State of the Art of Automated Buses
Review article, 2018

Urban transportation in the next few decades will shift worldwide toward electrification and automation, with the final aim of increasing energy efficiency and safety for passengers. Such a big change requires strong collaboration and efforts among public administration, research and stakeholders in developing, testing and promoting these technologies in public transportation. Working in this direction, this work provides a review of the impact of the introduction of driverless electric minibuses, for the first and last mile transportation, in public service. More specifically, this paper covers the state of the art in terms of technological background for automation, energy efficiency via electrification and the current state of the legal framework in Europe with a focus on the Baltic Sea Region.

electrification

intelligent urban transportation

automated buses

Author

Jaagup Ainsalu

Tallinn City Govt

Ville Arffman

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Mauro Bellone

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems

Maximilian Ellner

IKEM Inst Climate Protect Energy & Mobil

Taina Haapamaki

FLOU Solut Ltd

Noora Haavisto

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Ebba Josefson

Front Advokater

Azat Ismailogullari

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Bob Lee

Front Advokater

Olav Madland

Appl Auton Ltd

Raitis Madzulis

Zemgale Planning Reg

Jaanus Muur

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

Sami Makinen

FLOU Solut Ltd

Ville Nousiainen

Forum Virium Helsinki

Eetu Pilli-Sihvola

Finnish Transport Safety Agcy Trafi

Eetu Rutanen

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Sami Sahala

Forum Virium Helsinki

Boris Schonfeldt

Vejle kommune

Piotr Marek Smolnicki

Gdansk University of Technology

Ralf-Martin Soe

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

Juha Saaski

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Magdalena Szymanska

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Ingar Vaskinn

Kongsberg kommune

Milla Aman

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Sustainability

20711050 (eISSN)

Vol. 10 9 3118

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Energy

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Business Administration

Zoology

DOI

10.3390/su10093118

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10/21/2022