Vehicle Technology in Australia – Trials, Policy, Regulation

Vehicle Technology in Australia:

Trials, Policy and Regulation – a panel discussion

Danielle Storey, the emcee for APAC21 was on stage for this panel session which was extremely well attended with the largest of the conference rooms filled to the brim. As our mobility changes it is of the highest importance that our policies, regulations and other related areas keep pace.

“We’ve got some incredible experts here on this stage all mic’d up and ready to go. I’m going to tell you a little bit about David, and then I’m going to hand over to David for him to introduce his experts,” Ms Storey said by way of introduction. “David Young is an engineer with over 15 years’ experience in the areas of vehicle safety design … his career in automotive engineering was kicked off in 2006 when he undertook research to complete a PhD examining vehicle crash worthiness and that was completed with Monash University. “Since then, his career included time working in industry research in the public sector for the past three years. David has been working with one of our sponsors the TAC – the Transport Accident Commission Road Safety team. During his time his focus was on a range of projects and funding activities with many of those around advanced vehicle safety technologies, connected and automated vehicle technologies and more. His current role is Manager Vehicle Safety, Innovation and Technology at the TAC.” Sitting two across from Mr Young was Dr Jonathan Spear CEO of Infrastructure Victoria. Dr Spear has led Infrastructure Victoria’s work on Victoria’s 30year infrastructure strategy, research programs and the provision of independent advice to the Victorian government. Before joining Infrastructure Victoria, he held senior leadership policy strategy and legal roles in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, and the Department of Justice, Victoria Police, and Slater and Gordon lawyers. Dr Spear holds a Doctor of Philosophy and History, Executive Master Public Administration, Master of Laws, and a Bachelor of Arts. Samantha Cockfield was next detailing her work as head of road safety at the TAC. Ms Cockfield has been involved in that for many years beginning as an economist working on the development and evaluation of accident black spot programs. She has since developed behavioural programs, including many of the TAC public education programs and the delivery of the TAC road safety strategy, which spans road infrastructure, vehicle safety initiatives, and a range of programs designed to improve reviews. Then it was Miranda Blogg, the director of the Cooperative and Automated Vehicle Initiative, at Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads. In this role she manages the delivery of a number of pilot projects aimed at exploring emerging vehicle technologies that have the potential to improve road safety projects. Ms Blogg is a license civil engineer of more than 25 years’ experience and holds a PhD in Civil Engineering Traffic from the Queensland University of Technology. Ms Blogg has held various roles in the United States and regularly worked on projects within the National Cooperative Highways research program and Transit Cooperative research program.

APAC21 LIST OF PAPERS

Automated and Connected Mobility

1. APAC-21-118 Utterance Understanding based Vehicle Specialized Voice Recognition System (South Korea) Sungsoo Park 2. APAC-21-122 A user-personalized Model for Destination Prediction with Navigation logs (South Korea) Chang Woo Chun 3. APAC-21-127 High Definition mapping for C-ITS (Australia) Varun Srirama 4. APAC-21-131 Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot – Safety Evaluation of Vehicle to Infrastructure applications (Australia) Merle Wood 5. APAC-21-134 Forecasting near-term (to 2031) uptake of technologies to support transport agency decision-making (Australia) Andrew Somers 6. APAC-21-135 Supporting Automated Driving through Investments in Physical Infrastructures (Australia) Robert Kochhan 7. APAC-21-151 Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot - System Performance (Australia) Miranda Blogg 8. APAC-21-154 Designing and Deploying Service-Oriented Architectures with Model-Based Design (Australia) ABSTRACT ONLY Alex Shin 9. APAC-21-173 Assistance System for Pedestrian Overtaking based on Individual Risk Estimation (Japan) Manh-Dung VU

Digital Transformation in Automotive Industry

10. APAC-21-106 Virtual Gearshift (South Korea) Jiwon Oh 11. APAC-21-125 Omni-Aware: Learnings from a roadside adaptation of automated vehicle LiDAR (Australia) David Johnston 12. APAC-21-126 Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems research within the AIMES Environment (Australia) Ada Lin 13. APAC-21-160 Enhanced Virtual Products and their Influence in Automotive Development, Manufacturing and Testing Processes (Austria) Alexander Kreis 14. APAC-21-188 Gearshift Schedule with Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Logic Interference on Two-speed Evs (Australia) Haiping Du

Electric, Hydrogen, Fuel Cell Technology

15. APAC-21-110 Sustainable Circular Economy - The Hybrid & EV Battery and the Bess Pilot Program (Australia) Dickson Leow 16. APAC-21-115 A Study on developing high heat conductive Al casting alloy by using thermodynamic simulation (South Korea) Hee Sam Kang 17. APAC-21-124 Optimum Life for Minimum CO2 in Light Duty Vehicles - Comparison of EVs with ICEs on Biogas or CNG (Australia) Harry Watson 18. APAC-21-146 Novel Assessment Approaches to Support Accelerated Automotive Battery Design and Development Using Tailored Mission Profiles (Austria) Muamer Majetic 19. APAC-21-198 Data-driven analysis of Australian EV charging and driving behaviours (Australia) ABSTRACT ONLY Kai Li Lim

Emerging Transport Technology (Aviation, VTOL and Drones)

20. APAC-21-176 Crashworthiness Review for Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Vehicles and Implementation of the Automotive Safety Approach (Germany) Lucas Laarmann 21. APAC-21-178 A Conceptual Design of Barking Drones Fleet Management to Detect and Repulse Cattle (Australia) Man (Annie) Liang 22. APAC-21-186 The Threat From Above To Terrestrial Transport (Australia) Simon Watkins 23. APAC-21-192 Fast-tracking the development of autonomous vehicles, drones and robots via engineering simulation (Australia) ABSTRACT ONLY Thomas Benke

Emissions and Pollutants Caused by Vehicles

24. APAC-21-149 Battery-Electric and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle Emissions in Australia, Considering Energy Mix and Positive Energy Roads (Australia) Robert Kochhan 25. APAC-21-159 Life-cycle assessment - based evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions of conventional, hybrid and electric cars (Austria) Mario Hirz 26. APAC-21-185 Statistical Analysis and Impact Forecasting of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on the Environment: Case Study in the State of Maryland (USA) Alireza Ansariyar

Human Factors & Ergonomics

27. APAC-21-136 Supporting Driver Training - From Vehicles with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems to Fully Autonomous Vehicles (Australia) Mohsin Murtaza 28. APAC-21-142 EEG-Based Driving Fatigue Detection by using the Topological Data Analysis (TDA) (China) Zhengqing Liu 29. APAC-21-190 Comparison of Four Steering Angle and Lateral Position Measures of Driving Performance (Australia) Jinhui Xu 30. APAC-21-194 Investigation on the Acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles (Australia) Abdulaziz Ayedh A Aldakkhelallah

Finally, it was James Hurnall Director of Policy at ANCAP who has a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry. He has been the director of policy for ANCAP Safety Australia’s independent vehicle safety authority, working with ANCAP on Australia’s new car assessment program since 1993. Mr Hurnall has held roles as head of engineering and regulatory roles, including technical director for the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. After the panel delved deeper into their current roles the floor was open to questions and the first few centred around the who was to become responsible in the case of accidents involving AV technology. And what is happening in America more often now as people are overestimating the capability of autonomous systems – the example was given of a Tesla that crashed as the driver slept. The panel discussed the question in terms of what happened when other technologies were introduced such as ABS, and it revolved around the idea that people just assume that the car can do all that it has to. Part of the solution brought forward was to educate people about the capabilities of the vehicle and their responsibilities concerning its control. Several more questions were handled by the panel and finally one came regarding policy which had everyone sharp and alert. The question was what are some of the policies that are being work on at different levels of government in anticipation of the increasing levels of vehicle automation. The panel agreed that that this was a topic on which many conversations were needed now and into the future and no definitive answer was appropriate as it was an evolving situation. Work has been done by Infrastructure Victoria as it took into account a variety of assumptions of the way in which automated vehicles might work at level 4 and 5 and about how they were going to perform in a transport modelling sense. However, it is early days and policy makers need to see over time how these vehicle scenarios play out in reality as larger numbers of automated vehicles enter the market. The National Transport Commission has taken the lead in this respect as directed by the transport ministers in trying to work through some of the nuts and bolts of the regulatory proceedings. This was around responsibility and insurance, about access to data, about standards when they enter the market. And those that are being considered for adoption in future years. Questions flowed quickly from then on and after almost an hour the panel closed having been challenged on everything from policy settings for an emerging new vehicle culture and automated vehicles, ANCAP car ratings and how to incentivise the take up of new vehicle ownership to introduce better safety measures, the growth market of commercial vehicles in particular pick-ups and utility vehicles and how these vehicles differ from passenger cars in terms of safety.

Manufacturing & Materials

31. APAC-21-129 Lightweight and Economical Panoramic Sunroof Frame: Design of Long and Flat Glass Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (South Korea) Kyeong-Bae Seo 32. APAC-21-132 A Study on 48V Heating Glass Technology of Mild Hybrid Vehicle (South Korea) Nakkyong Kong 33. APAC-21-143 Optimization of Acoustic Properties for Multilayer Acoustic Absorber by using Genetic Algorithm (China) Zhengqing Liu 34. APAC-21-144 Optimization of Silicone Artificial Leather to prevent soiling seat trim cover (South Korea) Hyerin Choi 35. APAC-21-147 The Study on Optimization to Weight Reduction of Battery Case (South Korea) Geonhee Cheon 36. APAC-21-165 Exploring integrated seating structures in a two-dimensional space (Australia) ABSTRACT ONLY Shuan Whimpey 37. APAC-21-171 A Small-Size Reverberation Room for Sound Absorption Assessment (Australia) Yujun Zhao 38. APAC-21-196 Research, development and implementation of an accelerated fatigue testing procedure for a vehicle carrier system (Australia) Shilei Zhou

Mobility Comfort

39. APAC-21-119 Development of an intelligent air cleaning system (South Korea) Dong won Yeon 40. APAC-21-128 A Development for slim and light weight cushion-linked back recliner rear seat (South Korea) Donghwan Kim 41. APAC-21-138 Development of a testing methodology for Autonomous Vehicles (Australia) ABSTRACT ONLY Andrew White & David Hicks 42. APAC-21-168 A novel automotive HVAC system for inhibition of evaporator contamination (South Korea) Young Wook Kim 43. APAC-21-187 The benefits of variable stiffness and variable damping suspension system on motion sickness (Australia) Yulin Liao 44. APAC-21-189 Analysis of the performance of Melbourne’s High Capacity Metro Train’s suspension system under irregular track conditions (Australia) Youwei Song 45. APAC-21-195 Intelligently Integrating Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Las Vegas Medical District (USA) ABSTRACT ONLY Sama Khazraeian

Vehicle Crash Safety

46. APAC-21-113 A Study on Crash and Stiffness Structure of Door for B Pillar-Less Vehicle (South Korea) Je-won Choi 47. APAC-21-123 Rubber is not Rubber (Effect of tyre state on emergency braking) (Australia) Shane Richardson 48. APAC-21-130 The evolution of ABS performance in emergency stopping events (Australia) Tia Gaffney 49. APAC-21-137 Design and Crash performance comparison study of Monocoque and Spaceframe BIW (South Korea) Do Hoi Kim 50. APAC-21-152 Automated safety assessment of passengers in vehicles with non-standard seating configuration in rear impact (Czech Republic) Luděk Hynčík

Vehicle Dynamics and Control

51. APAC-21-108 Research on Integrated Performance Design for the xEV Braking System (South Korea) Wook Hyun Han 52. APAC-21-114 Proposal of CAT Model Based Benchmarking and System Characteristic Optimization Method for Developing Vehicle Handling Performance (South Korea) Jin Hee Lee 53. APAC-21-148 An autonomous vehicle at the handling limit: A hierarchical controller based on the Quasi-Steady-State model (Australia) Kyle Tucker 54. APAC-21-150 The development of hybrid chassis components applied by the GFRP and steel (South Korea) Pankeun Jeong 55. APAC-21-167 Prediction of Vehicle Vibration Discomfort using a Transfer Matrix Method (Australia) Jianchun Yao

Formula SAE, EV and AV

56. APAC-21-SP1 AVR in Vehicle Design for Remote Working (Team Swinburne Formula SAE) 57. APAC-21-SP2 Using Computer Aided Engineering to analyse the success of an Overall Vehicle Specification in a Formula Student setting (RMIT University) 58. APAC-21-SP3 Implementation of a Baraja Spectrum-ScanTM LiDAR. (Monash Motorsport) 59. APAC-21-SP4 Embedding a wireless sensor network in an F-SAE AV to aid the core ‘detect, classify, and predict’ operation (FSAE Team Swinburne’s research program) 60. APAC-21-SP5 Development of an autonomous pipeline for a Formula Student racecar (Monash Motorsport)

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