The capability of making structured and informed decisions about the comprehensive deployment of CAVs (connected and automated vehicles) in a mixed road environment. This capability requires:

• A clear awareness of the technology underpinning CAVs, the different functional uses and business models for CAVs and a high-level understanding of the impacts different deployment scenarios can have on traffic, quality of life and stakeholders involved in local transport planning.
• The institutional capacity to plan for a future with CAVs by using tools that accurately represent CAV behaviour in order to identify the impacts of different CAV deployment scenarios.
• A strategic approach in deploying a wide range of measures that will ensure a deployment of CAVs, which supports higher level mobility goals.

The aim of this report is to present definitions of the metrics that will be utilised in CoEXist to assess the effects on traffic performance and space efficiency as well as to present the qualitative assessment approach used to assess potential effects on traffic safety. The definitions will be used as a basis for the development of the assessment tool. The definitions presented in this report may be revised, and the final definitions of the metrics will be presented in deliverable “D3.3: AV-ready hybrid road infrastructure assessment tool”.