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4 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 11 Greater focus on innovation and technology standards is just the start. Whole new business models, investment paths and partnerships are also critical to testing, piloting and, ultimately, achieving widespread take-up of the solutions released. According to 5GAA’s updated 2030 Roadmap for advanced driving use cases, connectivity technologies, and radio spectrum needs published late last year, fully integrating road and telecommunication infrastructures is key to C-V2X’s successful rollout. That means delivering better coverage and protection for vulnerable road users, along with enhanced capabilities thanks to more powerful and better-connected sensors onboard vehicles, carried by road users in the form of smart phones, and built into traffic infrastructure. “The digitalisation of connected vehicles is a main driver in the ecosystem and deployments need to be in sync with the road infrastructure and user needs,” stresses the Roadmap. “Flexible and trusted communication networks are expected to bring the different players in the ecosystem together.” Members of 5GAA recognise that hurdles remain in achieving this fully ‘connected’ community: “It is clear that future protocols, descriptions, and conformity/ testing needs to prove beyond doubt that advanced automated driving use cases are safe and can deliver on their promise,” says John Kwant. “This is why we invest so heavily in technical specifications for a myriad of applications and discuss them at length with 5GAA members and related bodies.” This year alone 5GAA has circulated technical reports on various day-one use cases, implementations, standards, and more. Topics range from automated valet parking and multi-access edge computing (MEC) for automotive applications, to the predicted evolution of vehicular communication systems beyond 5G, reliable positioning metrics for V2X applications, how C-V2X can be used for two- wheel vehicles and better safety, and more. Significant progress Since the release of its previous roadmap, 5GAA has observed significant growth in market deployment of C-V2X in areas such as local