The transport authority in the Bavarian city has commissioned Siemens Smart Infrastructure to equip the bus depot in the Markomannenstrasse for electromobility.
Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Auto-Info have jointly developed a modular examination unit that is designed to avoid contamination among patients or from patients to medical staff.
Bus operator Tower Transit has worked with Siemens to site the charging infrastructure on the 180-metre elevated bus deck extension that was built over railway lines as part of the Crossrail project.
Wildpoldsried will be the focus for the demo phase of a research project by Siemens, the regional utility Allgäuer Überlandwerk and partners to help develop a local energy marketplace.
Located on Terceira, the second biggest island in terms of electrical consumption of the Azores archipelago, the system will enable an increased share of renewable energy usage.
The German city will implement charging systems from Siemens Smart Infrastructure along the routes as well as at the Lindenau bus depot with the e-buses scheduled to go into operation in 2021.
FIWARE CEO Ulrich Ahle speaks to Graeme Neill about how the Smart Cities for Germany programme is helping the country’s poor track record on digitising services and how the battle for public opinion on open-source has been won.
