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Stakeholder Workshop: From Space to Earth & Back
Autonomous mobility experts are at the forefront of space standardisation development. Space technologies provide a unique opportunity to make its system safer, efficient and more accurate. On 24 June...
European Commission Launches CCAM Single Platform
On 3 June, the European Commission presented its EU-wide platform at its Friends of ITS meeting. The Cooperative, Connected, Automated and Autonomous Mobility (CCAM) Single Platform consists of an inf...
JRC Report: The Future of Road Transport
Implications of Automated, Connected, Low-carbon and Shared Mobility On 21 June, the EC hosted a launch event for a recent publication from the Joint Research Centre on the future of mobility. Titled...
Humanist VCE to Host its Biennial Summer School
Humanist Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) is a consortium of members consisting of universities, research institutions and research intensive companies. Established in 2007 in Lyon, France, Humanist...
EUCAD 2019: Europe takes the lead
The second European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving entitled “Connected Automated Driving: Europe takes the lead” has taken place in Brussels on 2 and 3 April 2019. The event was co-...
ARCADE Joint CAD Network Stakeholder Workshop
The second ARCADE Joint CAD Network Stakeholder Workshop took place on 4 April following the EUCAD 2019 conference in Brussels. It attracted more than 120 participants, representing a total of 40 proj...
Trustworthy AI? The European Ethics Guidelines
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seen as a tool that can be used to serve humanity and the public good, with the aim to increase collective and individual well-being. For people to confidently gain the...
EUCAD 2019 Participants: Your Opinion Matters
Under the theme ‘Connected Automated Driving: Europe takes the lead’, the 2nd European Conference on Connected Automated Driving, EUCAD 2019 took place on 2-3 April 2019. This high-level event bro...
Connected Automated Driving Roadmap (Version 8)
With the objective of providing a joint stakeholder view on the development of Connected Automated Driving (CAD) in Europe, ERTRAC (European Road Transport Research Advisory Council) has been actively...
Getting Ready for EUCAD 2019 Demonstrations
The European Conference on Connected Automated Driving, EUCAD 2019 taking place on 2-3 April 2019, will be an excellent opportunity to showcase some of the last advances in autonomous driving technolo...
European User-centric Innovation Projects at the EUCAD 2019
Taking place just one month before European elections, EUCAD 2019 will convey a strong message to citizens: their acceptance is key to the success of CAD. We highlight three EU projects, which engage...
CORDIS Results Pack on CAD published
Connected Automated Driving (CAD) offers enormous benefits to society, bringing down the number of road fatalities, reducing harmful emissions and improving traffic flow. Aiming at addressing these ch...
Europe moves forward with the deployment of C-ITS on Europe’s roads
Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) connect all road users and traffic managers allowing coordination of their actions and making roads safer and more efficient. To continue progressing...
Become Member of The Single Platform for Open Road Testing and Pre-deployment of CAD
On 17 May 2018, the European Commission adopted the Communication called ‘On the road to automated mobility: An EU strategy for mobility of the future’ where it announced its intention to establis...
UNECE Underlines Need for Uniform Approach for CAD
For the 81st session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's (UNECE) Inland Transport Committee (ITC), which was held in Geneva from 19 - 22 February 2019, 400 representatives of govern...
Take Part in the AVENUE 21 Survey on CAD
The two-year project AVENUE 21, which came to an end last year in October, is conducting a final survey about the relevance of CAD for urban development. This is already the second round of the surve...
The Netherlands Ranked First in KPMG Autonomous Vehicles Readiness Index (AVRI)
Consultancy KPMG International recently published their Autonomous Vehicles Readiness Index (AVRI). The aim of the index is to rank 20 countries on their ability to develop and implement autonomous dr...
Your Opinion Matters: Survey About Automated Driving
As it has already been explained before, automated driving is expected to increase safety, provide more comfort and create many new business opportunities for mobility services. Automated driving w...
EUCAD2019: Registration is open
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Second European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving (EUCAD), jointly organised by the European Commission and EU project ARCA...
ARCADE & ERTRAC Workshop on “Connectivity and Automated Driving”
ARCADE CAD Stakeholder Network and ERTRAC Working Group on “Connectivity and Automated Driving” On 5-6 February, the Joint Stakeholder Workshop consisting of the ARCADE CAD Network & ERTRAC...
Report: The UK’s Driverless Future
When will connected and automated vehicles be commercially available in the UK? What benefits can the UK public expect? A report published in January 2019 by Innovate UK's funded project Smart Mobili...
CAD: Europe Must Take The Lead, MEP says
European People's Party's (EPP) Wim van de Camp, who is the EPP Group’s Spokesman for Transport, believes that Europe should be the leading actor in CAD related matters. Indeed, in his report on au...
The European Approach on Artificial Intelligence
Appointed by the European Commission in June 2018 as part of the European approach on artificial intelligence, the High-level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence’s (AI HLEG) general objective is...
More autonomous cars – less car ownership?
Several studies, such as a report on autonomous vehicles in Australia, released by Austroads, show the beneficial impacts that automated driving has on various areas. Some highlight the negative corre...
How to plan FOTs for automated driving: the 7th Version of the FESTA Handbook
FESTA (Field opErational teSts supporT Action) was a project that included a consortium of European experts with a wide range of skills to allow the development of "best-practice" handbooks which gu...
Launch of three 5G Corridor trial projects
Three projects (5GCroco, 5G-Carmen, 5G-Mobix) that aim at setting up trial 5G networks along four cross-border corridors were presented on 5 December at the ICT 2018 in Vienna. Metz-Merzig-Luxembourg...
VEDECOM Online training module on CAD
It goes without saying that connected and automated vehicles are at the forefront of the international scene. Regularly, manufacturers, laboratories and territories make announcements on the developme...
Enabling safe and fast transition towards CAD
How can ICT infrastructure be provided to enable the transition towards road transport automation? To discuss this and other challenges of automated road transport, the ICT4CART consortium met at the...
DRIVEN autonomous vehicle trials to start before Christmas
'Innovate UK'-backed project DRIVEN recently announced that it will start trials of autonomous vehicles on London’s roads. The vehicles are expected to drive autonomously by Christmas of this year....
ARCADE present at the CEN CENELEC Workshop
The European Committee for Standartization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standartization (CENELEC) jointly organised a one-day stakeholder workshop entitled “Urban Autonomou...
Study: US and Europe leaders in CAD innovation
The European Patent Office (EPO), in co-operation with EUCAR, has carried out a study providing a broader picture on patent applications in the field of connected and automated driving. As a more dive...
Deployment of autonomous taxis in Israel by 2022
Under the project name “New Mobility in Israel”, Volkswagen, in cooperation with two Israeli technology companies, have launched an autonomous taxi service. It will be implemented in Israel in ear...
CONCORDA: Towards automated driving on European motorways
Launched in October 2017, the CONCORDA (Connected Corridor for Driving Automation) project works towards the preparation of European motorways for automated driving and high-density truck platooning....
Researchers publish results of The Moral Machine
If a self-driving vehicle is driving along the road and something – a child, an adult or an animal – suddenly steps out in front of it, what should it do? Should it swerve to avoid the pedestrian...
Swedish Transport Agency allows use of self-driving Volvo cars
Volvo, one of the leading partners of the CAD initiative, has got the permission from Swedish Transport Agency to test their self-driving cars on the streets in the Gothenburg area. With this allowanc...
Public Consultation on Connected and Automated Driving
The European Commission recently launched a public consultation on how Europe should build trust in connected and automated mobility services. The consultation that will be open until 4 December 2018...
Become an Effective CAD Contributor
ARCADE, a new EU-funded project that aims to coordinate consensus-building and cooperation across stakeholders for a safe and harmonised deployment of Connected and Automated Driving (CAD), invites st...
SCOUT Deliverables Published
The “Safe and COnnected AUtomation in Road Transport” (SCOUT) project, a coordination and support action funded by the European Commission with the objective of promoting a common roadmap for the...
ARCADE Kick-off Meeting
Over 30 stakeholders gathered in Brussels on 18 -19 October 2018 to launch the ARCADE project (Aligning Research & Innovation for Connected and Automated Driving in Europe), which will continue t...
Euro NCAP: New automated driving technology under examination
The European New Car Assessment Programme (EURO NCAP), which provides consumer information on the safety of new cars, has recently published the results of their first testing on automated driving....
CARTRE Achievements Presented at the ITS World Congress 2018
The ITS World Congress 2018, which took place from 17-21 September in Copenhagen, provided the ideal opportunity for the Connected Automated Driving (CAD) initiative to engage with professionals of t...
Take part in POLIS’ Survey on Automated Driving!
As automated driving is approaching in giant leaps, the network POLIS (Cities and Regions for Transport Innovation), which regroups European cities and regions working together to develop innovative t...
#EUGoesDriverless Newsletter 8th Issue
The CAD initiative has presented the last version of the #EUGoesDriverless Newsletter at the ITS World Congress 2018 in Copenhagen. During the four days Congress, copies of the 8th edition of the ne...
Workshop on Connected and Automated Driving Pilots
On 11-12 September the CARTRE initiative organised a workshop in Brussels on Connected and Automated Driving Pilots. This was a follow-up workshop in a series that were organised in 2016 and 2017 t...
IMPACT Connected Car Open Second Call
IMPACT Connected Car, the EU initiative, that aims at creating value link-chains for innovation in the Connected Car OpenSpace, opened its second call for start-ups to apply for fundings, acceleratio...
Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia agreed on a 5G cross-border corridor
The Digital Assembly 2018 that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria on the 25-26 June was an excellent opportunity to join efforts towards the future of connected automated driving in Europe. During the e...
California moves forward with AV testing
Since while ago the testing of self-driving cars has been taken place in the State of California and currently, mobility service providers and manufacturers are pushing for going further with the tes...
#EUGoesDriverless Newsletter 7th Issue
As the end of the SCOUT project is approaching, the 7th version of the CAD Newsletter is highly dedicated to the findings and results of this initiative. Readers will be able to find information on...
