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The Role of Infrastructure for a Safe Transition to Automated Driving

  • 1st Edition - August 10, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Adriano Alessandrini, Lorenzo Domenichini, Valentina Branzi
  • Language: English

The Role of Infrastructure for a Safe Transition to Automated Driving contextualizes the latest vehicle and road automation research and technology, focusing on the future ro… Read more

Description

The Role of Infrastructure for a Safe Transition to Automated Driving contextualizes the latest vehicle and road automation research and technology, focusing on the future role of road infrastructures. The book analyzes the problems an uncontrolled transition will pose and examines ways forward, covering risk, safety, and the influence of human factors in automated vehicles.

Automated transport researchers, traffic engineers, and transport and city planners will find the book to be a great resource for addressing the complexity of the period during which both human-driven and automated cars will coexist. This integrated vision of different approaches to vehicle automation will help move the technology forward in a thought-provoking manner.

Key features

  • Introduces the SAE standard, the levels of automation it defines, and the concept of new road infrastructures
  • Addresses infrastructural and governance challenges and opportunities for automated vehicles
  • Includes learning tools such as chapters overviews, summaries, and a glossary

Readership

Automated transport researchers, traffic engineers, and transport/city planners

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Automation functions, philosophies and levels

3. Road transport infrastructures for the future

4. The safe system approach

5. The shared responsibilities

6. Human factors in automated driving

7. Infrastructures to accommodate autonomous driving

8. Road operation

9. Legal framework

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 17, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Adriano Alessandrini

Adriano Alessandrini is a professor of transportation science and economics at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy. For the past 20 years, he has participated and led many research projects on innovative transport systems and on assessing the environmental impact of transport. Dr. Alessandrini was the coordinator of CityMobil2, the largest European project on integrating automated road transport systems in European cities. He has been published in many transportation-related journals, including Elsevier’s Transportation Research Procedia.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Transportation Science and Economics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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Lorenzo Domenichini

Lorenzo Domenichini is a professor of transportation infrastructures, road safety, and engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. For nearly 40 years, Dr. Domenichini has participated in several national and international research programs, both experimental and theoretical.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Transportation Infrastructures, Road Safety, and Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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Valentina Branzi

Valentina Branzi is the techincal manager of the LaSIS Lab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. She is responsible for management and use of the LaSIS Driving Simulator for carrying out studies aimed at understanding the behaviour and driving performance of road users.
Affiliations and expertise
Technical Manager of Road Safety and Accident Reconstruction Laboratory (LaSIS), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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