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Truck Innovation Award 2024: MAN wins with ANITA and ATLAS-L4 projects

The manufacturer proves that autonomous trucks can make logistics safer and more efficient in various applications, finds the International Truck of the Year jury.

 

Ceremonial presentation of the Truck Innovation Award 2024 at Solutrans in Lyon: (from right) Gianenrico Griffini, Chairman of the International Truck of the Year Jury, Lukas Walter, Senior Vice President Engineering Truck MAN Truck & Bus, Andreas Zimmermann, Head of Electrics and Electronics Automation System, Amelie Jacquemart-Purson, Head of Anita Project, Sebastian Völl, Head of Atlas-L4 Project. | Photo: J. Reichel
Ceremonial presentation of the Truck Innovation Award 2024 at Solutrans in Lyon: (from right) Gianenrico Griffini, Chairman of the International Truck of the Year Jury, Lukas Walter, Senior Vice President Engineering Truck MAN Truck & Bus, Andreas Zimmermann, Head of Electrics and Electronics Automation System, Amelie Jacquemart-Purson, Head of Anita Project, Sebastian Völl, Head of Atlas-L4 Project. | Photo: J. Reichel
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von Christine Harttmann

MAN Truck & Bus has been awarded the "Truck Innovation Award 2024" by the International Truck of the Year jury. According to the commercial vehicle manufacturer, it was recognized for its research and development projects Anita and Atlas-L4 in the field of autonomous driving.

On behalf of 25 international truck specialist journalists, jury chairman Gianenrico Griffini highlighted in his laudation "the advanced features of both projects, the contribution to hub-to-hub and intermodal transport automation, as well as the fruitful project collaboration between MAN Truck & Bus, suppliers, logistics service providers, research institutions, and public infrastructure operators" as decisive for awarding the Truck Innovation Award 2024 to the MAN projects for autonomous driving.

“The price is not only a great award for Anita and Atlas-L4 and the involved partners. It is also a confirmation of the performance of all colleagues at MAN, who have been driving automated driving forward with great expertise and passion for many years,” commented Dr. Frederik Zohm, Board Member for Research and Development at MAN Truck & Bus, on the award.

In addition to digitalization and CO2-free drives, automation is the third essential pillar in the transformation towards climate-friendly, safe, efficient, and intelligently connected transport of the future.

"From 2030, we want to offer autonomous trucks for traffic on designated routes between logistics hubs in series," Zohm continued.

For highway transports between logistics centers (Hub-to-Hub), autonomous trucks are particularly useful: They increase safety because they help prevent rear-end collisions due to fatigue, they are always particularly energy-efficient on the road, and they stabilize the logistics flow because they are independent of individual driving times. Furthermore, they can help alleviate the driver shortage by making released drivers available for more varied and attractive transport tasks in regional and distribution traffic.

Translated automatically from German.
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