The Connected Motorcycle Consortium: Together for Rider Safety

Welcome to the Connected Motorcycle Consortium

The Connected Motorcycle Consortium (CMC) is a collaboration between manufacturers, suppliers, researchers and associations to make Powered Two Wheelers (motorcycles and scooters) part of the future connected mobility.
CMC is a non-profit organisation established by key motorcycle makers with the unilateral goal to promote and develop Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) on a global scale.

News update

CMC has published a new study, which contains the first results of our Accidentology Research.
This document focuses on some of the most frequent types of motorcycle accidents that were found in the database: 'Crossing Traffic' and 'Left Turn' scenarios.
In CMC's analysis, a total of 23 potential influencing factors (like road conditions, speed, visibility, trajectories, actions of the participants etc.) were investigated and reported. Also important findings regarding the 'Time-To-Collision' are evaluated. All this is gathered in a report "Accident Analysis - Crossing Traffic and Left Turn", which can be found on our Accidentology page.

Our goals

CMC targets to improve motorcycle rider safety and comfort.
Connected mobility / Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications / Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) are being developed, but motorcycle-specific safety aspects haven’t been taken into consideration sufficiently so far. CMC is paving the way for motorcycle connectivity by making motorcycles part of C-ITS and connected mobility.
CMC aims to create and update a common basic specification for motorcycle ITS, with as many cross-manufacturer standards as possible.

History

The basis of CMC was laid in the year 2015 when the founding members BMW Motorrad, Honda and Yamaha agreed upon the need to further enhance motorcycle/scooter safety by the means of C-ITS. This initial partnership has led to the establishment of CMC in 2016.
Since then, a range of manufacturers, suppliers and research institutes joined forces to collaborate.
This lead to the first milestone at the end of 2020: the publication of the first "Basic Specification", a set of documents that address important topics related to the introduction of C-ITS for motorcycles.

Open

Being a platform for cooperative development, CMC welcomes all motorcycle/scooter manufacturers, suppliers, institutions and corporations that want to take a leading role in promoting, researching and developing C-ITS for motorcycles.
CMC seeks a dialog with all involved stakeholders.
Interested? Contact us here.

" CMC is the Centre of Competence for Motorcycle ITS "

Example: Systems could warn about an approaching motorcycle

Industry Commitment

ACEM, the European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers, is the trade association that represents manufacturers of powered-two and three-wheelers as well as quadricycles (L-category vehicles) in Europe. ACEM members include 18 manufacturing companies and 20 national industry associations: www.acem.eu.
ACEM regards advanced safety technology and future connectivity as a cornerstone of its safety strategy. This is represented in the document "The safe ride to the future 2.0", published in October 2020, where a whole chapter is dedicated to future connected, cooperative and automated mobility.

CMC members

Within CMC, members will focus on further improvements of the Basic Specification for motorcycles;
while at the same time taking account of new functions supported by on-board sensors both in cars and in motorcycles.

Core members

Core members of the Connected Motorcycle Consortium are BMW, Honda, KTM and Yamaha.

Regular members

Associate members

Members contributing to Basic Specification

Apart from the members mentioned above, below past CMC members have contributed to
the development of the first CMC Basic Specification which was published in December 2020.
They are listed in alphabetical order.

Supporters

Supporters help out CMC on specific topics, within their own field of expertise. Usually this support is dedicated to certain projects, so there is no permanent participation as there would be with a full membership.