Real-Life Automated Public Transport Operations at the SHOW German Mega Site—Experiences and Lessons Learned

Abstract Automated shuttles promise a solution to achieve sustainable mobility and meet the manpower issue in public transport, and are expected to extend public transport service coverage and improve riding comfort. The piloting activities at three German mega sites successfully demonstrated fixed and non-fixed mobility services and the technical possibilities to let shuttles move without a pre-defined virtual track and cope with a ride-booking application. Results show that the shuttles operated with promising performance. In total, in the EU project SHOW (GA No 875530), approximately 107,000 km and 40,000 passengers were respectively travelled and transported by twelve (12) automated shuttles. This chapter explicates the technical preparation, shares the collected experiences and proposes recommendations.