Clients: Hitrans, Almere, Hannover Region, Varberg, POLIS, Rupprecht Consult, Ghent University, Clean Tech Delta, CLEAN, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Robert Gordon University, Halmstad University
Date: 2018 – 2022
Location(s): United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden
Working with 12 partners from the public and private sectors, our Mobility team assembled and guided one of Europe’s first initiatives to help cities plan for the potential of automated mobility. Developing three first-of-a-kind pilots, the initiative pushed forward the state-of-the-art for public automated mobility.
Automated transport has the potential to make high-quality, accessible public mobility accessible to all European passengers in the coming decade. To ensure public mobility benefits from advances in automation, cities must plan and prepare to significantly impact city design, from street layouts to district and regional development.
Approach
To advance planning capabilities across Europe, Bax’s Mobility team assembled a Europe-leading alliance of cities, regions, urban planners, universities and the private sector to integrate Cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) into urban and regional planning. The initiative built three pilot initiatives, giving cities first-hand experience of the planning challenges for CCAM.
Impact
The collaboration deployed three successful CCAM pilots between 2018 – 2022 and built four operational Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). The initiative led to many firsts in Europe, including Scotland’s first autonomous vehicle deployment on public roads.
Automation has the potential to deliver levels of public transport service never before seen, enabling accessible, demand-responsive journeys at 50% of the operating costs. To capture these benefits, cities and public transport authorities need to start planning their cities, road systems and infrastructure years in advance. Working with 12 partners, this initiative helped four authorities take their first steps to CCAM-ready public transport services.
– Giel Mertens, Mobility Innovation Consultant
