Advanced Cooperative Driver Assistance for Connected and Autonomous AD and ADAS Vehicles

The goal of the project was to extend the previously established AD Aware Traffic Control platform with functions to demonstrate how Hazardous Location Warnings can be collected from several OEMs and safely shared between stakeholders through a Central Traffic Cloud. Existing international standards were successfully used for all message exchange and the AD Aware TC platform was also complemented with more support for C-ITS standards.

The project has demonstrated how the sharing of traffic situation data through a central level can provide a wider and more direct understanding of the real-time traffic situation and transmit this to connected entities. This means better guidance to OEMs operating AD vehicles as well as improved driver support through OEM ADAS Clouds.

Having full traffic situation awareness is a cornerstone for safer and more efficient operation of AD and ADAS vehicles fleets. The project could show concrete examples how the sharing of data in a collaborative manner improved the overall situational awareness as well as provided Advanced Cooperative Driver Assistance to specific vehicles.

The main deliverable from the project was a demonstration of the system showing a complete endto-end message flow between Volvo Cars and CEVT vehicles over the AD Aware Central Traffic Control Cloud. The demonstration was held at Lindholmen Science Park in late November 2019.

The project utilized and built upon a lot of the already existing cloud infrastructure developed for the
Drive Sweden initiative.