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ICV-SAFE, a recently SAFER associated project, is a Sweden – China bilateral project with focus on investigating the safety aspects of intelligent connected vehicles (ICV) in mixed traffic environments. The project aims at taking advantage of the rapid development environment in China for ICV risk analysis, mitigation, as well as testing and validation.

Intelligent connected vehicles (ICV) are expected to bring immense societal benefits. For a safe introduction of such vehicles, a thorough safety assessment is required. Taking advantage of advanced large-scale open test sites in Shanghai, and by joining effort with a Chinese consortium, this project focuses on identifying high-risk scenarios and develop risk assessment and mitigation methods for ICVs in mixed traffic. This will be done through the analysis of the large amount ICV test data collected in Shanghai, and in combination with simulation and open road testing. The ultimate goal is to develop safety assessment methods that take account of risk factors from both ICVs and road environment and contribute to accelerated deployment of ICV. With the test site as a partner and rapid infrastructure introduction, the project will also improve the understanding of infrastructure support for ICV. 

The project will be concluded in parallel with a Chinese project that is led by Tongji University with partners from academia, institutes and industry. 

Some research questions that will be addressed in this project:

• What are the risky scenarios (vehicles, roads, and traffic) for ICV?
• How to define the communication and infrastructure environment together with the vehicles’ automation level and how to evaluate the risk level?
• What safety impacts are we expected of ICV in the mixed traffic and how traffic management such as real time speed control could be used for improving safety?
• How to perform simulation and field tests under the identified risky scenarios for ICVs?
• What are the requirements on data collection/pre-processing and analytics in order to support the ICV test and evaluation?

It is a three-year project sponsored by Vinnova, and the total Swedish budget is 8.4 million SEK. The project will be led by RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, with Chalmers University of Technology, Alkit Communications AB, WSP AB, and FellowBot AB. Lei Chen, RISE, is the project leader. The project involves currently in total six PhD students and postdocs; three in Sweden and three in China. The project will be of value for SAFER to get access to and sharing of data from intelligent connected vehicles in mixed traffic environments in China for risk analysis, mitigation, as well as testing and validation.