Programme

Reaching the full potential of CCAM in logistics requires innovative services along the whole value chain and use cases: from confined areas to public roads. Pilots in confined areas are partly developed and conducted under purpose-built environments in terms of physical and digital infrastructure (PDI), and possibly specific traffic regulation. In contrast, pilots conducted in transfer to and on public roads must deal with public PDI and have less control from a pilot and research perspective. Furthermore, the complexity of stakeholders involved, regulatory framework, value streams, and social impact differ significantly. This session will delve into knowledge transfer of lessons learned and value creation from piloting services in confined areas and on public roads. Furthermore, the session aims to better understand the potential for expanding the focus and combining the learnings from logistic operations in confined areas via local short-distance use cases, to border-crossing long-distance freight transport.

With recent developments in vehicle automation and connectivity, remote management operations are one of the fast-emerging fields, which can support as an enabler and serve as a booster for the realization of connected, cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM) services. Remote management operations encompass activities such as system monitoring, dispatch strategies, remote assistance related to specific driving tasks and teleoperations or remote driving. Remote operation capabilities are a necessity for deployment as can be observed at current operational CCAM services around the world. Remote management operations can enhance the performance of vehicle automation systems by overcoming certain gaps in the Operational Design Domain (ODD) or even expand the ODD, but human factors associated with responsible vehicle automation operations need to be addressed. The session will explore opportunities and challenges with the panelists, who will share insights and experience based on real life (pre)deployment.

Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) promises transformative advancements in smart transportation, driven by the deployment of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). However, cybersecurity challenges hinder their widespread adoption. This session explores a comprehensive stack of cybersecurity solutions involving sensor fusion and distributed intelligence; trust based frameworks; and the Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA), as mandated by UNECE Regulation No. 155 and the ISO/SAE 21434.
Through expert insights and lessons learned from EU projects, like ULTIMO, AutoTRUST, CHORUS, SELFY, AI4CCAM, CONNECT, CITCOM and DistriMuSe, the session will identify the relationship between the current cybersecurity solutions, their gaps and potential forward-thinking solutions. Topics include situational awareness, cooperative resilience, AI-driven risk assessment, and distributed systems based on multi-sensor communication. Panellists from industry, academia, and standardisation bodies will discuss strategies to strengthen CAV resilience and establish trust as a foundation for enabling safety-critical functionalities in Level-3 onward vehicles.

Scaling Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) systems from pilot demonstrations to large-scale operations requires harmonized High-Definition (HD) maps. This session will explore the efforts of the MODI and ULTIMO projects in addressing challenges of HD map standardization for urban public transport and long-distance freight. Building on the foundation of harmonized data infrastructures like TN-ITS, the session will highlight their role in fostering collaboration and innovation across the CCAM ecosystem. Attendees will engage in dynamic discussions on practical strategies, the role of open data, governmental involvement, and sustainable business models for HD map deployment.

The integration of CCAM into our transportation infrastructure promises to revolutionize mobility, offering significant benefits such as improved safety, increased efficiency, and reduced environmental impacts. However, the complexity of real-world driving environments and the need for AVs to operate safely within their Operational Design Domains (ODD) require a robust assessment framework that addresses a vehicle’s entire lifecycle. In this context, the scenario-based testing approach has been recognized as an extremely valuable methodology for the safety assessment and a key pillar of relevant regulations in the field of CCAM at both European and UN levels. The aim of this session is to bring together industry experts, researchers, policymakers, and standardization bodies to discuss and develop state-of-the-art approaches focusing on the advancement of scenario-based assessment methodologies, emphasizing the importance of comprehensive ODD coverage and lifecycle assessment for CAVs.

Across Europe, a growing number of small and medium-sized municipalities are interested in testing automated vehicles (AVs) as part of their public transport systems. Many experts believe that AVs have great potential in less urbanised areas. In this session, we would like to discuss how different public sector bodies see their motivation and role in supporting and accelerating the deployment of AVs beyond larger cities. In particular, we are interested in the extent to which public institutions expect automated driving to meet societal goals and the expectations/needs of their citizens. Who is expected to use AVs and for what purpose? Will everyone benefit equally? To what extent should/can local authorities drive the introduction of AVs? These and other questions will be discussed with public transport and smaller municipalities representatives, as well as the audience.

This workshop session will introduce a mission-oriented approach to advancing Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) readiness. Topics for automation readiness include infrastructure, fleet management, public-private collaboration, procurement, etc. With guidance from experts and practitioners in automated mobility planning and innovation, participants will identify their organisation’s CCAM mission, assess innovation capacity, and design a project portfolio that advances their organisation’s CCAM mission readiness. This session aims to show how European public transport organisations can harness CCAM technology for mission-oriented innovation. CCAM could address many of the missions of public mobility but Europe is lagging behind in its readiness for CCAM, with a limited number of home-grown vehicle providers, insufficient investment in automated service design, and low readiness of transport authorities to drive the automated transition. This session will provide an actionable methodology to steer this transition.

This session will discuss the essential aspects of in-vehicle and key enabling technologies for CCAM solutions, charting their progressive development and maturation towards respecting the demands of users and society at large. It will address how technological advances emerging in other sectors may serve to accelerate the development and implementation of CCAM. Active scouting of candidate technologies from other sectors and translating them to the CCAM domain should contribute to addressing CCAM priorities.
The session will discuss how Key Enabling Technologies can contribute to societal demands towards CCAM:

• Safe and reliable on-board decision-making technologies, based on enhanced environment perception and situational awareness
• Efficient, certifiable and upgradable functions integrated in the vehicle
• Preventive and protective safety for highly automated vehicles
• Upgradeability of CCAM enabled mobility solutions
• Cyber-secure, robust and resilient CCAM applications

Finally, the session will discuss needs and inputs to ensure approaches in engineering, testing and validation for new vehicle technologies are reflecting societal needs whilst covering technological advancements.

With growing maturity of automated vehicle concepts, it is becoming more important to be able to assess the broader implications of the automated mobility systems or services and their use, on people and society – so that authorities and public transport providers can consider how automated mobility can help them achieve their goals. The new European Common Evaluation Methodology (EU-CEM) can be used to assess whether these goals can be met, regarding the three pillars of sustainability: economy, society and environment. This session will also feature students sharing their views on their ideal local mobility, the societal issues with current mobility and if CCAM could be a means to achieve their mobility goals. Experts representing the Member State perspective (Motivation to deploy CCAM), the OEM perspective (Societal challenges of freight transport), and the research viewpoint (Societal impact findings from Hi-Drive project) will join the students in a panel to discuss which societal goals we aim to achieve with CCAM and if the impact assessment results align with these aims.

This session explores innovative approaches to strengthening the digital infrastructure ecosystem connecting cities, infrastructure, and vehicles. It features insights from key European initiatives, including the cross-border 5G deployment project along the Metz (France) to Saarbrücken (Germany) corridor and the CCAM Sweden project, both advancing connectivity and Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) use cases. Through a panel discussion with representatives from cities, 5G MNOs, road infrastructure managers, infrastructure tower companies, and CCAM developers, the session will address enablers for cross-sector cooperation, success factors for automation and large-scale implementation, and the role of robust 5G infrastructure.
Interaction with the audience participation will be encouraged to share perspectives and challenges, fostering collaboration and innovation in advancing mobility and connectivity across borders.

CCAM systems must constantly monitor their surroundings, detecting, identifying, and classifying information to respond appropriately through vehicle controls. This requires safe, secure, and responsive solutions to make quick decisions based on real-time data. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a key role in enhancing these capabilities, particularly in predicting unforeseeable behaviours of other road users, improving safety. However, AI systems also raise concerns about robustness, fairness, explainability, and trustworthiness, aligning with the European Commission’s initiatives. Currently, AI use in vehicles is limited to sensing, decision-making, predictive modeling, and natural language processing. A new approach, End-to-End learning, integrates perception and planning into a single neural network, promising better performance. Yet, comprehensive methodologies to validate AI decisions during driving are still underdeveloped. This session will explore proposals and methodologies to ensure AI-based systems’ trustworthiness, covering the entire AI lifecycle and addressing safety, cybersecurity, ethics, privacy, and transparency.

The deployment of CCAM services is expected to bring many societal benefits. Safety, traffic efficiency, accessibility and energy consumption are among the most important potential benefits usually associated to the automation of road transport. However recent studies have raised some doubts about the potential impact of CCAM on road transport energy intensity. If on the one side CCAM services can be based on shared vehicles, thus reducing the number of vehicles going around, and connected and automated vehicles can adopt eco-friendly driving strategies and lead to optimized traffic flows, on the other hand on-board and off-board sensing and computation systems will certainly require more energy than human brains and sensing systems. To help navigating this uncertainty, the CCAM Partnership has launched and steered a dedicated study on this subject. This session will present the results from the study (to be published during the conference) and discuss them in an interactive way with a panel of experts and the audience.

This session will address the key barriers to deploying Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) services in cities and present practical solutions for overcoming them. Cities will share their motivations, needs, and challenges, providing real-world examples from ongoing pilots. National and regional perspectives will complement these insights, focusing on what kind of support is necessary to support CCAM adoption. By connecting city-level challenges with actionable solutions, the discussion will highlight the steps cities can take to successfully deploy CCAM and integrate new mobility technologies.  

Building on ARTS2024’s session “Business & Governance Models,” this session examines the critical elements behind the success of connected and automated mobility solutions. Focusing on governance requirements and successful pilots, it highlights lessons and success factors from Europe, U.S. and Japan on public-private partnerships in sustainable transportation. The discussion will explore how shared mobility integrates with public transit to enhance cost efficiency, generate new revenue streams, and support societal goals like equity, accessibility, and sustainability. Through global case studies, the session delves into financial models, trade-offs, and strategies for inclusive, efficient mobility solutions in urban and peri-urban areas. Featuring expert presentations and interactive discussions, this session aims to uncover actionable insights for creating a balanced, sustainable transportation future.

Public transport is pivotal for European cities to achieve climate and sustainability goals by 2030 and 2050, reducing mobility poverty, decreasing car usage and promoting cleaner air. Automated mobility can play a significant role in enabling, enhancing and even transforming public transport. This session will feature a panel of pioneers discussing how Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) can empower public transport to help cities achieve their sustainability goals. Key topics include practical use cases for automation in public transport, safety for vulnerable road users, public transport prioritisation, and public acceptance. The session will showcase learnings from real-world deployments, studies, and projects such as ULTIMO and SHOW, alongside insights from international perspectives. A panel discussion with CCAM and public transport experts will consider what steps policymakers can take to promote automated mobility as a part of public transport, and a key contributor to a sustainable urban future.

Federated data sharing has the potential to expedite developments in the CCAM domain. In this session, we will reflect upon and discuss the state-of-the-art in technical and legal developments impacting federated data sharing in CCAM. There are clear links to initiatives as GAIA-X, Catena-X, SIMPL, EMDS, iSHARE, IDS, and Eclipse Data Space Connector to be put into the context. Using the CCAM test Data Space as a demonstrator, we will give an overview of technical implementations, challenges, and developments, as well as regulations and governance models. Many of the aspects of the topics are generic, which means that different types of data are to be addressed. The objectives of this session are to provide understanding of the current status, and what to expect in a few years from now, based on input from CCAM actors on challenges, requirements and viable solutions.