Navistar says it has cooperated with industry leaders from automotive and technology sectors to open MCity, the University of Michigan’s test site for connected and automated vehicles.
MCity is a 32-acre simulated urban and suburban environment, which features a network of roads with intersections, traffic signs and signals, streetlights, building facades, pavements and construction obstacles.
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Operated by U-M’s Mobility Transformation Centre (MTC), the public-private research and development partnership aims to develop a commercially viable system of connected and automated driverless vehicles.
A goal of the MTC initiative and MCity is to implement a connected and automated mobility system on the streets of South East Michigan by 2021.
“This is an opportunity for Navistar to…collaborate with others in the industry to make connected transportation a reality,” said Navistar group vice president, global product development, Denny Mooney.
“The innovation of today’s connected vehicle technologies will drive significant improvements in the way people, goods and services move throughout society.”
Navistar has been involved in the commercial truck industry connected vehicle space since its 2013 launch of OnCommand Connection-a system it describes as the commercial truck industry’s first single remote diagnostics portal to use an open architecture system with lorry fleets’ existing telematics providers.
OnCommand Connection is currently tracking more than 130,000 trucks.
In early July, Navistar offered its OnCommand Connection remote diagnostics system as a standard offering on all new International trucks and IC Bus school buses.
