Mobilai, Transdev ATS and Lohr group announced today (Thursday) a collaboration in the development and deployment of an autonomous (driverless) array of shuttles in France. Field trips will begin as early as next year and full public transportation services are expected to begin operating in 2023.
As part of the collaboration, the companies will assimilate Mobilai’s autonomous driving technology in the i-Cristal electric vehicles, which are manufactured by the Lohr Group. The companies plan to launch autonomous mobility services based on driverless shuttle fleets, initially in Europe and later in a variety of locations around the world.
Using the i-Cristal shuttle, a product that is a product of the collaboration between the three companies, they strive to make public transportation solutions more efficient and convenient by implementing Mobilai’s autonomous driving technology in Transdev’s existing mobility services. With the integration of autonomous mobility into the existing public transport system, it will be possible to provide services whenever and wherever they are needed, while at the same time streamlining the vehicle fleet, reducing travel costs and improving the customer experience.
Over the coming year, Mobilai, Transdev ATS and Lohr Group will work together to implement the technology, test and deploy autonomous shuttles using Mobilai’s driverless driving technology, Transdev ATS autonomous transportation systems technologies (including autonomous vehicle control) and Lohr Group’s industrial expertise . In the initial phase, Mobilai, Transdev ATS and Lohr Group will conduct test trips in Israel and France in order to prepare for the production phase no later than 2022. The companies anticipate that as early as 2023 it will be possible to commercially launch the autonomous mobility services, which will be based on a fleet of i-Cristal shuttles that will move completely autonomously.
As part of the collaboration, Mobilai and Transdev ATS will assimilate their technologies in the i-Cristal electric shuttles manufactured by the Lohr Group and will contain sixteen (16) seats each and conquered for accessibility purposes. The shuttles are capable of moving at speeds of up to fifty km / h, and are specially designed to fit existing public transportation systems. To this end, Transdev ATS’s expertise is used in the infrastructure associated with the transportation system, control and deployment of autonomous vehicles and operating services for local operators and municipalities. Driverless technology will become part of everyday reality.