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Future-Ready Road Infrastructure and Vehicle Automation

Future-Ready Road Infrastructure and Vehicle Automation

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming event focused on the theme “Automotive Perspective on Future-Ready Road Infrastructure concerning Vehicle Automation,” which I am organizing in collaboration with Royal HaskoningDHV and CROW. The event will take place on October 1st at the Automotive Campus in Helmond.

Event Background

Automated traffic and transport present numerous compelling opportunities in light of the evolving vision for future mobility. These include enhancing sustainability, improving safety, addressing the shortage of public transport and logistics personnel, accommodating emerging trends like car-sharing, promoting cycling and walking in urban areas, reducing urban parking, and developing hubs to connect various modes of transportation efficiently.

CROW-KpVV (Gerard van Dijck) and Royal HaskoningDHV (Peter Morsink) have authored a forward-looking whitepaper titled “Future-Ready Road Infrastructure: An Exploration of the Impact of Automated Traffic and Transport.” This paper situates these developments within a broader societal vision and outlines what might be necessary to realize this vision. The whitepaper also delves into the potential future of road networks reserved for automated driving and strategies to avoid de-investment. We aim to reflect on the perspectives from the automotive sector presented in this paper and further stimulate the vision-building process surrounding automated driving.

Central Theme

The event will revolve around the question: What do automotive stakeholders need from infrastructure (both physical and digital) to facilitate and accelerate the rollout of automated driving?

We will explore this theme through the following key questions:

  • If automated driving becomes the norm on certain road networks, how should road design and infrastructure be adapted or restructured?
  • What are the automotive industry's views on this?
  • What is needed to develop a comprehensive vision to guide the introduction of automated vehicles?
  • What are the appropriate short-term steps, such as enhancing traffic safety through increased driving task support leading to further automation
  • Developing new services that make autonomous driving attractive to a broader audience

Program

13:30 Registration and Networking
14:00 Start of the Program

  • Welcome, Introduction, and Overview
  • Policy directions from global examples: Hamburg (large-scale automated driving), Oslo (promoting sharing and reducing parking), and RWS (future perspective on the national road network)
  • Summary of the Whitepaper’s main messages: Transition thinking, leading principles, and a vehicle-centric view

14:40 Introductory Pitches by Automotive Sector Representatives (to be confirmed)

  • DAF: To be confirmed (Self-Driving Trucks)
  • SiemensTASS: Jeroen Ploeg (Critical Scenarios for Testing)
  • TomTom: Roland van Venrooij (HD Maps)
  • PON: Paul Sauerbier (Passenger Cars)

15:20 Parallel Group Sessions (Discussion based on statements from the pitches)
16:05 Plenary Discussion of Group Findings
16:30 Wrap-up and Outlook
16:30 Networking Drinks

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