Highly Automated Vehicles for Intelligent Transport: Have-It Approach

This paper describes HAVEit, a new European Community (EC) funded Integrated Project under the 7th framework program, that aims at the realization of the long-term vision of highly automated driving for intelligent transport. The project is the biggest initiative taken in this area in Europe and will develop, validate and demonstrate important intermediate steps towards highly automated driving. The focus in HAVEit is to create the most suitable way to optimally share the driving tasks between driver, co-driving system and vehicle. Highly automated driving tries to hold the driver as long as possible on the optimal performance level by facilitating the normal driving task. The effect is an increase in comfort which indirectly also contributes to safety. The authors conclude that, in the long term, these HAVEit results can form the ideal basis to integrate further generations of ADAS and drive-train components that offer the next step of highly automated functionalities. HAVEit will significantly contribute to higher traffic safety and efficiency for passenger cars, busses and trucks, thereby strongly promoting safe and intelligent mobility of both people and goods.