Working Party on Automated and Connected Vehicles | Session 2 | 28 Jan-1 Feb 2019
Geneva

The deadline for the submission of official working documents is 2 November 2018

Agenda Item 3.
Exchange of views on work priorities and structure of GRVA informal working groups

5. The Chair introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2019/2 proposing priorities related to WP.29 and its subsidiary bodies activities on Automated Driving Vehicles (ADVs).

6. The expert from Japan mentioned that the framework document work stream proposed in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2019/2 should be based on the existing national and regional guidelines to provide the big picture of what GRVA should do. GRVA agreed to make progress on this work stream but noted some minor variations in the precise understanding of what this document should include: a document setting principles and guidelines (compiling existing guidelines) and a document that would also have an operational dimension to guide the future work on ADVs.

7. GRVA also reviewed the other priority items listed in the document and agreed that these priorities proposed can be addressed by GRVA.

8. GRVA discussed the need to address both the activities already started as well as the short-term priorities. Therefore, GRVA discussed the potential structure of GRVA to best address these current activities as well as the new short-term priorities defined in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2019/2. Several proposals for a new structure were presented
(GRVA-02-31, GRVA-02-40, GRVA-02-42 and GRVA-02-47). The Chair also submitted GRVA-02-41 with draft Terms of Reference (ToR) and Rules of Procedures (RoP) for a new Informal Working Group (IWG).

9. The secretariat drafted at the end of the session a consolidation of inputs made by the Contracting Parties during the discussions (GRVA-02-44). GRVA agreed with this consolidation in form of a table as reproduced in Annex II, with the expectation that this would provide a base for continued discussions at the March 2019 session of WP.29.

Documentation
GRVA-02-31 GRVA work priorities - Proposal for a Draft Structure (Germany)
GRVA-02-40 Discussion of GRVA priorities (EC)
GRVA-02-41 Informal Working Group on Functional Requirements for Automated and Autonomous Vehicles
GRVA-02-42 Proposal for a new GRVA structure based on document WP.29/2019/2 (Japan)
GRVA-02-43 Preliminary suggestions for the framework document on automated/autonomous driving (China and Japan)
GRVA-02-44 Current allocation of the priorities (in document WP.29/2019/2) to the IWGs of GRVA.
GRVA-02-47 GRVA informal working groups - Structure and management proposal
WP.29/2019/2 Priority topics for automated and connected vehicles