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The PAsCAL Project

Enhance driver behaviour & Public Acceptance of Connected & Autonomous vehicLes

The PAsCAL Project

RED have partnered with The PAsCAL Project

RED have partnered with The PAsCAL Project, an international project aimed to map public acceptance of higher levels of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), pointing out any critical issues and investigating new drivers’ needs related to new modes and mobility services.

PAsCAL’s goal is to create a “Guide2Autonomy” (G2A), a set of guidelines and recommendations for the drivers of a driverless world.

Vision

The PAsCAL Project’s Vision
  • Explain what Connected and Autonomous Vehicles are and how they work.
  • Identify the barriers hindering peoples’ acceptance of CAVs and propose solutions.
  • Assess the impact of connected transport on society and peoples’ quality of life, to ensure accessibility for all.
  • Educate future drivers and non-drivers to enable the safe, responsible and informed use of CAV technology.
  • Design effective recommendations and guidelines to connect people to autonomy.

PAsCAL’s approach includes psychological tools, cluster analysis of user characteristics, human driving and passenger simulations, real-world pilots, shared space simulation with multi-users, accessible surveys designed for varying abilities, focus groups, stakeholder hands-on workshops and system-dynamics modelling tools.

Solution

The PAsCAL Project’s Solution

  • PAsCAL will map public acceptance of Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) with high level autonomous functions, investigating new drivers’ needs related to new modes and mobility services.
  • It will create a holistic user-centric guide to autonomy (G2A), a comprehensive framework of novel tools to close the distance between users and CAV technology, addressing the issues of drivers in a driverless world.
  • The association to the Consortium of special categories of users, such as disabled persons, and of public authority and service providers with a glocal outreach of millions of people across EU will ensure results consistency, taking into account major social/barriers that may hinder the acceptance of CAV and would allow their reuse in new business, services and applications.

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