Transdev Autonomous Transport System(ATS), Mobileye and Lohr are developing autonomous shuttles that will operate in public transportation services around the world, starting with Europe.
The companies are integrating Mobileye’s self-driving system into Lohr’s i-Cristal electric shuttle.
Transdev describes Mobileye’s self-driving system as a turnkey autonomous vehicle (AV) solution that delivers a formal responsibility-sensitive safety model for decision making and a perception system featuring ‘true redundancy’ whereby two independent subsystems combine to enable perception.
The company says the system can be deployed without geographical limitation due Mobileye’s Road Experience Management AV mapping technology through which a crowdsourced AV map of the global road network is created and then updated using data from advanced driver assistance systems.
The shuttle can carry 16 passengers at speeds up to 50kph, Transdev adds.
The autonomous vehicle is expected to operate within public transportation networks with Transdev’s solutions, which integrate with the company’s AV supervision technology.
Initially, the partners will test the shuttles on roadways in France and Israel and hope to deploy them in public transportation networks by 2023.
