Backed by Innovate UK, the Connector undertaking consortium is led by the Greater Cambridge Partnership and already consists of bus operator Stagecoach, IPG Automotive, dRISK and Gamma Energy. It is partly funded and supported by the UK authorities’s Center for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles.
Alexander Dennis and its expertise associate Fusion Processing Ltd, a number one supplier of automated driving techniques, have teamed up with Connector to produce three Enviro100AEV autonomous electrical buses as a part of a fleet of 4 automobiles for providers in Cambridge.
The Alexander Dennis Enviro100AEV is a next-generation model of the Enviro100EV that includes autonomous car expertise. Alexander Dennis, Fusion Processing Ltd and Stagecoach proceed to show their joint experience with the world‘s most superior and sophisticated SAE Level 4 autonomous bus service on the CAVForth undertaking in Scotland.
The Connector undertaking will construct on this and former expertise to adapt the car and its expertise to providers on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the most important medical analysis and well being science middle in Europe.
The Enviro100AEV buses for the Connector undertaking might be in-built 2024 and are anticipated to enter service in 2025, following a interval of testing and coaching for autonomous bus professionals who will act as security drivers to supply on-board supervision.