Smart roads and cooperative driving

Code:
SSD: ICAR/05

Learning outcomes:

The course provides students with a clear and deep understanding of the technical and functional requirements to be satisfied for vehicle/road interaction under connected and automated driving scenarios.

Contents:

• General Principles
  • Autonomous driving and cooperative driving
  • From autonomous driving to automated driving
  • Historical overview of autonomous/automated driving development for surface vehicles and state of the art

• Cooperative-Intelligent Transportation Systems platforms and services
  • Opportunities, criticalities, regulation and technical/functional requirements
  • Road-side implementation of cooperative driving
  • On-board implementation of cooperative driving
  • European C-ITS platform and services
  • Day 1 services and further services
  • Overview of fuctional (cyber)security issues and architectures

• Impacts on vehicular traffic
  • Automated, connected and mixed traffic
  • Interaction of connected vehicles and automated vehicles with existing transportation systems
  • Interaction and synergies with Mobility-as-a-Service solutions

• Design of cooperative-driving solutions and mobility solutions in a simulation environment

Teaching method: Frontal lectures, in-class exercises, workshops, lab activities

Teaching material: To be defined

Examination procedures: 

The final examination consists of an oral exam covering the theoretical and technical aspects described within the course together with the discussion of design exercises and team projects.