Reference number : GC-2017-Q4-00999, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Laurendeau, Denis (Université Laval), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Quebec|Québec, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Collaborative Research and Development Grants - Project, program name french : Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative - projet, program purpose english : A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system or Sustainable Bus Transit (SBT) system (BRT-SBT in the following) is planned to be developed  in the Quebec City area. The implementation of the BRT-SBT system is part of the long term sustainable mobility and transportation plan of Quebec City. The typical BRT-SBT system consists in trains of two bi-articulated vehicles of 24 metres each equipped by a guidance system. Such a BRT-SBT system will be exploited by Quebec City's RTC (Réseau de Transport de la Capitale). Similar BRT-SBT systems are planned or already in service elsewhere in the world._x000D_
The project described in this proposal aims to demonstrate feasibility of the semi-autonomous guided vehicle component within the BRT-SBT transportation paradigm in real operating conditions and to define its architecture in terms of arrays of sensors to be used, control and driver-system interfaces. The research to be conducted by the academic team in cooperation with Thales Canada and Leddartech, the industrial partners in the project, aims at reaching the main objective of the project which consists in the collection of data and the design, implementation and test of a prototype for semi-autonomous guidance of a urban bus vehicle (single bus) in a realistic operating environment with respect to road and climatic conditions typically met in the Quebec City area. This first generation semi-autonomous prototype should meet the following requirements: the guided bus vehicle should offer levels of passenger safety and comfort similar to the ones experienced on tramways and should reduce energy consumption (be it fuel and/or electricity);_x000D_
the guidance system should adopt an open (''plug-in'') architecture with respect to its hardware components and software modules / interfaces, so as to enable its installation on a wide spectrum of vehicle models (fuel-, electric- of hybrid-powered)._x000D_
The research is comprised of three research thrusts: i) perception, ii) mechanical plug-in architecture for vehicle control and iii) system integration for semi-autonomous driving._x000D_
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_x000D_, program purpose french : A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system or Sustainable Bus Transit (SBT) system (BRT-SBT in the following) is planned to be developed  in the Quebec City area. The implementation of the BRT-SBT system is part of the long term sustainable mobility and transportation plan of Quebec City. The typical BRT-SBT system consists in trains of two bi-articulated vehicles of 24 metres each equipped by a guidance system. Such a BRT-SBT system will be exploited by Quebec City's RTC (Réseau de Transport de la Capitale). Similar BRT-SBT systems are planned or already in service elsewhere in the world._x000D_
The project described in this proposal aims to demonstrate feasibility of the semi-autonomous guided vehicle component within the BRT-SBT transportation paradigm in real operating conditions and to define its architecture in terms of arrays of sensors to be used, control and driver-system interfaces. The research to be conducted by the academic team in cooperation with Thales Canada and Leddartech, the industrial partners in the project, aims at reaching the main objective of the project which consists in the collection of data and the design, implementation and test of a prototype for semi-autonomous guidance of a urban bus vehicle (single bus) in a realistic operating environment with respect to road and climatic conditions typically met in the Quebec City area. This first generation semi-autonomous prototype should meet the following requirements: the guided bus vehicle should offer levels of passenger safety and comfort similar to the ones experienced on tramways and should reduce energy consumption (be it fuel and/or electricity);_x000D_
the guidance system should adopt an open (''plug-in'') architecture with respect to its hardware components and software modules / interfaces, so as to enable its installation on a wide spectrum of vehicle models (fuel-, electric- of hybrid-powered)._x000D_
The research is comprised of three research thrusts: i) perception, ii) mechanical plug-in architecture for vehicle control and iii) system integration for semi-autonomous driving._x000D_
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_x000D_, agreement title english : BRITE: bus rapid transit system, agreement title french : BRITE: bus rapid transit system, agreement number : CRDPJ, agreement value : 311524.0, agreement start date : 2018-03-07, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2020-2021)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2020-2021)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada