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Vodafone and Nokia Present Road Safety Mobility Cloud PlatformTrial of the UK’s First Mobile ‘Vehicle-to-everything’ Road Safety System Goes LiveVodafone, Nokia and Chordant partner with road operators to deliver world-leading road safety mobility cloud platform. A powerful new mobility cloud platform to improve the safety of road users is being tested for the first time on the open road in the UK. Developed by Vodafone, Nokia and Chordant, with support from the UK Government Centre for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CCAV) and the Midlands Future Mobility (MFM) consortium, the platform is providing digitally connected road users in the West Midlands with live, highly localised and targeted updates from road operators on lane closures, speed restrictions and traffic incidents. This capability could be extended for emergency services when responding to an incident such as someone driving the wrong way on a motorway, or for breakdown recovery organisations to assist vulnerable road users. With the open platform at its centre, Vodafone is creating an ecosystem of connected vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians across Europe and Africa, with each one acting as the ‘eyes and ears’ of the road.