ICT-based Tunnel Safety (E-DAT102)

Content

These seminar series provide a detailed overview of emerging information and communication (ICT) based approaches for road and tunnel safety. The seminar series are divided into five modules (i.e., four study modules and one project module). During the first module, emphasis will be made on tunnel safety systems, their functional system requirements, and design principles. Opportunities and challenges of innovation within tunnel safety and related concepts such as "vision zero" and self-rescue principles will be discussed.

In the second module, students learn about risk assessment and modelling in tunnel safety. This consists of traditional and novel approaches to understanding the risk considering new technologies on the road system and within tunnels (e.g., C-ITS and CCAM) and advances made in automotive sector (e.g., autonomous, and self-driving vehicles). Use of live sensor fusion data in real-time risk assessment and in intelligent decision support systems will be explored.

Third module will explore the use of sensors in road tunnels with emphasis on automatic incident detection (AID) and prevention using real-time sensor data. A variety of tunnel AID systems and their system elements and pros and cons will be discussed - e.g., video, radar, or infrared based. Moreover, current, and future traffic monitoring and management systems will be explored in details and important aspects such as sensor data privacy and GDPR and ethical use of AI will be elaborated on.

The fourth module will present the current and emerging communication technologies for road and tunnels systems. This includes C-ITS concepts, paradigms, and messaging protocols as well as underlying vehicular communication technologies including Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication using DSRC or 4G/5G cellular networks.

Finally, the fifth module involves establishing, undertaking, and presenting a project work related to the topics discussed above. The project topics and working groups will be established early on during the seminar series with the guidance from the organizers and the outcome will be presented by the students on the last day of seminar series.

Learning outcome

After successfully finishing these seminar series the student will be able to:

• Have a clear understanding of basics of ICT-based tunnel safety science and its related functional system requirements.
• Understand and assess risk assessment methods, risk models and decision support systems (DSS) for road tunnel safety.
• Examine different types of sensor technologies used in road tunnels.
• Understand and assess the key factors involved in the use of sensor fusion data in risk assessment and DSS for tunnel safety including data privacy and cyber-security.
• Have a clear understanding of the most important underlying mechanisms and system requirements for automatic incident detection (AID) and early incident prevention in tunnels.
• Become familiar with the basics of communication technologies used on the road and in tunnel systems including vehicle-to-everything communication (V2X).
• Learn about and evaluate various opportunities and challenges for employing Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) for tunnel safety.
• Evaluate different approaches to traffic management and monitoring and opportunities provided using AI.

Required prerequisite knowledge

Exam

Coursework requirements

• 75% participation in the lecture hours (3 out of 4 days of the seminar series).
• Presentation of project work
• Text submission on "reflections on seminar day". (3 submissions, each should have approximately 800 words)
• Course evaluation survey

Course teacher(s)

Course coordinator:

Head of Department:

Method of work

Seminar Series Modules: 5 modules in total including 1 module for projects. Seminars will be held over 4 days - once per month starting from September 2022.

Module Name Module Content Presentations

/Presenters

#1 Tunnel Safety Systems

1. Functional System requirements

2. Design, construction, and operation requirements

3. Innovation and deployability of new technology in heterogenous tunnel systems

4. Design principles and standards for safety critical systems

5. Vision Zero

6. Self-rescue sub-module: design principles

7. Self-rescue sub-module: C-ITS implications

#2 Risk assessment, risk models and decision support

1. Understanding risk, risk models, assessment for safer road and tunnels - traditional and new views to the topic in the context of C-ITS and CCAM.

2. Use of real-time sensor data in risk assessment - also what can generally be learnt from sensor data

3. Decision support systems and future potentials

#3 Sensor, traffic management and early detection/prevention technologies in tunnels

1. Tunnel sensor systems

2. AID system: system elements

3. Traffic monitoring & management systems

4. VTS (demo two of them) and Prevision by Trafsys

5. Future traffic management systems with autonomous vehicles/roads

6. Sensor data privacy, role of cyber-security and GDPR

7. Tunnel digital twin for O&M

8. Use of AI in tunnel safety - vehicle classification, counting, pedestrian detection, etc.

#4 Communication technology for road and tunnels

1. Tunnel communication systems and used technologies (including concepts, technologies, and paradigms)

2. C-ITS for tunnel safety - concepts, technologies, paradigms, and tunnel safety use-cases

3. ICT for tunnel safety - concepts, technologies, paradigms, and tunnel safety use-cases.

#5 Projects

1. Establishing project proposals

2. Presenting proposals

3. Presenting project reports

Open for

Course assessment

Literature