Preston EV Limited

Our team is currently completing a study (funded by CCAV & InnovateUK) examining the feasibility of delivering Dedicated Driverless Spaces (DDS) for articulated buses on two five mile sections of the Hertfordshire Essex Rapid Transit (HERT). A key constraint of our current study is that we can only consider fully physically segregated sections of the HERT...

The safe deployment of autonomous and remotely operated vehicles is only possible with mature and fault-tolerant vehicle control systems where any kind of vehicle failure is taken into consideration, including overriding autonomous driving software in the event of significant computer system failures. These control systems, also called drive-by-wire (DbW)...

The DCMS 5GCAL project (2020-22) delivered a working proof-of-concept demonstration of the autonomous and teleoperation of a 40-tonne truck at the Vantec-Nissan Manufacturing UK site, with live loads delivered from Vantec to NMUK autonomously without intervention by a safety driver. The successful outcomes of 5GCAL now needs to be taken into actual operat...

**PROJECT:** Segregated, "Dedicated, Driverless" spaces are the most practical option to accelerate the roll-out of CAVs in the UK, overcoming major challenges such as safety, regulations, liabililty, communications infrastructure and cyber risks. Previous award-winning research conducted by the project team for the National Infrastructure Commission, ide...

**ENCODE - Ensuring cybersecure deployments of driverless teleoperated vehicle** ENCODE is a collaborative industrial research project, led by Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) developer StreetDrone, that aims to reduce time to market for connected and automated vehicle technology in the movement of goods. The project centres on the use of "multi-driv...