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"The project ""Safe and COnnected aUtomation in road Transport"" (SCOUT) aims at identifying pathways for an accelerated proliferation of safe and connected high-degree automated driving in Europe, taking into account user needs and expectations, technical and non-technical gaps and risks, viable business models as well as international cooperation and competition.
The analysis will start from a thorough consideration of the concerns and expectations from the perspectives of users, suppliers of the technology and experiences from projects and field tests. Alternative strategies for the implementation of automated driving will then be developed, under due consideration of different innovation cycles in the related industries (automotive, telecom, infrastructure, services) and the pending challenges regarding framework conditions (legal, testing & validation, safety & security).
With regard to the perceived use cases for connected automation in road transport, technical und non-technical gaps and risks for the implementation will be identified, assessed and ranked. In parallel, sustainable business models will be identified with particular emphasis on the role of digitization, connectivity and data-driven business cases.
Advice for policies and regulatory frameworks for safe and connected automation will then be derived on the basis of the aforementioned analyses with the support of a network of relevant stakeholders, and subsumed into a common roadmap aiming to implement the formulated vision for ""Safe and connected automation in 2030"". The results will be communicated to and discussed with policymakers, stakeholders and the general public at a multitude of opportunities. International trends and results of European funded projects will be closely monitored and reflected in the strategy development process."

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.3.4. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Topic(s)

MG-3.6b-2015 - Safe and connected automation in road transport

Call for proposal

H2020-MG-2015-Singlestage-B

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Funding Scheme

CSA - Coordination and support action

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Coordinator

VDI/VDE INNOVATION + TECHNIK GMBH

Address

Steinplatz 1
10623 Berlin

Germany

Activity type

Other

EU Contribution

€ 329 875

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RENAULT SAS

France

EU Contribution

€ 49 687,50

CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 46 500

BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 47 810

ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 77 436,25

NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NETHERLANDS BV

Netherlands

TELECOM ITALIA SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 13 937,50

NEC EUROPE LTD

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 7 646,25

RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 81 400

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 126 775

ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DES FOURNISSEURS AUTOMOBILES

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 61 875

ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE PROVEEDORESDE AUTOMOCION

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 45 393,75

NXP SEMICONDUCTORS GERMANY GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 96 787,50

NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 13 218,75

Project information

SCOUT

Grant agreement ID: 713843

Project website

Start date

1 July 2016
End date

30 June 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 998 342,50
EU contribution

€ 998 342,50

Coordinated by:

VDI/VDE INNOVATION + TECHNIK GMBH

Germany

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Roadmap strives to accelerate introduction of automated driving

Highly automated vehicles will eventually become a reality and improve road safety, but there is still much work to be done to gain public acceptance. The challenges are mostly technical, but there are major legal, social and human issues to resolve.

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The hope is that self-driving cars can save lives through fewer road accidents. Besides delivering great safety benefits, self-driving cars will also promote more efficient fuel use and improve congestion, while greatly facilitating mobility for the elderly and people with disabilities. The disruptive technology will not only bring practical changes but also profound social, economic, and regulatory challenges as the whole nature of driving is transformed. A coordination-and-support action project set up with EU funding, SCOUT has established a comprehensive and structured roadmap to describe innovation paths towards accelerating implementation of high-level automated driving. State of play on autonomy Project partners first acknowledged the state of art for high-level connected and automated driving (CAD). The analysis was structured with reference to a five-layer model. Apart from the technical layer serving as a basis for CAD functions, the other layers outlined relevant non-technical issues – human factors, economic, legal and social aspects. Regarding the technical layer, SCOUT distinguished three major functional domains: environmental perception (‘sense’), decision-making (‘think’) and control (‘act’). “Automated driving functionalities are at the core of development efforts of intelligent vehicles. Smart driving capabilities enable vehicles to constantly detect their changing immediate surroundings, take proper manoeuvre decisions, and implement them in terms of acceleration, braking and steering,” notes Gereon Meyer, Deputy Head of the Future Mobility and Europe Department at VDI/VDE-IT, who coordinated the SCOUT project. Arming vehicles with reliable connectivity, providing high-precision navigation and smoothly integrating the vehicles with smart traffic management systems and digital infrastructure proved critical to making CAD more intelligent and safe. “Generally, the technical analysis led to the conclusion that substantial research is still needed to not always use the human driver as the fallback system (automation up to level 2) but rather the vehicle to assume some driving functions for a certain time (automation level 3), or self-drive without human supervision (automation levels 4 and 5),” adds Meyer. With amendments to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, major legal and regulatory milestones towards deploying automated vehicles were attained. However, SCOUT analysis showed that it is essential to further adapt laws in each country so that smart driver systems reach higher automation levels with self-driving capabilities. On economic terms, an important issue addressed was integrating CAD in viable business and service models such as ride sharing. Cutting the Gordian knot Involving a multitude of experts and users, SCOUT organised a number of workshops. In addition to drawing an ambitious vision of level 4/5 CAD in 2030 and analysing state-of-play technologies, they identified actions to overcome the hurdles for achieving the vision. The links that experts indicated in between the actions revealed that technical and non-technical challenges are highly intertwined, with many actions requiring the outcome of others before they can start. “The many interdependencies lead to locked-in situations, creating a kind of Gordian knot. This indicates that the development of self-driving cars may be heavily delayed if it is not well coordinated. This is a typical feature of complex innovation processes that comprise a number of technical and non-technical dimensions,” notes Meyer. Project consortium concluded that for delivering useful indications, the roadmap needed to be distinct not just for the five layers but also for specific use cases and should focus on well-defined milestones. Such a roadmap approach could help anticipate roadblocks and highlight agile shortcuts to accelerate the innovation process. SCOUT’s structured and comprehensive approach delivered comprehensive roadmaps for CAD use cases such as automated on-demand shuttles and delivery robots. It is expected to add cohesion and insight to the diverse landscape for building a common European innovation strategy on CAD.

Keywords

SCOUT, technical, connected and automated driving (CAD), self-driving car, roadmap, legal, social, automation level, innovation paths

Project information

SCOUT

Grant agreement ID: 713843

Project website

Start date

1 July 2016
End date

30 June 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 998 342,50
EU contribution

€ 998 342,50

Coordinated by:

VDI/VDE INNOVATION + TECHNIK GMBH

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Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SCOUT (Safe and COnnected aUtomation in road Transport)

Reporting period: 2016-07-01 to 2017-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The project "Safe and COnnected aUtomation in road Transport" (SCOUT) is a Coordination and Support Action of the European Commission, which started in July 2016 and is lasting for 2 years, until 30 June 2018. The project aims at identifying pathways for an accelerated proliferation of safe and connected high-degree automated driving in Europe, taking into account user needs and expectations, technical and non-technical gaps and risks, viable business models as well as international cooperation and competition. Furthermore, a advice for policies and regulatory frameworks for safe and connected automation will be derived and subsumed into a cross-sectorial roadmap aiming to implement the vision for “Safe and connected automation in road transport 2030”.

Connected and automated driving (CAD) promises a variety of socio-economic benefits, starting from increase road safety towards increased productivity (regarding individuals as well as delivery services), improvements of social inclusion and energy savings. Connectivity will further expand the performance of vehicles towards highly and even fully automated vehicles. To be safe, connectivity is one of the main requirements for higher levels of automated driving to ensure a sufficient communication between infrastructure, vehicles (also among themselves) and other road users. However, connectivity will also introduce concerns regarding cyber security and data privacy.

The overall objectives are to capture expectations and concerns, explore feasible use case for connected and automated driving, analyse gaps and risks, identify sustainable business models, create common cross-sectorial roadmaps and advise policies and regulatory frameworks as well as monitor international trends and tie-in the results of European funded R&D projects and activities.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Vision for connected and automated driving in 2030

Project information

SCOUT

Grant agreement ID: 713843

Project website

Start date

1 July 2016
End date

30 June 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 998 342,50
EU contribution

€ 998 342,50

Coordinated by:

VDI/VDE INNOVATION + TECHNIK GMBH

Deliverables

Documents, reports (20)

Report on use cases and comprehensive vision for connected and automated driving in EU (Final)

Compilation of a report on use cases for connected & automated driving as well as on the comprehensive vision for connected and automated driving in the EU (Final) as resulting from the analyses of WP2.

Report on user expectations, goals, ideas, reservations and requirements (Final)

Compilation of the report on user expectations, goals, ideas, reservations and requirements (final version) as the closing document for WP2.

Context map on user expectations, goals, ideas, reservations and requirements

Finalization of a Context map on user expectations, goals, ideas, reservations and requirements as a central output document for WP2.

Report on scientific publications

List of scientific publications resulting from the SCOUT project

Update of Plans, targets and activities on international level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (Final)

Updated documentation of conceived plans, targets and activities on the international level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (updated final version), based on the international monitoring performed within the SCOUT project

Second Newsletter

Dissemination of the second e-newsletter to keep the target-groups informed about the project progress and results by highlighting the latest outcomes, events or news.

Update of Plans, targets and activities on EU and national level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (Final)

Updated documentation of conceived plans, targets and activities on EU and national level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (updated final version), based on the monitoring performed within the SCOUT project

Report on the state of the art of connected and automated driving in Europe (Final)

Compilarion of a report on the state of the art of connected and automated driving in Europe (final version) as the final output document of WP3.

First Newsletter

Dissemination of the first e-newsletter to keep the target-groups informed about the project progress and results by highlighting the latest outcomes, events or news.

Plans, targets and activities on international level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (Final)

Documentation of conceived plans, targets and activities on the international level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (Final version), based on the international monitoring performed within the SCOUT project

Report on the assessment of the business models

Report on the assessment of the business models as compiled in the document from D4.2.

Fourth Newsletter

Dissemination of the fourth e-newsletter to keep the target-groups informed about the project progress and results by highlighting the latest outcomes, events or news.

Visualisation of European roadmap for connected and automated driving

Visualisation of the European roadmap for connected and automated driving as the central output document of WP5

Report on barriers and mitigation strategies for implementing connected and automated driving in Europe

Compilation of a report on barriers and mitigation strategies for implementing connected and automated driving in Europe, as resulting from the analyses of WP5.

Visualization of vision for automated driving in EU

Visualization of the vision for automated driving in EU as derived from the storymapping process in WP2.

Plans, targets and activities on EU and national level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (Final)

Documentation of conceived plans, targets and activities on EU and national level for implementing connected and automated vehicles (Final version), based on the monitoring performed within the SCOUT project

Report on novel business models (Final)

Compilation of a report on novel business models (final version) as an output document of WP4.

European roadmap for connected and automated driving (Final Draft)

Compilation of a European roadmap for connected and automated driving (final draft) based on the analyses of the SCOUT project

SWOT analysis of the ecosystem of connected and automated driving in Europe (Final)

Documentation of the SWOT analysis of the ecosystem of connected and automated driving in Europe (final version)

Third Newsletter

Dissemination of the third e-newsletter to keep the target-groups informed about the project progress and results by highlighting the latest outcomes, events or news.

Publications

Book chapters (3)

European Roadmaps, Programs und Projects for Innovation in Connected and Automated Road Transport

Author(s): Gereon Meyer

Published in: Road Automation 5, 2018

Challenges and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence for Automated Driving

Author(s): Benjamin Wilsch, Hala Elrofai, Edgar Krune

Published in: AMAA Conference Book 2018, 2018

Roadmap for Accelerated Innovation in Level 4/5 Connected and Automated Driving

Author(s): Jörg Dubbert, Benjamin Wilsch, Carolin Zachäus, Gereon Meyer

Published in: AMAA 2018 Conference Book, 2018

Conference proceedings (1)

State-of-the-Art Analysis for Connected and Automated Driving within the SCOUT Project

Author(s): Devid Will, Lutz Eckstein, Steven van Bargen et al.

Published in: Proceedings of the ITS World Congress 2017, Montreal, 2017

Other (1)

"Poster: ""A Comprehensive Roadmap for Level 4/5 Connected and Automated Driving in Europe"""

Author(s): Carolin Zachäus, Jörg Dubbert, Benjamin Wisch, Gereon Meyer

Published in: 2018

Project information

SCOUT

Grant agreement ID: 713843

Project website

Start date

1 July 2016
End date

30 June 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 998 342,50
EU contribution

€ 998 342,50

Coordinated by:

VDI/VDE INNOVATION + TECHNIK GMBH

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