European Truck Platooning Challenge Glasgow, 6 June 2016

EU Truck Platooning Challenge: 1st project in Flanders for autonomous vehicles Lots of press exposure Code of Practice for testing autonomous vehicles on public roads Outlines the framework Will be presented at the ITS congres this Wednesday Created a procedure for applying One stop-shop Federal level: Prototype approval (vehicle safety) Regional level (road authority): define testing boundaries and conditions in cooperation with OEM Created exemptions for each of the 4 participating OEM’s in Flanders

Application Procedure Industrial partner (OEM) Description project FOD Mobiliteit Step 1: is vehicle allowed on the road? Prototype ? Region(s) Step 2: Under which conditions? Code of Practice Infrastructure Where Advice Research centre Approval

Lessons Learned EUTPC created dynamism: New initiatives for testing with autonomous vehicles in the pipeline Acquiring a legal exemption requires a lot of time, aswel as effort to convince stakeholders. Multi-disciplinary evaluation team Competencies: Technical , Legal, traffic safety, Human factors, communication Need to align road authority viewpoints for cross-border testing (vehicle and traffic safety) Need to align communication strategies, also dealing with social perception 1 december 2015, Rotterdam

Truck Platooning = Level 1 Automation Automation level Truck Platooning = Level 1 Automation Still… High Impact ! Impact on: our internal oganisation: how do we organise ourselves to support this Impact on logistics Impact on legislation Etc…

Truck Platooning: Next Steps Build on the succes on the Challenge Continu to expand the “platooning network” in Flanders Invite sector federations FEBETRA, TLV, UPTR, FEBIAC Invite logistic partners Identify new opportunities: event at LEF centre 31 May OEM proprietry testing and first real-life cases Identify potential hurdles going forward Vehicle: Commercial activities with prototype? Driver: required training? Traffic safety: qualitative assessment vs quantitative assesment desired platoon behavior gap time vs entry/exists Flow of platoon vs flow of other traffic, especially on weaving sections

My contact details Kristof Rombaut Study responsible ITS E-mail: Kristof.Rombaut@mow.vlaanderen.be Tel.: 0476 300 032 Adres: Flemish Agency for Roads and Traffic Koning Albert II-laan 20, bus 4 1000 Brussel