TRL - Preparing for automation

Preparing for Autonomous Mobility at TRL’s Smart Mobility Lab in London Intertraffic, 30th March 2022

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Smart Mobility Living Lab: London Located in East London, SMLL is the worlds most advanced urban testbed to accelerate the creation of mobility solutions.

Supporting technology development, testing and validation trials in a real world urban environment

Supporting technology validation of technology in a digital twin of London’s roads Commercial in confidence

Innovation community where 30+ organisations across multiple sectors explore radical approaches to transport and mobility

Complex places

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Complex places

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SMLL public road testbed environment: 24 km of routes, 200+ monitored locations in London

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park routes

Royal Borough of Greenwich routes Commercial in confidence

SMLL data gathering infrastructure & connectivity 300+ CCTV 40+ V2X RSU 200+ mesh wifi 20km private fibre Edge compute

V2X stack and object detection supporting range of message types, incl.

SPAT/MAP; DENM; CPM; CAM Commercial in confidence

Behavioural simulation scenario data from SMLL routes & infrastructure

SMLL digital twin SMLL simulation environment

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Linked service data (e.g. UTC)

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Preparing for Connected & Automated Mobility (CAM) : A busy ecosystem

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Different use cases, different solutions

Source: Oxbotica

Source: Caterpillar

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Source: Nuro

Varying operational environments

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Moving from CAM technologies to services

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Scaling CAM… Design

▪ Taking a whole systems approach ▪ Getting the numbers right ▪ Determining safety goals

Develop

▪ Local needs & behaviours ▪ Trust and assurance & role of local validation

Deploy

▪ In-use monitoring ▪ Exposure to use cases & needs ▪ Footprint of CAM services Commercial Commercial in confidence in confidence

SMLL: Performance benchmarking & validation Testing solutions where they will be used Design

Develop

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Deploy

SMLL: Service design research

Design

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Develop

Deploy

SMLL: Trialling use cases Real use cases, real places

Design

Develop

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Deploy

The Innovation Community

Design

Develop

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Deploy

ServCity project Using cooperative perception in the operation of CAVs Commercial in confidence

ServCity: CAVs in complex urban spaces Technology

People

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Scalability

V2X communications Vehicle-topeople

Vehicle-to-vehicle

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Vehicle-toinfrastructure

1 project, 3 communications architectures Roadside detection & Processing

Direct (ITS-G5)

Interchange node

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C-V2X (cellular)

API (cellular)

3 cooperative infrastructure use cases Lane level route planning

Limited sight lines

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Signal control

What’s the challenge?

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When driving there is a limit to how far away you as a driver or your car’s sensors can “see” 1 4

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Only until you reach 4 do you know there is a block from a bus in the lane and only after at stage 5 does a second bus reveal itself.

The problem in more detail…

Traffic is forced to cut in and merge at the last second behind the bus

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Sharing data with the AV

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ServCity over the coming year…

Limited sight lines

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Signal control

Preparing for Connected & Automated Mobility Where next?

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Open topics for CAM Managing footprint of mobility ecosystem Delivering on safety goals

Informing the whole-life costs Flexible design of future towns and cities Building fairness into CAM deployment Focusing on the resilience of the system Commercial in confidence

James Long - Head of Technical Consulting Smart Mobility Living Lab: London jlong@trl.co.uk www.smartmobility.london

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