HEAT

The HEAT (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) project will make autonomous driving with locally emission-free shuttle buses visible and tangible in a first test area in Hamburg’s HafenCity. The aim is to demonstrate that fully automated or autonomous driving can be successfully integrated into road traffic as a complete system on level 4, i.e. without a driver. The aim is to develop, prepare, test and use electric, autonomously driving vehicles and systems for use in normal road traffic.

The right legal framework for this is currently still lacking. IKEM will therefore take on the derivation and implementation of suitable legal framework requirements on site, which are of great importance for the success of the project in addition to the clarification and testing of the essential technical and functional content. IKEM also takes the lead in work package 2 and will investigate the question of which operator and business models can be developed from this new mobility offer.