Siemens Intelligent Traffic Systems is to supply $1m of ITS infrastructure to the American Center for Mobility (ACM). The partnership is developing real-world testing and validation of connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs).
Soraya Kim, ACM chief innovation officer, says: “Our goal is to provide our testers the means for exhaustive validation methodologies and comprehensive regulations for the safe deployment of connected vehicle technologies.”
Siemens ITS will also deliver software applications and an
German vehicle inspection organisation DEKRA is building a connected car test area in Malaga, Spain, as part of its international testing network for connected and automated driving. The test area will open before the end of 2017and area will focus on R&D and early production testing, while the existing test ground at DEKRA in Klettwitz and the Lausitzring race track in Germany, recently acquired by DEKRA, will be set up for automotive systems, whole vehicle and infrastructure testing.
Marysville has become the latest urban area to join DriveOhio’s programme to test connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs).
The suburb of Ohio state capital Columbus has plans to equip 1,200 vehicles with on-board units as part of the AV pilot created earlier this year by state governor John Kasich.
Columbus itself has just been the recipient of a smart cities award for its ITS programmes and is among several cities to have signed up already to DriveOhio, along with Athens and Dublin.
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Volvo Penta will begin production of 5 and 8litre industrial engines in India, aimed at the Indian market, next year.
The company has already been supplying engines for industrial and marine applications, to customers in the country for more than two decades.
The 5 and 8litre engines will be made for Indian customers at the VE Powertrain (VEPT) plant in Pithampur, near Indore. A new line will be added at the plant exclusively for the Volvo Penta engines.
Volvo Penta will begin production of 5 and 8li
