End of April , a pilot line was put into operation in the city center of Schaffhausen between the train station and the Stahlgiesserei development area. Following the tourist application of line 12 at the Rhine Falls, the project will now explore first and last mile connectivity by automated vehicles for citizens of Schaffhausen.
In the first step, the automated vehicle will travel between the North Station in Schaffhausen and the new Stahlgiesserei district.
Where once tons of steel were cast, a new district has been created in recent years. The area, with around flats and plenty of commercial space, provides the ideal setting for the participatory pilot project "STL Line 13".
On the route from the North Station to the northern tip of the Stahlgiesserei Breitestieg , the "STL Line 13" will largely build on existing vbsh stops. Later, the extension to additional routes is envisaged. Open detailed map. In , the Swiss Transit Lab launched the first pilot operation with a self-driving bus on Line 12 at the Rhine Falls, integrated into the public transport network of Verkehrsbetriebe Schaffhausen vbsh.
With this experience and the knowledge gained through the project, the STL and its project partners are now going one step further: With STL Line 13, an automated vehicle start at level 3 with target level 4 with dual-mode technology will be used in a pilot project for the first time in Switzerland. Dual-mode technology means that a commercially available vehicle - in this case a Toyota minibus with electric drive - is equipped with sensors, actuators drive-by-wire and corresponding control software for automated driving.
