The goal of the two-year project funded by the StmWi was to embed novel and innovative mobility offerings into existing mobility structures with the help of a virtual test field in the digital twin.
The project partners are pleased about the successful completion of PLIMOS (Photo credit: Bayern Innovativ GmbH)
In October 2022, the self-driving e-shuttle bus could be seen live in action for the first time in Grafing on the "Day of Innovation and Tradition" - an important milestone for the project partners, because Grafing will thus become a blueprint for self-driving transport connections and could serve as a basis for many similar projects in rural areas. Much of the development and approval work is being done digitally. In this virtual test environment, all traffic situations are mapped, from road signs and traffic lights to road users and obstacles such as a rolling ball. Everything captured by the camera and laser sensors on the e-shuttle must then be correctly "translated" by the shuttle control system. The detour via simulation is still much faster than in the real road environment, where testing the shuttle would take years.
"The PLIMOS research project shows that digital twins can form important building blocks for the planning, simulation and validation of new forms of mobility such as automated shuttle buses. The project thus makes an important contribution to the development of future-proof mobility alternatives - also for rural areas," says Nicolai Harnisch, project manager ZD.B Networked Mobility at Bayern Innovativ.
