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Literature study on practical impacts of driving automation on traffic flow efficiency and emissions

Posted on September 26, 2022 by nradmin
Marketing and media have raised high expectations towards automated vehicles lowering road traffic emissions and improving efficiency, in addition to safety benefits. However, there is little evidence yet exists to support these claims, as found in a recent literature study. Kehä 3 - E18,...

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Accidents potentially affected by conditionally automated vehicles in Finland

Posted on June 20, 2022 by nradmin
A recent study identified the potentially affected accidents by conditionally automated vehicles (SAE3) in Finland. The study was based on identifying the road network where the systems can be used and calculating the network’s current safety situation in terms of expected number of injury...

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Designing automated driving HMI for a city bus (in TrustVehicle)

Posted on March 1, 2021 by nradmin
The TrustVehicle project developed and demonstrated an intuitive human machine interface (HMI) for automated driving functionality of an electric city bus with professional drivers. One critical part of Automated Driving (AD) development is the HMI design. Information presented on the HMI is...

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Societal consequences of automated vehicles in a Norwegian context

Posted on September 20, 2019 by nradmin
If not regulatory factors are established the potential for chaos in urban areas are likely. Automated vehicles have great potential in improving individual mobility and traffic safety, as well as reducing environmental burdens. However, automated vehicles are also expected to present various...

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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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