Innovative vehicle and systems

New technologies facilitating transport

Technological research and application research. These are the two fields in which the CTL moves on the front of new transport services, molded on the individual user's needs. In the first, the Center develops the technology needed to make them possible, the second studies how to realize them, implement them and with what costs and benefits. These researches are carried out in international contexts or in collaboration with industry and other research institutions.

As part of the application research CTL follows the two strands automation and innovative power trains.

The automation has three positive effects:

1. Enhanced security: most accidents occur because drivers do not strictly follow the rules of the road;
2. Greater respect for the environment: a driver can also cause emissions 100 times superior to another, equal to the vehicle;
3. Makes the public transport more flexible and detailed, such as the private one: an automatic vehicle can go for other users when it has completed the service, does not use space for parking and allows its users to not waste time looking for one.

In the field of power trains the CTL has developed a method to their bottom up sizing and has shown that it is possible to conceive a more versatile vehicle for urban transport services even with an innovative and environmentally friendly power train.