LibroDuct is a provider of innovative solutions for charging electric buses via trolley poles to compensate for the partial availability of overhead lines. With LibroDuct, ASAM has 400 member companies who develop and apply ASAM standards. This is another outstanding milestone in ASAM’s success story and an impressive testimonial to the importance of ASAM standards.

Safety is a decisive factor in the realization of autonomous driving. ASAM e.V. has addressed the question of which test procedures are needed to make highly and fully automated driving safe. Experts and stakeholders from 24 organizations, including manufacturers, suppliers, testing companies and research institutes, have jointly developed a blueprint that describes this challenge and identifies possible solutions.

Starting May 01, 2022, the standardization organization ASAM e.V. is led by a new management team. Marius Dupuis takes on the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Benjamin Engel the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The expansion of the management team has become necessary due to the strong growth in membership in recent years and the resulting increase in complexity of the tasks.

An Operational Design Domain (ODD) is fundamental to the safety of Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV). It describes the specific operating conditions in which the CAV is designed to operate safely. ASAM has now published the concept for a future Standard to define ODDs: “ASAM OpenODD” shall specify a language concept as well as a machine-readable format to allow users to share, compare and re-use ODD definitions. Among other things, this will clear barriers between CAV manufacturers and authorities to determine whether a CAV is allowed to drive within the authority’s area. The concept paper can be downloaded free of charge. Additional use cases or requirements can still be proposed before the Standard development starts.