Panasonic, State Transportation Officials Stress Importance of 5.9 GHz Band
Representatives of Panasonic, the Safety Spectrum Coalition and state departments of transportation held meetings at the FCC, including with aides to the five commissioners, on the importance of the 5.9 GHz band. Panasonic and the others don’t say in a…
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filing whether the band should be set aside for dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) or cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology proposed by Qualcomm and others. They stressed the importance of the band to automotive safety. “V2X technology dramatically increases roadway safety, with the potential to eliminate 89 percent of Light Vehicle to Light Vehicle crashes and 85 percent of their associated economic costs,” said the filing in docket 13-49. “The state representatives each talked about current and planned deployment of V2X roadway safety technology and how the full allotment of 5.9 GHz spectrum must be preserved for V2X to avoid stranding significant investment.” An official from the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) cited the Utah Smart Transit Signal Priority project, using V2X to give transit vehicles priority at traffic signals. “The project is the first of several connected vehicle projects undertaken by UDOT and is intended to pave the way for other uses of V2V technology for transportation management and highway safety,” the filing said. An official from the Michigan DOT said the state has deployed or plans to deploy 400 DSRC roadside units before the end of 2019. “MDOT enacted a policy to add DSRC technology at every signal location statewide as it is being modernized,” the filing said.