MARTA is a European project, which has the objective of developing a consensus at European level around the applications of traffic and travel information distribution via the 5.8 GHz DSRC radio interface. These applications make use of an on-board equipment, installed in the vehicles, and a technical structure on the roadside for the collection and distribution of information toward the customers. National projects, such as AIDA in France, will demonstrate the potential of DSRC two way communications systems. AIDA provides a full set of services on safety and comfort to the drivers, in real time, and also accurate data on traffic conditions to the motorway operators. Several other European countries are developing test sites experimenting Traffic and Traveller Information via 5.8 GHz, application also referred as MRPI (Medium Range Pre-Information). Interoperability will be established by common approaches to the design of systems and by taking equipped vehicles from some national test sites and demonstrating their use on other sites. The evaluation of these systems and the results analysis is done within the project MARTA.
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