STADT:up – Solutions and Technologies for Automated Driving in Town: an urban mobility project

Solutions for complex, multimodal urban transport

STADT:up aims to develop integrated, scalable solutions for future urban mobility: automated vehicles must also be able to safely master complex inner-city traffic scenarios. The solutions are based on individual mobility cases and demonstrate networking for multimodal mobility. With a view to realistic perspectives of future urban mobility, suitable future concepts are developed and requirements are derived based on the needs of users.

Automated driving - from conception to evaluation

The project considers the entire chain of effects: perception, fusion, localisation, environment model, prediction, interaction and cooperation through to behaviour and manoeuvre planning. The objectives are the recognition of dynamic and static environments and the differentiation and handling of fuzziness in these two categories as well as highly available, robust and adaptive trajectory planning based on multimodal prediction of all road users. The project also takes a differentiated look at the interaction and communication concepts between users, vehicles and other road users during automated driving. The situation-dependent adaptivity of operating concepts as well as the situation- and experience-dependent change in user behaviour will be examined.

In addition, concepts and perspectives for future intermodal mobility are being developed, involving all stakeholders: Cities, users, research institutions and the automotive industry. Of central importance here is the question of how mixed traffic consisting of pedestrians, cyclists, private or shared vehicles and public transport will develop in the future. Possible influences such as a strengthening of regionality and the development of local city centres, the change in infrastructure or the changing mobility behaviour of users, e.g. due to working from home or a growing awareness of energy and resources, are considered.

DLR's focus: digital twin, interface development and research into interaction behaviour

The DLR-Institute of Transportation Systems is working along the entire introduction and implementation chain to bring automated driving to the road: The focus starts with the exchange of requirements and use cases between local authorities and technology companies and moves on to the design and development of a digital twin that maps user requirements and experiences and enables their evaluation. With the help of holistic HMI concepts, consistent interactions between users and surrounding road users are realised, and a display and interaction concept for the workplace of the technical supervisor (teleoperator) is developed and prototypically tested. Furthermore, the focus is on holistic research into human cooperative interaction behaviour - in simulation scenarios as well as in real road traffic.

Project title and -website:
STADT:up - Solutions and Technologies for Automated Driving in Town: an urban mobility project

Duration:
01/2023 to 12/2025

Project volume:
€ 62.8 million, of which € 2.66 million from the DLR-Institute of Transportation Systems

Contracting authority:
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)

Network coordinator:
Robert Bosch GmbH