Road infrastructure support levels for automated driving

This paper is a joint work of ASFINAG and ABERTIS AUTOPISTAS, two European road operators that already maintain a digital infrastructure on which many aspects of AD support can be built on. It presents, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to define a classification scheme to harmonize the capabilities of the infrastructure to support AD. It is based on the idea of gradual steps towards full digitalization of the infrastructure and the information that can be delivered to AVs in order to support driving and effectively performing traffic management tasks for the coming highway automation.