New Book Published by LIVIC: La Route Automatisée
IVsource.net
4 February 2001

A host of authors has contributed to setting down the history and findings of this ongoing influential French research project.

The French work in vehicle-highway automation has been condensed into a new book published by the Central Laboratory for Roads and Bridges (LCPC), a co-sponsor of the Laboratory for the Interactions between the Vehicle, Infrastructure, and Driver (LIVIC) which is leading French work in this area.

Contributors to the book include researchers at LCPC, the National Laboratory for Research in Information and Automation (INRIA), the National Laboratory for Research in Transport and Safety (INRETS), LIVIC, the National School  for Roads and Bridges (ENPC), the National School of Mining, Bishop Consulting, and YO Consulting.

The book describes work conducted under the French PREDIT research program.  A broad set of issues are addressed, in both technical and non-technical areas.  Results of traffic simulations which seek to optimize the safety-capacity tradeoff are offered.  Driver attitudes, costs/benefits, and socio-economic issues are addressed, as are likely deployment paths which build upon near-term safety technology for driver assistance.  A review of similar research programs around the world is also provided as context.

Chapter titles are as follows:

1. Evolution of driver assistance and partial automation systems 

2. Automation of road  travel: a means to increase the security and the capacity simultaneously

3. Parameters of an automated network

4. The architecture and operations of an automated  network 

5. Reactions of drivers vis-à-vis low speed automation 

6. Deployment strategy for automated travel 

7. Cost and benefits of automated travel 

8. Socioeconomic assessment of an automated network at the 2030 horizon

9. Leading research in the world on the vehicle-highway automation

10. Annex, containing descriptions of four scenarios used for the research:

• Scenario A:  Rural safety

• Scenario B:  Interurban travel (trucks and cars)

• Scenario C:  Surburban commuter travel

• Scenario D : Automated shuttles in urban centers

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Copies of the book (in the French language) may be purchased from LCPC for approximately 18 euros at www.lcpc.fr. 

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