sharing models
• Predictable technological and regulatory environment

He also underlined major service requirements for CAM:

• Assisted Driving: Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and its evolution into AD
• Autonomous Driving: AD vehicles will rely on their own sensors to make safety critical decisions
• Coverage: V2X connectivity, in its various forms, will act as a key enabler for the highly and fully automated vehicles
• Security: The safety and security services remain a key concern for regulators and will be crucial for all Automotive use cases
• The cellular networks and standards that exist today already provide a +5 billion-user secure communication platform for multiple (current) use cases
• At present, more than 100 million vehicles are connected to 4G cellular networks globally

To conclude, he gave his views on economic and business issues, demonstrating building a network was expensive and pushing towards sharing alternatives and appropriate business logic.