Automated Transit At NTU

Automated transit at NTU

A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and its Interdisciplinary Graduate School. Together with LTA (Land Transport Authority), NTU launched the Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research of Autonomous Vehicles (Cetran) where autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles are tested before hitting Singapore roads. It features an extensive Singapore campus.

System Description

2getthere’s fully automated Group Rapid Transit (GRT) autonomous vehicles (AV) will ultimately replace the existing buses on the NTU Smart Campus. The new GRTs will be tested on NTU’s campus in a few phases. The vehicles are expected to operate a service route first that connects NTU’s halls of residences with the main academic areas. The trial would be gradually expanded campus-wide. The deployment is part of the university’s Smart Campus initiative to develop rapidly advancing transport technologies to benefit the NTU community and society.

Technological Cooperation

The collaboration will also involve conducting research to improve autonomous vehicle technologies such as increasing the use of artificial intelligence, developing advanced sensors and sensor fusion algorithms, and improving fleet management technologies. Autonomous vehicles are an integral part of the NTU Smart Campus vision, which leverages tech-enabled solutions to create better living and learning experiences. The collaboration allows for the development of cutting-edge transport solutions that will benefit Singapore and beyond.