Aurrigo named lead partner in £3.2m autonomous shuttle project

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Aurrigo and Smart Cambridge – a collaboration of Cambridgeshire Country Council and the Greater Cambridge Partnership – have successfully bid for £3.2m in funding to develop an autonomous shuttle service.

The grant from the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) will be used to build and trial six 10-15 seater self-driving shuttles to operate on the Southern section of the existing guided busway in Cambridge, initially for an out-of-hours service when buses aren’t running.

This will run between Trumpington Park and Ride and Cambridge Station, via the Cambridge Biomedical Campus site, including Addenbrooke’s and Papworth Hospital and a number of life science companies.

Dr Richard Fairchild, director of Autonomous Mobility Programmes at Coventry-based Aurrigo said: “Working in partnership with Smart Cambridge, we will be creating a cost-effective and efficient service that will benefit shift workers, weekend shoppers and revellers in the city. It also gives us a fantastic platform to showcase the UK as a leader in the design and engineering of autonomous technology.”

Dr Fairchild added that the guided busway is segregated from general traffic and offers a unique opportunity to safely test autonomous vehicles around businesses and places of residence.

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