Berliner Agentur für Elektromobilität eMO

Focus areas

Automated and connected driving can be part of the solution to urban mobility problems in the future. In this regard, the predecessor project See-Meile has already shown that safe and reliable operation in ongoing traffic on public roads is possible and has been well received. The experience gained from the See-Meile project is now to be expanded to include other streets by extending the first section of the route from the Alt-Tegel subway station to the Tegel lake terraces. Here, the highly automated buses face challenges such as narrow road sections, cobblestones, crossing a 31 mph main road, and traffic light changes.

In addition to deriving technical improvements from the operating data generated, the project also focuses on the technological acceptance of Berlin's citizens (users and residents). The aim is to find out what a safe, reliable, economical, and socially accepted mobility service looks like in real-world operation, and to use this experience to continue the development of autonomous driving in Berlin.

The Shuttles & Co project is therefore investigating how highly automated electric minibuses can be integrated into scheduled public transport operations as a useful addition so that the mobility system can be optimized and operated economically, how the recognition of the surroundings of automated and networked vehicles and the exchange of information required for this can be improved and how, on this basis, digital maps can be created and constantly updated, and how social acceptance and trust in the technologies can be increased in society.

Within the project, the Berlin Agency for Electromobility eMO is primarily responsible for work package 5, which focuses on publicity measures and social dialog as well as scalability by means of introduction strategies for automated and connected driving.

These include, among other things, the organization, implementation, and evaluation of project workshop procedures for the participation of local stakeholders, a citizens' conference that drafts perspectives from the point of view of urban society, and responsibility for the creation of information materials such as flyers, film clips, and social media.