Frontier

Frontier is a Horizon Europe-funded CCAM (cooperative, connected, and automated mobility) project that aims to develop tools for traffic and transport management. It integrates a range of data sources and AI to automate the understanding of traffic problems and identify solutions. 

Frontier developed a dashboard to improve communication between stakeholders internal to the council (highways officers) and external (police, bus operators, motorway authorities, metro and other transport systems).

The dashboard is linked to a traffic model used to simulate scenarios such as extreme weather, roadworks, and incidents. It allows strategies to be designed and tested to ensure coordinated, efficient responses.

• stakeholders can use the near-real-time live data simulation to identify live incidents and suggest appropriate responses
• members of the public (connected users) can sign up for disruption alerts for their journeys
• connected and autonomous mobility vehicles (CAM) can receive updates and rerouting, allowing for cooperative driving in the future

To deliver this project with Oxfordshire operating as a real-world living lab, we leveraged:

• specialist knowledge in CAM and transport systems
• a vast wealth of traffic data and a live sensor network

Oxfordshire and the UK have shared the project findings with European cities learning from this integrated approach.