Warwick to host Europe's first Smart City Mobility Centre

The new facility will be based at the University of Warwick’s Wellesbourne campus, with driverless capable vehicle testing on the University of Warwick’s campus in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Jaguar Land Rover engineers and WMG researchers will work together at Wellesbourne to design and engineer connected, driverless capable, prototype electric modular architectures. These will be tested in real world conditions alongside a 5G communications network on the University of Warwick’s main campus.

WMG Chairman Professor Lord Bhattacharyya said: “This is the first time in any country that such a comprehensive system is being designed and tested. This will help integrate plans for transport systems for the future that have the potential to bring significant economic benefits to transform and improve the lives of a great many people who could benefit from even safer, less congested, and more environmentally sustainable transport.”

The new Smart City Mobility Centre is expected to utilise battery technology expertise from the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), which will be located in Coventry and Warwickshire, plus findings from the UK Mobility Data Institute, which is being set up to collect, process and analyse transport data generated by new mobility technologies.