On September 3, 2025, the Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) held a workshop at ERTICO in Brussels, with both onsite and online attendees. Representatives from ADASIS, NDS, SENSORIS, TISA, TN-ITS, and Japan’s Dynamic Map Platform met to discuss progress and future developments for standards in automated driving.
The workshop commenced with introductory remarks from OADF Speaker Steffen Kuhn, who provided an overview of OADF’s mission and its member organizations. He highlighted the forum’s enduring objective to harmonize standards for safe, reliable, and efficient automated driving functions. Subsequently, Takuya Taniguchi (DMP) delivered an update on Japanese activities, offering insight into ongoing initiatives in Japan.
The morning program gave an overview of the OADF ecosystem and its diverse use cases, including Local Hazard Warning, Intelligent Speed Assistance, Adaptive Cruise Control, Automated Lane Change, Highway Driving Assist, Motorway Chauffeur, Minimal Risk Maneuver, Automated Valet Driving, and Low-Speed Automated Driving. These examples demonstrated the practical applications of OADF standards for driver assistance and automation.
Two short presentations introduced new resources for developers and researchers. Carsten Schroeder presented the ADASISv3 Startup Kit, designed to support early implementation, while Otto Nyiro showcased the NDS Evaluation Access, which provides simplified access to NDS for research and evaluation.
The first afternoon workshop, led by Otto Nyiro and Matthias Unbehaun, focused on data flows for Local Hazard Warning. Participants discussed integrating standards to improve vehicle warnings, highlighted challenges like limited data on dynamic events (e.g., deer crossings), the need to minimize false positives, and determining essential information. They also noted that implementation of changes to map-related standards to improve Local Hazard Warning for automated driving may be premature.
The second workshop, chaired by Christian Kleine (TN-ITS), focused on Intelligent Speed Assistance. Participants determined that existing standards largely cover ISA requirements. The discussion covered topics such as the potential of Car-to-Cloud solutions for managing mobile roadworks, the use of V2X technology as an additional data transmission channel, and the integration of diverse data sources —including maps, static speed limits, camera inputs, and crowdsourced information. Nonetheless, certain challenges persist, particularly in relation to privacy concerns within residential areas and a lack of standardization, for example, in lane counting methodologies.
In his closing remarks, Steffen Kuhn emphasized the importance of OADF as a platform for cross-organization collaboration. The workshop highlighted the role of harmonized standards in supporting ADAS and automated driving and identified challenges to be addressed in future work.
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