Cooperative vehicular communication systems have been
identified as one of the ITS technologies that offers a higher
potential to improve traffic safety and efficiency through the
continuous exchange of information between vehicles
(Vehicle-to-Vehicle or V2V communications) and between
vehicles and infrastructure nodes (Vehicle-to-Infrastructure or
V2I communications). In this context, cooperative vehicles
would become very valuable mobile sensors from which
infrastructure elements deployed along the road network would
extract traffic information.