Autonomous shuttles in Bavarian Bad Birnbach

Can artificial intelligence (AI) improve the use of autonomous minibuses? Shuttles that know when and where they are needed – that is the ambition in the KI4autoBUS research project. More efficient fleet control, including design and use for people with mobility impairments, is being developed and tested as part of the project. For the project, the autonomous buses in use in Bad Birnbach (Lower Bavaria) are being converted to be barrier-free and temporarily controlled in the background with innovative AI software. The result is an AI-driven software that optimally adapts the limited number of shuttles to the needs of the users, creating an integrated and efficient on-demand mobility service through targeted transportation planning and fleet optimization.
The project was funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi) as part of the Digitization funding program, in the Information and Communication Technology funding area.