Trinational Automated Mobility

TL;DR

The paper discusses the development and testing of a cross-border automated minibus system in the European border region, aiming to improve mobility, user acceptance, and integration with existing public transport.

Contribution

It introduces a trinational project deploying automated minibuses and mobility on demand services within the existing infrastructure, addressing cross-border mobility challenges.

Findings

Successful deployment of automated minibuses in regular traffic

Positive user acceptance for cross-border automated mobility

Integration of new services with existing public transport infrastructure

Abstract

Safe, environmentally conscious and flexible, these are the central requirements for the future mobility. In the European border region between Germany, France and Luxembourg, mobility in the world of work and pleasure is a decisive factor. It must be simple, affordable and available to all. The automation and intelligent connection of road traffic plays an important role in this. Due to the distributed settlement structure with many small towns and village and a few central hot spots, a fully available public transport is very complex and expensive and only a few bus and train lines exist. In this context, the trinational research project TERMINAL aims to establish a cross-border automated minibus in regular traffic and to explore the user acceptance for commuter traffic. Additionally, mobility on demand services are tested, and both will be embedded within the existing public transport infrastructure.