Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SYNERGIES (Real and synthetic scenarios generated for the development, training, virtual testing and validation of CCAM systems)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2024-06-01 al 2025-05-31
Scenario-based testing is necessary as conventional testing and validation approaches would require driving hundreds of millions of test kilometers before new CCAM systems or system updates can be deployed.
Overall objectives for RSA :
-Establishment of an open and sustainable platform to share scenarios
-Generate a wide range of test scenarios for the training, testing and validation of CCAM systems with a focus on urban and rural traffic, for which there is significantly less knowledge on relevant scenarios than for motorway driving.
-Provide significant volumes of raw data or scenarios.
Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) systems have the potential to significantly improve road safety, traffic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. However, before these systems can be widely deployed on public roads, they must be rigorously tested and validated to ensure that they operate safely and reliably in a wide range of real-world conditions. This is especially complex given the diversity of driving environments, road users, weather conditions, and vehicle behaviours. The SYNERGIES project addresses this challenge by creating a European Scenario Dataspace and Marketplace that enables the large-scale validation of CCAM technologies using real, synthetic, and AI-generated driving scenarios. These scenarios are essential for training and testing autonomous vehicles in both virtual and physical environments. At its core, SYNERGIES is building an open, federated, and scalable platform that allows stakeholders across the mobility ecosystem — including vehicle manufacturers (OEMs), authorities, simulation tool providers, infrastructure operators, and researchers — to access, generate, share, and use traffic scenarios in a harmonised and trustworthy way.
Until now, scenario databases have been developed in isolation, often within national or private initiatives, lacking interoperability and common standards. This fragmentation hinders the development and testing of automated driving systems at scale. In response to this need, SYNERGIES provides:
- A federated Scenario Dataspace, integrating existing and new data sources across Europe.
- A Marketplace for tools enabling scenario creation, processing, and enrichment.
- A common framework for ensuring data quality, traceability, and trustworthiness.
- A platform aligned with GDPR, the AI Act, and European standards such as ASAM OpenSCENARIO and ISO 34503.
- Full compatibility with results from previous EU-funded initiatives such as HEADSTART, SUNRISE, L3Pilot, or Hi-Drive.
SYNERGIES directly contributes to the European strategy for data spaces, AI development, and digital mobility ecosystems. It enables the validation of CCAM systems under the upcoming UNECE regulations and Euro NCAP protocols, ensuring that autonomous systems are tested against the full diversity of real-world driving conditions across Europe. The project also supports Open Science practices by promoting transparency, reusability, and reproducibility of research data and methods. A Data Management Plan has been established, in line with GDPR and ethical standards, to govern all datasets handled within the project. Furthermore, SYNERGIES contributes to climate and sustainability goals by promoting virtual testing and simulation-based validation, which can reduce the need for extensive on-road testing and the associated environmental impact.
Overall objectives for RSA :
-Establishment of an open and sustainable platform to share scenarios
-Generate a wide range of test scenarios for the training, testing and validation of CCAM systems with a focus on urban and rural traffic, for which there is significantly less knowledge on relevant scenarios than for motorway driving.
-Provide significant volumes of raw data or scenarios.
Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) systems have the potential to significantly improve road safety, traffic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. However, before these systems can be widely deployed on public roads, they must be rigorously tested and validated to ensure that they operate safely and reliably in a wide range of real-world conditions. This is especially complex given the diversity of driving environments, road users, weather conditions, and vehicle behaviours. The SYNERGIES project addresses this challenge by creating a European Scenario Dataspace and Marketplace that enables the large-scale validation of CCAM technologies using real, synthetic, and AI-generated driving scenarios. These scenarios are essential for training and testing autonomous vehicles in both virtual and physical environments. At its core, SYNERGIES is building an open, federated, and scalable platform that allows stakeholders across the mobility ecosystem — including vehicle manufacturers (OEMs), authorities, simulation tool providers, infrastructure operators, and researchers — to access, generate, share, and use traffic scenarios in a harmonised and trustworthy way.
Until now, scenario databases have been developed in isolation, often within national or private initiatives, lacking interoperability and common standards. This fragmentation hinders the development and testing of automated driving systems at scale. In response to this need, SYNERGIES provides:
- A federated Scenario Dataspace, integrating existing and new data sources across Europe.
- A Marketplace for tools enabling scenario creation, processing, and enrichment.
- A common framework for ensuring data quality, traceability, and trustworthiness.
- A platform aligned with GDPR, the AI Act, and European standards such as ASAM OpenSCENARIO and ISO 34503.
- Full compatibility with results from previous EU-funded initiatives such as HEADSTART, SUNRISE, L3Pilot, or Hi-Drive.
SYNERGIES directly contributes to the European strategy for data spaces, AI development, and digital mobility ecosystems. It enables the validation of CCAM systems under the upcoming UNECE regulations and Euro NCAP protocols, ensuring that autonomous systems are tested against the full diversity of real-world driving conditions across Europe. The project also supports Open Science practices by promoting transparency, reusability, and reproducibility of research data and methods. A Data Management Plan has been established, in line with GDPR and ethical standards, to govern all datasets handled within the project. Furthermore, SYNERGIES contributes to climate and sustainability goals by promoting virtual testing and simulation-based validation, which can reduce the need for extensive on-road testing and the associated environmental impact.
WP1
Activities :
- Participation to Kick-Off meeting
- Internal meetings
- Preparation of GA of December 2024 (REN & STLA SYNERGIES Perspective)
- Preparation & animation of GA of April 2025 (organization, OEM's use case with BMW and French ministry of transport)
Main achievements : presentation of OEM's use case with BMW and French ministry of transport at the General Assembly of April 2025 : EU-Wide Validation and Homologation of Automated Vehicles
WP2
Activities : Contribution to writing, proofreading and validating of D2.1 deliverable
- Collection of OEM and administration requirements
- Harmonization of manufacturer's context, requirement and user case
- Review and comments
- Consistency with ADScene activities
- Coordination with BMW to build a OEM common view
Main achievements : Harmonized vision of manufacturers : context, requirement and user case in the D2.1 deliverable
WP3
Activities : Contribution to writing, proofreading and validating of D3.2 deliverable
- Data qualification : joint work with Stellantis to define criteria, work on Renault side for writing, translation & presentation to Synergies.
- Data model for scenarios and particularly accident scenarios : presentation of the work carried out in ADScene on accidents + sharing of ADScene taxonomy on accidents
- External dataspace qualification
- Meetings with IVEX and CEESAR to define the common work on real world driving data. NDA signature to give access to CEESAR to RSA dataset in order for CEESAR to convert 100hours of RSA driving data into Synergies format.
Main achievements : Data qualification criteria, Data model for scenarios and particularly accident scenarios & External Dataset qualification in the D3.2 Deliverable
WP7
Activities : Contribution to T7.1 :
- presentation of ADScene scenario library architecture and participation to the presentation of other scenario initiatives.
- Research and presentation to Task leader only (for Confidentiality and Intellectual Property reasons) of ADScene architecture to answer to her questions .
- Creation of an ADScene account to Laura as task leader.
WP9
Activities :
- Coordination with regulatory groups : GRVA (DCAS, ADS, FRAV, Scenario library Workshop,…), French Ministry of Transport, French Automotive Platform (PFA), Automotive Manufacturer International Organization (OICA), European Car Manufacturer Association (ACEA), French Technical Services (UTAC)
WP10
Activities : We add SYNERGIES Project as the European project to define a SCDB
- Renault presentation to DSC2024 (September, E.Arnoux)
- Renault presentation to SIA Vision 2024 (october, Th.Hermitte)
- PFA & SystemX presentation to French symposium on automated mobility organised by French ministry of transport on December 3rd (E.Arnoux)
- PFA& RSA presentation at AVS Stuttgard (may 2025, Emmanuel Arnoux) on Safety Demonstration
Activities :
- Participation to Kick-Off meeting
- Internal meetings
- Preparation of GA of December 2024 (REN & STLA SYNERGIES Perspective)
- Preparation & animation of GA of April 2025 (organization, OEM's use case with BMW and French ministry of transport)
Main achievements : presentation of OEM's use case with BMW and French ministry of transport at the General Assembly of April 2025 : EU-Wide Validation and Homologation of Automated Vehicles
WP2
Activities : Contribution to writing, proofreading and validating of D2.1 deliverable
- Collection of OEM and administration requirements
- Harmonization of manufacturer's context, requirement and user case
- Review and comments
- Consistency with ADScene activities
- Coordination with BMW to build a OEM common view
Main achievements : Harmonized vision of manufacturers : context, requirement and user case in the D2.1 deliverable
WP3
Activities : Contribution to writing, proofreading and validating of D3.2 deliverable
- Data qualification : joint work with Stellantis to define criteria, work on Renault side for writing, translation & presentation to Synergies.
- Data model for scenarios and particularly accident scenarios : presentation of the work carried out in ADScene on accidents + sharing of ADScene taxonomy on accidents
- External dataspace qualification
- Meetings with IVEX and CEESAR to define the common work on real world driving data. NDA signature to give access to CEESAR to RSA dataset in order for CEESAR to convert 100hours of RSA driving data into Synergies format.
Main achievements : Data qualification criteria, Data model for scenarios and particularly accident scenarios & External Dataset qualification in the D3.2 Deliverable
WP7
Activities : Contribution to T7.1 :
- presentation of ADScene scenario library architecture and participation to the presentation of other scenario initiatives.
- Research and presentation to Task leader only (for Confidentiality and Intellectual Property reasons) of ADScene architecture to answer to her questions .
- Creation of an ADScene account to Laura as task leader.
WP9
Activities :
- Coordination with regulatory groups : GRVA (DCAS, ADS, FRAV, Scenario library Workshop,…), French Ministry of Transport, French Automotive Platform (PFA), Automotive Manufacturer International Organization (OICA), European Car Manufacturer Association (ACEA), French Technical Services (UTAC)
WP10
Activities : We add SYNERGIES Project as the European project to define a SCDB
- Renault presentation to DSC2024 (September, E.Arnoux)
- Renault presentation to SIA Vision 2024 (october, Th.Hermitte)
- PFA & SystemX presentation to French symposium on automated mobility organised by French ministry of transport on December 3rd (E.Arnoux)
- PFA& RSA presentation at AVS Stuttgard (may 2025, Emmanuel Arnoux) on Safety Demonstration
Key actions to be secured to ensure further uptake and success
- Secure use of SUNRISE results in SYNERGIES
- Scenario Data Model methodology
- Description of scenarios
- Secure use of SUNRISE results in SYNERGIES
- Scenario Data Model methodology
- Description of scenarios