D10.3: Requirements for AV Fleets Operation Simulation Suite and First Evidence on Pilot Results Based Simulations for Impact Assessment

Kurzfassung

The fundamental scope of the current document is to lay the ground for the development of the Automated Vehicles (AV) fleets operation simulation suite and provide first evidence of pilot-based simulation results for impact assessment. According to the Grant Agreement, the present deliverable needs to provide all the requirements for developing the SHOW Simulation Suite, a tool that acquires a common pool of simulation data from the different automated mobility use cases resulting in an integrated and holistic simulated AV fleets operation. After an initial overview of the simulation of automated mobility use cases and scenarios provided by the partners reported in Deliverables 10.1 and 10.2, it is clearly understood that due to the different simulation tools and approaches ideal for each occasion, depending on the different pilot site needs, there is a need of a methodology to acquire a common pool of simulations. Specifically, this method should provide a pool of simulation data from the different scenarios and use cases, to identify the key parameters and possible methodologies on automated driving simulation as well as to synthesize the simulations for all test sites. All these will be accomplished by the development of the SHOW Simulation Suite, which will combine the knowledge gained in WP10 of simulating automated mobility and integrate the fundamental aspects of this procedure at its optimal level. The conceptualization of this tool is described in Chapter 3. The simulation suite will be a web-based front-end tool that will give guidelines about simulation of automated driving and will include (i) the followed steps of simulating automated mobility between the different pilot sites, (ii) simulation transferability, (iii) connections between simulation models, and (iv)a library including visualised instructions in the used software and tools. One of the most critical parts of the tool is connecting the different simulation models, in order to enable the upscaling of impacts from microsimulation to macroscopic models and vehicle-level to microscopic scenarios as well. For this reason, different methodologies are proposed by the present deliverable (Section 3.2.4). The SHOW Simulation Suite, proposed by the present deliverable, will be useful for every researcher who is interested in simulating automated mobility. The tool design will offer a great experience to the users by providing information about the possible tools and layers, suitable scenarios, guidelines and by further giving directions about the desired simulation scenario or use case. More mathematical information about modelling AVs will be also given, useful for simulation experts, as the automated mobility is still under investigation and there are significant challenges on simulating automated driving. Through a simulation library provided also by the tool, the simulation suite will be beneficial for city planners and practitioners as well, as the key results will be deposited, and could also guide interested stakeholders for future management of cities by using suitable strategies, as transportation systems will be fundamentally affected by the evolution of automated driving. Furthermore, a detailed overview of the results of the second run of pilot-based simulations from all partners is presented in Chapter 4, as follow up of the D10.2 content. The results are linked with the KPIs from WP13 and the next steps for exploiting the real-world pilot data coming from the SHOW test sites operations are also described from each partner. Finally, the conclusions reached from the simulation activities so far, as well as future plans, which will be dedicated in collecting all necessary data and in the development of the web-based SHOW Simulation Suite are discussed in Chapter 5.