Projects
Every year, Drive Sweden, through Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas, co-finances around twenty projects with one or more parties. The results are discussed at our annual Drive Sweden Forum and in different types of program activities such as workshops and knowledge seminars. Read more about our projects below.
Catalyst
The aim of Catalyst is to identify the most important recurring obstacles, based on Drive Sweden’s completed innovation project insights into the benefits of data sharing and barriers to scaling up...
Transformation Map for enabling deployment of autonomous driving in Sweden
Automated vehicles can, if used correctly, be of great benefit to the transport system, but for Sweden to become attractive for the implementation of the technology, clarity and predictability are...
Road Works Warning II
The project's purpose is to increase road safety at road works through a solution that automatically collects, processes, and distributes data about ongoing works from up to 6,000–8,000 road work...
Municipalities data deliveries in traffic regulations of the future
The transport sector is becoming increasingly connected, digitalised, and automated. To address this development, we need to evolve and adapt the digital infrastructure, and a key part of this is...
TEAPaN 2 – towards practical implementation
TEAPaN 2 (Traffic Event Assessment, Prioritizing and Notification) will offer an open IT ecosystem for increased traffic safety and system capacity, as well as decision support for improved precision in...
When delivery robots enter public spaces: A longitudinal study of Starship robots in Stockholm
How does society adapt to a new transport technology in the form of autonomous delivery robots?
MicroTOX
MicroTOX will investigate how intelligent technology and communication systems can help prevent intoxicated riding for cyclists and e-scooterists.
VELO - measurement of cycle flows
VELO is developing a nationally scalable method for analyzing cycling behavior through anonymized cell mast data in combination with complementary data sources and unique machine learning models. The...
Robust and safe deployment of C-ITS
Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) is a technology that enables communication between vehicles and infrastructure. The aim of the project is to enable a robust and secure rollout of C...
Road Hero: AI-assisted reporting, the communicating driver
The bus industry and commercial transport industry's incident and deviation reporting is inadequate. The reporting rate is low, the reports are of poor quality and the reporting processes are complex...
STIG - Smart Technology for Innovative data collection and analysis for pedestrian and cycle paths
The pedestrian and cycle path network is crucial for sustainable travel, but many municipalities struggle to effectively identify maintenance needs.
DEPAUT
DEPAUT is a preliminary study with the aim of investigating the technical and organizational conditions for the automation of bus depots, where new third-party technology is used instead of vehicle...
Digital parking and charging management for shared micromobility
The project Digital and data-driven planning and management for parking and modular charging of shared micromobility (DiPCOM) brings together a team to jointly utilize big data analysis, optimization...
Connected Vehicles for Innovative Traffic Safety
In 2023, 232 people lost their lives, and around 15,000 were injured in traffic accidents in Sweden. The aim of the project is to use new technology to develop innovative methods to identify hazardous...
Travalytics – An innovative solution for data on sustainable commuting
Travalytics is an innovative solution designed to support corporate sustainability reporting and reduce their environmental footprint, with a focus on employees' commuting journeys. The launch is now...
ELEVATE - Electric Vehicles for Advanced Transportation Efficiency
ELEVATE is a preliminary study focusing on developing methods to create conditions for a high degree of electrification in the construction transport system at an overarching system level through...
Independent assessments in trials with automated vehicles
Drive Sweden Policy Lab (DSPL) is a platform for collaborative policy development involving stakeholders from industry, government agencies, and research institutions, aimed at enabling smart mobility...
Service shuttle 2.0
This project monitors, supports and evaluates pilot operations in Karlstad and (tentatively) Region Stockholm, where company cars used in operations are replaced by taxis and other ride-hailing...
GreenRoute – Optimising freight transport for a sustainable future
The project focuses on the visualisation of the climate impact of freight transport with the intention to encourage behavioural change.
Helsingbotica Community Robot
The project aims to contribute to the development of future vehicles by conducting tests of autonomous delivery robots in the city of Helsingborg. The primary deliverable from the project will be the...
CCAM Sweden
CCAM Sweden aims to gather and engage Swedish and Nordic stakeholders in the field of connected, cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM). The goal is to better understand the needs for service...
Shared micromobility & public transport - user perspective
This project aims to complement existing knowledge regarding the user perspective on the integration and complementarity of shared micromobility services and public transport.
Via-Taxi
VIA-Taxi is an innovation project focusing on improving traffic safety through new cloud-based digital technology. Data collection, analysis, quality assurance, and proactive traffic safety work...
Mobility Wallet
The idea of creating a way to subsidize, pay and share access to mobility services has been developed in several previous innovation projects and most of the solutions and business models already...
Identifying mode of transport for partial trips - when analyzing movement using mobile network data
This project intends to carry out two pilot projects to achieve an automated and general/scalable vehicle identification model - also for partial journeys. Purpose is, among other things, to be able...
Citizen Driven Mobility Services - MeMo
This preliminary study explores how mobility hubs and surrounding mobility services can be designed to support socially sustainable shared mobility and transportation. This is done by establishing...
Drive Sweden Business Model Lab 2023-2024
The purpose of the Drive Sweden Business Model Lab project is to support Drive Sweden's work to tackle sustainability challenges that society and business are facing by accelerating the implementation...
Network Micromobility Phase 2
New mobility services can contribute to the transition to a climate smart society, but require adaptations and new standards. The project is now moving forward and continues to collaborate with...
Analysis of the delayed Roll-out of Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Despite having been on the agenda for a long time and ambitious announcements from industry heavyweights, the widespread deployment of automated driving (AD) technology has still not happened yet. So...
ITS measures in vehicles and infrastructure as a solution for reduced wildlife accidents
The projects goal is to identify measures with the greatest potential to reduce the number of wildlife accidents. Both Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), measures in the infrastructure and driver...
Digital solutions for sustainable planning and management of shared micromobility using Big Data
This project establishes a complementary and interdisciplinary team to collectively propose big data assessment methods, conduct empirical analysis, and develop effective SMS management instruments...
Digital Proving Ground
The project provides Drive Sweden and its members with digitalized testing opportunities for new connected, automated, and shared mobility services. Project participants include AstaZero, Telia, and...
MicroVision - Development, Testing, and Demonstration of a Real-Time Support System for Electric Vehicle Riders
The project's goal is to leverage recent algorithmic advances to improve road safety in relation to micro-mobility. We aim to develop a low-cost, camera-based safety system that offers real-time...
MIDIS - Micromobility Data needs and Information Sharing
The project aims at the still unused potential in Swedish cities for (1) increasing the share and safe usage of such alternative modes of transport, by (2) increasing the effective usage and sharing...
Waste Management by Robots
Using robots for waste collection is a new and innovative approach that can eliminate some of the negative effects of traditional garbage collection methods. By using robots to collect waste bins from...
Modern car rental regulations for increased car sharing
The project aims to modernize the car rental regulations together with a wide range of relevant actors to improve accessibility to shared cars even in places where they are completely lacking today.
CycleSense - Harnessing Data for Efficient and Sustainable Last-Mile Deliveries
The CycleSense project is grounded in the understanding that future transport-efficient cities will require customized transport vehicles and systems, and that electric cargo bikes have the potential...
Road Traffic Safety for Electric Microvehicles (VIASAFETY)
The project will study how traffic safety in connection with the use of small vehicles, for example electric scooters, various types of cargo bikes, bicycles, electric mopeds, at low speed on the road...
Modular and scalable mobility hub with charging for shared micromobility
The goal of the project is to develop and test a scalable and modular mobility hub that supports charging of shared electric scooters. The purpose is to promote sustainable mobility and reduce...
Network Automated Driving Regulations
International and EU regulations for automated driving are in the middle of a jump. There will be extensive regulatory activities during the project period 2023-2025. Therefore, it is a perfect...
