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Public consultation launched on Automated Mobility partnership

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9 April 2020
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PUBLIC CONSULTATION: PARTNERSHIP FOR RESE ARCH ON CCAM Public consultation on news AV partnership
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In 2019, with its Communication “On the road to automated mobility: an EU strategy for mobility of the future”, the European Commission provided a vision for Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM), including the intention to launch a Partnership in this field.

A Single Platform on CCAM was set up, and its Working Group 1 has since then been working to develop an EU agenda for research and pre-deployment, providing the base to prepare such a Partnership on CCAM in the next programme Horizon Europe (2021 -2027).

Now, SPACE invites relevant stakeholders to provide input by 23 March.

Feedback will be analysed and improvements incorporated into the final draft Proposal to be submitted to the European Commission on 31st March.

Please find more information in the document attached (to download at left bottom of this page).

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7 words explained

platooning

Also known as flocking. A collection of (automated) vehicles that travel together, actively coordinated in formation. Platoons decrease the distances between vehicles using electronic, and possibly mechanical, coupling. Platooning allows many vehicles to accelerate or brake simultaneously.

urban setting

High density environment with an efficient high capacity public transport system with good capillarity and high frequencies.

suburban setting

Medium density environment with a good public transport system with radial connections to the city center, but lower capillarity and frequencies. This setting includes suburban cities.

small cities

Small, isolated city with an own public transport system and <100K inhabitants.

rural

Low-density environment, small cities and villages with poor public transport services mainly connecting the villages.

SAE level

The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) levels define the level of vehicle autonomy, or in other words, how much human intervention is still needed for an automated vehicle to operate. Currently, five SAE levels have been defined: Level 0: Automated system issues warnings and may momentarily intervene but has no sustained vehicle control. Level 1 (hands on): Driver and automatic system share vehicle control. The driver must be ready to retake full control at any time. Level 2 (hands off): The automated system takes full control of the vehicle (accelerating, braking, and steering). The driver must monitor the driving and be prepared to intervene immediately at any time if the automated system fails to respond properly. Level 3 (eyes off): The automated system takes full control of the vehicle (accelerating, braking, and steering). The driver must monitor the driving and be prepared to intervene immediately at any time if the automated system fails to respond properly. Level 4 (mind off): As level 3, but no driver attention is ever required for safety, e.g. the driver may safely go to sleep or leave the driver's seat. Level 5 (steering wheel optional): No human intervention is required at all. An example would be a robotic taxi.

V2X

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is the passing of information from a vehicle to any entity that may affect the vehicle, and vice versa.