LOG- ESTRAL - LOG-Ecological and Safe TRAffic systems by digitizing Law

The StVO has been in use since 1960 - the social environment has changed significantly since then. The usage pressure on public space has increased, requirements for road safety have risen and maintaining legal clarity is becoming more and more difficult due to increasing digitalization. New technologies, new forms of mobility and negative environmental impacts add to the complexity. The instruments of the 1960s are not always sufficient for this. Digitalization offers great potential to better meet the challenges mentioned above.

New ways and forms are needed to formulate traffic regulations in a comprehensive, detailed, dynamic, situation-dependent or target group-oriented manner and thus to design traffic management efficiently and effectively. Digitalization makes it possible that with the appropriate method of digital data transmission, even complex traffic regulations can reach the desired target group of road users in a situation-dependent manner and with full content, and therefore achieve their full potential.

The ESTRAL project (Ecological and Safe TRAffic systems by digitizing Law) therefore aims to develop recommendations for action for the creation of digital legal provisions in road traffic on the basis of selected use cases for the purpose of increasing the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the traffic system as well as the presentation of the resulting benefits.