After more than four years of joint research activities, the project results of @CITY were presented at an official final presentation on 22 and 23 June at the Aldenhoven Testing Center.

On the test site, driving demos with ten test vehicles demonstrated a variety of scenarios of automated urban traffic. For example, various interaction situations with pedestrians and cyclists were shown. The systems developed in @CITY are able to predict the behaviour of these road users, taking into account their head and body posture, gestures and direction of movement. Vehicle sensors fused with the high-resolution digital map enable the vehicles to localise themselves robustly. At intersections controlled by traffic lights and traffic signs, at roundabouts, when passing a bottleneck and at bus stops, you will experience automated driving functions that take other road users into account.

In addition to static vehicle demonstrations and video, poster and screen presentations, interactive virtual reality demonstrations and simulations with a focus on human-vehicle interaction were presented on around 1,200 square metres of exhibition space.

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In 2021, the IAA Mobility was held for the first time with a new concept in downtown Munich and at the Munich exhibition center. At the world's largest mobility platform with around 400,000 participants, innovative solutions for the mobility of the future were presented and discussed over a week.

@CITY was represented at the booth of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Among other things, visitors there were able to experience various display concepts of automated vehicles in an interactive virtual reality demo inside a bus or as a pedestrian in an urban environment.

On Wednesday, September 8, Parliamentary State Secretary Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker and VDA President Hildegard Müller visited the booth and showed great interest in the research content and interim results of @CITY.

Exactly one year after the kick-off meeting for @CITY-AF, around 85 participants in the project from partner companies, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and the programme management organisation TÜV Rheinland convened on 9 and 10 October 2019 for a two-day plenum event at the TU Munich in Garching

On the first day of the event, the current status of work in the subprojects and the intermediate results available so far were presented. Also on the agenda were talks about related projects from the @CITY environment, as well as a guest talk with a subsequent discussion of the socio-political relevance and acceptance of autonomous driving. On the second day of the event, working meetings were held in the subprojects in the morning, while in the afternoon, topics relevant to all projects were addressed in workshops. The event therefore offered – for the new colleagues to the project, in particular – plenty of opportunities to share information with everyone involved in the project.

With kick-off meetings already having been held in the individual subprojects, all participants in the project convened on 20 and 21 November 2017 at Daimler AG in Ulm for a two-day kick-off event for everyone working on the overall @CITY project.

The topics covered by the subprojects, and the key focal points of the work done by the individual project partners, were presented in detail. These presentations and an intensive exchange of information in networks encompassing both the partners and the subprojects resulted in a shared understanding of the project. Furthermore, the event provided a space for the participants in the project to meet each other in person.