Smart Mobility: A Research Program for Autonomous Driving

In the Smart Mobility program (duration 2018-2022, budget up to 2.5 million euros), five projects are funded in which transdisciplinary teams from Baden-Württemberg's broad research and innovation landscape are looking into the necessary technologies as well as the traffic, legal and social prerequisites, and the consequences of autonomous driving.

• Project INTUITIVER (Interaction between automated vehicles and vulnerable road users, University of Ulm) investigates communication between automated vehicles and other road users based on selected use cases.
• Project OpEr (Optimization of visual recognition of pedestrians based on connected infrastructure, KIT) is concerned with the recognition of weaker road users by automated vehicles under poor visibility and light conditions.
• Project SmartEPark (Smart electric parking, FZI) deals with concepts and methods for smart parking management through communication with autonomous vehicles.
• Project AutoRICH (Autonomous driving – opportunities and risks for cities, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) examines the effects of autonomous driving on traffic performance in cities and develops scenarios for selected control instruments of municipal traffic policies.
• Project Smart Mobility Baden-Württemberg – Accompanying Legal Research (FZI) examines selected legal issues of autonomous driving and data utilization options in research.