A Comprehensive Dataset of Construction Sites, Incidents and Tunnel Environments
As automated driving systems progress toward operation in increasingly complex real-world conditions, the need for high-quality datasets becomes more critical. With reaching Milestone 6 (MS6), iEXODDUS provides a comprehensive overview of public datasets relevant to safety-critical and edge-case driving situations, with a focus on construction sites, incidents, tunnels, and other GNSS-challenging environments.
The report highlights a central challenge in connected and automated mobility: many of the most important scenarios for validation and safety assurance belong to the “long tail” of rare but high-impact events. These include temporary work zones, traffic anomalies, accidents, and tunnel environments where conventional assumptions about infrastructure, localization, and traffic flow no longer hold.
To address this, the report reviews datasets from multiple perspectives, including ego-vehicle sensing, infrastructure-based perception, and synthetic simulation environments. The analysis covers construction and work zone datasets, rare-event and anomaly datasets for accidents, tunnel and urban canyon datasets for GNSS-denied navigation, and highway-focused datasets for long-range perception and cooperative driving.
A key conclusion of the report is that future progress will depend on three complementary pillars: cooperative perception, procedural and adversarial simulation, and broader multi-modal sensing. In particular, the report underlines that ego-only datasets are no longer sufficient for the most difficult safety-critical use cases, and that better integration of infrastructure data and synthetic scenario generation will be essential for robust deployment.
With this milestone, iEXODDUS contributes a structured reference for researchers and engineers working on dataset selection, benchmarking, and gap analysis in Cooperative Automated Driving Systems (CADS). The report supports the project’s wider objective of extending ODDs and advancing standardization procedures for future mobility systems.
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