The Role of Infrastructure for a Safe Transition to Automated Driving

Adriano Alessandrini is a professor of transportation science and economics at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy. For the past 20 years, he has participated and led many research projects on innovative transport systems and on assessing the environmental impact of transport. Dr. Alessandrini was the coordinator of CityMobil2, the largest European project on integrating automated road transport systems in European cities. He has been published in many transportation-related journals, including Elsevier’s Transportation Research Procedia. Lorenzo Domenichini is a professor of transportation infrastructures, road safety, and engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. For nearly 40 years, Dr. Domenichini has participated in several national and international research programs, both experimental and theoretical. Valentina Branzi is the techincal manager of the LaSIS Lab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. She is responsible for management and use of the LaSIS Driving Simulator for carrying out studies aimed at understanding the behaviour and driving performance of road users.

1. Introduction 2. Automation functions, philosophies and levels 3. Road transport infrastructures for the future 4. The safe system approach 5. The shared responsibilities 6. Human factors in automated driving 7. Infrastructures to accommodate autonomous driving 8. Road operation 9. Legal framework