From bikes to autonomous buses - how we move in the future is likely to be different to how we move today.
Solihull Council is working to understand how the roads of the future need to look. Across a wide portfolio of projects that stretches from new cycling and walking links, to trialling emerging zero emission autonomous vehicle technology, work to help shape the future is under way.
Our Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) pathfinder project has involved working in partnership with a range of organisations to demonstrate real-world uses and learn about the technology. The aim to better understand how, in the future, residents and visitors might be offered new means of zero emission shared transport and an alternative to single occupancy car journeys.
The trials have utilised a state of the art fully electric shuttle, capable of seating up to ten passengers, and operating both manually and autonomously on the public highway.
Working with the NEC, the first ground-breaking passenger trials in Solihull took place throughout September and October 2021.
Building on the success of this initial deployment further trials have also been completed at Birmingham Airport and Birmingham Business Park.
