Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Book Title/Conference/Journal

LN2FR 2022: Workshop on Methodologies for Translating Legal Norms into Formal Representations in conjunction with JURIX 2022, the 35th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, Saarbrücken, Germany December 14

Year

12-2022

Abstract

This study devised and implemented a Defeasible Deontic Logic (DDL)-based formalization approach for translating traffic rules into a machine-computable (M/C) format and thus solving rule issues: rule vagueness (open texture expressions) and exceptions in rules. The resulting M/C format of traffic rules can be utilized for automatic traffic rule reasoning to assist the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) in making legal decisions. The method incorporates the components and behaviour of regulations based on the rule's obligation, prohibition, and permission activities.

The need for the encoding methodology is motivated by the desire for automated reasoning over Autonomous Vehicle information involving traffic rules.

A Queensland (QLD) overtaking traffic rule is used as a use case to illustrate this proposed encoding methodology’s mechanism and usefulness.

Keywords

Traffic Rules, Norms, Defeasible Deontic Logic

Disciplines

Transportation Law

Subject(s)

Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship

Version

acceptedVersion

Language

eng

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Authors

Format

application/PDF

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