Enhance driver behaviour and Public Acceptance of Connected and Autonomous vehicLes

PAsCAL is an international project aimed to develop a multidimensional map of public acceptance of higher levels of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), pointing out any critical issues on the matter, particularly investigating the new “driver” needs considering different modes and mobility services. PAsCAL’s goal is to create a “Guide2Autonomy” (G2A), a set of guidelines and recommendations aimed at accelerating the user-friendly evolution of connected automated vehicles and transport systems.

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TRIMIS - The reluctance of women to use driverless vehicles

Consumer perceptions of driverless vehicle technology have lagged their development. Studies examined how age and gender might affect a consumer’s willingness to ride in driverless vehicles. They found that gender had a strong effect with perceptions and emotions of women such as happiness, fear and anger as key influencers. Designers of driverless vehicles should consider such issues to develop a driverless transport future.

In the last few years, there has been an increase in automated, driverless technology. While autonomous vehicles are still somewhat limited, most new cars offer some type of semi-autonomous features. As the technology of these vehicles advances, it is likely that commercial and personal vehicles will experience increasing levels of automation and autonomous states.

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Objective

The 36-month PAsCAL project proposes an awareness-driven and large-scale penetration approach to address all issues raised by the majority (if not all) of the general public that hinder the wide market uptake of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV). It will not only focus on the interaction of the “users” in or near CAV, but also assess the impact of connected transport on people’s well-being, quality of life, and equity.

PAsCAL will use of a strongly interdisciplinary mix of innovative tools from both human science and technology, to capture the public’s acceptance and attitude, analyse and assess their concerns, model and simulate realistic scenarios for hand-on practices, and validate the research innovation in a number of trials in the real world.

The association to the consortium of special categories of users, such as disabled persons, and of service providers with a global outreach of millions of members and several thousand customers across the EU will ensure results consistency, taking into account major social obstacles/barriers that may hinder the acceptance of CAV and would allow their reuse in new businesses, services and applications.
Ideas & Methodolgies

PAsCAL will develop a strongly interdisciplinary mix of innovative tools from both human science and technology. These will include psychological tools, cluster analysis of user characteristics, human driving and passenger simulation, real world pilots, shared space simulation with multiusers, accessible surveys designed for varying abilities, focus groups, stakeholders hands-on workshops and system-dynamics modelling tools.
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The PAsCAL project website is a up to date source of information about the objectives of the project with constatly updated news about events, publications and results from different tests. It hosts also the most recent publications from the project consortium

Enhance driver behaviour and Public Acceptance of Connected and Autonomous vehicLes

News

TRIMIS - The reluctance of women to use driverless vehicles

Info

Objective

Ideas & Methodolgies

Architecture