UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment (UK CITE)
Funder
Innovate UK
Value to Coventry University
£218,000
Project team
Dr Olivier Haas (PI), Dr Cyriel Diels (Co-I), Dr William Payre, Dr Oluwaleke Agbaje, Martin Esugo, Antoine Stephan, Mathéo Girbal, Alexandre Basque
Collaborators
The UK CITE consortium was jointly led by Visteon Engineering Services Ltd and Jaguar Land Rover and includes Coventry City Council, Coventry University, Highways England Company Ltd, HORIBA MIRA, Huawei Technologies (UK) Ltd, Siemens, TfWM, Vodafone Group Services Ltd, and WMG at University of Warwick
Duration of project
01/06/16 - 31/12/18
Project overview
Coventry University traffic psychology team worked closely with Visteon to realise in-vehicles systems as well as an app to test advanced driver assistance features requiring vehicle to infrastructure and vehicle to vehicle communication capabilities. Coventry University: 1) led the design of signs illustrating the UK CITE app features 2) Evaluated the usability of the UK CITE app in the driving simulator and on road. 3) Assessed the impact of the app on driving behaviour and drivers’ attitudes.
Coventry University simulation team worked closely with HORIBA MIRA to realise a digital twin of the UK CITE circuit. The digital twin was realised using a commercial traffic simulator and open source communication simulator. The developed simulation suite has run thousands of times, producing data for a wide range of connected vehicle penetration rates and traffic volumes, repeated for each use case and location. This data was analysed to give summaries for input into the cost benefit analysis. The results showed interesting patterns giving insight into how such use cases will benefit driver safety and traffic flow.
Project objectives
The overall project aim was to create one of the world’s most advanced environments for connected and autonomous driving. The objectives were:
- Establish how technology can improve journeys, reduce traffic congestion and provide in-vehicle entertainment and safety services through better connectivity.
- Enable automotive, infrastructure and service companies to trial connected vehicle technology, infrastructure and services in real-life conditions on 40 miles of roads within Coventry and Warwickshire.
Coventry University’s objectives were to evaluate the impact of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems on drivers and other road users using:
- Human factor studies.
- Vehicle and driver modelling within microscopic traffic simulation software environment.
- Driver simulator studies.
