MEET THE SAFE-UP PARTNERS
AIMSUN
Who belongs to your SAFE-UP team?
In SAFE-UP, Aimsun is mainly involved in work package 2 for future safety-critical scenarios, specifically leading Task 2.4 ‘Behavioural models integration and calibration: Future-proof use case simulator’. Jordi Casas is the Technical Lead, supported by Scientific Researcher Marcel Sala, and Scientific Software Engineers David Garcia, Leyre Nogués and Antonio Cabrera. These team members combine their expertise in mobility, traffic simulation and software engineering. Aimsun’s contributions to other work packages are focused on alignments with the traffic simulation area
What does AIMSUN bring to the project?
Aimsun’s main contribution is setting up a simulation framework to assess the future critical scenarios for analysis in WP2. The SAFE-UP simulation framework involves integrating models that have been developed by different partners; in task 2.3, these account for various types of road users (such as autonomous vehicles, cyclists, or pedestrians), and different weather conditions, which may impact visibility and braking distance. The Aimsun team is working to integrate the different models into our Next simulation software - the result is a user-friendly simulation platform where the different models interact seamlessly. This has been achieved at a fraction of what it would have cost to develop an ad-hoc simulation platform and, in addition, comes with all the additional features that come as a standard with Aimsun Next that enable greater simulation flexibility and better visualisation of results.
Why did you want to take part in SAFE-UP?
The ambitions of SAFE-UP coincide with Aimsun’s strategic plan to leverage its traffic simulation software, adding new functionalities focused on safety analysis for future scenarios that will include disruptors like connected, cooperative and autonomous vehicles. Aimsun Auto represents this strategy.
Which other initiatives are you involved in?
Aimsun is involved in several other ongoing projects complementary to SAFE-UP, either focusing on safety assessment and traffic efficiency or evaluating connected, cooperative and autonomous technologies. For example, FRONTIER (Next Generation Network and Traffic Management for Future Mobility - www.frontier-project.eu), TANGENT (Enhanced Data Processing Techniques for Dynamic Management of Multimodal Traffic - www.tangent-h2020.eu) and DIT4TraM (Distributed Intelligence & Technology for Traffic & Mobility Management, www.dit4tram.eu) are developing new complementary tools for multimodal traffic management, considering automated/non-automated vehicles, passengers, and freight transport.
Related deliverables
D5.2 SAFETY IMPACT ASSESSMENT – INTERMEDIATE REPORT
D2.4 DEFINITION OF FUTURE USE CASES: SCOPE AND DATA TO BUILD DIGITAL TWINS OF USE CASES