• Crossing the last-mile with a self-driving bus in Tampere

    Crossing the last-mile with a self-driving bus in Tampere

    Tampere is planning to streamline public transport in more ways than just launching tramway services. In September 2020, the city started a free trial with self-driving Roboride vehicles. This autumn, the self-driving last-mile busses provided by Finnish Roboride Ltd. have been transporting people among other traffic in Tampere around Hiedanranta and the Lielahti Manor. Customers… Read more

  • Whitepaper Safety Challenges of Autonomous Mobile Systems in Dynamic Unstructured Environments

    Whitepaper Safety Challenges of Autonomous Mobile Systems in Dynamic Unstructured Environments

    Safety Challenges of Autonomous Mobile Systems in Dynamic Unstructured Environments: Situational awareness, decision-making, autonomous navigation, & human-machine interface RAAS Research Alliance for Autonomous Systems released their White Paper in November 2020 about safety challenges of autonomous mobile systems in dynamic unstructured environments. Future autonomous mobile machines will be capable of operating in often unstructured and… Read more

  • Whitepaper Autonomous Solutions and Change in the Technology Companies’ Business

    Whitepaper Autonomous Solutions and Change in the Technology Companies’ Business

    Autonomous systems bring up new opportunities to industries and supply chains. At the same time, they demand new business models, and challenge industries, and society, to change. RAAS Research Alliance for Autonomous Systems released their White Paper in August 2020 about autonomous solutions and change in the technology companies’ business. Digitalization means a step-by-step change… Read more

  • Awake AI has launched a new mobile app for Smart Ports

    Awake AI has launched a new mobile app for Smart Ports

    Awake.AI has officially launched a new mobile app for the use of its Smart Port as a Service (SPaaS) solution, which provides maritime actors with improved situational awareness and more efficient port calls. SPaaS is a real-time overview and collaboration tool which enables smarter operational decision-making and helps maritime businesses to become environmentally more sustainable, considerably benefiting the industry… Read more

  • Enfuce powers payments in MaaS Global’s revolutionary mobility app

    Enfuce powers payments in MaaS Global’s revolutionary mobility app

    Maas Global, the leading Mobility as a Service provider, has partnered with Enfuce – Finland’s largest fintech startup – to launch a card payment offering in Whim, MaaS Global’s all-inclusive mobility app. The partnership enables MaaS Global to issue Mastercard prepaid cards securely, and expand its offering to new markets. MaaS Global revolutionises urban mobility… Read more

  • Semi-autonomous truck convoying gives new opportunities – also in Finland

    Semi-autonomous truck convoying gives new opportunities – also in Finland

    A study conducted by the University of Oulu indicates that truck convoying has positive impacts on fuel economy and on emissions. Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) convoying gives new opportunities also in Finland. The study shows improvements in fuel economy and reduction in emissions. It also changes the drivers’ roles. In a semi-autonomous convoy, the lead… Read more

  • Blog: Traffic’s new normal

    Blog: Traffic’s new normal

    The invisible enemy that is the coronavirus changed everything overnight. Now, we must think what the world will be like in the future. As some sort of gauge of activity, traffic reflects the state of our society and economy in many ways. As such, it is quite natural to take a look at the post-coronavirus… Read more

  • Finnair and Neste partner to reduce CO2 footprint of flying

    Finnair and Neste partner to reduce CO2 footprint of flying

    Finnair, the airline specialized in connecting Europe and Asia, and Neste, the world’s largest producer of sustainable aviation fuel from renewable waste and residues, have signed a new agreement which will gradually and considerably increase Finnair’s use of sustainable aviation fuel in its operations. The new partnership will be a key contributing factor in Finnair’s… Read more

  • Sensible 4 raises $7 million to expand to Europe and Asia

    Sensible 4 raises $7 million to expand to Europe and Asia

    Series A round investors NordicNinja VC and ITOCHU to support Sensible 4 as they scale to Europe and Asia Finnish autonomous driving technology pioneer Sensible 4 has raised $7 million in their series A funding round that will see the company market expansion to Europe and Asia. Sensible 4’s first investment round was led by… Read more

  • Over 14 million daily interface calls in the Digitraffic service – More and more Finns use real-time traffic data

    Over 14 million daily interface calls in the Digitraffic service – More and more Finns use real-time traffic data

    Finns are utilising real-time traffic data more and more actively to support their traffic needs as shown by the increased use of traffic control group Traffic Management Finland’s Digitraffic traffic data marketplace. In 2019, Digitraffic received as many as 14 million daily interface calls. The open data provided by Digitraffic is utilised extensively in, for… Read more