City Area
The City Area is primarily used to test the vehicle’s capacity to interact with the surrounding environment to avoid hitting buses, cyclists, pedestrians or other road users.
The design
The City Area consist of 4 blocks and cover a number of different sub-areas such as:
- Town centres with varying street widths and lanes, bus stops, pavements, street lighting and building backdrops.
- A road system with different kinds of test environments such as roundabouts, T-junction, return-loop and “lab-area”. Connections to the Rural road occur in two places.
The City area is based on a relatively flat surface and with dummy blocks that resemble buildings both to the eye and to technical aids such as radar. One block contains space for control room and warehouse for dummies. The City area is lit up by normal street lighting, which can be switched off by section.
About the track
Main street equipped with “Portals” with traffic signs
Pavements and bike lanes
Lane markings
Crossing street, 7 metres wide plus pavements
Pedestrian crossing with signs
Refuge, traffic signs, curbs and traffic lights