MAN Truck & Bus, proves that driverless vehicles in urban areas are no longer a dream of the future. The company aims to shape the urban bus mobility of the future by working intensively on the automation of its buses for years. Aiming to offer emission-free, networked and automatic vehicles, MAN attaches importance to collaborations with technology leaders and pilot projects in its work in this field.
MINGA Project: Automated Buses Are Tested in Real Life
MAN experts envision automated local transport in Munich MINGA As part of its project, it automates an electric city bus and tests it on a real line. The project plans to start pilot runs on a route in Munich in 2025. After tests, bus, developer of autonomous driving technologies MobileyeIt will be equipped with 's Automatic Driving System (ADS) with highly advanced sensors.
MAN Truck & Bus Automation Product Strategy Manager Jana Kirchen, states that they benefited from the new electronic platform in the complex interface development process of the MINGA project. Also urban transport operator MVG ve University of Stuttgart In collaboration with , they develop concepts for the technical control and accessibility of the vehicle.
@CITY Project: Enables Buses to Automatically Approach the Stop
One of the projects in which MAN is involved is the joint project financed by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action. @CITY attempt. In this project, automation functions that will enable buses to approach the stop independently and with high precision are developed and tested. MAN announced the successful results obtained in the @CITY project at the Aldenhoven Test Center in June 2022.
BeIntelli Project: Implementing Automated Driving
MAN also contributes to the development of automatic vehicles for the urban traffic of the future with the “BeIntelli” project supported by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Action - BMDV. The project, which will enable automatic bus movement in Berlin city center starting from spring, is currently continuing its test drives.
Jana KirchenStating that the MINGA project is an important step as a 'proof of concept', he emphasizes that the demands from transportation companies show the interest in autonomous mobility and that MAN aims to launch fully automatic vehicles on the market by 2030.
