Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Project

Project Country to City Bridge – C2C Bridge

C2CBridge will explore user-centered public transport offerings as attractive alternatives to private cars for commuting between rural areas and cities. The project will comprehensively investigate services with autonomous, platooning-capable ridesharing taxis in car size and intelligent transfer hubs. Based on simulations and stakeholder dialogues, potential operational modes, opportunities, and impacts of such mobility solutions will be examined.

C2C Bridge – KAMO Karlsruhe Mobility

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The aim of the project is to research an attractive mobility service with high societal acceptance as an alternative to private cars for connecting rural areas to cities, based on new automated vehicle concepts and their connected operation in a ridesharing fleet. Autonomous on-demand shared taxis in rural areas are intended to provide a service that is responsive to demand, cost-effective, and efficient in reaching destinations.

The C2CBridge project is embedded in the German Center for Mobility of the Future (DZM), which, with its four locations in Hamburg, Annaberg-Buchholz, Minden, and Karlsruhe, spans a nationwide research network and consolidates expertise in mobility research

 

The project focuses on how a mobility concept can be designed and operated to optimally combine innovative vehicles, infrastructure, and conventional transport offerings. Another focus is on investigating how mobility hubs should be designed for transitions between ridesharing taxis and other modes of transport within a multimodal mobility framework. Furthermore, the research will explore how future-proof, individualized, and publicly used transport modes should be designed for the use of the mobility concept. The construction of physical demonstrators for vehicles and mobility hubs serves to visualize and validate the concepts. In addition, a digital visualization of the mobility concept, mobility hubs, and vehicles will be carried out to support user studies, validation purposes, and participation formats for stakeholders.

 

Duration

April 2023 – August 2027

Clients

Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport

Partners

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with the institutes AIFB, ECON, FAST, IEB, IFL, IFV, IOR, IPEK, ITAS, ITI, ITIV, KASTEL, and LTI
  • Fraunhofer with the institutes ICT, ISI, IOSB
  • FZI Research Center for Information Technology
  • Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HKA)
  • Baden-Württemberg Institute for Sustainable Mobility (BWIM)

Projectlead

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)