Our comprehensive experience in developing many, widely varying, virtual 3D road environments for driving simulators means that we can:
We can also cost-efficiently upgrade your old legacy format 3D environments to todays standards, making the most of the latest 3D rendering capabilities.
If you would like to have a further conversation about our experience and capabilities in this area, get in touch.
Since starting Agility3 back in 2012, we have been supplying clients with high quality virtual 3D road environments to support their driving simulation projects. Such projects have involved driver research, driver training, road design reviews, stakeholder engagement and more. The video above shows one of those environments, a generic West London route, being used within the driving simulator facility of one of our clients, TRL.
For every project we work with the client to understand their requirements for:
We then build the virtual 3D road environments bespoke to those requirements to ensure maximum benefit and value to the project.
Our development methods involve using commercially available tools and a wide range of data sources which can include, if available, LiDAR point cloud, BIM data and HD maps alongside aerial and on-site photography.
We can deliver in multiple formats and are able to configure each environment to the technical specifications of the target simulation software to ensure effective and efficient performance at runtime. We can also include logical maps in formats such as OpenDRIVE.
You can see many more examples of virtual 3D road environments we have developed on our portfolio page.
Project Overview:
This highly realistic geo-specific virtual environment was used within TRL’s driving simulator to support user trials as part of an investigation into the way that humans behaved when sharing the road with autonomous vehicles. This research trial was part of the wider Greenwich GATEway project.
Project Features:
The key project requirement was that the environment was a recognisable representation of the Greenwich Peninsular with roads, markings and roadside objects all modelled to a very high degree of accuracy. To achieve this, various forms of data such as vector data, LiDAR data, aerial photography and on-site photography were sourced to ensure that a high level of accuracy was achieved.
Not only was the virtual environment highly realistic and highly accurate, it was also configured to run effectively and efficiently on TRL’s SCANeR driving simulation software developed by AVSimulation.
Solution Benefits:
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