Periodic Reporting for period 3 - SHOW (SHared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2023-01-01 do 2024-09-30
Connected and automated transport plays a key role in European strategies for clean, efficient and safe transport, and towards the development of the Digital Single Market. All Automated Driving-related Roadmaps and position papers, such as those of ERTRAC, EPoSS and ECSEL agree that electrified and automated mobility in cities is one of the most challenging milestones to be achieved; being typically pushed towards 2030 and beyond. This is a disruptive change, which prompts some reservations and questions: 1) To what extent does it contribute to the objectives of sustainable mobility planning? 2) Is this feasible?, and, 3) Who pays for it? SHOW vision is to support the deployment of shared connected and electrified automation in urban transport chains through demonstration of real-life scenarios to promote seamless and safe sustainable mobility. The SHOW project aimed to support the migration path towards affective and persuasive sustainable urban transport, through technical solutions, business models and priority scenarios for impact assessment, by deploying shared, connected, cooperative, electrified fleets of AVs in coordinated PT, DRT, MaaS and LaaS operational chains in real-life urban demonstrations. SHOW has conducted large-scale urban and peri-urban large-scale trials in 20 open traffic & 4 controlled environments across 5 Mega Sites, 5 Satellite Sites and 3 Follower Sites with 72 vehicle demonstrators in total of high automation level, transferring 166383 passengers (194118, considering projects affiliated to SHOW) in 147895 passenger trips, also conducting 3062 cargo delivery trips where it transported 5457 packages. All large-scale field results, collected in 247 months of vehicles’ operation, have been consistently reported across all aspects (technical, operational, business, acceptance, performance) and across the 18 Use Cases of the project. Being the bigger and more holistic ever real life Cooperative Connected Automated Vehicle (CCAV) urban demonstration initiative, it is user led (by UITP), technically managed by CERTH/HIT and realised by a Consortium of (finally) 66 partners from 13 countries and 9 third parties, encompassing also twinning actions with organisations outside Europe.
Key user acceptance and performance results have been published in SHOW Dashboard. Data have fed the simulation and impact assessment analyses of the project, across all possible aspects. The overall average satisfaction level is 92 out of 100 across all pilot sites. The perceived usefulness of the provided automated services is 7.6 out of 9. 10 road accidents and 1184 conflicts occurred. 10,62km/h was the average operational speed and 50 km/h the maximum. 3 public training courses have developed for PTAs and PTOs, the general public, and technical audiences. A public SHOW CCAM Marketplace | show-project.eu is available. 4 pan-European workshops and a Final event have been organized, 10 newsletters have been released, numerous pilot videos, apart from the project centric ones, have been published, partners have participated in 177 events, a SHOW book has been published, scientific publications and datasets have been openly shared, 3 Ideathons, 2 main Hacathons and 7 MAMCA workshops have been organized, 59 local demo events have been held. Eleven additional follower sites have been engaged (Barcelona, Helmond, Kadiköy, Sarajevo, Venice, Braga, Varna, Gdansk, Groningen, Milan, and Paris), with replication roadmaps built for 7 of them. Also, a City Interest Group with 20 further regions/cities/entities has been established (Region of Thessaly, Cities of Mytilene, Argostoli – Kefalonia, Larissa, Dun Laoghaire, Kallithea, Marousi, Katerini, Pili, Irakleio, Farkadona, Karditsa, Lamia, Grevena, Ioannina, the Pamplona Digital Cities – Central Greece, the Centre for renewable energy sources and saving, the Democritus University of Thrace & CIVINET Greece-Cyprus). 92 KERs have been featured and 8 sites will scale up after SHOW. 42 industry guidelines, 12 guidelines for PTAs/PTOs, standardization contributions, policy recommendations and a project roadmap have been issued. 9 AB members have been engaged, numerous concertation and international collaboration synergies have taken place with Japan, China, the US, Australia, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan
SHOW encompasses a high number of novelties but its key innovation is its holistic and integrated approach, as it brings automated operation to all levels of city mobility from fixed route PT to DRT, connected MaaS and LaaS, supporting all urban traffic environments, from dense city traffic to remote peri-urban areas, neighborhoods and specific environments, considering the needs and wants of all citizens, specifically specific user clusters (tourists, commuters, PRM, students, elderly). SHOW is conceived to be a Game Changer in the path of urban mobility automation. This has been achieved by a) becoming the bigger ever showcase and living lab for AV fleets by transporting thousands of passengers and cargo through a collective AV fleet of over 70 vehicles (bus, shuttle, pod, car) in 20 cities across Europe, providing a vast pool of subjective and performance data which have fed impact assessment analyses; b) setting the relevant Industrial standard, by enrolling the vast majority of European AVs OEMs and operators in a single project; thus resulting in a commonly accepted open system Architecture, widely adopted standardisation and policy recommendations; c) involving the full value chain of autonomous PT mobility services throughout the project and in each of its Pilot sites. 13 OEMs and operators have liaised during the project with 5 tier 1 and Telco providers, 10 local authorities, 6 value added services industries and 7 SMEs, as well as 23 Research and Academia representatives (reflecting the highly innovative nature of the issue). Each Pilot site constitutes a PPP integrating one or more OEMs and operators with the local society (municipalities and other authorities) including all key actors of the value chain (as full partners, associate partners, sub-contractors or through LoS); d) being truly Europewide. Encompassing large scale trials in 20 sites of varying geographical areas, city sizes, weather conditions, socioeconomic and cultural issues, where different business models have been applied.