Evaluation areas
Safety and operational design domain
Safety validation
What are the pertinent scenarii for safety validation?
Operational design domain
What is the operational design domain for vehicle/infrastructure system
Safety encompasses several aspects which require specific approaches depending on the type of system, its environment and operating conditions, as well as the safety levels to be achieved.
The Operational Design Domain (ODD) is the description of the various elements of the vehicle's context that are likely to affect the vehicle's behaviour or the limits of the autonomous system. An ODD can then be associated with an autonomous system and a particular function.
For example: a private vehicle offering L3 functionality of the highway driver defines in its ODD that driving is only possible on motorways, in daylight, and with a good level of road signs. Outside these conditions, the system is unable to perform the associated function/Safety encompasses a number of aspects which require specific approaches depending on the type of the system, its environment and operating conditions, and the safety levels to be achieved.
Acceptability
Acceptability of the service
How is the service received by its users and other road users?
The relationship between individuals (in their individual and social dimensions) and an object, whatever it may be (technological, organisational, etc.), which makes it possible not only to predict but also to explain behaviour towards an innovation. There are different types of acceptability: economic acceptability, individual acceptability (or also known as practical acceptability) or social acceptability, etc.
Behaviour
User and road user behaviour
What are the behaviours of service users and other road users and their impact on road safety?
Behaviour of automated vehicle users (safety drivers, shuttle passengers, etc.) and other road users. These behaviours affect road safety.
Environment
Environmental analysis of the automated shuttle
What are the environmental implications of autonomous vehicles?
Environmental impact of the large-scale service
What is the ecological footprint of a large scale implementation of the service?
Environmental impacts of automated shuttle (particle emissions, energy consumption), from both infrastructure and vehicle perspectives.
Traffic
Impact of the autonomous vehicle on traffic
How does the AV fit into traffic under real-life conditions?
The impact of the tests on traffic and the transport system as a whole.
Service performance
Service performance and modelling
What is the performance of the service and the target service?
Measurable capabilities of the tested service and the targeted service. As well as measuring the various components of performance, this also gives rise to service modelling to support these results.
Economic and societal
Demand analysis
What impact will the service have on travel demand?
Economic and societal assessments
What are the societal costs and benefits of the service deployed?
Business models
What are the expected costs and revenues of an AV for an IL service?
Governance
How is the deployment of AV locally and nationally?
Effects of autonomous vehicle services on the various categories of actors concerned by these services, in terms of advantages and disadvantages. The actors concerned are users of the service, suppliers, or users and suppliers of competing or complementary services, as well as the other actors impacted: local residents who benefit from accessibility but suffer environmental nuisance, economic effects induced upstream and downstream, structuring effects, particularly agglomeration economies, impact on public finances and social accounts. Assessing the economic and social impacts therefore means considering the effects of an experimented service on travel demand, the societal costs and benefits, and the business model and governance involved.