Gaia-X 4 moveID
Advanced Mobility Services
Mobility services for autonomous driving
The project Gaia-X 4 Advanced Mobility Services (Gaia-X 4 AMS) shows how Gaia-X can be used to implement mobility services that are required for autonomous driving and which components need to be redesigned as part of Base-X.
Autonomous driving is becoming increasingly important in Europe. However, the current state of technology is only suitable for limited fields of application. These must be continuously monitored and verified. To enable the full-scale use of autonomous driving, extensive data on the current road and traffic situation is required. The same applies to solutions for special situations, such as the deployment of emergency services. In both cases, the data that is used must be transmitted securely, robustly and reliably and come from trustworthy sources. Gaia-X offers an optimal solution for this, because it enables trustworthy and decentralized data ecosystems.
ODD compatible route and connected rescue corridor
In the Gaia-X 4 AMS project, we develop and demonstrate a prototype of a mobility service that is Gaia-X compliant. This service provides an ODD compatible route that is based on the vehicle's own automation limits and current conditions, such as road and traffic conditions.
ODD (Operational Design Domain) is the defined operational environment in which a system can drive reliably and automatically under different external conditions, e.g. weather, speed, other road users.
We use information from the automated vehicle, from intelligent infrastructure and from mobile camera sensors to adapt the suggested route, if necessary, even while driving. This allows the journey to be automated for most of the route. Our mobility service plays an especially important role in higher levels of automation, where vehicle operators do not have to monitor the system continuously and are able to pursue other activities.
An additional solution is the development of a connected rescue corridor for operations of fire departments. The approach integrates existing solutions and develops new prototypes in the Gaia-X ecosystem. The connected rescue corridor increases safety when driving to the scene of an emergency by automatically forming rescue lanes and prioritizing at signalized intersections. This reduces driving time. Drones support the emergency services in the initial investigation of the scene.
Integrated external data for safe autonomous driving
Our mobility services support autonomous driving by integrating numerous external data sources. This makes automated driving more robust and enables it to react appropriately to exceptional situations. Most notably, data from different providers can be integrated and easily be found by third parties in the Gaia-X ecosystem. The project Gaia-X 4 AMS links various stakeholders such as emergency services, mobility service providers and public institutions in a shared prototypical data space. Gaia-X 4 AMS lays the foundation for the future use of data that was originally provided for other purposes, e.g. from drone cameras, infrastructure and vehicle sensors, to develop additional services: Environmental authorities can use measurement data for external monitoring or land registry offices can use aerial images. Traffic management can also be improved with information on fire department operations. To provide and connect diverse data sets builds the foundation for further technological and economic innovation of the mobility sector.
Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility family of projects and Gaia-X ecosystem
The project Gaia-X 4 AMS gathers practical experience on how to use of Gaia-X in the mobility sector. Gaia-X is integrated into the Base-X data space. Services and various data sources are connected and used. The project provides valuable insights and learnings that are also relevant for other applications. Additionally, regulations to use the data space and standardized data descriptions (semantics) are being developed. These will influence higher-level discussions of the Gaia-X 4 Future mobility family of projects.