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Launch of Level 4 System Mobility Acceleration Committee for Realization of New Automated Driving Mobility Services by FY2025
October 19, 2023
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will launch a Level 4 System Mobility Acceleration Committee in collaboration with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and other organizations in order to develop environments for the realization of new automated driving mobility services by FY2025.
1. Purpose of the inauguration
The Government of Japan is aiming to realize driverless automated driving services in about 50 locations across Japan by around FY2025. Going forward, it is expected that new automated mobility services will start in larger and more complex traffic environments. Against this backdrop, developing environments for facilitating appropriate information sharing and other actions among businesses and the related ministries and agencies will be necessary as an effort to quickly bring such services into being.
From this viewpoint, METI and MLIT decided to newly launch the Level 4 System Mobility Acceleration Committee under the RoAD to the L4 project that the ministries have been advancing for developing and implementing automated driving.
Expected agendas of the committee
Note: Meetings may or may not be open to the public depending on their content.
- Explanations by businesses on the outlines and schedules of their projects
- Streamlining points of discussions about challenges in the related ministries and agencies
- Sharing information on the progress made in the projects and the current status of licenses and permissions issued by the related ministries and agencies, etc.
Expected members of the committee
METI, MLIT, the National Police Agency (NPA), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), and related municipalities
2. Schedule
The committee is scheduled to start meetings around November 2023.
3. Upcoming agenda
As its upcoming agenda, the committee will focus on the efforts made by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., General Motors (U.S.), and GM Cruise Holdings LLC (U.S.), which announced the establishment of a joint venture on October 19, 2023, and it will strive to manage progress to realize new automated driving mobility services in parallel with sharing information among the related ministries and agencies.
Division in Charge
Mobility DX Office, Automobile Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau