Press release
August 4, 2021
Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
Cabinet Office

An Open Call for Participants to Experience the Simulation Model of Tokyo
Waterfront City Area
SIP-adus is working on a construction of Driving Intelligence Validation
Platform (hereinafter referred to as “DIVP®”) in virtual space. This is thesimulation model of driving environment, radio propagation and sensor, withhigh consistency with actual phenomenon and is intended to test safety
evaluation process under various traffic environments, in order to realize safeand smooth automated driving.
The Call is opened for those who would like to try and experience the modelin virtual space simulating the environment of Tokyo Waterfront City area,
which is in the area of FOTs in Tokyo waterfront area.
1. SIP initiatives for today
The Second Phase of Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion
Program Automated Driving for Universal Services (hereinafter referred toas "SIP-adus") aspires to realize a society with higher quality of life foreveryone, by making contributions to solving social issues such as reducing
traffic accidents and congestions, ensuring mobility for vulnerable roadusers, and mitigating the driver shortage and reducing the costs of logistics
and mobility services, through practically applying, deploying, andexpanding automated driving. This is the reason why the program promotes
researches and developments for common tasks (cooperative areas) thatindustry, academy and government should jointly work on.
To ensure safety and reliability is the most important task for social
implementation and dissemination of automated driving, for which there isan urgent need to establish safety evaluation methods.
In SIP-adus, development of a simulation model, which is highly
consistent with actual phenomenon and which can substitute for anexperimental evaluation in the real environment, has been started for safety
evaluation under various traffic environments. The construction of thesafety evaluation environment platform in virtual space, or DIVP® is being
moved forward based on this model.
2. Future initiatives for the development of techniques to establish an
automated driving evaluation environment in virtual space
SIP-adus has started building database mainly of Tokyo Waterfront Cityarea, which is in the area of Field Operational Tests (hereinafter referred toas FOTs) in Tokyo waterfront area. In 2021, the verification of consistency
with a real environment will be carried out.
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In addition, this verification can be an opportunity to hear opinions fromvarious stakeholders, including automobile manufacturers and sensormanufacturers.
This call is looking for participants who would like to try and experiencethe model of Tokyo Waterfront City area in virtual space and who can give
feedback on its usefulness and usability.
For details on application requirements, participation conditions andothers, please refer to the application guidelines published by themanagement secretariat for SIP-adus, of which New Energy and Industrial
Technology Development Organization (hereinafter referred to as “NEDO”)
is in charge.
3. Outline of the Open Call to experience the simulation model of Tokyo
Waterfront City area
1) Experience open
From November 2, 2021 to the end of January 2022
2) Overview of what participants can do in the simulation model of Tokyo
Waterfront City area
Participants can find out its usefulness in the process of development
and validation of automated driving systems by having access to theavailable results and related information generated through simulation
execution in the prototype DIVP® as the model of driving environment,
radio propagation and sensor.
Especially for this experience, the scenario package of (1) NCAP *1
environment based on measured value and (2) the simulations in thevirtual environment of Tokyo Waterfront City area (Odaiba) is prepared.
Participants can check the weakness (limits) of sensors that could occur
in the real world as a combination of factors (driving environment, roads,
terrain, weather, among others). In this virtual space with highreproducibility where test conditions can be variously modified, work
efficiency of safety evaluation process would be found improved.
(*1) NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) is an assessment of automobile safety that has been appliedin the United States since 1979. The name is also used in other countries and regions.

3) Participants
It is preferable that participants are from corporations and research
institutes such as domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers,
automobile parts suppliers and universities who are engaged in researchand development of automated driving technologies.
4) Application timelineOpen From Wednesday August 4 to Friday October 15, 20215) The Open Call for FOTs in Tokyo waterfront area (Simulation model) isissued by NEDO. Please refer to the following for details.
https://www.nedo.go.jp/english/news/ZZCD_100017.html
For your participation, please submit the dedicated application form on
the above web site.

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＜Contacts＞
About SIP-adus
Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Cabinet OfficeTelephone: 81+3-6257-1334 (direct)
About Open Call for Participants
NEDO Robot / AI Department Mobility Group
Telephone: 81+44-520-5241 (direct) E-mail: nedo-sip2-rinkai-fot@nedo.go.jp
Click here for the website of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation
https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/index.html
Click here for the SIP-adus homepage
https://www.sip-adus.go.jp/

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