Self-driving buses in Linköping

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Published 22 September 2021 at 12.46

Domestic. Electrified self-driving buses have been running on the Campus Valla campus in Linköping since February 2020. But now the driverless buses have also started driving around in the neighboring residential area Vallastaden.

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Linköping's self-driving buses are part of a research platform called Ride the future which investigates how self-driving buses can become part of the modern city's mobility solutions.

The idea is to take find out how people with visual impairments can travel with the buses, how older people and children experience the travel from different aspects, and more.

Also more technical studies are done such as how the buses work in different weather conditions and how they can be used to collect environmentally hazardous particles.

– We currently have several projects around the world where we test autonomous vehicles, but what is unique about Ride the future is that we test two autonomous vehicles from two different manufacturers in the same ecosystem so they communicate with each other, says Anna Höjer, CEO of Transdev, a multinational transport company based in Paris, France, which is involved in the experiment.

Also included in the study is the authority VTI, Statens väg and transport research nstitut.