Will Automotive Be the Future of Mobility? Striving for Six Zeros

Will automotive be the future of mobility or will the motorcar era come to an end in the 21st century? Today, auto-mobility is still growing, but in the future, this will depend on its ability to adapt to the needs of modern society. Disruptive technologies like electrification, automation, and connectivity can make automotive more...

Assessment of automated mini-bus operation in the Oku-Eigenji area in Japan

This paper reports about a case study conducted as part of the STAD project in regards to a demonstration with an automated vehicle in Japan. The demonstration was conducted in November 2017 in the Oku-Eigenji area (Japan). The ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) in collaboration with local government and local police...

Application of Driverless Electric automated shuttles for public transport in villages: The case of Appelscha

This paper reports on the application of electric automated vehicles in the city of Appelscha, The Netherlands. Appelscha is challenged with a predicted decline of inhabitants and an already shrinking public transport network. To preserve the region's accessibility, the municipality started a pilot with electric automated vehicles. These...

Rotterdam The Hague Airport: an analysis of the application of automated vehicles at Rotterdam the Hague Airport as part of the tender ‘Marketplace for Infrastructure’

This paper reports about the case study at Rotterdam the Hague Airport in regards to the tender “Marketplace for infrastructure”. This tender was put on the market by the ‘Verkeersonderneming’. One of the challenges of the tender was deployment of an automated vehicle between Rotterdam The Hague Airport and metro station Meijersplein. Even...

Casestudy WEpod: een onderzoek naar de inzet van automatisch vervoer in Ede/Wageningen

Comparison of Launching & Landing Approaches

Casestudy Appelscha: Een onderzoek naar de implementatie van automatisch vervoer in het buitengebied

Dit rapport is een uitwerking van de casestudy Appelscha welke is uitgevoerd in het kader van werkpakket 7 van het STAD project. Het STAD project bestudeert het effect van zelfrijdende voertuigen op vervoers- en locatiekeuzes van personen en bedrijven en op het ruimtelijk ontwerp van steden en wegen. Werkpakket 7 focust binnen het project op de...

Intralog Towards an autonomous system for handling inter-terminal container transport

As part of the National Transition Board Practice Research Raak/SIA program, the INTRALOG (intelligent Truck Application in Logistics) project investigated the practical application of zero emission Automatic Guided Trucks (AGTs) for the transport of containers in the Harbour Industrial Cluster (HIC) in the port of Rotterdam. The introduction of...

Casestudy Rotterdam The Hague Airport: een analyse van de toepassing van automatisch vervoer bij Rotterdam The Hague Airport als onderdeel van de aanbesteding ‘Marktplaats voor Infrastructuur’

In 2016 startte de Verkeersonderneming de aanbesteding ”Marktplaats voor Infrastructuur”. De Marktplaats voor Infrastructuur was een nieuwe manier van aanbesteden waarbij de markt gevraagd werd om een knelpunt op te lossen. Waar normaliter specifiek gevraagd wordt naar een bepaalde oplossing, werden marktpartijen vrij gelaten om zelf de...

Automotive, the Future of Mobility

Will the Automotive era come to an end in the 21th century? Looking at today’s environmental and economic challenges of the use of cars based on last century technology and listening to some trend watchers one could think so. Cars can be regarded, as an old school status product indeed, for which there is no use, no place, no money and no...

Static Program Analysis as a Fuzzing Aid

Low NOx-Gas Engines from Man B&W