Published on Thursday 7 December 2023
The recent technological developments make it possible to provide increasingly efficient delegated driving functions for different types of vehicles and different uses: private vehicles, public and shared transport, freight transport and logistics.
Strategy for the deployment regime
Vehicle automation and connectivity are enabling new mobility services for people and goods. France has adopted an ambitious strategy to enable the safe deployment of these technologies and to meet the expectations of the regions for more sustainable mobility.
1. National strategy
The national strategy for the development of automated and connected road mobility constitutes the framework for public action.
- FR - V2I connectivity: key to use cases - 2023 (PDF - 1.22 Mo)
- FR - Review of connectivity use cases - 2023 (PDF - 2.95 Mo)
- FR - Priority Connectivity Needs for Road Vehicle Automation - October 2021 (PDF - 2.18 Mo)
- FR - Working group report: communication technologies for cooperative ITS - April 2019 (PDF - 4.75 Mo)
- FR - Crossed views on autonomous mobility - DGITM - November 2022 (PDF - 800.77 Ko)
- EN - Progress report on the development of automated and connected mobility - October 2021 (PDF - 10.61 Mo)
- EN - The French strategy for the development of automated road mobility 2020-2022 (PDF - 574.54 Ko)
- FR - Use case deployment roadmap – Orientation for the deployment of use cases 2020-2022 - FVA (PDF - 491.38 Ko)
- FR - A year of public action for the development of autonomous vehicles - April 2019 (PDF - 2.88 Mo)
- FR - Autonomous vehicles full report - 2018 (PDF - 1.89 Mo)
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EN - French natinal strategy 2018
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- EN - Flyer French national strategy 2018 (PDF - 378.71 Ko)
2. European strategic framework
Europe adopted a strategy for the development of automated and connected road mobility in May 2018, complemented by the Sustainable and Intelligent Mobility Strategy in December 2020.
- European Strategy - December 2020
- Annex of the European strategy - December 2020
- European Strategy - May 2018
- European Commission website
- Horizon Europe website
- Site of the European Interconnection Mechanism
- Digital Europe website
- CCAM Platform website
- European knowledge database on automated and connected driving
Legislative and regulatory framework
1. Deployment framework
The deployment of automated vehicles and mobility services in France is made possible by the legislative and regulatory framework, which complements the European vehicle approval framework.
For more information on vehicle homologation, see the following page : Vehicle type-approval (FR)
- Order n° 2021-443 of April 14, 2021 relating to the criminal liability regime applicable in the event of the circulation of a vehicle with delegated driving and to its conditions of use
- Decree No. 2021-873 of June 29, 2021 implementing Ordinance No. 2021-443 of April 14, 2021
- Decree No. 2022-1034 of July 21, 2022 (amendment of the Vienna Convention)
- Order of August 2, 2022 implementing article R. 3152-3 of the Transport Code (remote intervention authorization)
- Order of August 2, 2022 issued pursuant to Article R. 3152-30 of the Transportation Code (approval of qualified bodiess)
- Order of August 5, 2022 issued pursuant to Article R. 3152-24 of the Transportation Code (content of qualified bodies' notices)
- Order of December 8, 2022 modifying article R. 311-1 of the highway code (consumer information)
- EN - National regulatory framework on conditions of use of automated vehicles and commissioning of automated road transport systems - September 2022 (PDF - 1.07 Mo)
- Ordinance No. 2016-1057 of August 3, 2016
- LAW No. 2019-486 of May 22, 2019
- LAW No. 2015-992 of August 17, 2015
- Decree No. 2018-211 of March 28, 2018
- Order of April 17, 2018 on the experimentation of vehicles with driver delegation on public roads
- FR - Press kit - Development of autonomous vehicles, the State is involved in 16 new experiments - 2019 (PDF - 4.29 Mo)
- FR - Flyer for administrative procedures for experimentation requests (PDF - 708.16 Ko)
2. Data Access Framework
Legisltaive and regulatory framework
Exchanges of data from vehicles and road infrastructures are subject to legislative and regulatory provisions at national and European level, mainly for road safety and operational purposes.
Access to vehicle data is provided for in the French Mobility Law (LOM) of December 24, 2019, for the purposes of learning about incidents, accidents, dangerous traffic conditions, traffic and road infrastructure conditions, accident investigations and feedback on critical scenarios for automated driving.
Road traffic data is the subject of a European legislation and regulations framework (Intelligent Transport Directive) designed to facilitate the supply and exchange of such data, with a view to improving road information and, ultimately, traffic conditions and safety.
3. Safety assessment and demonstration
- Utilisation des scénarios dans la démonstration de la sécurité (PDF - 1.26 Mo)
- Articulation GAME/sotif/scenarios (PDF - 1.61 Mo)
- EN - Methodological document - Generation, feeding and enrichment of scenarios - DGITM - August 2022 (PDF - 3.49 Mo)
- EN - Accidentality report for safety validation of automated road transport systems - DGITM - July 2022 (PDF - 1.2 Mo)
- EN - Methodological document - Use of scenarios for the validation of automated road transport systems - interaction scenarios with priority vehicles and law enforcement officers - DGITM - July 2022 (PDF - 1.01 Mo)
- EN - Methodological framework document on ODD descriptors - DGITM - May 2022 (PDF - 1.59 Mo)
- EN - Methodological document - Use of scenarios for the validation of automated road transport systems - scenario-based approach methodology - DGITM - February 2022 (PDF - 1.65 Mo)
- FR - Cybersecurity for ARTS - December 2022
- FR - Mission of the approved qualified body for safety assessment and safety audit in operation of ARTS - October 2022
- EN - « GAME » demonstration for ARTS - September 2022
- EN - Globally At Least Equivalent Principle for Automated Road Transport Systems - December 2021
Projects supporting connectivity
France has a wealth of expertise in the development of connected vehicle applications linked to infrastructure, through national and European projects such as SCOOP@F, InterCor, C-Roads and, most recently, InDiD.
Perception and acceptability
The perception and acceptability of automated vehicles is a key factor in their development. Various studies, in particular national and local surveys, allow us to monitor these issues, which are discussed during a national seminar bringing together stakeholders (elected officials, economic sectors, associations, experts), and the national council for digital ethics.
- FR - Results of the survey on the perception of automated road services by the French - HARRIS - November 2023 (PDF - 847.21 Ko)
- FR - Results of the survey on the perception of on-board traffic information systems by the French - HARRIS - November 2023 (PDF - 1002.53 Ko)
- FR - Results of the survey on the perception of automated vehicles by the French - HARRIS - October 2022 (PDF - 760.1 Ko)
- FR - Results of the survey on the perception of on-board traffic information systems by the French - HARRIS - October 2022 (PDF - 710.1 Ko)
- FR - Results of the survey on the perception of automated vehicles by the French - HARRIS - October 2021 (PDF - 844.67 Ko)
- FR - Results of the survey on the perception of automated vehicles by the French - HARRIS - September 2019 (PDF - 610.7 Ko)
- FR - Results of the survey on the perception of automated vehicles by the French - IFOP - May 2018 (PDF - 1.11 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic overview of work on the accepability of automated road mobility - November 2023 (PDF - 4.81 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic overview of human-machine interfaces integrated in vehicles equipped with an automated driving system - November 2023 (PDF - 1.54 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic overview of work on the acceptability of the automated vehicle - October 2022 (PDF - 3.73 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic overview on environmental impacts - October 2022 (PDF - 3.38 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic focus on transport plannification linked to vehicle automation - October 2022 (PDF - 1.87 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic overview of work on the accepability of automated vehicles - December 2021 (PDF - 4.11 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic overview of work on driver information and training - December 2021 (PDF - 416.3 Ko)
- FR - Bibliographic overview of work on the acceptability of automated vehicles – June 2021 (PDF - 2.65 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic focus on academic work presented at TRB 2021 (PDF - 1.39 Mo)
- FR - Bibliographic overview of work on the acceptability of the automated vehicle - November 2020 (PDF - 2.77 Mo)
- FR - Minutes of the 8th seminar on acceptability and societal aspects, November 30, 2023 (PDF - 413.68 Ko)
- FR - Presentation of the 8th seminar on acceptability and societal aspects, November 30, 2023 (PDF - 2.96 Mo)
- FR - Minutes of the 7th seminar on acceptability and societal aspects, October 13, 2022 (PDF - 418.27 Ko)
- FR - Presentation of the 7th seminar on acceptability and societal aspects, October 13, 2022 (PDF - 2.1 Mo)
- FR - Minutes of the 6th seminar on acceptability and societal aspects, December 16, 2021 (PDF - 690.53 Ko)
- FR - Minutes of the 5th seminar on acceptability and societal aspects, June 3, 2021 (PDF - 702.88 Ko)
- FR - Minutes of the 4th seminar on acceptability and societal aspects, November 19, 2020 (PDF - 742 Ko)
- FR - CNPEN Opinion - The "autonomous vehicle": ethical issues - April 2021 (PDF - 451.87 Ko)