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Can driverless buses help to optimise bus depots? Are autonomous bus depots technologically feasible and economically worthwhile? This pre-study project will answer these questions. Then, a real pilot project will be launched.
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In the context where autonomous driving will bring major change to mobility as we know it, bus depots will likely be the first arena where buses can operate without drivers.
This project, named “AutoDepot”, consists of a pre-study to establish at a future stage a proof of concept of autonomous bus depot with a focus on autonomous traffic on site. This pre-study aims at defining the technical prerequisites for the implementation of such a concept in a Swiss context, at estimating its economic viability and at describing the legal framework in which it fits. The initiators of this project include several public transport companies, academics and technical partners. The pre-study should last four months, after which the proof of concept project will be launched in selected locations accross Switzerland.
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Following a straightforward online ordering process, the products that have been requested from Migros are loaded into the delivery vehicle. The “LOXO Alpha” then sets off to cover the 500 meters to Schindler’s site where it supplies the respective items.
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Line 13 of the Swiss Transit Lab
2022+
With Line 13, the Swiss Transit Lab is about to take another step in the development of automated mobility in public transport. With the planned pilot project, a pilot line will be put into operation in the city center of Schaffhausen between the train station and the Stahlgiesserei development area before the end of this year. Following the tourist application of line 12 at the Rhine Falls, the development of the first and last mile by automated vehicles should thus arrive in the everyday life of the population of Schaffhausen.
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ULTIMO
2022
The ULTIMO project aims to lay new foundations and deploy the very first economically viable large-scale, on- demand-responsive and passenger-oriented public transport systems.
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