The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) has released its 2025 Annual Report, highlighting the association’s continued progress toward the global deployment of Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology and the realisation of connected mobility solutions. The report outlines 5GAA’s milestones and achievements over the past year across strategic areas such as policy engagement, standardisation, technical innovation, and global collaboration. 

Strategic Framework: Four Clusters, One Direction

A major milestone has been the updated 5GAA Strategy, built around four key clusters, among them two new areas of expansion. These clusters bring clarity to how C-V2X and advanced connectivity will shape the future of mobility, enabling safer roads, new business opportunities, seamless global connectivity, and the technical foundation for next-generation vehicles.

Shaping future automotive connectivity standards

5GAA remained closely engaged in 3GPP activities around 5G‑Advanced and the first steps towards 6G, with a clear objective: ensuring that future releases reflect the realities of the automotive sector. As connectivity evolves, 5GAA advocated for an orderly transition that supports long vehicle lifecycles and the continuity of services entering the market.

Engaging with Policy Makers and Local Ecosystem

From Europe and the Americas to China, Korea, Japan, and India, 5GAA is working closely with national authorities, standards bodies, and regional partners to foster global harmonisation.

Voices, Visibility and Impact in 2025

5GAA also showcased, through real-world demonstrations, the potential of connected mobility. During the Meeting Week in Paris, members delivered for the first time emergency calls using Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) and 5G-V2X Direct for advanced use cases like Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) protection in real traffic and road conditions. In the United States, C-V2X partnered with 5GAA members to demonstrate how C-V2X Direct and network communications complement each other at the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center, and the first ‘Day One Deployment District’ in Atlanta demonstrated that large-scale connected vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) implementation is a deployable reality. In China, the Meeting Week in Shanghai highlighted rapid C-V2X advancements across vehicle-road-cloud integration for larger-scale deployment. These events underscore how global collaboration accelerates innovation and supports more consistent deployment across markets.

Expanding Global Presence and Strengthening Industry Collaboration 

In 2025, 5GAA brought together over 110 member organisations from across the globe, reflecting a truly international footprint in advancing connected mobility. The membership spanned Europe (44%), Asia (30%), and the Americas (26%), and included 10 of the top 15 global automakers, 8 of the top 10 mobile network operators, and 2 leading smartphone manufacturers. 

Beyond its core membership, 5GAA also strengthened ties with more than 40 external organisations.

Find out more about our activities and download the document.

In collaboration with our local host, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, the 5GAA Conference “From the Nordics to Europe: Scaling Digital Transport Services Across Borders” will bring together national road authorities, infrastructure operators, municipalities, OEMs and technology partners to present the concrete deployment of digital transport systems across the Nordic region—complete with Live Technology Demonstrations in the afternoon.

Date & Location

23 April 2026 | Gothenburg, Sweden

Discover the Full Agenda

Discover the key issues that will define the digitalisation of the Nordic transport system, policy direction, infrastructure priorities, and cross-border ambitions in the Nordic Region.

Explore the full agenda with confirmed sessions and speakers here!

Experience the Technology

In the afternoon, attendees will engage with cutting-edge Live C-V2X Technology Demonstrations.  Access the 5GAA Demos Brochure and learn more about what to expect in AstaZero!

5GAA is bringing together top global players—from automakers to telecom giants—for groundbreaking demonstrations of connected vehicle technology, including an exclusive showcase of:

• Satellite Connectivity: These demos show vehicles staying connected through non-terrestrial networks. From satellite-enabled commercial fleet management to 3GPP-compliant satellite-supported emergency voice calls.

• Safe & Smart Roads: These demos highlight real-time safety intelligence, cross-border data exchange, and cloud-enhanced vehicle services.

• Cooperative Perception: This demo showcases how cooperative radar significantly enhances situational awareness by merging sensor data from multiple sources.

Contact Information

Stay tuned for more information, event highlights, and key takeaways!

If you wish to participate or cover the event, please get in touch with us at secretariat@5gaa.org!

We look forward to welcoming you to Gothenburg for this landmark event in C-V2X collaboration and global smart mobility.

The 5G Automotive Association is organising the online session “Introducing a Framework for Dynamic Trustworthiness Assessment in Cooperative and Automated Vehicles”.

• Date & Time: Thursday, 2 October 2025, 16:00 – 17:00 CEST
• Location: Microsoft Teams Webinar (Online)

Connected and Automated Vehicles are expected to make critical decisions based on data from external sources, yet current approaches to security and safety do not address a fundamental question: How much can the content of this data be trusted?

This Online Session will present 5GAA’s new White Paper “A Framework for Dynamic Trustworthiness Assessment in Cooperative and Automated Vehicles“, which tackles this largely unsolved problem by introducing a dynamic trust assessment framework centred on Actual Trustworthiness Level and Required Trustworthiness Level – metrics that quantify the residual uncertainty about whether external data or system behavior can be trusted based on available evidence and how much trust is needed to meet the operational and safety requirements of the current context.

Experts from 5GAA, Huawei and DENSO will join this online session to present the content of the White Paper, as well as its methodology and goals.

If you are interested, you can register here.

Meet the Speakers

• Ioannis Krontiris, Senior Research Engineer – Security, Privacy and Trust, Huawei, Trust4CAV 5GAA Work Item Lead
• Alexander Kiening, Technical Manager Security R&D Europe, DENSO

Agenda

• Introduction (16.00 – 16.05)
• Quantifying Trust in Cooperative and Automated Vehicles (16.05 – 16.25)
• Acting on Trust: Setting the bar for taking decisions (16.25 – 16.45)
• Q&A (16.45 – 17.00)

Whether you are a policymaker, researcher, or part of the automotive and mobility ecosystem, this is your chance to engage with industry experts and explore the foundations of dynamic trust assessment in Connected and Automated Vehicles – a crucial step toward ensuring safer, more reliable C-V2X deployments.

For more information, please contact marcom@5gaa.org

The 5G Automotive Association is organising the online session “Integrated sensing and communication for automotive: Use cases & Technology Features”.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 2 July 2025 | 15:00 – 16:00 CEST
Location: Online (Teams)

Join 5GAA and industry experts for an online session exploring the integration of sensing and communication systems into one system from an automotive perspective, as outlined in the 5GAA work item “Study on integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for C-V2X application”

If you are interested, you can register here.

Experts from Huawei, Continental, and Qualcomm will present to participants critical aspects such as:

• Objectives and scope of ISAC in the automotive sector
• Insights into current ISAC use cases and their sensing requirements
• Emerging ISAC technologies and their potential for future vehicle platforms

If you are interested, you can register here.

Meet the Speakers

• Moderator: Maxime Flament, 5GAA CTO
• José Mauricio Perdomo Zelaya (Huawei)
• David Gonzalez Gonzalez (Continental)
• Shuanshuan Wu (Qualcomm)

Agenda

1. Introduction – 5GAA/ISAC WI Maxime Flament
2. Problem Statement, Objectives & Scope – José Mauricio Perdomo Zelaya (Huawei)
3. ISAC Concept – David Gonzalez Gonzalez (Continental)
4. ISAC Use Cases and Sensing SLRs – José Mauricio Perdomo Zelaya (Huawei)
5. ISAC Technology Features and Implementation Considerations for Automotive
   • ISAC Technology Features and Complementary Components David Gonzalez Gonzalez (Continental)
   • ISAC Integration Levels – José Mauricio Perdomo Zelaya (Huawei)
   • ISAC Technical Considerations for Automotive – Shuanshuan Wu (Qualcomm)
6. Q&A

Register here.

For more information, please contact marcom@5gaa.org

Sustainability benefits of C-V2X

Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything, or C-V2X, communications will make transportation not only safer and smarter but also more sustainable.

Sustainability has three dimensions: environmental, social and economic.

C-V2X ticks all three boxes:

• Environmental: By helping to make every trip smarter, safer and more efficient, C-V2X helps reduce congestion and accidents, thereby reducing air pollution, noise pollution and energy use.
  
• Social: Saving lives and avoiding injuries are clear social benefits. By enabling real-time communication between pedestrians, cyclists, traffic infrastructure and moving vehicles, including motorcycles and electric scooters, C-V2X will help avoid accidents that otherwise would result in injuries and deaths.
  
• Economic: By enabling more efficient mobility, C-V2X will save people and employers billions of man-hours currently wasted in traffic jams. Those man-hours can then be dedicated to more rewarding activities.  

C-V2X also enables the growth of autonomous mobility, which in turn offers even greater sustainability benefits, for example mobility-as-a-service offerings.

To learn more, watch the short video or scroll down for more details.

C-V2X and Sustainability in detail

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

• Transport still represents about 25% of Europe’s total CO2 emissions. By helping to make every trip smarter, safer and more efficient, C-V2X helpsreduce congestion and accidents, thereby reducing energy use, noise pollution and air pollution.
• C-V2X can help all vehicles operate and deliver people and goods more efficiently, thereby reducing pollution and optimizing the use of valuable energy resources. 
  • INRIX calculated that each second of reduced delays at traffic signals across the United States would translate to an annual reduction of 800,000 metric tons of CO2.
  • Connected vehicle technology can help electric cars calculate an energy-optimised route to a charging station that’s not necessarily the fastest or nearest but requires the least energy to reach. 
• Examples of environmental benefits enabled by C-V2X technologies include:  
  • Current technology permitting smarter routing for all vehicles in both urban and rural areas, for example via automated traffic routing, road, bridge, tunnel and parking availability updates and smart parking. 
  • Future technology permitting “green waves” for emergency vehicles, cars, trucks, lorries and other vehicles instead of stop-and-go traffic. 
  • Future technology facilitating manoeuvres and cooperation in traffic.  
• For more detailed information, please see TNO’s report for 5GAA on the Environmental Benefits of C-V2X.

SOCIAL BENEFITS

• By enabling real-time communication between pedestrians, cyclists, traffic infrastructure and moving vehicles, including motorcycles, C-V2X will help avoid accidents that otherwise would result in injuries and deaths. 
  •  According to the World Health Organisation, there were 1.35 million traffic deaths globally in 2016, the latest year for which global data are available. Road traffic deaths are a leading cause of death among young people, in particular. 
  • In the European Union, there were about 20,608 road deaths in 2023, or about 46 road deaths per million inhabitants.  
  • In the United States, an estimated 40,990 people died in road accidents in 2023. The United States Department of Transportation has set an ambitious goal of zero traffic deaths, in part by leveraging advanced technologies to prevent accidents in the first place.  
    • It says: “The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Roadway Safety Strategy specifies that zero is the only acceptable number of deaths and serious injuries on our roadways. USDOT is committed to taking substantial, comprehensive action to achieve this goal.” 
• By providing real-time hazard notifications and enabling connected cooperative driving, C-V2X makes transportation safer for all road users, including cyclists. As C-V2X makes the roads safer, more people may feel confident in choosing cycling as their primary mode of transportation. 
  • A U.S. DOT pilot study demonstrated that C-V2X technology can prevent accidents and injury for vulnerable road users.  
• Green waves and corridors for emergency vehicles can help save lives and reduce injuries, allowing people to lead longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives.  
  • Response times are critical for emergency vehicles and first responders to save lives. A 2020 study showed that “green waves” at traffic lights could reduce response times by as much as 30% with little impact on overall traffic conditions.   
• By enabling more efficient mobility, C-V2X will save commuters billions of man-hours currently wasted in stressful traffic jams.Those man-hours can be dedicated to more enjoyable and rewarding activities such as doing sports, hobbies, volunteering, education or spending time with friends and family. 
  • In Europe, the average driver in some cities loses more than 150 hours per year stuck in traffic jams.  
  • Americans lost as much as 3.4 billion hours in traffic in total in 2021.  
• C-V2X helps connect other modes of transport with one another to facilitate a real multi-modal transportation system.  

ECONOMIC BENEFITS

• By enabling automated driving and mobility as a service, C-V2X will help create new products and services that help drive more sustainable economic growth.  
• For example, anonymous data collected through C-V2X can help governments and policymakers develop more effective infrastructure maintenance programmes and traffic plans.  
• By enabling more efficient mobility, C-V2X will save employers and entrepreneurs billions of man-hours currently wasted in traffic jams.Those man-hours can then be dedicated to more rewarding activities.
  •  For commercial vehicles, C-V2X can help optimise delivery routes and schedules and reduce the number of empty or partially loaded trips. Efficient route management reduces energy use and pollution.
  • The deployment of C-V2X technologies in vehicles can increase demand for 5G and future networks, each of which will be more energy-efficient than the technologies they replace.  

Want to learn more?

If you want to learn more about the timeline for the introduction of next-generation C-V2X communications technologies, including those with clear environmental benefits, please see our latest C-V2X technology Roadmap here.

Accelerate Electrification, Innovate Software, Transform Manufacturing

The automotive industry is facing more disruption than ever before, with governmental initiatives and pressure to reduce emissions, growing concerns around vehicle safety, plans for an autonomous future, and the need to secure supply chains.

Reuters Events: Automotive USA (8-9 November, Huntington Place, Detroit) is where the industry meets to hear from trailblazing OEMs, cutting-edge solution providers, and government agencies to solve the challenges facing you. Learn from C-suite case studies, network with decision-makers, and walk away with actionable insights for your day-to-day and long-term strategies.

John Kwant, 5GAA Executive Director Americas, will moderate a panel session that will take a deep dive into the lates developments in autonomous driving technology. 

Join us on November 8th, 5:15 PM EDT in Detroit to learn how the latest advances in AI including generative AI, will impact autonomous driving development. We will also look at different approaches being taken to transition from ADAS to L4 autonomy to meet market demands. 

Visit the event website to find out more information.

In the course of the 25th meeting week in The Hague, we successfully hosted the “C-V2X Mass-Market Deployment in Real-Life Traffic” Conference, which attracted a diverse audience including our esteemed members and several distinguished external guests.

On this note, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the speakers who contributed their expertise and insights to the conference:

• Wim Vandenberghe, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
• Erika Decorte, Flanders Authority for Roads and Traffic
• Menno Malta, Monotch
• René Spaan, City of Helmond
• Gerad Berendschot, Ambulance Care, Netherlands
• Andreas Schaller, Bosch

Find the presentations here.

On 2nd March, 5GAA experts and member spokespersons shared their views on how the deployment of C-V2X technologies is turning connected and safe mobility into reality from now and in the next few years, during the conference “Turning Connected and Safe Mobility into Reality” at the Barcelona edition of GSMA’s Mobile World Congress.

The conference, moderated by Freddie Holmes, Special Correspondent at Automotive World, offered an overview of the broad-scale improvements that connected mobility can bring to the global automotive system, starting with a first session on the 5G-V2X deployment landscape in different regions, such as Europe, China, and the US. Speakers underlined the need for increased ecosystem cooperation and cross-border projects to ensure reliable access to 5G networks to all users. The second session focused on the safety aspects and benefits brought by the technology, including protecting vulnerable road users.

The event concluded with an insightful panel discussion on mobility data, with the participation of representatives from the entire ecosystem value chain. Panellists discussed how smart cities and infrastructure could help make data-driven decisions that inform how we pave the path for the future of mobility and the crucial role of data standardisation and reliability and new business models to foster investments.

The event welcomed, in person or through virtual messages, high-level representatives of 5GAA’s member companies Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, China Mobile, Harman, Continental, Telefonica, Qualcomm, BMW, Huawei, Intel , ZTE, Stellantis.

In case you didn’t have the possibility to attend the conference in Barcelona, here you can find some of the insightful materials presented by our members.

Bringing 5G Consumer Experiences to Automotive Industry At Scale
Ramaswamy Iyer, Senior Vice-President and Head of Connectivity SBU, Harman

Vishnu Sundaram, Senior Vice President, Stellantis

5G + C-V2X: Pave the way for C-ITS and Auto-Driving
Xu Ling, Standard Director, ZTE

China overview
Wai Chen, Chief Scientist, China Mobile

Presentations:

The Digital Guardian Angel -A Cellular-assisted VRU protection solution
Frank Foersterling, Head of Government, Liaison & Engagement, Continental

Driving the Smart Mobility Revolution
Leticia Lopez Domingo, Technology Innovation Expert, Telefonica

5G capabilities as a game changer for automotive connectivity
Dennis Nikles, Vice-President IOT, Deutsche Telekom

Barcelona, 3 March 2022 – The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), alongside its members, disclosed the latest global deployments of C-V2X technology, highlighting how 5G data will deeply transform the mobility system by making it safer and more efficient at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona on Wednesday 2 March 2022. 

The 5G Automotive Association was back this year at Barcelona’s edition of the Mobile World Congress, the world’s leading exhibition for the connectivity industry, to disclose the cellular technology shaping the future of mobility alongside its member.

Today, connected driving is a reality. Over 200 million connected vehicles are equipped with C-V2X applications sharing hazard and traffic warnings on the road. Applied to the automotive sector, 5G is upgrading revolutionary in-car connectivity, allowing seamless and cooperative communication between vehicles, infrastructure, and surroundings.

On 2nd March, 5GAA experts and member spokespersons shared their views on how the deployment of C-V2X technologies is turning connected and safe mobility into reality from now and in the next few years. Moreover, the association had the pleasure to have Peter Stuckmann, Head of Unit, Future Connectivity Systems, DG CONNECT, European Commission, addressing the participants and highlighting the crucial role of investments in 5G and infrastructures to foster the European green and digital transition.

As noted by Johannes Springer, 5GAA Director-General, the association that celebrates its 5th Anniversary has been working intensely to bridge the gap between automotive, technology, and telecom industries and promote the 5G-V2X (vehicle-to-everything) technology as a comprehensive and integrated platform for connected vehicles, embracing digital transformations as opportunities for mobility innovations.

The conference, moderated by Freddie Holmes, Special Correspondent at Automotive World, offered an overview on the broad-scale improvements that connected mobility can bring to the global automotive system, starting with a first session on the 5G-V2X deployment landscape in different regions, such as Europe, China, and the US. Speakers underlined the need for increased ecosystem cooperation and cross-border projects to ensure reliable access to 5G networks to all users. The second session focused on the safety aspects and benefits brought by the technology, including protecting vulnerable road users.

The event concluded with an insightful panel discussion on mobility data, with the participation of representatives from the entire ecosystem value chain. Panellists discussed how smart cities and infrastructure could help make data-driven decisions that inform how we pave the path for the future of mobility and the crucial role of data standardisation and reliability and new business models to foster investments.

The event welcomed, in person or through virtual messages, high-level representatives of 5GAA’s member companies Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, China Mobile, Harman, Continental, Telefonica, Qualcomm, BMW, Huawei, Intel , ZTE, Stellantis.

In addition,5GAA hosted a Press & Industry guided tour across the booths of key member companies to share their latest C-V2X technology developments with journalists and industry analysts, focusing on road safety and digital infrastructures.

Companies featured in the tour included:

• Deutsche Telekom presented the Automated Valet Parking in a 5G network use case, in partnership with BMW and Valeo, which delivers high reliability and stable latency to ensure the necessary safety requirements. Moreover, the company presented its Mobility Connect solutions, offering drivers 5G seamless connectivity solutions
• ZTE Corporation showcased its 5G-V2X products and solutions, including 5G-V2X module, OBU, RSU, V2X cloud platform and other cases
• Qualcomm presented its Snapdragon Digital Chassis Platform: a set of technology solutions for building connected and intelligent vehicles that are safer, customisable, immersive and continually upgradeable, and Auto Connectivity Platform to support ubiquitous connectivity in and around the vehicle
• Intel with its Superdemo, developed with its partners Capgemini and Advantech for their 5G Road Side Unit solution for Smart City & Transportation use cases focusing on vulnerable users protection Digital Twin infrastructure for sustainable cities
• Rohde & Schwarz showcased its 5G and C-V2X solutions for development in the laboratory and verification in the field to ensure the performance and reliability of critical automotive communications
• Anritsu presented a joint demonstration in partnership with dSPACE. The demonstration showed the use of 5G Network Slicing in an Advanced Intersection Collision Warning (AICW) use case, using Hardware In the Loop (HIL) test and simulation system to provide a realistic sensor simulation to an OBU that is being tested

We would like to thank all our participants, member companies and speakers, for making it such an insightful event, clearly demonstrated the added value of ecosystem cooperation for the future of the transportation system.

Download the agenda of the event here.

For additional information, please get in touch at marcom@5gaa.org.

Please find the video contribution from Ramaswamy Iyer, Senior Vice-President and Head of Connectivity SBU, Harman that unfortunately, we have not been able to show during the conference due to technical problems.

5GAA leverages today’s and tomorrow’s mobility solutions

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), roughly 1.25 million road traffic fatalities worldwide in 2013, with another 20–50 million injured or disabled through traffic accidents. Vehicles sharing information make transportation safer, greener, and more enjoyable are at our doorstep. The technologies associated with this concept are collectively known as Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS). The impact on road safety alone is sufficiently significant to make C-ITS a priority.

5GAA contribution focuses on 5 pillars

Bridging the automotive & telecommunications industry

Enabling technology deployment

Contributing to standards

Advocating to policymakers and positioning 5GAA around strategic ecosystem

Leveraging innovative solutions to advance connected mobility

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