Building a Data Management Toolchain for a Level 3 Vehicle Automation Pilot

L3Pilot is the first comprehensive test of ADFs with hands-off the wheel on public roads across Europe. L3Pilot will test ADFs in 100 cars with 1,000 drivers across 10 different countries in Europe. The tested functions will be mainly of SAE automation level 3, some of them of level 4. This paper describes the data management toolchain we have designed and developed in order to exploit pilot data for answering a set of research questions about evaluation of such aspects as: technical and traffic, user acceptance, impact, socio-economic impact. The toolchain, supporting various confidentiality levels (prototype vehicle owner, consortium, public), has been designed to allow cross-vehicle owner data management, with efficient storage of data and its iterative processing with a variety of analysis and evaluation tools. Most of the tools in the data processing chain have been developed to a prototype version, tested in lab and are ready to be deployed for the pre-pilot starting in February 2019 in the various sites.