This page is a new summary. It is not a copy of the old website, and it is not written as if this site ran the trial.
Verified historical fact. The Technical University of Munich project page gives the German name Sichere Intelligente Mobilität – Testfeld Deutschland (simTD). It says the project was initiated by the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) and supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The page lists the runtime as September 2008 to April 2013 and records the project homepage as www.simtd.de.
Verified historical fact. The same page says the work studied communication between vehicles and between vehicles and traffic infrastructure, in what it calls the largest field test of that kind. It names Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen, Opel, Ford, Audi, Bosch and Continental; Deutsche Telekom; the Hessian road authority and the City of Frankfurt; and research organisations including TU Munich, TU Berlin, the University of Würzburg, the Saarland University of Applied Sciences, DFKI and the Fraunhofer Society. It states a project volume of about 53 million euro, with about 30 million euro of direct funding from BMWi and BMBF. A further sentence on investment by the Federal Ministry of Transport was cut off in the copy read here, so no additional amount is stated.
Verified historical fact, different document. The university press release dated 20 June 2013 says around 120 vehicles ran for six months on highways, country roads and city streets in and around Frankfurt, with 500 test drivers covering almost one million miles (1.6 million kilometres) and more than four terabytes of data. It says the consortium assumes potential savings of more than EUR 11 billion a year, based on a simulation in which all vehicles are equipped. That figure is a modelled assumption in the release, not an observed cash saving, and not a result produced by this website.
Contemporary notice. ERTICO's item dated 17 June 2013 says its CEO would attend the simTD final event on 20 June 2013 in Frankfurt/Main. The English name in that item is Safe and Intelligent Mobility – Test Field Germany. The press release uses Safe Intelligent Mobility – Test Field Germany. Both wordings are quoted. They are not merged.
Editorial interpretation. The old domain simtd.org is the host of this new information site. The project page points at simtd.de. Both names appear in the historical record read here. That does not establish who registered either domain in a given year, and this site does not control simtd.de.
Unverified / unavailable. The 2013 German factsheets PDF that outside pages have linked was not obtained. No republication permission is recorded. The original PDF is not hosted here. A request for that old PDF address is left as a real 404 rather than an HTML page pretending to be the file. Individual old HTML addresses are also not redirected, because the snapshots of those exact pages were not read.
What the participants are not
The organisations named above are historical participants in the sources. They are not current partners of this website, and they are not an endorsement wall. Media stories about the project, where they exist, are historical coverage of that project. They are not coverage of this website.
Packaging automation elsewhere on simtd.org is a new subject. These sources do not say the project developed packaging machinery.
Mobility guides that cite the same pages are what V2X refers to and how a vehicle-to-infrastructure path is described. The independence statement is also on History and independence.
Method and sources
Pages read on 14 October 2026: the TUM project record, the TUM press release of 20 June 2013, and the ERTICO notice of 17 June 2013. Sentences that were incomplete in the fetched text are left incomplete.