From the Nordics to Europe: Scaling Digital Transport Services Across Borders

These discussions were put into practice through the 5GAA live technological demonstrations, where 5GAA members showcased real-time road-work safety on a Swedish highway, satellite connectivity, safety, and cooperative sensing at the AstaZero Proving Ground at RISE in Sweden. 

Several demonstrations focused on road safety and coordinated traffic operations, where BMW, Bosch and RISE demonstrated that live road-work situations can be monitored in real time, allowing road operators to assess risk, adapt operations to protect workers and road users, and display hazard warnings to drivers. Building on this, Monotch showed how road-work warning data can be shared across country borders while maintaining data quality and governance. Vehicle-focused demonstrations by Ericsson, JOYNEXT, Vodafone and Qualcomm Technologies highlighted large-scale connectivity testing and interoperable V2X safety messaging. Qualcomm Technologies also demonstrated the concurrent reception of 5G-V2X and ITS-G5 messages on a single chipset. 

Emergency communications demonstrations by Qualcomm Technologies and Rohde & Schwarz illustrated how hybrid eCall solutions maintain service continuity when network conditions change, and Anritsu and LG Electronics demonstrated an end-to-end hybrid eCall solution, verifying interoperability, network switching behaviour, and compliance with standards across multi-generation cellular networks. 

The programme also featured two Bosch demonstrations. One, about cooperative sensing, showed how shared radar data from vehicles and infrastructure improves hazard detection in complex traffic situations. A second showed how real-time cloud-enhanced ADAS enables advanced road-sign recognition. Finally, 5GAA members, Bosch and Cubic³ presented satelliteenabled commercial fleet management, and technology partners Vedecom, Rolling Wireless, Rohde & Schwarz, Cubic³, Skylo and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. showed how emergency voice calls can be handled via satellite. 

Another highlight of this week was the 5GAA Workshop on Commercial Fleets & Logistics, which brought together MNOs, fleet operators and technology and service providers in Gothenburg. This week underscored how connected mobility technologies are being applied in real-world traffic conditions and across borders, positioning the Nordic region as a reference point for scaling connected mobility across Europe.

Maxime Flament, CTO, 5GAA.