Advancing Sustainable User-centric 
Mobility with Automated Vehicles

OUR MISSION

Set the foundations and deploy the very first economically realistic and viable
Automated Vehicles’- based, large scale, on-demand, door-to-door, inclusive and user-oriented shared public transportation services, taking an holistic approach, considering all elements in a cross-sector business environment.



About

The ULTIMO Horizon Europe project

4 years - 23 Partners
3 deployment cities : Germany, Norway, Switzerland
55 MEUR budget - 40 MEUR financing (24 MEUR EU, 16MEUR CH)
Starting: October 1st 2022
 


Partners


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Objectives

The key ULTIMO project objectives

  • • Validate integrated shared CCAM systems and services for people and goods across Europe
  • • Develop open source APIs for seamless integration of vehicles and fleet management into a the MaaS/Laas systems
  • • Incrementally reach large scale, multivendor deployments in all sites, using the most adapted vehicle for each transport use case
  • • Set the basis for a common and reusable model for HD maps for AVs
  • • Provide automated passenger services for safety and service quality
  • • Develop and validate cross-sectoral business models
  • • Improve interaction with road users and infrastructure for improved safety
  • • Realistic, long term transition planning design for the deployment of AVs in MaaS and LaaS


Management

Project Management Team

  • • General Coordinator: Lars Abeler - DB Regio Bus GmbH (D)
  • • Associate Coordinator & Technical Manager : Dimitri Konstantas - University of Geneva (CH)
  • • Scientific Manager : Guy Fournier - Hochschule Pforzheim (D)