What’s Happening: ServCity, an autonomous mobility service research project, has concluded its final phase of testing on the streets of London. The project has been working since 2020 to understand how autonomous vehicles and technologies can be integrated into complex urban environments in the UK to deliver a ‘robotaxi’ style service. Its partners, including SBD Automotive, have created a blueprint of the necessary infrastructure to support such technologies.
Why It Matters: ServCity’s project has been running for three years and aimed to help automotive OEMs, transport providers, and city planners prepare for the future uptake of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) across UK cities. The project utilized a Nissan Leaf EV with a variety of autonomous driving technologies to carry out validation trials set in a real-world environment at TRL’s urban testbed in Greenwich. The project aimed to showcase how autonomous driving technologies could provide a people-centric mobility service while highlighting the road infrastructure changes required to deliver the best user experience.
Key Points:
- ServCity, an autonomous mobility service research project, has concluded its final phase of testing on the streets of London.
- Its partners, including SBD Automotive, created a blueprint of the infrastructure required to launch and support autonomous vehicles and technologies.
- ServCity utilized a Nissan Leaf EV with various autonomous driving technologies to carry out validation trials set in a real-world environment at TRL’s urban testbed in Greenwich.
- The project aimed to showcase how autonomous driving technologies could provide a people-centric mobility service while highlighting the road infrastructure changes required to deliver the best user experience.
- ServCity’s project has been running for three years and aimed to help automotive OEMs, transport providers, and city planners prepare for the future uptake of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) across UK cities.
Bottom Line: ServCity’s project is an important means of building confidence among the public to show that CAVs are safe to deploy on UK roads. The project showcased how autonomous driving technologies could provide a people-centric mobility service while highlighting the road infrastructure changes required to deliver the best user experience. The project partners, including SBD Automotive, have created a blueprint of the necessary infrastructure to support autonomous vehicles and technologies, helping automotive OEMs, transport providers, and city planners prepare for the future uptake of CAVs across UK cities.
