Smart buses are the centerpiece of the next edition of Dubai World for Self-Driving Transport

The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai organized the work of the second session of the Dubai World Conference and Challenge for Self-Driving Transport, whose current session focused on smart transport projects in the field of logistics, freight and freight transport. ".

In the current cycle of the challenge, Neolix from China and Yandex from Russia won in the leading companies category, while the American University of Sharjah, Khalifa University of Science and Technology and New York University Abu Dhabi managed to win in the local universities category.

The final final tests of the projects participating in the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport included projects for leading companies and academic institutions, which were dedicated to the axis of self-driving logistics, and included ground transportation and drones (Drones).

Participants are evaluated based on three basic elements: safety, which includes reliability, handling of vision, interaction with pedestrians, and speed control, the second element related to ease of use, which includes speed, safety of goods and understandable behavior, and the third element focuses on the level of maturity, by passing the scenario and interaction With trigger and path planning and detection and prediction ability.

The Dubai International Conference on Self-Driving Transport is a global platform in the field of self-driving transport, which brings together experts and most prominent specialists from policy legislators, technology developers, researchers and academics, to exchange ideas and visions between different poles of the world in innovation and technology for connected and autonomous vehicles, and aims to increase community awareness. Concerning modern and future technologies for transportation, and determining the extent of their impact on the investment sector and various transportation strategies. The Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport represents a global platform for companies, universities and research and development centers to implement scenarios and apply autonomous transportation technologies in Dubai.

The authority confirmed that the organization of the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport aims to expand the use of self-driving transport at all levels, and encourage leading companies and research institutions in this field to deal with the current challenges, such as the challenge of the first and last mile for passengers to reach their final destinations, and traffic jams. traffic, and a decrease in the number of public transport users.

It is noteworthy that the organization of the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport comes within the framework of the Roads and Transport Authority’s efforts to support the Dubai Strategy for Smart Self-Driving Mobility, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to transfer 25% of the total trips Mobility in Dubai, to self-driving trips, through various means of transportation, by 2030.

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