MINGA

  • Contact:

    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Sax

  • Project group:

    Prof. Sax

  • Funding:

    The MINGA research project will receive around €13 million in funding from the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV) until mid-2027 as part of the “Autonomous and Connected Driving in Public Transport” funding guideline.

  • Partner:

    The City of Munich, with the Department of Construction and Mobility as consortium leader, Munich Public Utilities, Munich Transport Company (MVG), Munich Transport and Tariff Association (MVV), Technical University of Munich, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Institute for Design Engineering and Technical Design at the University of Stuttgart, MAN Truck & Bus SE, ioki GmbH (Deutsche Bahn), Ebusco Deutschland GmbH, Benz + Walter GmbH, Fryce GmbH Project partners. Associated partners: Pfennigparade Foundation, Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), Yunex Traffic, Munich district.

     

  • Startdate:

    03 / 2023

  • Enddate:

    12 / 2025

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MINGA project: Automated city buses - for the future of urban mobility

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Highly automated driverless solutions in urban areas are significantly more economical than driver-assisted services and offer users safe and reliable mobility.

People living in cities in particular benefit from better air quality, less congestion and noise as well as the gain of parking space that is no longer needed as living space with largely automated, networked and emission-free urban traffic.

Project objective

The aim of the MINGA research project (MINGA = Munich's automated public transport system with ridepooling, solo bus and bus platoons) is to create new services for more effective use of road space by developing an operational automated bus platoon and testing it in real road traffic for the first time.
The platoon comprises two 12m bus vehicles that drive one behind the other in an IT-controlled network. Only the front vehicle is controlled by a driver, the second bus follows automatically.

Duration

The project will run until the end of 2025 and is being funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) with around 13 million euros as part of the "Autonomous and connected driving in public transport" funding guideline.

ITIV's contribution

Together with our project partners Stadtwerke München, Ebusco, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) and the City of Munich, we are researching automated platooning operations in Munich. As a research institute, we play a key role in the conceptual design of sensory environment detection, position tracking, system monitoring and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. With our know-how in systems engineering, we accompany the entire development process from requirements analysis to test operation in Munich.