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Transatlantic partnership aims to make Nevada a leader in autonomous mobility

Tom StoneBy Tom StoneJuly 25, 20183 Mins Read
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A new partnership between the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV), the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), and the German Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI will be advancing the state’s efforts to become a global leader in autonomous transportation.

Following a 2015 trade mission to Germany, Nevada’s governor, Brian Sandoval, and GOED have been working to develop an international collaboration between the state’s research-focused educational institutions and Fraunhofer IVI, one of 72 Fraunhofer institutes located throughout Germany.

Fraunhofer IVI’s focus is transportation research, including everything from traffic planning to autonomous vehicle sensor technology. The partnership was recently made official through a statement of work agreement.

As part of the newly formed research collaboration, Fraunhofer IVI will send one of its engineers to Las Vegas for 15-18 months to establish and expand mobility research projects in Southern Nevada, in collaboration with researchers in UNLV’s Transportation Research Center.

Together, they will work on Fraunhofer IVI’s AutoTruck project, which seeks to equip distribution center trucks with sensors and other technologies that enable delivery automation.

In turn, UNLV will send one of its engineers to Fraunhofer IVI in Dresden, Germany, during the same time period to assist with computer vision, and learn the ‘Fraunhofer model’ of research.

With autonomous vehicle infrastructure already in place and a willingness to act as testing grounds for self-driving vehicle pilot programs, Las Vegas is already positioning itself as a global leader in autonomous vehicle systems.

In a collaboration between Keolis and Navya, the city is home to the country’s first completely autonomous electric shuttle, which is currently operational almost daily in a 0.6-mile (1km) fixed route around downtown, and represents the largest self-driving vehicle trial in the USA.

The new partnership between UNLV, GOED and Fraunhofer IVI allows the city to take the crucial next step toward being an industry leader in autonomous mobility research and operation.

“We want to establish the transatlantic exchange of personnel and know-how as a lever for the developments at both institutions,” said Frank Steinert, group manager for vehicle and propulsion technologies at Fraunhofer IVI.

“With our program, the institutions are able to benefit from new approaches and solutions of their foreign partners. The research results can be aligned to the market needs in the USA and Europe, and hence be established much more successfully.

“The bundling of development capacities increases the efficiency of the teams as well as the dissemination of the developments and, finally, the derived products.”

Karsten Heise, director of technology commercialization at GOED, said, “Partnering with Fraunhofer IVI, a member institute of the world’s leading applied research network, will attract industry in the field of autonomous vehicle technologies to select Las Vegas and the Fraunhofer IVI-UNLV team as the applied research partner of choice, while continuously strengthening the transatlantic collaboration between the two institutions for years to come.”

Zachary Miles, UNLV’s associate vice president of economic development, noted, “Previous collaborations I’ve participated in with Fraunhofer have resulted in the development of products and services that would not have been possible otherwise, and I see the same possibilities for transformative innovations to come out of this new partnership.”

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Tom has edited Traffic Technology International (TTi) magazine and its Traffic Technology Today website since May 2014. During his time at the title, he has interviewed some of the top transportation chiefs at public agencies around the world as well as CEOs of leading multinationals and ground-breaking start-ups. Tom's earlier career saw him working on some the UK's leading consumer magazine titles. He has a law degree from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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