Prof. Claudio Casetti

Title: “Road Safety for Vulnerable Users: from Standards to Implementation"

Abstract: Vehicle-to-Everything communication (V2X) has been proposed as a solution to improve the safety of road transport systems, both for vehicles and other Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs). To this aim, the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) has defined a set of standards dedicated to VRUs, with the definition of the so-called VRU Basic Service (VBS) defining a dedicated V2X message (VAM, VRU Awareness Message) and several rules for the transmission of such messages. This talk will review the state of the art of the standardisation effort and present an open-source implementation of the VBS, aimed at evaluating V2X scenarios with connected VRUs. Our implementation targets both simulations and field tests, and has been used to extensively assess the effectiveness and the critical points of the VBS. We will also explore advanced features like proximity triggering and redundancy mitigation, under different simulated and real-world scenarios.

Biography:

Claudio Casetti is a Full Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He has published over 250 papers in peer-refereed international journals and conferences on the following topics: vehicular networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems, 5G/6G networks, and IoT systems. According to Google Scholar, his H-index is 44. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He chaired the Turin Urban Digital Mobility working group within the Smart Roads project fostered by the City of Turin between 2018 and 2022. He has given Tutorials on connected vehicle technologies at major IEEE Conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE CCNC and IEEE VTC. As of July 2024, he is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, for which he previously served as Senior Editor (2020 to 2024) and Associate Editor (2013 to 2020).