In the future autonomous vehicles will be trialled on the route, however these will also be closely monitored by safety operators ready to take over immediately in the event of a problem. The route includes infrastructure such as smart CCTV, weather stations, communications units, and highly accurate GPS. All testing will be as safe if not safer than current vehicles on the road. DRIVING TEST ROUTES WARWICK DRIVERThe vehicles on the Midlands Future Mobility route will not be driving themselves during the early stages of research, initially they will have a driver and occasionally a second person monitoring how the vehicles are working. Connected vehicles can ‘talk’ to each other and warn of traffic, crashes and other hazards that other connected vehicles may have seen or be heading towards. The first types of vehicle to be trialled along the route will be “connected” vehicles. The autonomous vehicle industry is estimated to be worth up to £62bn to the UK economy by 2030, and hoping to lead the way to autonomous vehicles is the West Midlands, as WMG, University of Warwick begins work on autonomous vehicle testing routes.Īutonomous vehicles will be trialled along the Midlands Future Mobility route, the route has been developed by TfWM in collaboration with Coventry City Council, Birmingham City Council and Solihull Council and provides over 300km of inner city, suburban and rural roads from Coventry to Birmingham, on which to fully assess vehicle performance in a wide range of real world locations and situations. The project is run by a consortium of companies including WMG, MIRA, AVL,Transport for West Midlands, Costain, Amey, Wireless Infrastructure Group, Coventry University and Highways England. Work has begun on the 300km Midlands Future Mobility test environment - spanning from Coventry to Birmingham, which will see autonomous vehicles trialled on urban, rural, suburban and highway roads. The Midlands is a hub of transport innovation, attracting international companies to undertake R&D in the UK The route will be extended later in 2020 to 350km to include rural and highway roads in the region Work has begun on phase one of the Midlands Future Mobility route, which will extend from Coventry to Birmingham through urban roads, inter-urban and, suburban roads taking in key interchanges such as Birmingham International Airport and the new HS2 Hub in the City. DRIVING TEST ROUTES WARWICK TRIALOver 300 kilometres of West Midland’s roads are set to trial connected and autonomous vehicles, making UK roads safer and allowing for more predictable goods delivery and journey times.
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