Six projects from right across the UK awarded £81 million in combined government and industry funding for commercial self-driving passenger and freight services.
The six successful projects from the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) Deployment competition form the most advanced set of commercial, self-driving passenger and freight operations anywhere in the world.
The grants, which are part of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) programme, will help British companies seize early opportunities to develop experimental projects into scalable commercial offerings, ready for the market.
With these investments, the UK is positioned to become one of the world’s leading destinations for the adoption of CAM technology and the delivery of improved transport services.
Explore the CAM Deployment UK projects
Project Connector
Project Connector will trial a mixed fleet of up to 13 self-driving vehicles providing passenger services around the Cambridge Biomedical and the University’s West Cambridge campus sites leveraging a private 5G network to help ensure continuity of service.
CAVForth2
This project will see Stagecoach, the UK’s largest bus operator, extend the route of the existing CAVForth autonomous bus service, from Edinburgh Park station to Dunfermline city centre. The extended route capability will come from an upgraded version of the CAVStar® ADS (Automated Drive System) that will be developed by Fusion Processing Ltd during the project. CAVForth2 will also utilise an autonomous version of the new Enviro100AEV electric bus from Alexander Dennis.
HARLANDER
The ‘Harlander Project’ will establish UK’s first operationally-ready and commercially viable deployment of an automated shuttle service operating without an on-board supervisor on mixed-use public roads within the Belfast Harbour Estate.
MACAM
MACAM will operate two mixed dual-purpose fleets of passenger and parcel carrying self-driving vehicles, servicing Birmingham International rail station, the NEC and Birmingham Business Park, and Coventry University estates operations.
Sunderland Advanced Mobility Shuttle
This project will help define a more sustainable future for urban mobility through the delivery of several autonomous zero-emission shuttles, along a 5km busy city centre route, integrating with and supplementing existing public transport provision and testing remote supervision.
V-CAL
This project builds on the 5GCAL project – the first automated 40-tonne logistics service in the UK, delivering parts between Vantec and Nissan Motor Manufacturing. The V-CAL project will scale up, electrify, and extend the service to build scale, reliability, and consistency of operation to unlock the enormous potential of Connected & Automated Logistics (CAL) services to improve the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing supply chains and help grow the UK economy.
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