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
V2X Commercial in confidence
Vehicle-toinfrastructure
1 project, 3 communications architectures Roadside detection & Processing
Direct (ITS-G5)
Interchange node
Remote supervision & commands Commercial in confidence
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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