NAVYA

Autonomous transportation: a response to the challenges of urban mobility and climate change in Asia - Seite 3

The Navya shuttle will operate in the Q Big BSD City and the BSD Green Office Park with the aim of facilitating the mobility and enhancing the quality of life of a large number of residents, working people, and visitors, by offering them a service which is safe and environmentally friendly.

During the ceremony which was held on May 20th, Budi Karya Sumadi, the Indonesian Minister of Transport, officially launched the first journey of the Navya shuttle and demonstrated his enthusiasm for the project to the invited audience and journalists with the following speech: “Thank you Sinar Mas Land and Mitsubishi Corporation that have prepared this project as a good innovation for us. The presence of autonomous electric vehicles offers a solution that is low on carbon emissions, reduces congestion, and runs on time. I hope that we can bring this technology to the G20 Summit so the world will see Indonesia is hosting a breakingthough toward the future. I support BSD City to be an innovation lab, setting an example for other developments and emboding the vision of our president.” (source : Jakarta Daily)

Singapore, autonomous mobility pioneer

The government of Singapore actively supports the development of autonomous transportation and has initiated a number of projects to improve the fluidity of traffic on its roads and to limit the use of private cars to a minimum. Ranked first on the KPMG Autonomous Vehicles readiness Index, Singapore is a strategic place for the development and real-life testing of Autonomous driving solutions.

NAVYA has built on its partnership with ST Engineering Autonomous Solutions (STEAS), a subsidiary of ST Engineering, a global technology, defence, engineering group, to deploy its shuttles widely, in particular in touristic areas, and on military bases.

Navya has created in 2021 a subsidiary in Singapore, Navya Systems, with a dedicated team to manage deployments, maintenance and training, with a dual objective: guaranteeing a very high quality of service to Asian customers, and accelerating the transfer of skills to St Engineering, our local partner.

This subsidiary is also intended to carry out technological development initiatives specific to the region and the demands of its clients (private cloud infrastructure, solutions for high-security sites, V2X, etc.).

Thanks to the involvement of ST Engineering and Navya’s teams, a number of trials and operations are ongoing at the moment in Singapore :

• Gardens by the Bay, a tourist park in the very heart of Singapore where several Autonom Shuttles operate daily, in collaboration with Willers, over the 100 ha which attract more than 10 million visitors per year,
• Jurong Lake Gardens. In collaboration with Willers and the National Parks Board (NParks), ST Engineering has deployed a Navya shuttle as a trial service for visitors in the park since 3 Dec. 2020, with the aim of improving accessibility within the garden.

Along with commercial public operations above, multiple projects have been deployed on Military sites, structuring Navya’s activities in the country.