2. International Task Force on Vehicle-Highway Automation
21th Annual Meeting
October 29, 2017
Montreal, Canada

3. Introduction

4. What is ITFVHA?
A forum to discuss government-industry roles in development and deployment of Automated Driving Systems
An informal group for exchange of information and strengthening global linkages

5. ITFVHA Approach Invitation-only gathering
“core community” of established programs
countries / industries exploring strategy/benefits for Automated Driving
Independent of other ITS activities and forums

6. History of ITFVHA Organizational meeting: 1996, Orlando
1997, San Diego, sponsored by NAHSC
1998, Delft, Netherlands, sponsored by Rijkswaterstaat
1999, Toronto, sponsored by ITS America
2000, Tsukuba City, sponsored by MOC/AHSRA
2001, Sydney, sponsored by ITS Australia / AAA
2002, Chicago, sponsored by TRB and ITS America
2003, Paris, sponsored by LIVIC
2004, Nagoya, sponsored by MLIT / AHSRA
2005, San Francisco, sponsored by ITS America / USDOT
2006, London, sponsored by UK Highways Agency

7. History of ITFVHA 2007, Versailles, sponsored by INRIA
2008, New York City, sponsored by Parsons-Brinkerhoff
2009, Stockholm, sponsored by H3B Media
2010, Busan, sponsored by Korean Transport Institute
2011, Orlando, sponsored by Bishop Consulting
2012, Vienna, sponsored by Austrian Institute of Technology & AUVSI
2013, Tokyo, sponsored by ALPS/Alpine
2014, Detroit, sponsored by VRA and Nissan
2015, Bordeaux, sponsored by VRA and AutonomouStuff
2016, Melbourne, sponsored by WSP and VRA

8. 21st Annual Meeting Montreal Sponsor—WSP Review of Agenda
Dinner—6:30 pm
Restaurant “Le Blumenthal” 305 Rue Sainte-Catherine O.  Montreal, Qc H2X 2A1

9. What is the most significant development in vehicle automation of the last year?

10. Significant Developments in the Last Year (View from 2016)
The “Peak of Inflated Expectations” has been hit (Gartner Hype Cycle).
Industry
Investments/acquisitions/partnership activities around startups relating to automated driving & mobility.
Tesla AutoPilot deployment with fatality with the world seeming to be essentially OK with it.
Ford’s announcement to deliver high-volume, fully autonomous vehicles for ride sharing in 2021.
Testing
Testing of vehicles on public roads with the general public inside.
Public Initiatives
Smart Columbus (USA)
Regulations
USA NHTSA's policy guidance 1.0

11. 2017—Significant Developments in the Last Year
Falling of the Gartner Hype Cycle.
Industry
BAIDU launches Apollo (Android on wheels); builds huge ecosystem of followers
Significant industry consolidations continue: Samsung/Harmen, Intel/Mobileye, Delphi/Nutonomy and more
Automakers “out of the closet” – switching business models to mobility as a service
Change of structure and development processes in traditional companies; extension of the Mobileye, Intel and BMW partnership by new partners
Number of LiDAR manufactures coming to market
Number of autonomous platform developers coming to market
Rise of truck automation: new startups, significant investment

12. 2017—Significant Developments in the Last Year
Technology
Real-time neural network architecture for object detection (YOLO)
Silicon manufacturers are heavily investing in purpose built AV platforms
Testing
Transition from Field Operational Tests to Deployment. Now the real work begins!
Trials around the world involving Level 3 automation and above e.g. L3Pilot, Drive Me, etc.
Regulations
USDOT Federal AV Policy 2.0
California Driverless Regulations
Waymo Safety Report  
US DoT evolving from CV -> CV/AV -> AV/CV -> AV

13. Discussion

14. What are key issues to be addressed for automated driving within the next 3 years?

15. Key Issues for Next Three Years— View from 2016
Public
Managing public expectations
Build consumer confidence
Regulatory
Establish a regulatory framework for automated vehicles.
Define operational requirements for inter-operation of automated vehicles and other road users.
USA mandate of V2V?
Validation and Testing
Develop meaningful and practical methods for assessing the safety of automated driving systems.
International or at least regional harmonization of testing guidelines.
Industry
Establishing an industry-agreed high bar of performance without hampering innovation.
Accomplishing SAE level 4 operations in the real world.

16. Key Issues for Next Three Years— View from 2016
Technology
The great potential of deep learning / artificial intelligence for connected automation.
How communications and particularly 5G can enable previously unprecedented data exchanges
how to deal with the promises of 5G for Connected Automation, when it is not there yet?
Standardization
Identify what needs to be standardized and creating standards.
Road Operations / Infrastructure
Motivating government agencies to create and share key operational data real-time (traffic signals, roadworks, other).
Improve traffic prediction
Benefits
Demonstrating a real-world benefit of truck platooning to freight operators
Societal
Labor issues re automated taxi’s and trucks to ensure public acceptability.

17. 2017— Key Issues for the Next Three Years
Public
how to involve public in discussing on what we want from road automation and which direction it should take
if everything is connected to each other what are macro-effects?
total control by government or industries, vulnerability to attack or disaster, perfect convenience…
Making progress in the broad availability of AEB with hard supporting data from consumer adoption
Industry
Significant shifts in business models for all traditional transportations companies. Automotive OEM’s, trucking, shuttle service, etc.
Regulation
How can we be sure that automated systems are robust enough to function on the open roads?
Transforming regulation from compliance based (that prevents accidents from the past) to performance based to accommodate rules for traffic behavior better? (culture change in Europe!)
Legislation adaptation (towards harmonization) worldwide 
Ensuring safety of new products

18. 2017— Key Issues for the Next Three Years
Infrastructure
plans to make the infrastructure ready for AVs
Technology
Where is AI heading and how it certifies as functional safety in automotive
Validation (especially of AI parts in the SW)
Interpretation of the situation and interaction with other traffic participants
Seamless integration of connectivity technologies (5G, LTE-V, ITS G5) respecting the needs of automated drive
high def mapping
Testing
Cross-border testing / interoperability issues
Validation and testing of AVs. What is the right methodology? What are relevant scenarios?
Some/more  real-world actual operational experience with Driverless (both low speed, "gated communities" and higher speed (<~60mph) broader areas)

19. Discussion

20. How Can Road Operators Facilitate / Accelerate Deployment of AVS to Address Transportation Goals?

21. Harnessing AV for Traffic Operations
However, AV services focus on benefitting individuals…not the aggregate traffic.
How to harness CAV to reduce congestion?
Highest Priority: Data, Data, Data!

22. Road Operators Role for AVS— Digital Infrastructure
Traffic signals –
high quality signal phase and timing data
shared to a cloud portal
ideally available with low time latency
Dynamic data internal to road agency but not yet shared into the cloud
Data Gaps – where the road agency does not have data regarding road operations, make the investment to create that data
Road works– devise methods to collect and provide high quality data about road configuration, special markings etc.
contract terms on road contractors to generate data?

23. Dynamic Speed Harmonization
Traffic management center
detailed data on geo-coded vehicle speeds per lane
predictive simulation
generates frequent geo-coded speed increment/decrements
Mile marker 98: 54 mph
Mile marker 99: 56 mph
etc.
Vehicles receive and implement speed advice automatically
voluntary: speed responsiveness must be enabled by user

24. Discussion