ITS-CUBE joins EU Project C-Roads Germany
ITS-CUBE joins EU Project C-Roads Germany – via Hamburg’s Partnership
Through Hamburg's partner role, ITS-CUBE is represented in the EU Project C-Roads Germany – Phase 3 (CRG-3). While ITS-CUBE is concerned with the planning and development of new ITS technologies and applications, Hamburg has now secured funding for the further implementation and tangible investments through CRG-3. This success also relied on the successful preparatory activities, enabled by ITS-CUBE.
Since January 2025, Hamburg has been a partner of the Germany-wide CRG-3 project, fostering the implementation of C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems) technologies across the country within the next three years. CRG-3 currently supports six urban pilot sites in Germany with a total budget of almost €50 million. The six participating cities are Hamburg, Kassel, Dresden, Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt am Main, and Hannover. It builds on the previous projects C-Roads Germany – Urban Nodes (CRG-UN) and C-Roads Germany (CRG). CRG started in 2016 with a budget of almost €10 million and a duration of about six years, testing eight “Day-1 services” as first applications of the new C-ITS technology. Building on CRG, CRG-UN launched in 2019 with a budget of almost €40 million, implementing and testing ITS technologies in the three pilot cities Dresden, Kassel, and Hamburg.
While C-ITS pilot projects like ITS-CUBE are advancing towards the application of the technology in real-world use cases, some questions about legal and governmental aspects are still slowing down the deployment of C-ITS technology. To tackle these issues, the European-wide C-Roads Platform was established with the first C-Roads project in 2016. The platform fosters harmonisation, the (pilot) implementation, and advances the large-scale deployment of C-ITS technologies across 18 European countries.
In Hamburg, CRG-3 enables the rollout of ITS technology by equipping 100 traffic lights, as well as 700 buses from VHH Mobility with the new ITS-CUBE technology, mobilising a budget of €20 million with a co-financing rate of 50%. With these new investments, ITS-CUBE is taking a great step towards its goal of preparing the equipment of 2.000 buses and 600 traffic lights with the new technology by 2030 and bringing the ITS-CUBE technology beyond the test track to public roads.
