Pilot sites

The InterCor project pilot sites are located in the 4 countries involved in the project:

  • Belgium/Flanders
  • France
  • Netherlands
  • United Kingdom

In France, the pilot site is located on approximately 400 km of roads in the north of the country. It has been defined to extend SCOOP@F's coverage from Paris to the north, including the A1 Paris-Lille, the A25-A16 Lille-Dunkirk/Calais and the A22 Lille-Belgium border, as well as the Paris outer ring road. Three road operators are involved: 2 public road operators reporting to the Ministry (DIRN and DiRIF) and 1 private road operator (SANEF), concession holder for the A1 and A2.

The three operators have carried out the necessary developments to connect their traffic management centres to the roadside units and the national cell node, via a dedicated platform.

In total:

  • SANEF deployed 7 roadside units (RSU) on the A1 and A2 motorway sections.
  • DIRN deployed 35 RSUs on the A22, A25, A16 and connecting roads (RN356, RN225, RN22) and equipped 50 of its vehicles with OBUo.
  • DiRIF deployed 4 RSUs on various sections of the outer ring road: N10, A12, N184 and N186.

The French pilot site covered the following services: RWW, PVD, HLN, IVS, MCTO, TP and GLOSA (see details in the "Services" section).

The RWW, PVD, HLN and IVS services were deployed interoperably with the SCOOP@F specifications, enabling SCOOP@F vehicles from PSA and Renault to benefit from these services over a wide area.

The "Terminal des Flandres" container terminal at the port of Dunkirk and a local road haulage SME, Transport Bogaert, participated in the MCTO pilot project. The service was only provided over cellular networks, using a smartphone application. A fleet of 10 volunteer drivers from the Bogaert transport company tested the application on real journeys and time slots.

For the purposes of the truck parking services, information on availability was sent from 12 truck parking areas in the southern part of the A1 motorway, which are equipped with counting devices. This information was available via the same smartphone application as MCTO and also on the ITS-G5 on-board units.

GLOSA is a use case often deployed on traffic lights in urban environments, but has never been tested on ramp counters. Such a configuration was tested in InterCor on the DiRIF network.