Augmenting and Evaluating the Physical and Digital Infrastructure for Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) Deployment
The European research project Augmented CCAM aims to understand, harmonise and evaluate in an augmented manner adapted and novel support solutions of Physical, Digital and Communication Infrastructure (PDI), to advance its readiness for large scale deployment of CCAM solutions for all.
Within the project, PDI support for CCAM will be explored to elaborate, extend and harmonise PDI classification and support levels mapping co-determined PDI priority requirements and adaptations. In total, 11 different solutions for PDI support are being developed in the project. These are based on innovative AI and Big Data techniques and aim to extend the operational design domain (ODD) of automated vehicles. These include scenarios such as safe merging onto freeways, the protection of vulnerable road users and the provision of safe stopping areas.
These solutions will be evaluated at 7 physical and several virtual test sites in Europe (France, Latvia and Spain), offering a vast spectrum of environments (i.e., highway surroundings, living labs, rural/peri-urban contexts, digital twins, driving simulators). Furthermore, crowdsourced HD maps as well as microscopic and macroscopic traffic simulation activities will play a significant role when developing and evaluating these PDI solutions.
The impacts of the solutions will be assessed for functional and traffic safety, driving behaviour, traffic efficiency, environmental footprint, service reliability, trust & security and the socioeconomic benefits and costs of all participating actors, paving the way for designing a roadmap and recommendations towards large-scale CCAM demonstration and deployment. Additionally, risk-aversion decision-making tools and methodologies for policy making and CCAM-ready infrastructure investments will be proposed.
AIT Mobility Observation Box
Augmented CCAM consists of a multi-stakeholder consortium of 26 Partners from 12 European countries and one associated partner from Switzerland. Roughly 50% of them are firms (30% Industries, 50% of which road operators, and 18,5% of them SMEs). AIT will lead the activities towards requirements and prioritized adaptions of PDI solutions as part of the support scheme of PDI for CCAM, which will foster evolutions on automated vehicle technology, roadmaps of infrastructure operators and providers and OEMs, progress in service architectures but also be utilised in evolving regulations and directives on European and national level. Within the impact assessment of the developed PDI solutions, AIT will deploy the Mobility Observation Box for assessing traffic safety of the overall network using conflict analysis and simulation in three European Countries (Spain, Latvia, France).
Andrea Schaub, who is responsible for the project at AIT, explains: “Augmented CCAM will provide another step towards broad deployment of connected, cooperative and automated mobility. Current challenges and safety issues such as road works and interactions with vulnerable road users are aimed to be overcome with the developed and enhanced PDI solutions. With the AIT Mobility Observation Box, we aim to measure the impacts of those solutions on traffic safety in order to ensure a safe deployment of CCAM.”
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This project has been funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement 101069717.
