Safety Evaluation

Challenges

  • AV developers and system or component suppliers face a vastly complex technical landscape.

  • Transport operators face wide ranging developer claims without the deep in-house expertise to assess these claims.

  • Road infrastructure operators face challenges from uncertain AV behaviours on their roads and new requirements on their infrastructure.

  • Certification agencies face a myriad of new technologies to evaluate and monitor.

Supporting developers and suppliers

  • Delivering independent design review, informed by insights from working with multiple AV developers.

  • Assisting developers to identify the best component suppliers.

  • Helping component suppliers to understand application performance and work with AV developers.

Supporting transport operators in feasibility and setup

  • Leveraging our development and homologation experience to evaluate technical and economic feasibility.

  • Providing independent technical due diligence and supplier assessment.

  • Analysing proposed operations to facilitate supplier selection.

  • Undertaking ODD studies and safety risk analysis.

  • TfWM and SMBC benefited from transport operator feasibility support. Read more here and here.

Supporting agencies with independent technical expertise

  • Evaluating safety arguments and evidence.

  • Providing data analysis for in-service monitoring.

  • Supporting incident investigation through root cause analysis.

Supporting road operators

  • Assessing physical and digital infrastructure (PDI) hazards and requirements for AV operation.

  • Understanding impacts of AVs on road operations and potential mitigations.

  • National Highways benefited from road operator feasibility support. Read more here.