Endbericht des Projektes TaBuLa

In the TaBuLa project, the acceptance, and possible uses of automated buses in local public transport systems were examined under real conditions with passengers and in mixed traffic with other road users. For this purpose, automated shuttle busses were operated in the technically highly demanding test environment in the town of Lauenburg/Elbe in the German Federate State of Schleswig-Holstein. The complex process of provisioning and homologation testing as well as roadway upgrading was successfully completed. TaBuLa Shuttle runs since fall 2019 in Lauenburg/Elbe and was able to answer multiple research questions and to reach the project goals:
1. Enable usage and analysis of an automated shuttle in public space
2. Analysis of potentials and constraints of automated shuttles in public transport
3. Detect and analyse interaction of an automated shuttle with potential users and passers-by
4. Generate transferable and scalable findings in the testfield Lauenburg/Elbe
5. Evaluate area of Shuttle testing as potential testfield for actual und future vehicles and
6. Establish a testing area for the technic of automated vehicles
This final project report traces the course of the project sorted by themes.