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The Danish Minister of Transport has now signed the approval for the LINC project, which will test self-driving shuttles at DTU Campus Lyngby. Students and staff can try out the shuttles from April 2021. A long-awaited approval from the Danish Road Directorate has...

For two years now, the LINC project has been striving to be allowed to test self-driving electric shuttles in mixed traffic. The prolonged application process has been a great frustration for the project partners. That’s why LINC is now highlighting several factors...

The LINC project published an catalog in September, focusing on how urban and traffic planners can work with sustainable and self-driving public transport to create value for citizens in the future. “With this catalog, we want to inspire municipalities to use existing...

At the end of 2020, the LINC project will test self-driving shuttles at the DTU Campus in Lyngby. You can already guarantee a seat for yourself by registering as a test passenger. By Lene Ulsted Carlsen You can now register to be a test passenger when three...

The Danish Road Traffic Authority recently approved three self-driving vehicles for test driving in the LINC project. This is an important milestone in the final approval process before the shuttles can operate within the DTU campus in Lyngby. Furthermore, it is the...

A newly developed app will collect data from 500 passengers testing self-driving shuttles at DTU in the LINC project.   By Christina Tækker, DTU   When the first self-driving shuttles start running at the DTU Lyngby Campus in summer 2020, about 500 test...

Researchers from DTU Compute and developers from IBM are currently testing a newly developed app in the LINC project in a test area at DTU Lyngby Campus By Jonathan Storm Simonsen Imagine arriving at a station and having to move on quickly. You hop on a self-driving...

Self-driving vehicles can help solve mobility and congestion challenges in urban areas. That’s one of the conclusions of a COWI study conducted in Oslo that also showed that self-driving vehicles could make the traffic congestion worse if we use them the same way we...

Selfdriving vehicles, sensors, traffic lights and cameras were the aim for friendly hackers, as DTU Skylab, LINC and a number of other partners invited to a hackathon on cyber security. By Lene Ulsted Carlsen Printed circuit boards, screwdrivers, radars and IT...

Green, blue and slightly yellow: LINC’s self-driving shuttles have gotten new paint jobs just in time for spring. And the spring colors are not entirely random. By Lene Ulsted Carlsen “We have chosen to ‘dress up’ our shuttles in new, distinctive colors....

Even before the self-driving shuttles get out on the roads, the LINC project is contributing to increased knowledge about the technology and the future potential for companies, municipalities and citizens. At Transport 2019 in Herning, the Transport Minister of...

Bus operator Nobina received this year’s green initiative prize from Albertslund Municipality for their efforts to reduce noise and pollution while creating innovative green solutions in urban areas. By Lene Ulsted Carlsen During the showroom inauguration...

LINC is looking forward to enjoying a strong collaboration with French supplier Easymile, which has been selected for the testing of automatic shuttles to improve security and create a better user experience By Lene Ulsted Carlsen LINC has chosen Easymile as a...

One of the hottest topics at the ITS World Congress 2018 in Copenhagen was without a doubt self-driving transport. The LINC-TUPPAC project was represented there with a presentation about the vision of self-driving shuttles in connection with the new light-rail in the...

A market analysis of the emerging market of autonomous shuttles provides valuable insights on what to expect from this new technology and how it can be utilized The LINC (previously TUPPAC) project is currently searching for the best suited autonomous shuttles to...

As an important milestone in the LINC project, a driverless shuttle ran its very first test drive in Hersted Business Park in November 2017 as part of the official announcement of the project. In a Danish context, this was one of the first demonstrations of the...

When the capital’s light rail becomes a reality in ten Copenhagen suburban municipalities, in a project called LOOP CITY, citizens will have a new kind of vehicle to get used to: autonomous shuttles. The shuttles will ensure that the public transport of the...