Smart Mobility News

From now on, a digital assistant will accompany customers in the House of Health and Family (“Haus der Familie und Gesundheit”) of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Office in Berlin-Mariendorf to the specific room they are looking for. For the first time everGuide, a free indoor navigation system, which is able to guide even blind people safely thanks to its high precision, is being used in a public authority in Germany.

LTE-Vehicle-to-anything (V2X) is the new specification for the direct traffic related communication. Fraunhofer FOKUS integrates the first commercial LTE-V2X-products from Huawei, which provide the network technology in the roadside base stations and in the cars, into their digital urban traffic test field in Berlin. Vehicles, for example, can be warned even faster of a breakdown vehicle.

A consortium of 12 partners will develop and test technologies for automated driving on the railroads in the project “Berliner Digitaler Bahnbetrieb” (BerDiBa) over the next 4 years. Fraunhofer FOKUS will use its expertise in environment perception for the automated vehicle and adapt its artificial intelligence tools for traffic on rails.

On the occasion of EclipseCon 2020, Fraunhofer FOKUS launches its simulation environment Eclipse MOSAIC. This solution is based on VSimRTI (Vehicle-2-X Simulation Runtime Infrastructure), which has been developed over the last 12 years in close cooperation with the DCAITI of the TU Berlin and has already been used by more than 600 partners to test mobility services and traffic scenarios. Eclipse MOSAIC is now partially available as open-source.

To warn drivers of a collision with a cyclist, an e-scooter rider of road damage, or to guide a blind person to the right government office or the bus door, highly accurate localization is always of fundamental importance. Fraunhofer FOKUS will be presenting its “Location-as-a-Service” at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg from October 11 to 15, 2021, at the “Reallabor Hamburg” project booth in Hall B2.

The inaugural meeting of the working group openMobility took place today in Berlin-Adlershof. Apart from Fraunhofer FOKUS the first members include the German Aerospace Center, Bosch and Vector Informatik. The aim is to develop an open framework for the simulation of mobility scenarios and applications for research and industry.

Fraunhofer FOKUS has been researching the topic of environmentally friendly mobility in the city for years and is now participating in the joint project “LamA - Laden am Arbeitsplatz” (“LamA - Charging at the Workplace”), which aims to significantly expand the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in communities with particularly high nitrogen oxide values, including Berlin. The researchers will also be demonstrating how connected-automated electric mobility can be achieved on 5 and 6 December during the closing event of the project “iKoPA - integrated cooperation platform for automated electric vehicles”.

Direct communication between vehicle and vehicle, as well as vehicle and the road, can contribute to avoid traffic jams and accidents in the near future and increase safety for all road users. With various live demonstrations, the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) demonstrated its vision for intelligent and safe mobility today in Berlin based on the C-V2X technology (Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything).

As part of the iKoPA project, Fraunhofer FOKUS is developing an interactive simulator for the virtual testing of automated driving and for the analysis of user acceptance. To this end, various driving scenarios were created in which students of the TU Berlin had to monitor the system behavior and intervene in difficult situations. The student with the best test drive result was awarded a prize.

In the “Ride4All” project, a model route for barrier-free public transport will be established over the next two years. Users will travel from Soest to Paradiese station in automated minibuses accompanied by an inclusive app with barrier-free operation. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure with 2.3 million euros.