Funded: New training centre for automated vehicles

Professors Sebastien Glaser and Ronald Schroeter, both of QUT’s Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) have been awarded $5 million for a 5-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Automated Vehicles in Rural and Remote Regions.

This new centre is one of 8 new ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres, and 5 new ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs to receive funding.

The Training Centre for Automated Vehicles in Rural and Remote Regions will:

… build skills and capability to test and deploy safe, socially acceptable, automated vehicles (AV) for rural, regional and remote Australian public roads, where manufacturing, agriculture, mining and defence industries face significant challenges of driver shortages, rising costs, long distances, rough roads, and environmental impacts.

The centre will unite technology providers, regulators, government and end users with world-leading interdisciplinary researchers to create new human-AV systems, datasets, frameworks, case studies, platforms, and a vastly upskilled workforce. This will reduce transport costs, increase capacity, boost supply chain efficiency and resilience, improve road safety, and elevate Australian capability.

Professor Glaser has been an integral part of iMOVE’s Cooperative and Highly Automated Driving (CHAD) pilot, and the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads’ Cooperative and Automated Vehicle Initiative (CAVI).

iMOVE congratulates Sebastien and Ronald, and looks forward to working with them to further the national work in advancing the introduction of autonomous vehicles for Australians.

Sebastien appears in the video below, showcasing the trial of the prototype level 4, autonomous vehicle, ZOE 2 on public roads in Mt Isa.