Within the Coalition for Cyclist Safety’s large scale deployment workstream, V2Xperience is bringing cooperative ITS technology onto real streets and real intersections in Helmond, creating a real-world environment where cities, industry, researchers, and cyclists can test, learn, and advance connected mobility together.
As part of the Coalition for Cyclist Safety’s large scale deployment workstream, a new partnership in the city of Helmond is bringing cooperative ITS technology into everyday traffic environments. Through V2Xperience, Spectrum FiftyNine, SWARCO, Gazelle, the City of Helmond, and SmartwayZ.NL are creating an open testing and learning environment focused on advancing cyclist safety through connected mobility technologies.
The initiative connects bicycles, vehicles, and infrastructure through short-range communication, enabling cooperative ITS use cases to be explored in real traffic conditions and with the people who use those streets every day. The project focuses on learning how connected systems can improve interactions between road users and infrastructure, including situations where line of sight is limited and where infrastructure can respond more intelligently to cyclists in traffic.
For the Coalition, V2Xperience represents an important step within its broader deployment ambitions. The Coalition’s large scale deployment workstream was established to move cooperative ITS beyond isolated pilots and into practical, real-world environments where technology, policy, infrastructure, and user experience can evolve together.
Cyclist safety is not solved in simulation. It is solved on actual streets, at actual intersections, with the people who ride them every day.
Helmond provides exactly that kind of environment. By bringing together public authorities, technology providers, bicycle industry partners, and researchers, V2Xperience creates a place where cooperative ITS can be tested, observed, refined, and improved under real-world conditions.
A key aspect of the initiative is shared learning. The experiences, insights, and lessons generated through V2Xperience will feed back into the Coalition for Cyclist Safety and contribute to the broader conversation around large scale deployment of cooperative ITS for vulnerable road users. In that sense, V2Xperience is not a standalone pilot, but a practical extension of the Coalition’s work and its mission to accelerate connected mobility solutions that include cyclists from the outset.
The Coalition for Cyclist Safety looks forward to supporting the continued development of V2Xperience and to sharing the learnings that emerge as the initiative continues to take shape in Helmond.
