Driverless Car Testing in London

The UK's newest autonomous mobility service research project, ServCity, brings its testing phase on London streets.

14:21 22 February 2022

ServCity's autonomous vehicle testing has reached an important milestone and begun its testing phase on the streets of London. 

 

ServCity is the UK's newest autonomous mobility service research project that is jointly funded by the government and industry. It is delivered by Innovate UK and is administered by the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). 

 

The scheme will see the University of Nottingham, SBD Automotive, TRL, Nissan, the Connected Placed Catapult and Hitachi Europe work together in the span of three years to develop a blueprint that directly tackles the barriers to deploying autonomous vehicles in the UK's cities. 

 

Bob Bateman, project manager from Nissan explains: “We are extremely proud to be a part of the ServCity project and are excited to trial our 100% electric Nissan LEAF as test vehicles. Our Nissan Intelligent Mobility strategy strives to achieve a mobility future that is more electric, more autonomous and more connected and we look forward to working in collaboration with ServCity’s other partners to achieve this.”

 

Edward Mayo, programme manager from the Connected Places Catapult says: “The Connected Places Catapult supports organisations in harnessing emerging technologies and developing new services. ServCity is a perfect example of how we can use this approach to deploy autonomous vehicles on a wide scale to achieve the aim of Intelligent Mobility and improve the movement of both people and goods. The commencement of testing in London represents an important milestone to the ServCity project.”