Self-guided shuttle in Turin, will be integrated into the Tpl
The service is in the testing phase, it will be available from October - The chosen area is around Campus Einaudi with 5 stops
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It made its debut this afternoon around the Luigi Einaudi Campus in Turin. It is the autonomous and connected self-driving shuttle of the Living Lab ToMove initiated by the city in cooperation with several industrial partners. The self-driving vehicle being tested is an electric vehicle with a capacity of around ten people. The service will be managed directly by GTT, Turin's local public transport company, and will be integrated into the City's Mobility as a Service platform.
Once the test phase is over, at the end of October the service will be available to citizens and will be integrated, this is the feature of the experimentation being carried out in Turin, within the local public transport services, it will be associated, in particular, with the use of cooperative infomobility services to reduce the use of private vehicles. To access the service, it will be necessary to book the ride through the Wetaxi application, selecting the AutoMove service.
Thanks to the ability to acquire information directly from the technological infrastructure installed on the road, the shuttle can travel safely on the road and can receive information on traffic conditions or other significant events. On board the shuttle there will be a professional figure called safety driver, a GTT employee specifically trained for autonomous driving. His task will be to ensure the proper functioning of the vehicle and intervene in case of need, such as the presence of an obstacle on the road. There is, however, a station on the shuttle equipped with controls, which allows switching to manual driving at any time.
The experimentation is structured in a ring-shaped route involving a large area around the Campus. Since the end of July, technical tests have begun to collect data and monitor the interaction between the shuttle, the technological infrastructure and the urban environment. The experimentation is part of the Living Lab ToMove project, which is financed by the Pnrr Supplementary Fund.
The provider of the shuttle is the New Zealand company Ohmio. Additional partners and suppliers are Wetaxi, which developed the booking app, and Padam, which developed the orchestrator, i.e. the system that transforms data from road infrastructure into commands for the shuttle. Industry partner is GTT, which integrated the various players, together with 5T, which provided overall technical support and the enabling technology infrastructure for the smart road.
