Towards Intelligent Mobility: The Mobility Intelligent Cooperative Systems (MOBICS) Platform

Abstract

Intelligent Mobility (IM) is a growing development area challenging an integrated management and operations of
diversity (heterogeneous) of both cyber-physical and informatics (systems) infrastructures. The approach that has
been taken by A-to-Be, powered by Brisa in the SCOOP@F Part 2 project on developing cooperative systems
assuring the interoperability among different road operators and across borders, based on vehicle to
vehicle/infrastructure (V2X) communications, is presented and discussed. The project is challenging making
transparent the specificities of the involved stakeholders for drivers from Portugal, Spain, France, and Austria to
freely travel multi-concessions and multi-country road infrastructures under a continuous offering of a suite of
mobility services. This requires, beyond a proper operation of the On-Board Units (OBU), an efficient coordination
among the participating road operators’ infrastructure (stakeholders). Collaborative models where stakeholders
with different technologies, processes, and organizational culture are invited to participate is also discussed.