TransAID Deliverable 8.1: Stakeholder consultation report (draft)

Kurzfassung

TransAID develops and demonstrates traffic management procedures and protocols to enable smooth coexistence of automated, connected, and conventional vehicles, especially at Transition Areas. A hierarchical approach is followed where control actions are implemented at different layers including centralised traffic management, infrastructure, and vehicles. This document summarises the results of the stakeholder consultation activities of the TransAID project. In the context of TransAID, the most relevant stakeholders are authorities and policy makers, road operators, vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, road infrastructure and traffic service providers, test and certification institutes, academia and knowledge institutes, future product owners and standardisation bodies. The consultation activities aimed to gather feedbacks on the project results, as well as to hear the stakeholders' view on the impact of prospective automated vehicles introduction. Most importantly, the stakeholders were asked about their ambitions and interests related to role and responsibilities in future scenarios of automated vehicle presence A summary of 7 stakeholder consultation events is provided in this deliverable: - TransAID-MAVEN-CoExist Stakeholder workshop, 10 October 2017, Brussels - TransAID-MAVEN-CoExist-INFRAMIX Expert meeting, 23 October 2018, Greenwich - TransAID session and survey, 8 June 2019, IEEE-IV, Paris - TransAID-U.S. CAMP expert meeting, 25 July 2019, Detroit - EU EIP workshop on ODD, 1 October 2019, Turin - TransAID-INFRAMIX stakeholder workshop, 9 October 2019, Graz - International workshop on ODD, 22 October 2019, Singapore For each stakeholder consultation event a description is given of the scope and aim, participants, plenary and break-out sessions, survey results (when applicable) and implications to the TransAID work. What can be observed from the sequence of stakeholder consultation events is that there is steady progression in the collective understanding of the relation between vehicle automation and infrastructure and the possible implications to the stakeholders involved. By now it seems that there is a common interest, also by vehicle manufacturers, to develop a comprehensive standard and/or taxonomy for classifying operational design domains (ODDs) of automated vehicle systems. The main findings from these events underline the uncertainty associated with the state-of-the-art of vehicle automation and its evolution in the coming decades. From an innovation standpoint these are exciting times, but as we have experienced, the uncertainties will not disappear soon or new uncertainties will arise. Moreover, since Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility and Digital and Physical Infrastructure are such new areas of innovation, the stakeholder consultation did not provide all the answers while for many subjects, nobody has the answer yet.