Regensburg's first real laboratory for mobility is launched

All R_Lab Mobility project participants

Presentation of the "Environmental Sensor Box". from left: Toni Lautenschläger, City of Regensburg; Alexander Rupprecht, TechBase; Mathis Broelmann, REWAG; Achim Przymusinski, AVL Software and Functions GmbH; Dr. Georg Schwab, AVL Software and Functions GmbH; Ulrich Deml, AVL Software and Functions GmbH; Uwe Pfeil, Cluster Mobility & Logistics

Artificial intelligence and digitalisation are set to play a greater role in Regensburg's streetscape in the future. In order to bring corresponding projects from theory into practice, a so-called real laboratory has now been opened at Galgenberg with the "R_Lab Mobility" project. The project is being funded as part of REGENSBURG_NEXT and will run until the end of 2026.

The city of Regensburg has commissioned the Cluster Mobility & Logistics, based in the TechBase, to manage the R_Lab Galgenberg. The aim is to test smart city applications under real conditions with the participating players from science and industry, explains Alexander Rupprecht, Managing Director of TechBase: "Together with our project partners R_NEXT, Stadtwerk.Regensburg and local companies, we want to build an infrastructure that allows us to bring the technologies of a sustainable and intelligent city into the public space."

Regensburg is part of Germany's largest smart city funding programme "Model Projects Smart Cities". This makes the city one of a total of 73 "experimental locations" for integrated urban development that are being subsidised by the federal government. This is also a great success for the implementation of the Smart City strategy, for which Franziska Meier, Smart City Coordinator of the City of Regensburg, is responsible: "The funding programme enables us to implement the measures anchored in our strategy in a sustainable manner. As a real laboratory, R_Lab Mobility creates space for experiments, encounters, technologies and digital participation and thus supports the development of a green, fair and productive Smart City Regensburg."

AVL launches first application project

AVL Software and Functions GmbH is launching one of the first application projects as part of the real laboratory. The "Environmental Sensor Box" is intended to lay an important foundation for the collection and evaluation of data that can be used for future adaptive mobility concepts, says Achim Przymusinski from AVL Software and Functions GmbH: "This first cooperation project represents an important milestone for future data platforms. It will make it possible to bring together different data sources and generate added value from them".

The Regensburg-based company AVL will be followed by others who will contribute their own use cases during the project period. Among other things, concepts from the fields of sensor technology, transmission technology and traffic management will be tested under authentic urban conditions.

All data collected in the R_Lab Mobility will be stored centrally and made available to project participants for research and development purposes. To this end, Stadtwerk.Regensburg is in charge of developing an initial prototype of a data hub for mobility data.

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