Innovative concepts for route planning in an urban context represent additional focal points of the research. New methods for implementing a driving strategy that caters to traffic and users are being developed for selected scenarios, with the aid of suitable simulation methods. The functional characteristics developed will be trialled and evaluated with the aid of demonstrators in real traffic. Along with passenger vehicles, the prototypes that will be implemented also encompass a bus with an automated driving function to represent typical use scenarios encountered within the context of public transport.
Along with the increase in safety, this also aims to outline how automated systems help the driver to master demanding thoroughfares in urban traffic and to examine how the responsibility for driving is surrendered to the driver in situations which make this necessary. The evaluations are made on the basis of the criteria developed. In order to be able to evaluate the functionality, test methods are being developed that, on the one hand, allow the quality of the function to be tested and, on the other hand, determine whether the system requirements are being satisfied. The test methods encompass tests that are simulations,
and ones conducted on testing grounds and on public roads in the city. A particular focus is being directed on scenario-based testing. The insights this delivers will be channelled back into the development of the functions, allowing them to be optimised until an adequate quality has been attained and the system requirements that were defined have been satisfied.