TABLE OF CONTENTS To put it all together and provide the reader with a holistic sense for how CVHS is moving forward, this section addresses deployment activities in several parts of the world. Initiatives from the commercial sector (both automotive and telematics), the public sector, and the research domain are discussed.
There are numerous issues and challenges facing the automotive industry in bringing cooperative systems into usage. The situation is quite different in the three major automotive markets. Government and industry work quite closely together in Japan, and the government plays a major and reliable role in deploying roadside communications infrastructure. Their Vehicle Information and Communications System, for instance, now has 14.5 million units in use, for instance. In the United States, deployment of electronic infrastructure of any sort is up to the individual state DOTs. The U.S. DOT generally plays a facilitator role, using federal funds for leverage in some cases. The U.S. government works mainly in a collaborative fashion with the automotive industry in matters pertaining to ITS, as evidenced by the Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration initiative outlined in Section 9.8.3. The availability of dedicated spectrum for ITS DSRC in the United States greatly enhances the deployment process there. In Europe, the situation could be said to be most challenging for CVHS. While the EC plays a facilitator role to some degree, the various national governments in Europe are fundamentally independent. Rollout of electronic infrastructure cannot be depended upon,...
