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Lessons learnt from CityMobil and considerations for future research
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | CityMobil will soon come to a close. It is always difficult to find things to improve in a project which received so many awards as a success story and which undertook so many different initiatives all over Europe. CityMobil's approach has been to cover all possible automated road transport systems in very different initiatives. Four automated transport system categories have been investigated: dual mode vehicles: normal vehicles with automated driving capabilities; cybercars: fully automated road vehicles supplying a collective taxi-like service; PRT: small vehicles supplying a taxi-like service on a dedicated infrastructure; and advanced buses: flexible bus services with advanced driving capabilities. Three main kinds of activities have been carried out: city studies to assess scenarios in different cities with different characteristics. Madrid (ES), Vienna (AT), Gateshead (UK), Trondheim (NO), Uppsala (SE) and Sophia Antipolis (FR) have all been studied with different techniques to assess how best to use automated transport there; showcases to disseminate automated transport to members of the public allowing them to ride on the vehicles. Daventry (UK), Vantaa (FI), Trondheim (NO), La Rochelle (FR) and Orta (IT) have all hosted a showcase and the initiative was so successful that a spin-off project, CityNetMobil, extended this initiative to 5 further showcases in Clermont-Ferrand (FR), Formello (IT), Brussels (BE), Sophia Antipolis (FR) and Reggio Calabria (IT); demonstrators: a PRT system in Heathrow (UK), an advanced bus in Castellón (ES) and a cybercar system in La Rochelle (FR) have been successfully demonstrated and a cybercar system in Rome (IT) was long supported but ultimately did not lead to a demonstration. All these initiatives in the different cities have been evaluated and the results were put together with a common approach. Many general results were obtained from this approach, the most important being the identification of which advanced transport systems are most suitable to solve different transport problems, such as PRT as the main transport system for small monocentric cities and a combination of cybercars as a feeder service and advanced buses as the main transit line for the peripheries of large cities. However, even if CityMobil has been such a successful initiative, some lessons for future research projects can be drawn. 1. Legal framework: despite CityMobil's efforts on certification procedures, automated systems still remain a legal mystery; each country follows its own certification procedures. For example PRT in England is certified under the rail directive and cybercars in France under the machinery directive (if on a protected environment) and for the La Rochelle demonstrator (on an unprotected road) the mayor had to sign an “Arrêté” (a decree). To kick-start a market for automated systems, it is imperative to create a common legal framework allowing automated transport on the roads (under precise conditions). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.citymobil-project.eu/downloadables/Deliverables/D0.2.4-X-PU-Newsletter%20Issue%2010-CityMobil.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.citymobil-project.eu/downloadables/Newsletters%20and%20Leaflets/CityMobil%20Newsletter%20Issue%2010%20September%202011.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
