AI-Driven Orchestration and Safety Engineering for Mixed-Traffic CCAM Systems
Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) is transitioning from isolated vehicle automation toward system-level orchestration across mixed traffic environments. While significant advances have been achieved in vehicle autonomy, major scientific and engineering challenges remain in ensuring safe coexistence with conventional vehicles, integrating public digital infrastructure, enabling trustworthy AI-driven traffic management, and aligning deployment with regulatory and societal expectations.
This special session brings together four complementary Horizon Europe projects — CHORUS, CARMONY, CERTAIN and FRODDO — to present an integrated European perspective on the design, validation and orchestration of CCAM ecosystems.
The session will address the full lifecycle of CCAM deployment:
- Operational Design Domain (ODD) modelling and infrastructure compatibility
- Scenario-based safety assurance and in-life validation
- AI-enabled multi-actor orchestration frameworks
- Governance models and simulation-based decision support
- Mixed traffic management involving human-driven and automated vehicles
- Public trust, user acceptance and regulatory alignment
By combining advances in artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, traffic engineering and public digital infrastructure management, the session aims to demonstrate how scalable, safe and sustainable CCAM ecosystems can be deployed across European cities and highways.
Organisers:
Dr. Angelos Amditis, ICCS, Research and Development Director, BoD | I-SENSE Group, Director
Dr. Anna Antonakopoulou, ICCS, Smart Mobility Applied System Research Division Leader, I-SENSE Group
Georgios Zacharopoulos, ICCS researcher
Moderator: Dr. Vasilis Sourlas, ICCS, Head of ITS/CCAM | Senior Researcher, I-SENSE Group
Speakers:
- Christos Ballis, Project manager, researcher, ICCS, (CHORUS)
- Nikolaos Tsampieris, Head of Transport for Logistics ERTICO (FRODDO)
- Dr. Oana Moldovan, R+D Senior Engineer, IDIADA (CERTAIN)
- Kostas Cheliotis Senior Research & Innovation Engineer, FRONTIER INNOVATIONS (CARMONY)
Expected contributions
Papers to be presented in the special session cover topics related, but not limited, to:
1. CCAM System Architecture & Orchestration
- Multi-layer orchestration frameworks for mixed traffic
- Cooperative decision-making between automated and human-driven vehicles
- Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication architectures
- Cloud-edge orchestration in mobility systems
2. AI & Data-Driven Traffic Management
- AI-enabled traffic optimization and prediction
- Real-time adaptive traffic control
- Digital twins and large-scale traffic simulations
3. Safety Assurance & Validation
- Scenario-based safety assurance methodologies
- In-life safety monitoring and continuous validation
- Safety metrics for CCAM ecosystems
- Regulatory-compliant safety frameworks
4. Operational Design Domain (ODD) Engineering
- ODD modelling and formalization
- Infrastructure-aware ODD adaptation
- Context-aware CCAM deployment strategies
5. Governance, Trust & User Acceptance
- Governance models for orchestrated mobility
- Societal trust in automated mobility
- Human-centered design in traffic orchestration
6. Sustainability & Impact Assessment
- Emissions reduction through coordinated mobility
- Congestion mitigation strategies
Energy-efficient traffic management