PS23275 - Connected and Automated Mobility Education and Engagement Programme

The Department for Business and Trade will shortly be going to market for the Services detailed below and in the supporting attachment.

Prior to this procurement being launched, we want to provide interested suppliers with the indicative scope, and where interested, the opportunity to provide responses to the questions contained within the supporting attachment which will help to ensure that our specification contains all necessary detail to allow bidders to respond.

Background

The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) has three key aims: ensuring safety and security of self-driving technology, securing the industrial and economic benefits of self-driving technology and delivering societal benefits of self-driving technology. There are many challenges and outcomes that must be realised to achieve these aims including technology and infrastructure development, legislative and regulatory change. However, public understanding and acceptance of the technology is required if we are to ensure that CAM technology matches end user needs, has a market and can be integrated within future transport networks.

CCAV's social and behavioural research programme aims to address these and has three overarching aims:

- Understand the needs and concerns of end users and public perceptions of CAM - Identify and embed these into the design of CAM technologies and services - Improve public awareness, knowledge and understanding of the technologies and expected behaviours

The programme has delivered a number of large scale projects to help achieve these objectives including:

- Future of Transport Deliberative Research: Understanding perceptions of safety, focusing on understanding in more depth the factors influencing perceptions of safety how this vary across different levels of automation and types of CAVs as well as understand what minimum requirements need to be addressed for the technology to be considered safe enough to use - Great Self-Driving Exploration: Looking to understand what role end users see for self-driving vehicles in a future transport system, including understanding the potential for SDVs to address currently unmet transport needs; Understand how different types of exposure to self-driving vehicles can influence perceptions and understanding; Understanding how to communicate information about self-driving vehicles effectively.

Please review the supporting attachment for full details