‘Bizkaia Connected Corridor is a project developed with DFB where companies will test different pioneering technologies of autonomous, connected and cooperative mobility and intelligent infrastructures’.
'We are working on the development and implementation of a test platform (TESCOR), which will employ various technologies such as BIM, Cloud, IoT and Big Data, where the four infrastructures of the Biscay network will be deployed'.
Bizkaia Connected Corridor aims to digitise the road network through the implementation of several technologies. These include the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), which allow vehicle-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-vehicle (V2V) communication to send warnings about the state of the road.
In addition, four infrastructures of the Biscay network that will act as digital twins will be sensorised by IoT technology. Finally, the Bizkaia Foral Roads will be available to use as an ideal scenario where companies and research centres can test, under real conditions, the progress of their technologies in a Living Lab environment.
The first cooperative communication beacons (RSU)
By the end of the year the first C-ITSelement will be installed, i.e. the first cooperative communication beacons (RSU). They will receive and broadcast messages between vehicles and with the control centres, on incidents such as adverse weather conditions, works, traffic congestion or roadway obstacles, among others. This will allow the user to anticipate an emergency situation or a traffic delay. The rest of the beacons will be installed throughout 2022 and will be fully operational by 2024.
In addition, TECNALIA is currently working on the development and implementation of a test platform (TESCOR), which will employ several technologies such as BIM, Cloud, IoT and Big Data, where the four infrastructures of the Biscay highway network will be deployed. The BIM models generated, and the data from IoT sensors located in those infrastructures will be stored in a data hub that will be made available to companies and research groups upon request.
To make the scope of the Bizkaia Connected Corridor known, a showroom is being developed in the Artxanda control centre where events and workshops will take place: the technologies installed and the projects currently being carried out will be shown.
