Challenges of the real operation of autonomous buses in public transport along the lifecycle
DS 133: Proceedings of the 35th Symposium Design for X (DFX2024)
Year: 2024
Editor: Dieter Krause; Kristin Paetzold-Byhain; Sandro Wartzack
Author: Christopher Langner; Markus Rehberg; Gregory-Jamie Tuzun; Daniel Roth; Matthias Kreimeyer
Series: DfX
Institution: University of Stuttgart, Institute for Engineering Design and Industrial Design, Department for Product Development and Engineering Design
Page(s): 005-014
DOI number: 10.35199/dfx2024.01
Abstract
Increasing traffic necessitates more efficient mobility solutions, resulting in a need for public transportation to be more attractive by shorter intervals or expansion in rural areas, leading to buses as a preferred concept, ideally autonomous ones. While successful pilot projects exist, full-scale implementation is slow to occur. The reasons for this are determined in this paper through industry workshops and structured along the bus lifecycle. Four main fields of action are identified: gaining more practical experience and reliable data basis, increasing the technical maturity of components, establishing regulatory standards, and developing (digital) systems for the communication between stakeholders within the system and the related management of data.
Keywords: autonomous driving, public transport, smart mobility, product-service-systems, systems engineering