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TransporteMobility – Strategic Applications AgendaIII.1.3. Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure(V2I) communicationsThe V2V communication capabilities offer the ability to detect traffic problems through the dynamic exchange ofposition and speed information among nearby vehicles. V2V-V2I communication technologies can improve trafficmanagement through real-time exchange of data among vehicles and with road infrastructure. Once a particularroad condition requiring traffic engineering is detected, V2V and V2I communications will be used to route anddisseminate the information to the vehicles approaching the problematic area.Wireless vehicular cooperative systems are an attractive solution to improve road traffic management, therebycontributing to the European goal of safer, cleaner, and more efficient and sustainable traffic solutions. The useof V2V (Vehicular to Vehicular) and V2I (Vehicular to Infrastructure) communication technologies can help reduceroad fatalities and also provide more efficient and adaptive traffic management that contributes to reducingenergy and environmental costs while improving our lives.According to the EU i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative launched in 2006 at the eSafety forum, intelligent systemsembedded in car or in road infrastructure needs to address the following issues:CongestionooCosts amount to 50 billion €/ year10% of the Road network is affected daily by traffic jamsEnergy Efficiency & EmissionsoSafetyoRoad transport consumed 83% of the energy consumed by the whole transport sector and85% of the total CO2 transport emissionsThe cost of over 40,000 fatalities and 1.4 million accidents in the EU represent 2% of the EUGDP. Human error is involved in almost 93% of accidents.III.1.4. The Mobile Office conceptThe final research area is the concept of the mobile office. Mobile users wish to use their devices in multiplelocations and for different reasons to access the information they require at any time. Furthermore, this will beamplified over the next 7 – 10 years as personal mobility increases, access to a range of networks proliferate and―mobile workers‖ will continue to desire access to their working environment everywhere with the same tools andapplications they would have in their office.Our working environment is in a process of transition, due to the forces of globalisation and competition, locationhas diminished in importance. Mobility adds to the flexibility of knowledge workers, but this flexibility could beconstrained in the future due to concerns about sustainable development. Thus, new working environmentsacross organisational boundaries have become important, if not imperative, and are enabled by user-friendlyinformation and communication technologies and new ways of working.Focusing on transport systems, as the most dynamic context where users will need to access information, wepresent the current state of the art and the future challenges in the “mobile office field”, whereby the ―mobileoffice‖ concept is making information available, accessible, secure and transparent to transport users. Thus,working while on the move (in transport) will make use of different communication, virtual, and ambientintelligent technologies that in an integrated way, and through new applications and services, will allow users tofeel in their own personal office.Therefore, the present strategic vision will centre its attention on the following topics:1. Workers on the move;2. New applications and services that allow access to the right information, at the right time, applyingambient intelligent and context aware technologies;28