innovITS-ADVANCE Facility

The innovITS-ADVANCE facility based at MIRA provides a safe, comprehensive and fully controllable purpose built 'cityscape' test track environment to develop, validate and demonstrate new ITS innovations.

The track offers real time vehicle monitoring, modern communication technologies, private GSM and cellular networks, fully configurable wireless networks and state of the art vehicle communications based on draft 802.11p WAVE standard.

The facility represents a major collaboration between MIRA, TRL and innovITS and through this partnership we are able to provide ITS solutions for the integration of vehicles, infrastructure and communications.

The facility is ideal for  the research and development of the following ITS technologies:

• Advance driver assistance systems
• Co-operative active safety
• Driver behaviour studies
• Simulation of large volumes of mobile traffic
• Tunnel exit/entrance simulation
• Urban canyon simulation
• Telecoms access and denial
• Intelligent parking
• Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications
• Road sign detection
• Urban traffic management and control
• Intersection safety systems
• Collision avoidance
• Blind spot detection
• Advanced navigation services
• Autonomous vehicle systems