Smart Cities Must Bring Community with Them

Source: Automotive Published: October 7th, 2020

Smart cities with autonomous traffic will have to work with all the stakeholders to become a workable reality.

That’s the message from the launch of London’s Smart Mobility Living Lab (SMLL) dedicated to testing automated driving technologies both in the real and virtual worlds. The Lab launched last week boasts a host of on-road and digital testing and appraisal facilities for engineers to resolve issues and see how their driverless technology stands up to an almost infinite variety of scenarios.

It consists of three main sites including an off-road testing ground at east London’s Olympic Park, an on-road monitored network of inner city ‘smart’ roads near its headquarters in southeast London’s Woolwich and a Human Factors Research Lab, based at Loughborough University in the Midlands, that is equipped with a range of equipment to support research into human factors in automation.

The Woolwich site boasts leading-edge ethernet and wifi connectivity, a control room and data center. There are private offices and shared working space for customers, including video and audio conferencing facilities and event space. When asked why London was the chosen site for the innovative research center, Richard Cuerden, director of vehicle safety at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) and one of the leading drivers of the project, said it presented near perfect challenges for the technology.

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