ODD – Operational Design Domain as Test Arrangement for the Future Automatisation of Road Traffic

Dörr, Heinz (2024) ODD – Operational Design Domain as Test Arrangement for the Future Automatisation of Road Traffic. KEEP ON PLANNING FOR THE REAL WORLD. Climate Change calls for Nature-based Solutions and Smart Technologies. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2024, 29th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 753-760. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

Following contribution refers to preceding results presented in German at CORP 2019 and CORP 2020 on the issue how automatization will change and shape future mobility. Some recent knowledge of our work should be a topic for further critical discussion about technical progress triggered by automotive industries. However, are we as planners from the outside prepared for that? Within the year 2024, the equipment of new vehicles with ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance Systems) will be obligatory by law. Have been such applications according to automation grade 3 efficient proved in respect of daily road traffic? Who can give answers to new cars assessment of it? One of the proving approaches are so-called Operational Design Domains (ODD). A professional guideline defines an ODD as “operating conditions under which a given driving automation system or feature thereof is specifically designed to function, including, but not limited to, environmental, geographical, and time-of-day restrictions, and/or the requisite presence or absence of certain traffic or roadway characteristics.” ODD is the design domain of an ADAS or a feature thereof with respect to its operation.” This approach can serve as a strategic instrument to prepare the implementation of autonomous driving via the automatization of road traffic into the mobility system on the long view. Now, what tasks of testing activities are required? • Testing technical efficiency of relevant instruments (off-road) • Finding practical insufficiencies of functionalities based on test arrangements (on test grounds) • System proving of driving practice (feasibility-check on-road) • Authorization of vehicle´s types (reliability- and safety-checks) • Adaptions of road-network for automatization of road traffic (as task by road providers) • Assessment of sociability in settlement areas (need of regional regulations in urban road spaces) Therefore, a broad field of interrogative activities ought to have done before a deployment of highly automated or even autonomous moving vehicles penetrates the markets. If they reach a considerable amount within the car´s stock, it might be too late for assessment studies. “We will look what would happen” as negligent political strategy seems indolent facing the historical developed miscellaneous road network in Europe, which somewhere lacks of large scale in comparison with America´s grid of streets and highways. Automatization of cars deals with a manifold topic driven by automotive industrial progress using hard- and software tools of digitalization, automatization and interconnectivity. The topic, what technical support needs automatization of road operations, stands at the very beginning of the discourse about future motorized mobility. At first, we focus the view on a vehicle as moving body flowing in traffic and interacting with other traffic participants. Dependent on automation-grade of vehicle´s stock different with automat-functionalities equipped cars are objects for testing arrangements (Fig. 1). Pure technical capacities and the reliability of quality to cope with a certain functional task are next to prove. That represents the view into the car, though it effects outside other traffic participants. On the contrary, a bird´s eye-view on the cars flowing onto carriageways represents the complementary view (Fig. 3). These antagonistic views on the automatization of motor vehicles unveils possibly weaknesses of the usage of technologies hardware-side, like sensors for detection of open paths (Fig. 2), and software-side, where signals are processed to car-inherent scenarios. Bearers of homologation of single functionalities ought to complement their proving by holistic arrangements aiming at the car-inherent system architecture to evaluate the effects affecting other road users in respect of its personal integrity and safety (Fig. 5).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	road traffic, test proceedings, urban planning, ODD, ADAS
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	30 Apr 2024 09:42
Last Modified:	10 May 2024 08:45
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1142

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