Potential challenges facing persons-in-charge of automated buses, and means of recruiting, testing, and training them: An evidence review

Calvert, Thomas; Parkin, John; Parkhurst, Graham; Bartle, Caroline

Abstract

Whilst promising many benefits, widespread private automated vehicles also hold potential to increase traffic flows, worsen congestion, worsen public health, and reduce public transport use (Ainsalu et al., 2018). At the same time, there is potential for public transport, its users and providers, to benefit from automation, through safety benefits and reduction of costs of first and/or last mile travel. Recruiting, testing, and monitoring ‘persons-in-charge’ who can supervise, (and drive if necessary,) automated buses will be a vital component in making such operations viable. This document is intended as a source document for the MultiCAV project, in respect of issues connected with the person-in-charge. It addresses a gap in knowledge by bringing together evidence in four main foci:

1) What are the challenges for the person-in-charge, and therefore which corresponding aptitudes and characteristics of the person-in-charge are likely to be important to test?
2) What relevant tests, training and standards, already exist for automated road vehicles.
3) What challenges do non-automated bus drivers face (attention, fatigue etc.) and how are these drivers recruited and tested? Similarly, how are train drivers recruited and tested?
4) What part can simulation play in assessment? What differences are there between simulated assessment and real life?

Citation

Calvert, T., Parkin, J., Parkhurst, G., & Bartle, C. Potential challenges facing persons-in-charge of automated buses, and means of recruiting, testing, and training them: An evidence review. Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Innovate UK

• Report Type: Project Report
• Deposit Date: Jul 5, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 5, 2022
• Keywords: autonomous driver operative aptitudes automated bus minibus
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