i4Driving

The i4Driving project is funded under the Horizon Europe R&I framework programme and supported by the European partnership on Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM). The vision of i4Driving is to lay the foundation for a new industry-standard methodology to establish a credible and realistic human road safety baseline for virtual assessment of CCAM systems. The two central ideas we propose are (1) a multi-level, modular and extendable simulation library that combines existing and new models for human driving behaviour; and (2) an innovative cross-disciplinary methodology to account for the huge uncertainty in both human behaviours and use case circumstances. Our consortium combines all the expertise needed to develop this methodology (e.g., traffic engineering, human factors, data & computer science). We have the experimental means to gather the evidence beyond the state-of-art needed to realistically simulate (near) accidents in multi-driver scenarios (access to many data sources, advanced driving simulators, and field labs). In addition, the project has all the relevant partners onboard to test and apply the methodology (Universities and research labs, OEMs and Tier 1, vehicle regulators, type-approval authorities, standardization institutes, insurance companies). i4Driving will provide a set of building blocks that pave the way for a driving license for AVs.