The Zona Franca de Barcelona accelerates with its connected mobility laboratory

• The CZFB is promoting a laboratory with infrastructure for connected mobility which, in addition to improving mobility and road safety, also aims to become a benchmark in connected and intelligent driving.

• This morning it conducted a series of tests with a connected vehicle that drove in real traffic on street 3, between the roundabouts of streets A and B, to verify the functioning of the equipment.

• 5G and c-v2x technologies play a key role, ensuring that information reaches the vehicles and the road infrastructure quickly and reliably.

Barcelona, 20 May 2025.- The Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona (CZFB) continues to make progress in creating a benchmark laboratory in intelligent connected driving, with the appropriate infrastructure to improve mobility and road safety. This morning, street 3 in the industrial estate of the Zona Franca, between the roundabouts of streets A and B, became a testing ground for a connected vehicle, in a real traffic environment, which served to carry out technical checks on the functioning of the equipment installed on the street, as well as the validation of the 5G network coverage.

The CZFB mobility laboratory studies how vehicles can communicate directly with the infrastructure to improve safety and traffic flow. For this, 5G and c-v2x technologies play a key role in this project, ensuring that information reaches the vehicles and the road infrastructure quickly and reliably. This project helps to harmonise traffic and improve the behaviour of drivers and traffic managers and, therefore, will lead to fewer accidents, less congestion, and better interaction between vehicles and infrastructures.

The special state delegate in the CZFB, Pere Navarro, explained how this intelligent mobility environment works: “automatic messages are generated from data obtained from sensors, cameras, traffic lights, other vehicles, and even weather stations. The messages obtained are sent to drivers, helping them to make safer and quicker decisions”. Navarro added that “District 4.0 is the ideal place to promote this connected mobility laboratory because it shows us that thanks to the use of available technologies we can help reduce accidents, improve traffic, and contribute to making transport much more sustainable. That’s why this is a very important project for the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona as it improves people’s quality of life”.

For her part, the general director of the CZFB, Blanca Sorigué, commented that “in District 4.0 highly innovative and technological projects are being developed as a result of the strategic vision of the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona to lead the digital transformation of the industry and to drive the new economy. The intelligent connected driving laboratory is an example of this economic activity that is contributing to building a more efficient, digital, safe, and environmentally friendly future”.