Pilotless buses began to go on roads of Stockholm

At the end of January, 2018 it became known that the Ericsson telecommunication company in cooperation with the Swedish operators of public transport and a number of local partners will test pilotless buses on city streets of Stockholm. A project objective — to test as autonomous transport will work in actual practice, plying side by side with normal cars, cyclists and pedestrians.

Within the test program which will last half a year two shuttles buses which are completely working at electric draft free of charge will transport passengers on route 1.5 km long, moving with maximum speed to 24 km/h, New Atlas reports at the beginning of 2018.

Pilotless buses began to go on roads of Stockholm

The inside of each bus accomodates up to 11 people. Pilotless running of shuttles is provided by the specialized Ericsson platform under the name Connected Urban Transport (CUT) using which the bus interacts with the "smart" road infrastructure, stops of public transport and traffic lights equipped with sensors.

As successful practice of implementation of such systems in other countries shows, for example, in the Netherlands, providing data on traffic to the transport agencies and carriers, this platform helps to improve a situation with traffic jams.

Testing of pilotless buses — only one of stages of the large-scale project on implementation of innovations in the country which the authorities of Sweden started in 2015 for the purpose of increase in traffic safety, development of infrastructure and the legislation in the field of pilotless transport.

Pilotless buses began to go on roads of Stockholm

Besides, on the second test phase which will begin three months later after start of the program autonomous buses in Sweden are going to be connected to networks of fifth generation of a 5G.^[1]

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