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leader in Europe) together with Connected Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) made up of
highly automated vehicles able to communicate with each other, with the infrastructure and
buildings, as well as with operators. Real time communication provides the best vehicle choice
and road path according to the traffic flows, request to shipment, load factor, and warehouse
storage capacity.
3.3 Regulatory
3.3.1 Norms for automation
The practical implementation of autonomous vehicles is limited by the absence of laws that
allow them to travel on public roads. Given adequate laws and regulations, it will be possible in
the next ten years to extend this technology to larger and faster public transport vehicles,
travelling on dedicated lanes, with some controlled interference with traffic (for example:
crossings with activated traffic lights), and autonomous truck platooning in controlled
environments.
The current scenario is characterized by a lack of adequate norms, but the recent Declaration of
Amsterdam, signed by the EU Transport Ministers on 14 April 2016, 93 aims at removing the
legislative barriers that today represent an obstacle to the roll out of vehicle automation.
Autonomous vehicles will require a significant amount of data to be exchanged: from vehicle to
vehicle, from/to infrastructure, and in some cases, from the vehicle to the control center and
vice-versa. The concerns are mainly liability, privacy of data, security against hacking, and
robustness against transmission errors or gaps in the capacity of transmission channels.
However, this is not different from similar issues regarding wireless data transmission such as
Wi-Fi transmission of sensitive data, mobile phone communication, and the communication of
airplanes with land control centers. Protocols already exist that guarantee a high level of data
privacy, security, and error control. These protocols need to be standardized and be made
applicable across continental land masses.
93 See: https://english.eu2016.nl/documents/publications/2016/04/14/declaration-of-amsterdam
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