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Study of infrastructure support and classification for automated driving on Finnish motorways

Posted on March 16, 2022 by nradmin
Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency set a project to assess the feasibility of Finnish motorway section between Helsinki and Tampere on E12 highway for operation of SAE Level 3-4 automated vehicles, to propose a framework for service level classification for them and to prepare a proposal for...

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L3Pilot achieved pan-European testing environment and evaluation of automated driving

Posted on December 9, 2021 by nradmin
The world is in a process of transformation: global warming, resource scarcity, demographic changes, and urbanisation are uncertainties that also influence the automotive industry and challenge it to respond. The transformation would go much further than safe and sustainable travel. It would...

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Exploring driver and operator behaviour models in the context of automated driving – Identification of issues from a human actor perspective

Posted on December 2, 2019 by nradmin
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland studied human issues related to automated driving. The descriptive study explored three different theoretical approaches – one of which has been developed and applied in an industrial work context featuring a long tradition of human interaction with...

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Impacts of connected and automated driving on national road authorities’ policy targets

Posted on September 10, 2019 by nradmin
The main purpose of this article is to summarize state of the art on the impacts of connected and automated driving (CAD) on travel demand, travel behavior, traffic flow, safety and energy (reported in MANTRA deliverable D3.1). The review is based on ongoing and recently completed EU and national...

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Testing automation in EU project

Posted on February 6, 2018 by nradmin
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) is leading a series of tests in a major EU project on automated driving. The first driving tests were carried out on a test track in Slovenia in December 2017. The project will focus in part on acceptance among different groups in...

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