SUM – Seamless Shared Urban Mobility

Project Description

The overall objective of SUM is to support transforming existing transport systems into so-called shared mobility systems. This transformation involves integrating new, shared forms of mobility with public transport, focusing on innovation, interconnectivity, environmental sustainability, safety, resilience, and replicability. The goal is to create an economical and reliable transportation system for urban populations while strengthening the competitiveness of European businesses. The transformation will occur through SUM in more than 15 European cities by 2026. The city of Munich represents a real-life laboratory in which new mobility solutions are developed and introduced, and the effects are recorded and evaluated. In addition to Munich, other cities such as Athens, Jerusalem, Geneva, Rotterdam, Krakow, Coimbra, Larnaca, and Fredrikstad are also participating in the project.

Tasks of the Chair

The Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control is part of the Living Lab Munich together with the City of Munich and Sixt SE. The following topics are investigated in the Munich Real Lab:

• Conception and design of an autonomous robot car fleet, where vehicles can be booked on demand. The conception includes, among other things, the investigation of possible pricing and operating strategies and clarifying legal and operational issues.
• With the help of the simulation tool FleetPy, the Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control investigates and evaluates different approaches for the operational management of the automated on-demand fleet in Munich. In addition, the integration of the autonomous vehicle fleet into existing public transport systems and planned mobility points, as well as different approaches for pricing, are simulated and evaluated. Using the simulation tool FleetPy also enables a transfer and evaluation for further living labs.
• In order to evaluate the current traffic system and to query mobility behavior in the city of Munich, the chair conducts and evaluates online surveys in cooperation with the partners.