Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ARCADE (Aligning Research & Innovation for Connected and Automated Driving in Europe)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2018-10-01 do 2020-03-31
ARCADE (Aligning Research & Innovation for Connected and Automated Driving in Europe) is an EC-funded Coordination & Support Action that supports the commitment of the European Commission, European Member States and the industry (cf. the Amsterdam Declaration, GEAR 2030 final report, EC Communication on automated mobility , High-Level Structural Dialogue on connected and automated driving) to develop a common approach to development, testing, and validation of Cooperative and Automated Driving (CAD) in Europe and beyond.
The mission of ARCADE is to coordinate consensus-building across CAD stakeholders to develop this common approach.
In order to achieve its mission following these principles, ARCADE has set the following specific objectives:
1 Provide a forum for the CAD stakeholder community to exchange lessons learned and best practices
• Strengthen stakeholders' engagement and cooperation among the European and international CAD community within the CAD Joint Network (established in CARTRE);
• Facilitate and coordinate the cooperation between national & European funding programmes;
2 Support ongoing international cooperation efforts in CAD and extend it to additional countries
• Coordination of the EU contribution to the EU-US-JPN Tri-lateral WG on Automated Road Transport (ART);
• Extend the international cooperation to the BRICS and others countries;
3 Build-up synergies and common views on deployment scenarios and research needs for connected and automated driving
• Clarify challenges, gaps and enablers for the main thematic areas related to the deployment and adoption of connected & automated driving;
• Involve Industry, Public and Research stakeholders from ARCADE CAD Network into contributions to the STRIA roadmap on Connected and Automated Road transport and other Strategic Research Agendas towards decision makers;
4 Consolidate a Knowledge Base of common frameworks, methodologies & standards for evaluation & data sharing in connected and automated transport
• Support European Commission’s work on a common framework for the exchange of knowledge, experience and data between large-scale demonstration projects in connected and automated driving;
• Provide an overview of CAD stakeholders, regulation, methodology, standards, lessons learned & more;
• Facilitate access to prior knowledge and data from large-scale European and national demonstration projects;
Connected Automated Driving is one of the key technologies and major technological advancements influencing and shaping our future mobility and quality of life. The main drivers for higher levels of Automated Driving are:
- Safety: Reduce accidents caused by human errors.
- Efficiency and environmental objectives: Increase transport system efficiency and reduce time in congested traffic by new urban mobility solutions. In addition, smoother traffic will help to decrease the energy consumption and emissions of the vehicles.
- Comfort: Enable user’s freedom for other activities when automated systems are active.
- Social inclusion: Ensure mobility for all, including elderly and impaired users.
- Accessibility: Facilitate access to city centres.
Connected Automated Driving must therefore take a key role in the European Transport policy, since it can support several of its objectives and societal challenges, such as road safety, congestion, decarbonisation, social inclusiveness, etc. The overall efficiency of the transport system can be much increased thanks to automation. Traffic safety is of key importance for connected automated driving: to ensure safe interaction with all road-users in mixed traffic environments, in particular with vulnerable road users (VRU) and motorcycles. Moreover, automated driving should be understood as a process taking place in parallel and possibly in integration with other important evolution of road transport: the electrification of the powertrains, and the multiplication of mobility offers, especially shared mobility concepts.
The mission of ARCADE is to coordinate consensus-building across CAD stakeholders to develop this common approach.
In order to achieve its mission following these principles, ARCADE has set the following specific objectives:
1 Provide a forum for the CAD stakeholder community to exchange lessons learned and best practices
• Strengthen stakeholders' engagement and cooperation among the European and international CAD community within the CAD Joint Network (established in CARTRE);
• Facilitate and coordinate the cooperation between national & European funding programmes;
2 Support ongoing international cooperation efforts in CAD and extend it to additional countries
• Coordination of the EU contribution to the EU-US-JPN Tri-lateral WG on Automated Road Transport (ART);
• Extend the international cooperation to the BRICS and others countries;
3 Build-up synergies and common views on deployment scenarios and research needs for connected and automated driving
• Clarify challenges, gaps and enablers for the main thematic areas related to the deployment and adoption of connected & automated driving;
• Involve Industry, Public and Research stakeholders from ARCADE CAD Network into contributions to the STRIA roadmap on Connected and Automated Road transport and other Strategic Research Agendas towards decision makers;
4 Consolidate a Knowledge Base of common frameworks, methodologies & standards for evaluation & data sharing in connected and automated transport
• Support European Commission’s work on a common framework for the exchange of knowledge, experience and data between large-scale demonstration projects in connected and automated driving;
• Provide an overview of CAD stakeholders, regulation, methodology, standards, lessons learned & more;
• Facilitate access to prior knowledge and data from large-scale European and national demonstration projects;
Connected Automated Driving is one of the key technologies and major technological advancements influencing and shaping our future mobility and quality of life. The main drivers for higher levels of Automated Driving are:
- Safety: Reduce accidents caused by human errors.
- Efficiency and environmental objectives: Increase transport system efficiency and reduce time in congested traffic by new urban mobility solutions. In addition, smoother traffic will help to decrease the energy consumption and emissions of the vehicles.
- Comfort: Enable user’s freedom for other activities when automated systems are active.
- Social inclusion: Ensure mobility for all, including elderly and impaired users.
- Accessibility: Facilitate access to city centres.
Connected Automated Driving must therefore take a key role in the European Transport policy, since it can support several of its objectives and societal challenges, such as road safety, congestion, decarbonisation, social inclusiveness, etc. The overall efficiency of the transport system can be much increased thanks to automation. Traffic safety is of key importance for connected automated driving: to ensure safe interaction with all road-users in mixed traffic environments, in particular with vulnerable road users (VRU) and motorcycles. Moreover, automated driving should be understood as a process taking place in parallel and possibly in integration with other important evolution of road transport: the electrification of the powertrains, and the multiplication of mobility offers, especially shared mobility concepts.
[the full-length publishable summary- including dissemination-for the period is included in chapter 2 of Part B]
ARCADE involves ~70 consortium and associated partners, and 125 other stakeholder networks and organisations from 28 countries within and outside EU, which form the backbone of the Joint CAD Network of experts and stakeholders across the public, industry and research sectors. ARCADE has continued and further grown over its first 18 months of activity the stakeholder network first established by the CARTRE Support Action (2016-2018). This has been achieved by organising a series of public events gathering the stakeholder community to cooperate on common challenges related to CAD deployment, exchange knowledge, create synergies and reduce overlaps when setting Research & Innovation (R&I) priorities.
During the reporting period, ARCADE organised two joint Stakeholder workshop (with the support of ERTRAC), one R&I projects concertation workshop and one European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving (with the support of EC).
The project also facilitated the cooperation with other regions of the world to exchange knowledge, expertise and best practice through an active participation and exchange with the international expert community in the Trilateral Automation in Road Transport Working Group.
In June 2019, the Single Platform for Open Road Testing and Pre-deployment of Cooperative, Connected, Automated & Autonomous Mobility (CCAM Platform) was established. Working Group 2 (Coordination & Cooperation of R&I and testing activities) of the CCAM Platform is directly linked with ARCADE and coordinated by ARCADE Coordinator. The CCAM members, including Member States representatives, have been another source of feedback and forum for exchange of knowledge and best practice.
The CAD Knowledge Base https://knowledge-base.connectedautomateddriving.eu/ is another significant results from the project first 18 months. The website includes information on CAD in topics such as R&I projects and testing activities, Regulations and policies, etc.
The 11 thematic areas of ARCADE are clustered in three groups: (1) the technology cluster is about thematic areas that look in and around the vehicles themselves; (2) the systems and services cluster is about thematic areas that look at the system level (e.g. look at the infrastructure, what can we do with big data and AI); and (3) the society cluster is about how will CAD affect society and what is needed from society in order to deploy (e.g. policy regulation, socio-economic impact). During the first year, each thematic area has identified challenges, enablers and blocking challenges to deployment of CAD for different scenarios. Based on this work, a set of R&I actions were identified and high and medium prioritized actions have been further defined and ranked. The work from the thematic areas to date has served as input to the ongoing Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) preparation for defining R&I priorities for the initial calls of Horizon Europe framework programme.
ARCADE involves ~70 consortium and associated partners, and 125 other stakeholder networks and organisations from 28 countries within and outside EU, which form the backbone of the Joint CAD Network of experts and stakeholders across the public, industry and research sectors. ARCADE has continued and further grown over its first 18 months of activity the stakeholder network first established by the CARTRE Support Action (2016-2018). This has been achieved by organising a series of public events gathering the stakeholder community to cooperate on common challenges related to CAD deployment, exchange knowledge, create synergies and reduce overlaps when setting Research & Innovation (R&I) priorities.
During the reporting period, ARCADE organised two joint Stakeholder workshop (with the support of ERTRAC), one R&I projects concertation workshop and one European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving (with the support of EC).
The project also facilitated the cooperation with other regions of the world to exchange knowledge, expertise and best practice through an active participation and exchange with the international expert community in the Trilateral Automation in Road Transport Working Group.
In June 2019, the Single Platform for Open Road Testing and Pre-deployment of Cooperative, Connected, Automated & Autonomous Mobility (CCAM Platform) was established. Working Group 2 (Coordination & Cooperation of R&I and testing activities) of the CCAM Platform is directly linked with ARCADE and coordinated by ARCADE Coordinator. The CCAM members, including Member States representatives, have been another source of feedback and forum for exchange of knowledge and best practice.
The CAD Knowledge Base https://knowledge-base.connectedautomateddriving.eu/ is another significant results from the project first 18 months. The website includes information on CAD in topics such as R&I projects and testing activities, Regulations and policies, etc.
The 11 thematic areas of ARCADE are clustered in three groups: (1) the technology cluster is about thematic areas that look in and around the vehicles themselves; (2) the systems and services cluster is about thematic areas that look at the system level (e.g. look at the infrastructure, what can we do with big data and AI); and (3) the society cluster is about how will CAD affect society and what is needed from society in order to deploy (e.g. policy regulation, socio-economic impact). During the first year, each thematic area has identified challenges, enablers and blocking challenges to deployment of CAD for different scenarios. Based on this work, a set of R&I actions were identified and high and medium prioritized actions have been further defined and ranked. The work from the thematic areas to date has served as input to the ongoing Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) preparation for defining R&I priorities for the initial calls of Horizon Europe framework programme.
Detailed report on the impacts, including socio-economic and societal, is included in section 5 of Part B.