Name Alex Uyttendaele and Qonita Shahab
Advisor Jacques Terken
Website project page

The Connect & Drive project is a collaboration between Dutch companies and universities, sponsored by the HTAS program (HighTech Automotive Systems) of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, and aims at developing technology for Cooperative Advanced Cruise Control (CACC). CACC is the next generation of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), where there is communication between vehicles in addition to sensor capabilities of each vehicle to adapt the speed to other vehicles in order to make a smooth traffic flow and optimize traffic throughput. Together with the department of Mechanical Engineering of TU Delft, we constitute the Work Package on Human Factors of CACC. The general aim of the research on Human Factors is to identify success factors for the acceptance of CACC systems. The project envisages two versions of the system: an autonomous system (C-ACC) controlling the speed an inter-vehicle distance automatically, and an after-market advisory system (CCC), keeping the driver in the loop and giving advice to drivers about speed and inter-vehicle distance. The research focuses on interface design for the two systems and on the user experience aspects of autonomous driver support systems and advisory driver support systems.