AUTOGVZ

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At the largest Freight Village in Germany, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will work with project participants to test how trucks can be controlled more energy-efficiently and safely through automation.

The Bremen Freight Village will be the field of application for the AUTOGVZ project, which, under the leadership of to-be-now-logistics-research-gmbh and funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV), will test automated and remotely monitored trucks on a route of around three kilometres. A special feature of the project is that the aim is to put the automated trucks into regular operation at the end of the project. The project team also intends to use the knowledge gained from the project to roll out the system in other Freight Villages.

In AutoGVZ, the DLR Institute of Transportation Systems will use DLR's internal tool chain to create an integrated overall simulation model that includes the operating environment, vehicle characteristics and real traffic and enables their interaction. The researchers are planning the testing and validation of the assembled vehicle with automation function and are responsible for the implementation and transmission of the results in order to obtain the specific operating licence in accordance with AFGBV and the operating range approval. DLR also evaluates the system's emission savings and performance, among other things.

AUTOGVZ starts in January 2025 and runs until June 2027. to-be-now-logistics-research-gmbh, Lilienthal, is the network coordinator. The project participants of DLR are LUB Consulting GmbH (LUB), Dresden, Roland Umschlagsgesellschaft für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co. KG, Bremen and Götting KG, Lehrte. The BMV is supporting the project with funding totalling 3.6 million euros.

Duration:
01/2025 to 06/2027

Project volume:
€ 3,6 Mio

Contracting authority:
Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV), Management by BAV

Contact

Sten Ruppe

Acting Head of Department
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Transportation Systems
Research Cooperative Systems
Rutherfordstr. 2, 12489 Berlin