innovITS ADVANCE formally opened

Date: 28/6/2011

innovITS ADVANCE, the international centre for connecting vehicles, highways and telecommunications, was formally opened yesterday (June 27). The new facility represents a world first - a purpose built centre for industry to develop, test and validate ITS products and innovations - and is located in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

Built in collaboration with innovITS, TRL and MIRA, innovITS ADVANCE features a "city circuit", a comprehensive road network designed to be configurable to replicate an urban driving environment anywhere in the world. It features junctions, intersections, roundabouts and multi-lane highways with a range of road surfaces across an area of 120,0002 metres. This network is equipped with roadside architecture including traffic signals for both left and right side traffic circulation, CCTV and catwalk gantries allowing installation of overhead equipment for testing, monitoring and signage.

The road network is combined with an open architecture of multi-zoned WiFi, GSM, GPRS and 3G private stand-alone mobile telecoms networks plus a Wi-Fi mesh system that can be configured according to the precise needs of particular tests.

Further details regarding the opening and the track itself can be found by clicking here.

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