A user equipment (UE, 302, 302) for a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment (UE, 302, 302) is served by a transceiver (gNB, 300) of the wireless communication system, a coverage area (200, 310) of the transceiver (gNB, 300) including one zone or a plurality of zones, and each zone having mapped thereto a resource pool, and wherein, responsive to a request from the transceiver (gNB, 300), the user equipment (UE, 302, 302) is configured to return to the transceiver (gNB, 300) a zone occupancy report for the zone in which the user equipment (UE, 302, 302) is located, the zone occupancy report indicating an occupancy status of the resource pool mapped to the zone, characterized in that the occupancy report includes one or a combination of the following: (i) a resource vector giving the occupancy for resource blocks, the resource vector indicating a percentage of occupancy per set of physical resource blocks, PRBs, or an exact number of free PRBs, (ii) a top-m statistic of the best resources, the user equipment is configured to operate in accordance with a first mode, for example the V2X Mode 4, for a sidelink communication with one or more other user equipments, wherein in the first mode the user equipment is in a non-connected state and is configured to schedule resources for the sidelink communication autonomously, the user equipment, when in a coverage area of a transceiver of the wireless communication system, is configured to switch from the first mode to a second mode, for example the V2X Mode 3, in case one or more predefined criteria are met by the user equipment, and in the second mode scheduling of resources for the sidelink communication with the one or more other user equipments is performed by the transceiver. wherein the user equipment (UE, 302, 302) is served by a transceiver (gNB, 300) of the wireless communication system, a coverage area (200, 310) of the transceiver (gNB, 300) including one zone or a plurality of zones, and each zone having mapped thereto a resource pool, and wherein, responsive to a request from the transceiver (gNB, 300), the user equipment (UE, 302, 302) is configured to return to the transceiver (gNB, 300) a zone occupancy report for the zone in which the user equipment (UE, 302, 302) is located, the zone occupancy report indicating an occupancy status of the resource pool mapped to the zone, characterized in that the occupancy report includes one or a combination of the following: (i) a resource vector giving the occupancy for resource blocks, the resource vector indicating a percentage of occupancy per set of physical resource blocks, PRBs, or an exact number of free PRBs, (ii) a top-m statistic of the best resources, (i) a resource vector giving the occupancy for resource blocks, the resource vector indicating a percentage of occupancy per set of physical resource blocks, PRBs, or an exact number of free PRBs, (ii) a top-m statistic of the best resources, the user equipment is configured to operate in accordance with a first mode, for example the V2X Mode 4, for a sidelink communication with one or more other user equipments, wherein in the first mode the user equipment is in a non-connected state and is configured to schedule resources for the sidelink communication autonomously, the user equipment, when in a coverage area of a transceiver of the wireless communication system, is configured to switch from the first mode to a second mode, for example the V2X Mode 3, in case one or more predefined criteria are met by the user equipment, and in the second mode scheduling of resources for the sidelink communication with the one or more other user equipments is performed by the transceiver.