Applied Autonomy

65% of Europeans support increased investment in public transport, even if it requires higher taxes.

It is not mathematically possible to execute a scaleup of public transport services without using autonomous vehicles !

Problem

Cities experience an increase in private cars. Public transport and an increased number of people travelling in the same car are the political solution. But a global driver shortage (150,000 currently unfilled in the EU according to IRU report 2026 and 3,6 million in logistics) is crippling public transport and logistics.

Autonomous vehicles are considered as a good solution. But they still have a safety driver on board, and they are not connected to public transport and operations. 

Existing autonomous solutions are manufacturer-locked, vehicle-specific, and these solutions make it difficult for operators to manage mixed fleets, leaving operators with no scalable path forward. This problem is relevant both for mobility and logistics. Both operators within logistics and public transport have to frequently suspend their service during bad weather, making them unreliable for public transport and service contracts.

Operators struggle with GDPR compliance, cybersecurity, and the complex safety cases required by regulators to remove safety drivers and need a software solution where they can own and control the data, and share them with the authorities.

Fleet operators and their increasing need to reduce cost, increase their service to reduce private cars and their increasing problem to recruit drivers. 

Solution

xFlow is a commercially launched fleet management SaaS and MaaS integration tool. xFlow has the following features:

• Agnostic to vehicle type and autonomous driving solution (ADS)

• Real time monitoring of mixed fleets including continuous streaming of telemetry data, live video from vehicle cameras and alerts/events indicating situations of different priorities.

• Role based remote operator functionality to assist the vehicle from remote when there is no operator onboard. Examples are start/stop/pause autonomous operation, approve or command driving related actions, open/close doors and a lot more

• Historical reports providing insights and KPIs for the operation. 

• Interfaces for external systems that the fleet operator already use

EU 2022 /1426 is a regulation defining remote assistance for type approved vehicles. Usage of xFlow will provide a significant head start for operators to scale autonomous vehicles with no onboard drivers.