LINC - Transforming Urban Planning Providing Autonomous Collective mobility
Overview
Objectives:
LINC is one of the largest project with self-driving shuttles in Denmark. Here the shuttles are tested in natural urban environments with everyday passengers who require public transport. The purpose is to develop public transport so that it is also an attractive and green choice for citizens in the future.
Through the tests, LINC collects impressions about how the shuttles operate and the passengers’ experiences on the self-driving shuttles. At the same time, LINC wants to develop the self-driving shuttles so that in the future they can provide citizens with an intelligent service that “comes when you call” and can solve the issue for citizens of covering the first and last-mile to the workplace or home.
The project’s experience will be able to give urban planners insight into the infrastructure – physically and digitally – that self-driving shuttles require. It can prepare city planners for designing sustainable cities that are “liveable cities” – as the shuttles are quiet and run on electricity, and do not, therefore, emit harmful particulate pollution and CO2.
Methodology:
Autonomous shuttle buses, each carrying up to 15 passengers and legally driving at up to 20km/h on public roads in traffic, were tested at the Danish Technical University (DTU) campus (12km north of central Copenhagen) with more than 500 dedicated users. Several smaller demonstrations and tests were done on closed roads at the Hersted Business Park in Albertslund (14km west of Copenhagen). The test areas are located in one of Denmark’s largest urban development areas, where the Greater Copenhagen Light Rail is being built between 2018 and 2025. The area covers a total of ten municipalities, where the 28 kilometres of light rail will pass through 29 stations. The tests were designed to collect information about the shuttles’ performance and commuters’ experience.
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