"I look forward to seeing the results of this project and I'll be watching it closely." "Pilot projects like this one will give us a better understanding of the safety and reliability of emerging technologies and their future uses on our highways," said Alberta's transportation minister Rajan Sawhney. It's called platooning, which is when two or more trucks are driving automatically and linked using connectivity technology and automated driving support systems. "They're monitoring the vehicle, they're monitoring the traffic around and their job and responsibilities haven't changed outside of being supported by some additional technology." "The critical piece to remember here is there's a professional driver behind the wheel of the vehicle as it's being operated," said Jude Groves, Alberta Motor Transport Association board chair. University of Alberta professor in psychology and neuroscience Anthony Singhal is leading a team of researchers on the project. "It's the first one to do a live trial in a natural environment not controlled in a simulator on a track and so that makes this study extremely valuable." "This is a ground-breaking study," said Singhal. Singhal and his team will look at a number of variables including baseline driving in a single truck without any automation, in a single truck with automation and then in the platooning system with automation so they can make all of the comparisons. They want to know what's physically happening to the driver in each situation. "So we're using psychophysiological measures, we're going to collect their brainwaves, their heart rate data, their eye movement data while they're driving in this platooning system," said Singhal.
The Cooperative Truck Platooning System (CTPS) trials will provide data on evolving driver automation and is funded by Transport Canada.
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