TransAID Deliverable 9.4: TransAID Symposium

Abstract

This report describes the organisation and outcome of the TransAID Symposium, held in Paris, France, on 9 June 2019, in conjunction with the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2019), one of the major annual conferences of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS). In light of dissemination and obtaining stakeholder knowledge, TransAID bundled its resources with a large existing IV 2019 event to ensure a higher probability of attracting people to the workshop. As the audience of our workshop (which targeted technologies for cooperative and automated road transport) constituted a mix of academia, researchers, and industry, we were able to foster the interactive exchange between all these parties. The contents of the workshop comprised survey questions posed via the Mentimeter platform, invited speakers, and oral-paper presentations (which were thematically put into the two categories, of Connected and Automated driving, as well as security-related aspects of Cooperative ITS). Each time, an interactive discussion with the audience ensued, providing further insights into the authors' points of view. The survey results revealed that about half of the participants came from academia. Interestingly, a large group was in favour of foreseeing areas where automated driving should not be allowed, thereby directly confirming that TransAID's research questions and approach are sound and sensible. A very high proportion of the participants also spoke out towards OEMs, asking them to explain the limitations of their automated vehicles. In addition, connectivity was perceived as a mandatory requirement for Level 3 or higher automated vehicles. To conclude, a discussion followed some of the results related to the question whether (connected) automated vehicles would be allowed to break the law. This was seen as moderately acceptable when optimisation of the traffic stream was called for, but definitely for the purpose of increasing traffic safety.