International Task Force on Vehicle-Highway Automation

16th Annual Meeting

WELCOME

INTRODUCTION

What is ITFVHA?

• A forum to discuss government-industry roles in development and deployment of advanced driver assistance systems

• An informal group for exchange of information and strengthening global linkages

ITFVHA Approach

• Invitation-only gathering – “core community” of established programs– countries exploring strategy/benefits for

• Advanced Driver Assistance Ssytems (ADAS)• Connected Vehicle-Highway Systems (CVHS)• Vehicle-Highway Automation (VHA)

• Independent of other ITS activities and forums

• Proceedings generated

History of ITFVHA

Organizational meeting: 1996, Orlando First meeting: 1997, San Diego, sponsored by NAHSC Second meeting: 1998, Delft, Netherlands, sponsored by Rijkswaterstaat Third meeting: 1999, Toronto, sponsored by ITS America Fourth meeting: 2000, Tsukuba City, sponsored by MOC/AHSRA Fifth meeting: 2001, Sydney, sponsored by ITS Australia / AAA Sixth meeting: 2002, Chicago, sponsored by TRB and ITS America Seventh meeting: 2003, Paris, sponsored by LIVIC Eighth meeting: 2004, Nagoya, sponsored by MLIT / AHSRA Ninth meeting: 2005, San Francisco, sponsored by ITS America / USDOT Tenth meeting: 2006, London, sponsored by UK Highways Agency Eleventh meeting: 2007, Versailles, sponsored by INRIA Twelfth meeting: 2008, New York City, sponsored by Parsons-Brinkerhoff Thirteenth meeting: 2009, Stockholm, sponsored by H3B Media Fourteenth meeting: 2010, Busan, sponsored by Korean Transport Institute Fifteenth meeting: 2011, Orlando, sponsored by Bishop Consulting

16th Annual Meeting

Vienna

Co-sponsors:Austrian Institute of TechnologyAssociation of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International

Review of Agenda

Restaurant:Plachutta Grünspan

Ottakringer Straße 266,  1160 Wien 7 pm

Separate checks

Bishop Consulting

AUTOMATION: BRIEF HISTORY

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Pre-1990

• 1939 World’s Fair: – General Motors Futurama

• 1950’s – 1980’s– GM experiments / prototypes– buried wire guidance– USA, Japan, Germany

1990’s

• (1990-94) European Prometheus program– 1000 km autonomous driving on public

highway near Paris• (1993-99) USDOD Unmanned Ground

Vehicles• (1993-98) USDOT AHS Program / Demo ’97

– National Automated Highway System Consortium (NAHSC)

– 21 vehicles (cars, trucks, buses)– 8000 miles of demonstration rides with no

malfunctions– Largest media event in history of ITS

2000’s

• EC CHAUFFEUR truck platooning (1996 – 2002) – cooperative “electronic towbar”

• Japan Ministry of Construction (1996- 2008) – platooning / Demo 2000

• UC Berkeley platooning of trucks/ buses (2001-11)

• German INVENT program: traffic jam assistant (2001-05)

• DARPA Grand/Urban Challenges (2004-07)

2000’s

• Phileas dual-mode bus system (Netherlands) (2004)– Automatic mode: braking, steering, throttle fully automated– Guidance is based on magnetic markers every 4-5 m

• Toyota Intelligent Multi-Modal Transit System (IMTS): Expo 2005 in Nagoya (2005) – driverless transit system with automated platoon operation on

dedicated roads– served 27,000 persons daily at Expo 2005

• German KONVOI truck platooning in traffic (2005-09) • U.S. Army Convoy Active Safety Technology (2008-2010)• CyberCar demo Antibes

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2010’s

• Google unveils autonomous vehicle work (2010)• Autonomous Intercontinental Challenge (2010)• CyberCar demo La Rochelle (2011)• HAVE-IT Demo and Reports (2011)

– highly automated driving– control transfer– minimum risk maneuver

• SARTRE Demo (2012): – platooning– business case evaluations

• Car-maker announcements for “mid-decade”– combined lat/lon control– traffic jam assist– full speed, full control prototypes unveiled

Evolution: Vehicle – Highway Allocation of Intelligence

– steady increase in vehicle intelligence– from buried wires – …..to magnetic nails – ……………to “nothing” in road– infrastructure intelligence still required to gain

mobility / sustainability benefits (cooperative systems)

– Dedicated lanes? A point of debate….

Bishop Consulting

Looking Back: What’s Different This Time?

1990’s• National Automated Highway

System Consortium• Public sector led & funded• Visionary• Only one car company deeply

involved• Technology foundation in early

stages– Dedicated lanes important– Embedded magnetic markers

• Transport goals foremost

This Decade• Private sector investment

dominates• Automation competitively

relevant– goal: offer driver comfort– many OEMs active

• OEM designs assume mixed traffic, roads-as-is

• Incremental, building on active safety sensors / V2X

• Opportunity is for transport sector to be smart followers