On roads of Singapore commercial pilotless buses began to go

At the end of January, 2021 in Singapore commercial pilotless buses for the first time appeared, they ply along two routes - in the Singapore scientific park II and on the island Dzhurong. During a three-months probation period vehicles will collect data for assessment of viability of provision of services and also safety of passengers, reliability and the effectiveness of services. At first in a cabin of the bus there will be a driver who will be able to undertake management in emergencies.

In project development several organizations and public institutions for the purpose of stimulation and acceleration of steady deployment of robotics participated in the country. The initiative headed by Alliance on robotics (AfA) was also supported by Council for issues of economic development of Singapore and Management of land transport.

On roads of Singapore commercial pilotless buses from ST Engineering appeared

The alliance was created by the government for the analysis of how Singapore can remain economically steady and use new areas of growth in the conditions of COVID-19 pandemic.

The autonomous buses involved in tests were developed by ST Engineering company, and the cartographic program used for control of vehicles was created by GPS Lands company. SBS Transit and SMRT companies will be engaged in management of routes on the island Dzhurong and in Scientific park II respectively.

According to AfA, the pilot project should come to the end on April 30, 2021, before making decision on further steps members of alliance will estimate the received results.

Pilotless ST Engineering buses began to ply in two districts of Singapore: on the island Dzhurong and in the Singapore scientific park II

To obtain more data and the ideas which will be useful to development of future services of city mobility two routes differ with physical conditions, the list of passengers and partners, type of services and vehicles and also concepts of work, - added to AfA.

Autonomous minibuses 7 m long everyone and with a capacity of 10 people, plying in the specified regions, it is possible to reserve through mobile application of Zipster which was developed by MobilityX, SMRT subsidiary company.^[1]

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