NextMAP - Next MAP for transport telematic applications
Overview
Background & policy context:
Current digital map databases have been defined and developed within European R&D projects for vehicle navigation systems, one of the most successful telematics markets. The Geographic Data Files (GDF) standard - a major output of these EC-funded projects - has been an essential precondition for the production of digital map databases.
Objectives:
NextMAP define, prototype, and evaluate the content of digital map databases required for future in-vehicle ITS applications - in particular Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). ADAS applications support the driver in driving safely, comfortably and economically and include information, warning and control systems. NextMAP also propose and submit to the ISO standardisation an extension to GDF reflecting the requirements of these applications. Enhanced map databases are of great importance for all future map-based driver support systems. Pure information systems as well as intervening systems are under research today.
The key objectives of NextMAP are to:
- identify new map database requirements on the basis of functional requirements for anticipated in-vehicle ITS applications and focus on ADAS applications
- test and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of these new maps
- formulate the map database requirements as extensions to the GDF standard and formulate cost consequences involved when adding the requirements on existing map databases. Consequences will be formulated in relation to the creation costs of a standard database
Methodology:
NextMAP’s key activities:
- Determine preliminary functional requirements for anticipated Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) applications and enhanced map database requirements, and to establish a roadmap indicating which information components are required with what accuracy, when, and for what type of applications
- Identify the source of this extended data and determine the viability of new data capturing techniques.
- Define and set up five test sites. For the sites in Stuttgart (DaimlerChrysler) and Coventry (Jaguar), enhanced maps will be digitised and made available to the car manufacturers. Test sites in Paris (Renault) and Turin (C.R.F.) will use the IN-ARTE project map data which will be converted into the NextMAP format. Finally, a test site in Munich will be defined and built by BMW without project resources.
- Prepare five test vehicles (one per car manufacturer) with the hardware and software necessary to run selected test applications.
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