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<strong>To support the research for the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on Singapore roads, our partner <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/home.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nanyang Technological University</a> (NTU) opens the Singapore’s first Autonomous Vehicle test centre jointly developed with<a href="http://www.jtc.gov.sg/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> JTC</a> and <a href="https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Land Transport Authority</a> (LTA): The Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research of Autonomous Vehicles (CETRAN). A<b class="b4">n</b><b class="b5"> investment </b><b class="b4">of </b><b class="b3">up </b><b class="b2">to $3</b><b class="b1"> </b>million.</strong>

Singapore wants to deploy from 2022 autonomous buses on public road within three different districts through the city-state. According to the country’s <strong>Ministry of Transport Khaw Boon Wan</strong>, the aim is to provide better connectivity and reduce congestion over the city.

As part of this project, <strong>NAVYA</strong> is proud to participate to the autonomous vehicles development in Asia with its <strong>AUTONOM SHUTTLE</strong> and continuing to demonstrate that smart mobility solutions represent the future of Mobility.

[caption id="attachment_2895" align="aligncenter" width="974"]<img class="wp-image-2895 size-full" src="http://navya.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DPQNf28XUAEqyTv.jpg" alt="" width="974" height="720" /> AUTONOM SHUTTLE testing the rain simulator.[/caption]

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<strong>TESTING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IN REAL CONDITIONS</strong>

The 2 hectare facility test has several objectives to <strong>develop the deployment of AVs all over Asia</strong>, especially with tropical conditions. The CETRAN will help prepare future deployments of driverless vehicles by experiencing different real situations as pedestrian crossing, bus lanes, curvy winding roads, thunderstorms and floods, upslope and downlope roads.

[caption id="attachment_2896" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]<img class="wp-image-2896 size-large" src="http://navya.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DPQNf3PWsAAZZ9--1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /> The CETRAN AV Centre model.[/caption]

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The fully equipped test centre will test AVs on their communication with others vehicles in complex environment. To allow a quick deployment of AVs, the CETRAN AV centre will test vehicles with many exercises to reproduce real driving conditions of Singapore’s roads, with traffic rules, common traffic schemes, infrastructure. The AV centre is also equipped with a rain simulator and flood zone to test the AV reactivity under extremes weather conditions.

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<strong>Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Minister of Transport of Singapore</strong>, explained that AVs could be useful for huge and densely built city as Singapore.

“That is why we are actively monitoring and testing out AV technology here, working with some of the best brains and technology companies in the world.” he said.

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<b>NAVYA IS ALREADY DEPLOYED IN SINGAPORE</b>

NAVYA has deployed its fully autonomous AUTONOM SHUTTLE on NTU campus. In October 2017, NTU did a demo of NAVYA's AUTONOM SHUTTLE around the Hive, NTU Learning Hub.

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<strong>DEMO OF AUTONOM SHUTTLE AROUND THE HIVE</strong>

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