The emergence of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) will bring unprecedented change to the automotive industry worldwide and will generate new security threats, especially those derived from the connection of the vehicle to the network. Currently there are no harmonized approaches for testing cybersecurity in the automotive sector since there is no historic
information of cybersecurity risks and effects.
The project brings knowledge and wisdom to the testing of secure automated travel, in the form of identifying the requirements for a real world test environment and evaluating the work required to bring it about. It is a feasibility study into determining how to test the interaction of CAVs with the systems they are intended to support. In other words transporting people and goods safely, securely and efficiently in the real world.
The wide range of services that encompass CAV and their complex interaction with other vehicles and systems cannot be adequately tested just in a lab environment, but at the same time are too risky to test in a live traffic environment. A highly parameterized, but controlled, environment, is required to build confidence in the secure communications required by CAVs in near real world conditions and the requirements to achieve this are at the core of this project.
The connected element of the CAV domain addresses many aspects of how a vehicle interacts with the wider world. This includes such things as connections to the manufacturer for maintenance of the vehicle software, to infrastructure for EV-charging access, to infrastructure for access to parking, to other vehicles for co-operative awareness applications such as collision avoidance, to other forms of road user for safety solutions, and at the edge of CAV this may also include such elements as the eCall service, and media delivery to the vehicle.
The solution to be developed as a result of the project is to describe and demonstrate a modular hardware and software platform and the means to test and evaluate the impact of C-ITS on traffic safety, driver confidence, and infrastructure development. The project will therefore bring together expertise in CAV, in automotive test facilities, in built infrastructure, and in security, with a view to ensuring the provision of CAV is for overall societal benefit and does not favour just one sector.
