News from TAVF

In Hamburg and on the test track for automated and connected driving, data sets on Hamburg city centre have been recorded with special measuring vehicles since 2017 as part of a multi-year project by VW Group Research. The European funding project Hi-Drive, which started in July 2021, has developed high-precision 3D HD maps, known as 3DHD CityScenes, from the data sets and made them available to external users: https://www.hi-drive.eu/downloads/

The CityScenes are the most comprehensive HD map set in terms of the number and variety of map elements, which is also fully implemented in 3D with almost perfect alignment of sensor and map data. A development kit is now available for the full utilisation of the data sets: https://github.com/vol…

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg's Department of Transport and Mobility Transition invites to the workshop "Safety and security in the context of C-ITS services" on November 30, 2023, 1 to 4 p.m. The workshop is part of the event-series of KoTAM, a project addressing the coordination of autonomous mobility test beds across the German federal states.

Which safety and security measures should test beds already take during the testing of C-ITS services? Join the discussion, get answers and benefit from experiences from Hamburg on the topics of Public Key Infrastructure, functionally secure C-ITS message delivery as well as Protection Profiles for Roadside and On-Board Units.

Registration for the workshop can be made at www.kotam.de.

Already in 2017, a high amount of data sets were recorded with special measurement vehicles from AllTerra, annotated by DataDEV (Serbia), for a multi-year project of VW Group research on automated driving in Hamburg. The goal was automated driving on the TAVF test track around the Hamburg exhibition grounds. High-precision 3D-HD maps (3DHD CityScenes) were created from the data sets as part of the European Hi-Drive funding project. Point clouds were recorded from which data were extracted. The HD map covers 127 km of road sections in Hamburg's city centre, including 467 km of individual lanes. The point clouds and the extracted data were published by Hi-Drive in November 2022. This makes the so-called 3DHD CityScenes the most comprehensive…

At the end of last year, the three-year mFUND research and development project European Digital Dynamic Mapping (EDDY) started. EDDY provides the basis for cities, municipalities and local authorities to maintain data sovereignty and to make the data themselves available in an Urban Dynamic Map in a public benefit-oriented manner. In order to identify potential use cases and requirements for an Urban Dynamic Map (map with static and dynamic object information from the road traffic area), an online questionnaire was created. Interested parties who see possible linkages here can participate under the following link. 

To the online survey

Here you can find out more about the EDDY project.

The first beta data from the Hamburg project Traffic Light Forecast 2.0 (TLF 2.0) is now available online. This allows users to gain initial experience with the Hamburg traffic light data. It should be noted that the data is in beta status and therefore no failure-free availability can be guaranteed. The corresponding Metaver entry for Traffic Lights Hamburg (beta) can be found here.

The TLF 2.0 project builds on the successfully completed pilot project Traffic Light Forecast. The aim of this project is to develop and implement an interface for the non-discriminatory provision of traffic light data via the Urban Data Platform Hamburg (HH_UDP). With this approach, market entry barriers are kept as low as possible and the development of…