Update November 2020: Pylot has since renamed itself Fernride.
This year's German Mobility Award was themed "Smart on the move: Together. Connected. Mobile." The award-winning projects demonstrated how digital networking helps make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.
The two winning teams from Munich are Pylot and Upride. Both startups have recently been honored with Munich awards. Pylot is also the proud winner of the Munich Startup Awards 2020The Munich-based startup offers a “remote-controlled” solution for autonomous driving. With its Teleoperation solution It could actually become a reality that in the future we will be able to travel from A to B in driverless vehicles.
The Munich-based startup Upride also prevailed against 309 other companies, startups, research institutions, and associations for the German Mobility Award. The company collects bicycle data for better planning. A tracker collects bicycle traffic data on the use and condition of the infrastructure, as well as road safety data. This helps Upride help municipalities maintain and future-proof their cycling infrastructure. Upride also presented this idea at the Munich Innovation Award 2019 convinced, back then under the name Bike Solutions.
Startups impress in Munich at the mobility award
Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, congratulated the winning teams:
"With your smart innovations for digital and environmentally friendly mobility, you are creating a bright future. This is the entrepreneurial spirit we need again in Germany. I thank you for that."
A jury of experts from the fields of business, science, society, and politics selected the ten best projects. The other eight Best Practice award winners are not only startups, but also some projects from established companies and transport associations. Overview:
- Hybrid Airplane Technologies: An innovative hybrid aircraft combines the advantages of a drone and a balloon for versatile use. (Baden-Baden / Baden-Württemberg)
- Valeo switches and sensors and an intelligent pedestrian crossing. Perception-based, intelligent traffic light control: A contactless traffic light control system helps avoid crowds in the waiting area of pedestrian crossings. (Kronach, Bavaria)
- FMS Future Mobility Solutions: The Virtual City@FMS software enables the visualization and simulation of mobility concepts and traffic priorities. (Gaimersheim / Bavaria)
- Carré Mobility: Carré Mobility offers intelligent mobility services by and for the neighborhood community. (Berlin and Rüsselsheim am Main, Hesse)
- Siemens Mobility with 'RXX – digital and optimally connected': Intelligent maintenance and repair extend the lifecycles of the Rhine-Ruhr Express trains and improve passenger service. (Erlangen, Bavaria and Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia)
- ZEDAS, with an app that ensures expedited train dispatch from A to Z. With the help of this app, train dispatch can be carried out paperlessly directly on the train. (Senftenberg / Brandenburg)
- The Mittelthüringen Transport Association (VMT) offers a swipe-based check-in and check-out: The project enables uncomplicated and intuitive mobility on public transport. (Erfurt, Thuringia)
- Stadtwerke Osnabrück with its project ‘HubChain – Networking of on-demand shuttle and scheduledPublic transport': The project develops and tests software for connecting on-demand and scheduled public transport in rural areas. (Osnabrück / Lower Saxony)
