IAV with highlight project at ITS World Congress 2021

The ITS World Congress is the most important event for the topic of smart mobility worldwide. Of course, IAV is also represented in Hamburg this year. The company offers visitors unique insights into the technology of autonomous driving. Both on the exhibition center itself and on the asphalt of Hamburg's HafenCity.

XX.10.2021 Berlin: IAV successfully completes the HEAT project (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) by participating in ITS ("Intelligent Transport Systems") World Congress from the 11^th to 15^th of October 2021 in Hamburg. Together with the consortium partners - Hamburger Hochbahn AG (HHA), Siemens Mobility, Hamburg Transport Systems (HHVA), the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Berlin Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM), the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Department of Transport and Mobility (BVM) - IAV has succeeded in integrating a fully automated shuttle into local public transport and moving it reliably in HafenCity. During operation, the shuttle is permanently connected to the Hamburg's elevated railway control center. The autonomous minibus is one of the so-called "highlight projects" at the World Congress.
"HEAT has shown what the sustainable, user-oriented mobility of tomorrow can look like - a future that IAV will play a major role in shaping," says Matthias Kratzsch, CEO of IAV.

Visitors to the World Congress will receive extensive information on the autonomous HEAT minibus as well as the entire project at the ITS booth of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in Hall B4 of the Hamburg Messe. The ITS World Congress app can also be used to book slots for a personal experience of the mobility of the future: From the 12^th to 15^th of October 2021, HEAT demonstration tours will be offered as part of ITS between 09:30 and 16:00. An e-bus takes participants from the exhibition to the shuttle route in HafenCity Hamburg and back.
In addition, regular passenger service takes place between 16:00 and 18:00, and on Thursday only until 17:00. The prerequisite for these journeys is the registration via the HEAT app and the wearing of a medical mask.

In addition, IAV will be presenting solutions for tomorrow's mobility at ITS own booth in Hall B5, in particular what is required technologically to successfully launch autonomous vehicles on the road: These include current development methods and innovative solutions in the area of V2X, intelligent, AI-based maneuver planning and data fusion.

We look forward to your visit. Please take into account the 2G rule on the entire site of the Hamburg Messe + Congress.

Press Contact:

Robin Kittelmann

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M: presse@iav.de

About IAV
With more than 8000 employees, IAV is one of the world's leading engineering partners for the automotive industry. The company has been developing innovative concepts and technologies for future vehicles for more than 35 years, and in 2020 it sold around 896 million euros. Customers worldwide include all well-known automobile manufacturers and suppliers. In addition to vehicle and drive development, IAV has already entered into electromobility and autonomous driving at an early stage and is today one of the leading development service providers in these fields. In addition to the development centers in Berlin, Gifhorn and Chemnitz/Stollberg, IAV has other locations in Munich, Sindelfingen and Ingolstadt, as well as in Europe, Asia and North and South America.