Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI
Fraunhofer IVI developed the Traffic Accident Scenario Community (TASC) to advance the development of safe automated driving functions. TASC is a data platform that provides simulation-ready scenarios from police-recorded accident data and video data filmed in real traffic. The simulation files enable the virtual testing of digital twins of automated driving functions in thousands of traffic and accident scenarios. This enables ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) functionality to be tested effectively, even before building physical prototypes.
The third Technical Assembly at Fraunhofer IVI brought together stakeholders and other participants in the TASC platform to discuss the latest development results. In addition to presentations on traffic and accident scenarios, new content and other news from the TASC ecosystem, the event provided a forum for numerous reports from the user perspective. The presentations clearly showed how the TASC data is already being used productively in a wide range of different projects. Approaches for testing active safety systems, findings from the EU project V4SAFETY on the potential for accident avoidance, and the use of TASC simulation data to calculate safety benefits in the context of regular technical inspections in Germany – the participants were given a comprehensive overview of the results TASC has already achieved in 2024. The project partners also provided an outlook on the planned development steps in TASC, including the expansion to include highway scenarios, international activities and the integration of new functions into the platform.