International collaboration

The European Commission encourages projects to exchange results and ideas with projects in the Americas and Asia-Pacific region. The current expert meeting with teams from Europe and Japan, aims to exchange with the Collaborative Activities to deploy SAE Level 4 mobility services in ITS Japan and UTmobI. The main topics of discussion are such that for each topic, the TransAID project has a summary note with project results, unresolved questions, and discussion topics available, as well as related summary from Japan.

- - I2V- based traffic management measures for cooperative automated vehicles
  - Vehicle automation solutions (prototypic implementations and simulation modelling)
  - V2X communications and protocol solutions for cooperative automated driving
  - Operational Design Domain (ODD) of automated vehicles and infrastructure support
  - Priority areas for future research and innovation activities

Meeting venue: The Delegation of the European Union to Japan kindly offered to host the meeting in the Europe House in the Minato-ku area in Tokyo. Their interest is to facilitate and promote EU-Japan liaison activities on priority topics, which recently includes Connected and Automated Vehicle Technologies. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the physical two-day meeting was replaced by two online meetings.

Click on the names below for the available presentations.

Programme (Day 1):

- 9:00 / 16:00 (Welcome, introductions, meeting objectives)
  - Jaap Vreeswijk, MAP traffic management, the Netherlands
  - Takahiko Uchimura, ITS Japan / University of Tokyo, Japan
- 9:15 / 16:15 (Project introductions and overview of regional activities)
  - Julian Schindler, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany
  - Manabu Umeda, University of Tokyo / SIP-adus, Japan
- 9:45 / 16:45 (Operational Design Domain (ODD) management for automated driving)
  - Jaap Vreeswijk, MAP traffic management, The Netherlands
  - Takahiko Uchimura, ITS Japan / University of Tokyo, Japan
- 10:20 / 17:20 (I2V-based traffic management measures for cooperative automated vehicles)
  - Sven Maerivoet, Transport & Mobility Leuven, Belgium
  - Takahiko Uchimura, ITS Japan / University of Tokyo, Japan
- 10:55 / 17:55 (Wrap-up)
- 11:00 / 18:00 (End)

Programme (Day 2):

- 9:00 / 16:00 (Welcome, introductions, meeting objectives)
  - Jaap Vreeswijk, MAP traffic management, the Netherlands
  - Takahiko Uchimura, ITS Japan / University of Tokyo, Japan
- 9:05 / 16:05 (V2X communications and protocol solutions for cooperative automated driving)
  - Miguel Sepulcre, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
  - Takahiko Uchimura, ITS Japan / University of Tokyo, Japan
- 9:45 / 16:45 (Vehicle automation modelling and simulation + Demonstration simulation tool)
  - Evangelos Mintsis, Centre for Research and Technology, Greece
- 10:30 / 17:30 (Discussion: Priority areas for future research and innovation activities)
  - Prepared and moderated by: Jaap Vreeswijk & Takahiko Uchimura
- 10:55 / 17:55 (Wrap-up)
- 11:00 / 18:00 (End)

Expert meeting participants:

Europe:

- Jaap Vreeswijk, MAP traffic management, The Netherlands
- Julian Schindler, German Aerospace Centre, Germany
- Sven Maerivoet, Transport & Mobility Leuven, Belgium
- Miguel Sepulcre, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
- Evangelos Mintsis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- Meng Lu, Dynniq, Netherlands
- Michele Rondinone, Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center, Germany

Japan:

- Takahiko Uchimura, ITS Japan / University of Tokyo, Japan
- Takashi Oguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan (7th Apr. only)
- Hideyuki Kanoshima, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Kazuaki Minami, ITS Japan, Japan
- Yurie Toyama, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Japan (8th Apr. only)
- Manabu Umeda, University of Tokyo / SIP-adus, Japan