Experience a completely new and engaging session format with the fish bowl method, where the audience becomes part of the podium. As automated driving advances, a critical debate emerges: Is connectivity through Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) essential, or are advanced sensors sufficient? This session explores this question, focusing on the evolving landscape of road traffic safety, traditionally defined by driver behavior, vehicle, and road infrastructure. With drivers increasingly removed from the equation, C-ITS is vital to connect vehicles and infrastructure. While sensors are crucial, they face limitations like weather-induced blackouts. Currently, sensors have an edge due to C-ITS's functional safety challenges, which are being addressed. Experts from regulatory bodies, road authorities, traffic management, city planning, and safety advocacy will share insights on C-ITS's role in automated driving, scalability, safety, and urban integration.

Key topics include:

• Why C-ITS is needed in addition to advanced sensors.
• Current challenges in C-ITS functional safety.
• Standardized solutions for urban integration.
• Protecting vulnerable road users and optimizing traffic management.
• Integrating active mobility into C-ITS.

This session promises to challenge assumptions and broaden understanding of future transportation technologies.

Organiser: 

• Kathrin Hagemann, IAV GmbH

Moderator:

• Kathrin Hagemann, IAV GmbH

Speakers:

• Bettina Erdem, Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH
• Jacqueline Erhart, Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR) GmbH
• Richard Lax, Kapsch TrafficCom AG