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In a world populated by more and more vehicles, vulnerable road users and people, any improvements in safety are being encouraged. When it comes to transport, advanced technologies are now becoming commonplace, arguably to the point of overloading drivers behind the wheel with warning signs and sounds. However, advances in technology and communications are providing fresh opportunities; Vodafone is one provider offering a new solution. "The Safer Transport for Europe Platform (STEP) is essentially a message brokering platform, based on the European standards defined for cooperative intelligent transport system capabilities," says Bob Banks, technology development manager, Vodafone. "The standards were originally defined for the communication directly between vehicles on the road, but that requires different capabilities to be built into those vehicles and a direct communication in a specific frequency band has been allocated for this." |