Research paper: Measurement and Analysis of ITS-G5 in Railway Environments

Kurzfassung

In this paper we present first measurement results of a novel approach in Train-to-Train (T2T) communications. For this measurement campaign an Intelligent Transport System (ITS-G5) communication link was used to investigate the influences of a railway environment on a Car-to-Car (C2C) communication standard based system. The measurements cover a wide range of scenarios from urban to rural environments, forest to open field as well as tunnels and crossings under bridges. The investigated measurement categories are channel characteristics, system performance and environmental aspects. The results should clarify, if a technology transfer from road to railway traffic communications would be expedient.