The European Common Evaluation Methodology for evaluating Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility: how to assess human and societal impacts

Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) is a key focus of research and innovation within the transport industry. This paper introduces the European Common Evaluation Methodology (EU-CEM) for CCAM, which includes guidelines and recommendations for evaluating CCAM’s impact on different user groups, the transport system and wider society. The EU-CEM enables evaluation with comparable results while fostering a shared vocabulary within the CCAM community. EU-CEM provide guidelines for 18 impact areas. For each impact area the EU-CEM provides a variety of approaches and methods, including potential pitfalls and best practices to avoid them, are proposed to assess these impacts. In this paper impacts on users, quality of life, people mobility, liveability, equity and sustainability are discussed. Human Factors knowledge underpins the EU-CEM and is integrated across the impact areas.